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Review ITV DVD / Gleaming The Cube [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Herd
  • Min Luong
  • Graeme Clifford
  • Le Tuan
  • Steven Bauer
  • Christian Slater
Release date: 2000-01-31
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99

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Review Entertainment in Video / The Man Without A Face [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Mel Gibson
  • Mel Gibson
  • Margaret Whitton
  • Nick Stahl
  • Fay Masterson
  • Gaby Hoffmann
Release date: 1994-10-12
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Malcolm MacRury
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Sanctuary Digital Entertainment / Charade (Wide Screen) [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Walter Matthau
  • Cary Grant
  • Stanley Donen
  • George Kennedy
  • James Coburn
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Peter Stone
Price: £4.99

Review Charade (Wide Screen) [1963] / Sanctuary Digital Entertainment:

Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid but his real motives aren't entirely clear-could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film but suspense-wise it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. One wants Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. -Tom Keogh In Charade Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his real motives aren't entirely clear-could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but in terms of suspense it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. You want Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Dd Home Entertainment / San Demetrio, London [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Young
  • Barry Letts
  • Charles Frend
  • Neville Mapp
  • Walter Fitzgerald
  • Ralph Michael
  • Robert Hamer
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: F. Tennyson Jesse
Price: £10.99

Review San Demetrio, London [1943] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Various Artists / Psychedelic Crown Jewels Vol.3
Release date: 2007-03-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.34

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Review Warner Home Video / The Thorn Birds - Vol. 1 [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Richard Chamberlain
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Daryl Duke
  • Rachel Ward
  • Jean Simmons
Release date: 1997-03-03
Run time: 141 min.
Creator: Colleen McCullough
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.94

Review The Thorn Birds - Vol. 1 [1983] / Warner Home Video:

The second most-watched mini-series (after Roots) of all time, The Thorn Birds was originally broadcast in 1983 and captivated viewers with its story of a lifelong conflict between the spirit and the flesh. Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as a Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart, whose life in Australia between 1920 and 1962 is one long torment as he pines for his lover, Meggie Carson (Rachel Ward), while seeking advancement in his clergyman career. The passion and the guilt make for compelling drama, but a stellar cast of supporting players adds muscle to the proceedings: Barbara Stanwyck (who won an Emmy for her work as Meggie's tough grandmother), Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown and Mare Winningham. Chamberlain, who was something of the king of the mini-series form at the time, is very good in the lead, as is the often-underrated Ward. Their affair is indeed irresistible to watch, which proves to be true, too, of the story's thick weave of church politics, forbidden desire, social change over decades, and family secrets. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric [1988] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Parsons
  • Sophie Aldred
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Nicholas Mallett
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.99

Review Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric [1988] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • Michael Ontkean
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Mark Frost
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

Review Twin Peaks - Episode 001 - Programmes 1, 2 And 3 [1990] / Metrodome Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / French Connection II [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Bernard Fresson
  • Ed Lauter
  • Fernando Rey
  • Gene Hackman
  • Philippe Léotard
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Robert Dillon
Price: £12.99

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Review Warner Home Video / North And South - Book 1 - Parts 5 And 6 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Swayze
  • James Read
  • Wendy Kilbourne
  • Richard T. Heffron
  • Lesley-Anne Down
  • Kirstie Alley
Release date: 2000-07-21
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Paul F. Edwards
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review North And South - Book 1 - Parts 5 And 6 [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review Tartan Video / Cinema Paradiso [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Leo Gullotta
  • Enzo Cannavale
  • Antonella Attili
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
  • Isa Danieli
  • Philippe Noiret
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Vanna Paoli
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.21

Review Cinema Paradiso [1989] / Tartan Video:

Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War II. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't just one of those films for people who are already in love with the cinema. But if you are one of those folks, the emotional resonance between the action in Tornatore's world and the images on Noiret's screen will seem all the greater-and the finale all the more powerful. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Arrow Films / La Bonne Annee [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Claude LeLouch
  • Lino Ventura
  • Francoise Fabian
  • Charles Gerard
Release date: 1995-03-06
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.50

Review La Bonne Annee [1973] / Arrow Films:


Actors & Directors
  • kenneth welsh
  • Francis Mankiewicz
  • kate nelligan
Run time: 190 min.

Review Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher / odyssey:

Love And Hate is a riveting tragic movie about domestic spousal abuse. a powerful politician murders his wife and may get away with it.

