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Review 2 Entertain Video / Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Royce Mills
  • Sarah Berger
  • Tom Kinninmont
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Annabel Leventon
  • Timothy Ackroyd
  • Peter O'Toole
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Keith Waterhouse
Price: £14.99

Review Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Southern Comfort [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Ward
  • T.K. Carter
  • Franklyn Seales
  • Walter Hill
  • Powers Boothe
  • Keith Carradine
Release date: 1999-03-08
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Michael Kane
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.37

Review Southern Comfort [1981] / 4 Front Video:

Southern Comfort is more than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana Bayou. Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend warrior National Guardsman on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the "new guy" in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new unit. "They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks I served with in El Paso", he tells level-headed Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invade the environs of the local Cajun trappers and poachers, "borrowing" the locals' boats and sending bursts of blank rounds over their heads in a show of contempt. Before they know it the dysfunctional strangers in a strange land are on the losing end of guerrilla war. The swamp rats kill their commanding officer (Peter Coyote) and terrorise the bickering bunch as they flee blindly through the jungle without a map, a compass, or a leader to speak of. Hill directs with a clean simplicity, creating tension as much from the primal landscape and the Cajuns' unsettling reign of terror as from the dynamics of a platoon of battle virgins tearing itself apart from rage and fear. Ry Cooder's eerie and haunting score and the primal, claustrophobic landscape only intensifies the paranoia as the city boys splinter with infighting (sparked by a bullying Fred Ward), blunder through booby traps and ambushes, and finally turn just as savage as their pursuers in their drive to survive. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. [+]
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Review 4 Front Video / The Prince Of Tides [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Jeroen Krabbé
  • Kate Nelligan
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Blythe Danner
  • Nick Nolte
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Pat Conroy
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.89

Review The Prince Of Tides [1991] / 4 Front Video:

Barbra Streisand's best film as a director is helped enormously by one of Nick Nolte's finest performances. Nolte plays a football coach who is estranged from his wife (Blythe Danner) and who enters into an affair with the psychiatrist (Streisand) of his suicidal sister (Melinda Dillon). Streisand is acceptable in her star turn, but behind the camera she paces the story very well and provides lots of room for Nolte to inhabit his burdened but likable character. George Carlin is a bit token as a gay New Yorker, although Jason Gould (Streisand's son) is good as a struggling teen in desperate need of a father figure. The Prince of Tides is worth watching just to see a great moment near the end where Nolte stands on a street, a bit slump-shouldered and wearing a look of sad resolve. It's great acting at its most minimal. -Tom Keogh.

Review 4 Front Video / Blindfold: Acts Of Obsession [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Kristian Alfonso
  • Michael Woods
  • Drew Snyder
  • Shannen Doherty
  • Laurence Simeone
  • Judd Nelson
Release date: 1999-02-08
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £34.99

Review Blindfold: Acts Of Obsession [1994] / 4 Front Video:


Review Tartan Video / The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Willy Semmelrogge
  • Walter Ladengast
  • Werner Herzog
  • Bruno S.
  • Michael Kroecher
  • Brigitte Mira
Release date: 1995-02-20
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Jakob Wassermann
RRP: £15.99
Price: £24.99

Review The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser [1975] / Tartan Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Roberts Blossom
  • Tom Conti
  • E. Katherine Kerr
  • Lois Smith
  • Cynthia Harris
  • Kelly McGillis
  • Robert Ellis Miller
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.99

Review Reuben, Reuben [1983] / Twentieth Century Fox:


Review Odyssey Video / Thicker Than Blood [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Rourke
  • Carlo Alban
  • Richard Pearce
  • Josh Mostel
  • Dan Futterman
  • Lauren Vélez
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.96

Review Thicker Than Blood [2004] / Odyssey Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Babe [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Christine Cavanaugh
  • Magda Szubanski
  • James Cromwell
  • Miriam Margolyes
  • Chris Noonan
  • Danny Mann
Release date: 2002-03-04
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: George Miller
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review Babe [1995] / 4 Front Video:

The surprise hit of 1995, this splendidly entertaining family film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and screenplay, and deservedly won the Oscar for its subtly ingenious visual effects. Babe is all about the title character, a heroic little pig who's been taken in by the friendly farmer Hoggett (Oscar nominee James Cromwell), who senses that he and the pig share "a common destiny. " Babe, a popular mischief-maker the Australian farm, is adopted by the resident border collie and raised as a puppy, befriended by Ferdinand the duck (who thinks he's a cockerel), and saves the day as a champion "sheep-pig. " Filled with a supporting cast of talking barnyard animals and a chorus of singing mice (courtesy of computer enhancements and clever animatronics), this frequently hilarious, visually imaginative movie has already taken its place as a family classic with timeless appeal. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / A Time To Kill [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Oliver Platt
  • Sandra Bullock
Release date: 1997-09-22
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Akiva Goldsman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review A Time To Kill [1996] / Warner Home Video:

