Actors & Directors
- Moira Lister
- Bonar Colleano
- Jack Lee
- Renée Asherson
- Dirk Bogarde
- Bill Owen
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: William Rose
RRP: £12.99
Price: £64.99
Review Once A Jolly Swagman [1948] / ITV DVD:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Lee And Herring Live - Fist Of Fun [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P6MDKBV3L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kevin Eldon
- Richard Herring
- Peter Baynham
- Steve Bendelack
- Stewart Lee
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Sam Pinnell
Price: £12.99
Review Lee And Herring Live - Fist Of Fun [1995] / 2 Entertain Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Andrew Fleming
- Stephen Baldwin
- Josh Charles
- Lara Flynn Boyle
- Martha Gehman
- Alexis Arquette
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.89
Review Threesome [1994] / 4 Front Video:This underrated comedy-drama by Andrew Fleming may one day be seen as a reflection of the muddled sexual politics of the 1990s. Three dissimilar college students played by Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles become unlikely best friends, forging a relationship so exclusive it actually troubles onlookers. From the inside, however, the trio are enjoying the safety of their own bond and exploring varying needs of love and sexual adventurousness. Erotic, bawdy, sensuous, mysterious, and nostalgic, Threesome can make a viewer envy the state of grace these characters have found with each other. All three actors have never been better. -Tom Keogh An underrated comedy-drama by Andrew Fleming Threesome may one day be seen as a reflection of the muddled sexual politics of the 1990s. Three dissimilar college students played by Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin and Josh Charles become unlikely best friends, forging a relationship so exclusive it actually troubles onlookers. From the inside, however, the trio are enjoying the safety of their own bond and exploring varying needs of love and sexual adventurousness. Erotic, bawdy, sensuous, mysterious, and nostalgic, the film can make a viewer envy the state of grace these characters have found with each other. All three actors have never been better. [+]-Tom Keogh.
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Actors & Directors
- Steve Pemberton
- Reece Shearsmith
- Paul Hays-Marshall
- Mark Gatiss
- Jeremy Dyson
Creator: Peter Edwards
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.70
Review The League Of Gentlemen - Christmas Special [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:A Gothic-comedy masterpiece, The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special is a horrific anthology of three related stories, all set in Royston Vasey, which takes its inspiration as much from the writings of MR James and Edgar Allan Poe as the low-budget Hammer and Amicus shockers that the team parody so affectionately. The stories are all linked by the Dickensian device of Reverend Bernice receiving unexpected guests on Christmas Eve: the first concerns troubled married couple Charlie and Stella becoming unwittingly involved in voodoo and witchcraft; the second features the horrendous Herr Lipp in a Nosferatu skit that reveals the terrible truth about what really goes on in Duisburg; while the third, and best, tells of the horrible hereditary curse that afflicted Dr Chinnery's great-grandfather. This one-off special distils all the League's penchant for disturbing, twisted characterisation and macabre humour into a single hour; the result is one of the most daring "comedies" ever seen on British TV. On the DVD: The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special on disc contains the hour-long main feature accompanied by a diverse and entertaining array of extras. There's another illuminating group commentary; a 20-minute documentary "Tales from Behind the Crypt", in which we get to see excerpts from the team's first ensemble effort, "Highgate House of Horror"; a chat with composer Jody Talbot; and the League themselves "In Conversation" with Paul Jackson in the complete Radio 4 broadcast. A selection of out-takes, extended scenes, character biographies and a photo gallery are all worthwhile, but best of all is a Jackanory special with Mark Gatiss as the Victorian Dr Chinnery telling the Gothic tale of "The Curse of the Karrit Poor", a spot-on Arthur Conan Doyle spoof. -Mark Walker.