Review Warner Home Video / Seven Days In May [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Kirk Douglas
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Fredric March
  • Ava Gardner
Release date: 2000-02-14
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Rod Serling
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.95

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band / The Illustrious Client [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Phillip Bond
  • Grace Arnold
  • Enid Lindsay
  • George Howell
  • Peter Madden
Release date: 1996-08-05
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £14.99

Review Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band / The Illustrious Client [1965] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Roger Livesey
  • Brenda De Banzie
  • Tony Richardson
  • Alan Bates
  • Joan Plowright
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Nigel Kneale
RRP: £4.99
Price: £18.95

Review The Entertainer [1960] / Entertainment Today Ltd.:

The Entertainer of the title is Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist upholding a dying tradition in an English seaside against a background of the 1956 Suez Crisis. Laurence Olivier stars and is supported by a superb cast including a young Alan Bates as his son, Roger Livesey as his kindly, now retired, always more talented and popular father, and Joan Plowright as his daughter (who, ironically given the story, married Olivier the following year). Albert Finney makes his screen debut in a tiny role and the remarkable cast also features Daniel Massey, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird and Charles Gray. Archie himself is a hollow man who brings pain to all around him, and while Olivier's brilliant performance reveals the layers of cynicism which disguise the emptiness inside, the emotional resonance lies with those forced to endure Rice's manipulations, adulteries and deceits. On stage John Osborne's play proved to be a signature part for Olivier, and director Tony Richardson-who filmed Osborne's equally sour Look Back In Anger (1958)-handles the material with unvarnished realism. Unfolding like a dark variation on Chaplin's Limelight (1952), the film equally casts a shadow over the less stellar Tony Hancock vehicle The Punch and Judy Man (1963), ultimately working as both family tragedy and allegory for a declining post-war England. Surprisingly an American 1976 TV movie remake starring Jack Lemmon held its own against this minor British classic. On the DVD: The Entertainer is presented letterboxed at 1. 66:1, and sourced from an excellent print preserves the look of the original black and white cinematography very well. Even so a little material is clipped from either side of the image, though this is most notable on the left of the picture. [+]
The mono sound is very good. There are no features other than optional subtitles, including English for those hard of hearing. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Desiree [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Rennie
  • Cameron Mitchell
  • Henry Koster
  • Jean Simmons
  • Marlon Brando
  • Merle Oberon
Release date: 1990-06-07
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £34.95

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Review Cte Video / Peak Practice [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Wicks
  • Christabel Fellowes
  • John Bowler
  • Karl Davies
  • Jamie Bamber
  • Lynsey Baxter
Release date: 1993-08-16
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Neil McKay
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.95

Review Peak Practice [1993] / Cte Video:


Review Rank VC 3150 / Carve Her Name With Pride
Actors & Directors
  • Lewis Gilbert
  • Paul Scofield
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Jack Warner
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Daniel M. Angel

Review Carve Her Name With Pride / Rank VC 3150:

This film tells the moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo. Virginia McKenna gives the performance of her career as the courageous secret agent who was prepared to stand before an SS firing squad. Violette never betrayed her colleagues despite cruel and prolonged interrogation. There is strong support from Paul Scofield and Jack Warner. Lewis Gilbert's expert direction ensures that no-one will forget Violette's bravery and conviction in what she believed in most - Freedom from tyranny.

Review Warner Home Video / ER : The Complete Series One [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Julianna Margulies
  • Eriq La Salle
  • Noah Wyle
  • George Clooney
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Brett Fallis
Release date: 2001-10-15
Run time: 44 min.
Creator: Michael Crichton
RRP: £39.99
Price: £12.00

Review ER : The Complete Series One [1995] / Warner Home Video:

Set in a County General Hospital, the multi-Emmy winning ER is very much in the tradition established by the earlier Hill Street Blues. Like that series, ER is also set in Chicago and features a range of strong characters whose personal lives often reflect the turmoil of their working environment. It also similarly features a deft, fast-moving mix of comedy, intrigue and tragedy. It's could also be seen as a precursor to The West Wing, in that we regard with some awe the ability of these characters to keep on top of the mounting chaos in their day-to-day lives and the myriad problems thrown at them. In ER, this chaos may mean crack addicts, violent patients tumbling through plate glass screens, vindictive senior staff or a Chief of Staff who insists that fellow surgeons operate on his sick dog. ER is best known for introducing George Clooney to the world as the likable but maverick Dr Ross and has often featured star guests such as Sally Field and Ewan McGregor, while several seasons have seen the coming and going of various personnel. However, if one character embodies the strength of ER it's Dr Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards), whose dedication to his job has seen him turn down lucrative and cosier offers in the private sector, and who is an exemplar of decency, selflessness and emotional stability. The episodes dealing with his father's death were among the most moving in the series, touching as they did on a theme never far from ER's surface, that of reconciliation with mortality. -David Stubbs.

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Gleaming The Cube [1988], The Man Without A Face [1993], Charade (Wide Screen) [1963], San Demetrio, London [1943], Psychedelic Crown Jewels Vol.3, The Thorn Birds - Vol. 1 [1983], Doctor Who - The Curse of Fenric [1988] [1963], Twin Peaks - Episode 001 - Programmes 1, 2 And 3 [1990], French Connection II [1975], North And South - Book 1 - Parts 5 And 6 [1985], Cinema Paradiso [1989], La Bonne Annee [1973], Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and Joanne Thatcher, Seven Days In May [1964], Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band / The Illustrious Client [1965], The Entertainer [1960], Desiree [1954], Peak Practice [1993], Carve Her Name With Pride, ER : The Complete Series One [1995]

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