You wouldn't know it by watching the Batman movies they collaborated on, but this smart adaptation of John Grisham's novel proves that director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have some talent when the right project comes along. Schumacher had previously directed Grisham's The Client, and brought equal craft and intelligence to this story about a young Southern attorney (Matthew McConaughey, in his breakthrough role) who defends a black father (Samuel L Jackson) after he kills two men who raped his young daughter. Sandra Bullock plays the passionate law student who serves as McConaughey's legal aide and voice of conscience in the racially charged drama. Added to the star power of the lead roles is a fine supporting cast, including Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd and Oliver Platt. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Once Around [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Danny Aiello
  • Laura San Giacomo
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • Gena Rowlands
  • Holly Hunter
  • Lasse Hallström
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Malia Scotch Marmo
RRP: £7.99
Price: £24.99

Review Once Around [1990] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Mrs Doubtfire [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Sally Field
  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Polly Holliday
  • Chris Columbus
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Randi Mayem Singer
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.89

Review Mrs Doubtfire [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

This huge 1993 hit for Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus (Home Alone), based on a novel called Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, stars Williams as a loving but flaky father estranged from his frustrated wife (Sally Field). Devastated by a court order limiting his time with the children, Williams's character disguises himself as a warm, old British nanny who becomes the kids' best friend. As with Dustin Hoffman's performance in Tootsie, Williams's drag act-buried under layers of latex and padding-is the show, and everything and everyone else on screen serves his sometimes frantic role. Since that's the case, it's fortunate that Williams is Williams, and his performance is terribly funny at times and exceptionally believable in those scenes where his character misses his children. Playing Williams's brother, a professional makeup artist, Harvey Fierstein has a good support role in a bright sequence where he tries a number of feminine looks on Williams before settling on Mrs Doubtfire's visage. -Tom Keogh.

Review 4 Front Video / Mercury Rising [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Chi McBride
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Harold Becker
  • Miko Hughes
  • Bruce Willis
  • Kim Dickens
Release date: 2001-03-05
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Ryne Douglas Pearson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.90

Review Mercury Rising [1998] / 4 Front Video:

Take off your thinking caps and toss 'em in a corner, 'cos you won't need 'em when you're watching this deliriously dumb thriller from 1997. Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy whose mind holds a potentially deadly secret. It seems that by gazing on a puzzle magazine and making order out of a hidden system of numbers, the 9-year-old autistic boy (Miko Hughes) has accidentally deciphered a sophisticated top-secret government code. This makes him the prime target of the ruthless bureaucrat (Alec Baldwin, in one of his silliest roles) and Willis comes to the rescue. This formulaic thriller sets up this plot with a lot of entertaining urgency but you can't give any thought to Mercury Rising or the whole movie collapses under the weight of its own illogic and nonsense. The redeeming values are the performances of Willis, young Hughes and newcomer Kim Dickens as a woman who agrees (perhaps too easily, it seems) to aid Willis in his plot to out manoeuvre the bad guys. Mercury Rising is not a waste of time compared to other formulaic thrillers but its entertainment value depends on how much you enjoy being smarter than the movie. -Jeff Shannon.

Review ITV DVD / On Golden Pond [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Doug McKeon
  • Henry Fonda
  • Mark Rydell
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Dabney Coleman
  • Jane Fonda
Release date: 2000-02-28
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Ernest Thompson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.99

Review On Golden Pond [1981] / ITV DVD:

Writer Ernest Thompson, who came up with the original stage play of On Golden Pond and adapted it for film, is lucky to have two giants of the screen give dignity and breadth to his sometimes trite dialogue. Henry Fonda, in his last role, plays a prickly English professor at the disagreeable age of 80. Visiting his summer house by a Maine lake with his wife (Katharine Hepburn), the old man forges an unlikely bond with a lonely boy, comes to terms with his daughter (Jane Fonda) and suffers disorienting effects of mild dementia. Even playing a tired old man, Fonda is an absolute lion of a movie star, and Hepburn brings her special spirit to the part of his worried bride. The onscreen relationship between Henry and Jane Fonda naturally makes one think about their much-discussed difficulties off screen, but that's a side benefit in a movie that is really just a celebration of simple human decency. Directed by Mark Rydell (Harry and Walter Go to New York). -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner Home Video / Free Willy 2 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Dwight H. Little
  • Jason James Richter
  • Michael Madsen
  • Francis Capra
  • Mary Kate Schellhardt
  • August Schellenberg
Release date: 1996-05-20
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Keith Walker
Price: £5.99