Actors & Directors
- David Jason
- Rik Mayall
- Billy Connolly
- Adrian Edmondson
- Nick Hancock
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.90
Review Seriously Funny - The Greatest Comedy Collection / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 1991-07-08
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £44.99
Review Harry Enfield - Norbert Smith - A Life [1989] / Universal Pictures UK:
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Actors & Directors
- Donal O'Kelly
- Stephen Frears
- Caroline Rothwell
- Colm Meaney
- Ger Ryan
- Neilí Conroy
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Roddy Doyle
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.40
Review The Van [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
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Actors & Directors
- Mark Sawers
- Tim McInnerny
- Doon Mackichan
- Randy MacDonald
- Robert Lindsay
- Simon Callow
- Sean Cullen
- Tom Rowe
- Andy DeEmmony
- Mike Rohl
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Kirstie Falkous
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.20
Review Don't Eat The Neighbours [2002] / 2 Entertain Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Pamela Tiffin
- Jim Hutton
- Burt Lancaster
- Lee Remick
- Donald Pleasence
- John Sturges
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: William Gulick
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.95
Review Hallelujah Trail [1965] / MGM Entertainment:
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Actors & Directors
- Sylvia Chang
- Ang Lee
- Yu-Wen Wang
- Sihung Lung
- Chien-lien Wu
- Kuei-Mei Yang
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Hui-Ling Wang
RRP: £5.99
Price: £34.99
Review Eat Drink Man Woman [1995] / Cinema Club:This is not a movie to see on an empty stomach. Writer-director Ang Lee's 1994 Oscar nominee tells a family story about a chef and his three daughters through the meals the chef prepares and serves his family. This touching, dryly funny story of a family coping with personal lives and the way those lives intersect with the family relationships captures a shift in generations in Taipei. The father, a famous chef who has lost his taste buds, still cooks, though he draws no pleasure from eating. His daughters, meanwhile, deal with both the disappointments and surprises of daily living and the way their adult lives compare to the expectations the widowed father had for them. A subtle, amusing-and mouth-watering-comedy of impeccable manners. -Marshall Fine.
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Actors & Directors
- Gary Waldhorn
- Dawn French
- Roger Lloyd-Pack
- Emma Chambers
- James Fleet
- John Howard-Davies
- Dewi Humphreys
- Gareth Carrivick
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £29.99
Review Vicar Of Dibley, The: The Specials [1994] / Vision Video Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Burt Reynolds
- Casey Siemaszko
- Bill Forsyth
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Breaking In [1988] / Universal Pictures UK:
Run time: 135 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Trev And Simon's Other Stupid Videos [1990] / Watershed Pictures Television:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Bottom - The Complete Bottom - Series 1 [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511RK7SJ1BL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Lee Cornes
- Rik Mayall
- Steven O'Donnell
- Adrian Edmondson
- Christopher Ryan
Run time: 176 min.
Creator: Roger Fenna
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.76
Review Bottom - The Complete Bottom - Series 1 [1991] / 2 Entertain Video:
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Actors & Directors
- John Cusack|Kate Beckinsale|Molly Shannon|Jeremy Piven
- Peter Chelsom
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Serendipity [2002] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:
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Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 62 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.95
Review Roy Chubby Brown - Clitoris Allsorts [1995] / Universal Pictures UK:
Actors & Directors
- Bruce Willis
- James Karen
- Robert Butler
- Allyce Beasley
- Cybill Shepherd
- Robert Ellenstein
Run time: 480 min.
Creator: Michael Scheff
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.24
Review Moonlighting / Playback:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Love On A Branch Line [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510KJTKFGAL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Stephen Moore
- Michael Maloney
- Leslie Phillips
- Graham Crowden
- Maria Aitken
- Martyn Friend
Run time: 148 min.
Creator: John Hadfield
RRP: £19.99
Price: £69.95
Review Love On A Branch Line [1994] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Warner Home Video / The Whole Nine Yards [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41AQCYN8A5L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Matthew Perry
- Rosanna Arquette
- Bruce Willis
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Jonathan Lynn
- Natasha Henstridge
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Whole Nine Yards [2000] / Warner Home Video:Have a little patience with The Whole Nine Yards, an agreeably convoluted caper, and in the end you'll find it a modestly entertaining yarn. But forbearance is necessary because, truthfully, the first half-hour of the movie promises a train wreck of epic proportions. Matthew Perry stars as a mild-mannered Montreal dentist, married to a French-Canadian shrew (Rosanna Arquette), whose new next-door neighbour (Bruce Willis) just happens to be a notorious mob hit-man out on parole. The wife, catching the whiff of easy money and probably just hoping to put hubby in harms way, orders her hen pecked spouse to rat out the gunman to his former employers, who have many compelling reasons to want him dead. Needless to say, complications-and plenty of them-ensue. Perry is serviceably harried as the beleaguered Everyman whom, as nice as everyone around him agrees that he is the person, just about everyone, wants to kill. Willis, much as he did in The Sixth Sense, gets better mileage out of not trying so hard; his irksome smirk is almost held in check. Amanda Peet has some funny scenes as a hit-man groupie—it's when her true role in the proceedings is revealed that the film finally kicks into comic gear. Michael Clarke Duncan is fine as yet another hit man to cross Perry's path; however, Arquette seems to be in a contest with Kevin Pollak (playing a mob boss) to see who can uncork both the most ludicrous accent and the most obvious performance. That kind of unevenness ensures that the pleasures that do exist within The Whole Nine Yards remain fairly minor. [+]-David Kronke, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Brian Henson
- Billy Connolly
- Tim Curry
- Dave Goelz
- Jennifer Saunders
- Kevin Bishop
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.93
Review Muppet Treasure Island (1996) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:Kids love Muppet Treasure Island, a take on Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic, about the pirate Long John Silver (Tim Curry) and his takeover of a ship in order to track down buried treasure. His friend and then nemesis is earnest cabin boy Jim Hawkins (Kevin Bishop), who teams with the captain of the ship (Kermit the Frog) and several shipmates (including Gonzo, Ratso, and Fozzie) to foil Long John's nefarious plot. An odd subplot finds Captain Kermit stopping at a desert island to find his long-lost love (Miss Piggy-who else?). The Muppets have not lost their wild sense of humour, which works on enough levels to amply entertain children and their parents in imaginative fashion. -Marshall Fine Muppet Treasure Island was the fifth big-screen Muppet adventure and the second directed by the late Jim Henson's son Brian. Robert Louis Stevenson's tale has been filmed in a variety of ways, but this is the first to feature a Caribbean cruise for rats, pirates who bemoan their reputations by song and Billy Connolly. The Scottish comic is just about upstaged for high camp larks by Tim Curry, who as Long John Silver is clearly having the best fun since Rocky Horror. Newcomer Kevin Bishop rounds out the human cast, but of course what everyone wants to see is which of the Muppet gang plays which part. Kermit is Captain Smollett, with Fozzie as Squire Trelawney and Miss Piggy as long-lost love Benjamina Gunn, who's held captive by the Zanzibarbarians. All the pirate movie trademarks are to be found: treasure maps, swordfights and the drinking of rum. [+]But it's in the truly wonderful songs that this version comes alive. "Cabin Fever", "Sailing for Adventure" and "A Professional Pirate" are among the most dazzling pieces of puppet choreography ever attempted by Henson Productions. The subsequent Muppets from Space didn't manage to scale the same heights of hilarity, probably because it dared to reveal where Gonzo came from. So this is definitely the highlight of his and Rizzo's screen career. On the DVD: Muppet Treasure Island includes the excellent 23-minute documentary "The Tale of the Story Beyond the Tale", heavily featuring Gonzo and Rizzo. The comic duo are all over this DVD: in the animated menus, introducing all the extras and featuring in the commentary from director Brian Henson. Between all these additional features there's plenty of new (and old) jokes as well as amazing insights into the technical wizardry at work. We also learn this movie featured the very first CGI Muppet (surely a contradiction in terms?) The movie hasn't arrived in the most pristine of transfers, but even in the sing-along feature for a couple of the best songs, the sound is still excellent. -Paul Tonks.
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