Review Free Willy 2 [1995] / Warner Home Video:

Psst: don't tell anybody, but in Free Willy 2 the whale and all of his whale pals and relatives, are either computer-generated images or old-fashioned miniatures (models). The humans in this film are reasonably real, however, including Jason James Richter, returning to his role as the former delinquent whose advocacy for an imprisoned Orca whale turned his life around in Free Willy. You may recall that Willy jumped the aquarium fence, so to speak, at the end of that 1993 family film, and regrouped in open seas with the pod from which he had been cruelly snatched. This 1995 sequel again finds Willy in trouble at the hands of the civilised world, this time due to an oil slick and explosion that may very well kill him or cause him to be locked away again. Meanwhile, Richter's growing character has other problems, including a troublesome half-brother and the rumblings of puppy love. One way in which this film is superior to its predecessor is a greater range of visual opportunities, namely shooting out on the ocean instead of in the whale hero's old tank. Of course, it helps that master cinematographer László Kovács (Five Easy Pieces) is behind the camera. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 4 Front Video / Mandingo [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Ward
  • Brenda Sykes
  • Richard Fleischer
  • Perry King
  • Susan George
  • James Mason
Release date: 1994-05-23
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Norman Wexler
RRP: £6.99
Price: £16.99

Review Mandingo [1975] / 4 Front Video:


Review Granada Media / The Mallen Secret [1980] (part 3 of the Tv-Series-The Mallens).
Actors & Directors
  • Caroline Blakiston
  • Matthew Long
  • Gerry Sundquist
  • Mary McMurray
  • Juliet Stevenson
  • June Ritchie
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 140 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Mallen Secret [1980] (part 3 of the Tv-Series-The Mallens). / Granada Media:


Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Lovejoy - Complete Series 2
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Blessed
  • Phyllis Logan
  • Chris Jury
  • Ian McShane
  • Dudley Sutton
Release date: 2004-11-22
Run time: 600 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £3.74

Review Lovejoy - Complete Series 2 / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • James Marsters
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Anthony Head
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2000-06-12
Run time: 475 min.
Creator: Joss Whedon
RRP: £34.99
Price: £3.94

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Action-packed Season Three develops major characters and plot lines brewing over the last couple of years (see below). The Mayor, this season's major baddie, wants to become an invincible demon by slaughtering everyone at Sunnydale High's graduation ceremony, but he's going to torture them all by giving his speech first. Bad-girl vampire-slayer Faith wants to best Buffy and gets ever more rotten. Angel comes back from hell but isn't sure what to do about his girlfriend. Willow meets her evil gay vampire duplicate from another dimension. Xander loses his virginity, but still has to contemplate his essential uselessness. Cordelia gets less whiny and has to work in a dress-shop when her father becomes bankrupt. Giles wears tweed and drinks tea, though it is revealed that he used to be a warlock and in a punk band. Besides the soap opera, there are monsters, curses, and vampires (inevitably). -Kim Newman.

Review 4 Front Video / Roswell [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Kagan
  • Martin Sheen
  • Kim Greist
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • Dwight Yoakam
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Roswell [1994] / 4 Front Video:


Review Deutsche Grammophon / Liliana Cavani's La Traviata (1992) (TV) [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Cornell MacNeil
  • Plácido Domingo
  • Franco Zeffirelli
  • Allan Monk
  • Pina Cei
  • Teresa Stratas
Release date: 1996-02-12
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Francesco Maria Piave
RRP: £14.99
Price: £22.90

Review Liliana Cavani's La Traviata (1992) (TV) [1982] / Deutsche Grammophon:


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Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [1999], Southern Comfort [1981], The Prince Of Tides [1991], Blindfold: Acts Of Obsession [1994], The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser [1975], Reuben, Reuben [1983], Thicker Than Blood [2004], Babe [1995], A Time To Kill [1996], Once Around [1990], Mrs Doubtfire [1994], Mercury Rising [1998], On Golden Pond [1981], Free Willy 2 [1995], Mandingo [1975], The Mallen Secret [1980] (part 3 of the Tv-Series-The Mallens)., Lovejoy - Complete Series 2, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [1998], Roswell [1994], Liliana Cavani's La Traviata (1992) (TV) [1982]

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