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Review 4 Front Video / Over Exposed [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • James Jaeger
  • Howard Liebgot
  • Smokey Huff
  • Diana Lynn Moltrup
  • Marty Korse
  • Kate McBride
Release date: 1997-02-17
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Lee Lankford
RRP: £4.99
Price: £6.95

Review Over Exposed [1993] / 4 Front Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Vol. 2 - It Takes All Kinds / Calf Love [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Carol Drinkwater
  • Robert Hardy
  • Fred Feast
  • Peter Davison
  • Peter Grimwade
  • Christopher Timothy
Release date: 1996-06-03
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

Review All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Vol. 2 - It Takes All Kinds / Calf Love [1978] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Greta Scacchi
  • Tom Berenger
  • Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
  • Wolfgang Petersen
  • Corbin Bernsen
  • Bob Hoskins
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £11.95

Review Shattered [1991] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Entertainment in Video / Set It Off
Actors & Directors
  • Vivica A. Fox
  • John C. McGinley
  • F. Gary Gray
  • Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Kimberly Elise
  • Queen Latifah
Release date: 1998-01-26
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Takashi Bufford
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.45

Review Set It Off / Entertainment in Video:

Even when it misses a dramatic opportunity in favour of generic action, Set It Off benefits from a sharp understanding of its well-drawn central characters. They are a quartet of young African American women in Los Angeles (Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise), all struggling against a system that seems designed to prevent them from realising their dreams. The movie establishes their plight with credible attention to emotional detail, making their decision to rob banks believable enough to give the ensuing plot its inevitably tragic momentum. Co-written by the screenwriter of What's Love Got to Do With It?, the film conveys genuine compassion for its characters, and the ensemble cast is uniformly strong-especially Queen Latifah as a brash lesbian whose fate is as certain as her forceful attitude. Set It Off expresses a real sense that these women have been close friends for years, and that gives the film additional impact, even when their transition to crime and violence feels somewhat forced and superficial. A romantic subplot involving Pinkett and a social-climbing banker (Blair Underwood) is too contrived to be convincing, and director F. Gary Gray (Friday) tries too hard to combine hard-hitting action with social relevance (a weakness shared by Gray's following film, The Negotiator). Still, Set It Off effectively avoids passing judgement; its emotional complexity transcends simple notions of right and wrong, injecting vitality-and a kind of renegade integrity-into the traditions of a familiar plot. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 4 Front Video / The Young Americans [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Iain Glen
  • Keith Allen
  • Danny Cannon
  • John Wood
  • Terence Rigby
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: David Hilton
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.99

Review The Young Americans [1993] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Adam Ant
  • Jon Anderson
  • Bonnie Tyler
  • Freddie Mercury
  • Pat Benatar
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Metropolis [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review ITV DVD / Inspector Morse - Who Killed Harry Field? - Series 5 - Episode 3 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Freddie Jones
  • Colin Gregg
  • Geraldine James
  • John Thaw
  • John Castle
  • Kevin Whately
Release date: 1999-08-09
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.33

Review Inspector Morse - Who Killed Harry Field? - Series 5 - Episode 3 [1987] / ITV DVD:

When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world-and with his colleagues in the police force-most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to the next. And he is scarred-more deeply than he would ever admit-by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. [+]
It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! - Piers Ford.

Review Sony Bmg / I Shot Andy Warhol [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Levine
  • Lili Taylor
  • Martha Plimpton
  • Jared Harris
  • Lothaire Bluteau
  • Mary Harron
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Jeremiah Newton
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review I Shot Andy Warhol [1995] / Sony Bmg:

Mary Harron's feature-which picked up a Special Jury Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival for lead actress and independent film mainstay Lili Taylor-is a highly suspect mishmash of golly-gee counterculture reconstruction and inflammatory agitprop. Harron re-creates the ultimately violent relationship of motor-mouth street freak writer-prostitute-lesbian-gun-wielding assailant Valerie Solanas (Taylor) and pop artist Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) in the late 1960s, which ended in Solanas's assault on Warhol for his charmingly noncommittal responses to her search for a patron. It's a great idea for a film, but I Shot Andy Warhol is truly at odds with itself. Harron's modular construction of the story-part naive re-enactment of the instant-celebrity life at Warhol's studio, part celebration of Solanas's subversive ramblings, part investigation into the roots of her hyper-victimisation at, apparently, the hands of all men-is ultimately a shell game that allows the writer-director to avoid taking a clear stand on Solanas's bizarro politics. The cast is the only draw here: besides indie-film queen Taylor, Jared Harris makes for a convincingly cagey Warhol. -Tom Keogh.

Review Uca Catalogue / Holiday [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • George Cukor
  • Cary Grant
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Doris Nolan
  • Lew Ayres
  • Edward Everett Horton
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Sidney Buchman
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

Review Holiday [1938] / Uca Catalogue:


Review Entertainment in Video / Peter's Friends
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Fry
  • Hugh Laurie
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Alphonsia Emmanuel
  • Emma Thompson
  • Kenneth Branagh
Release date: 1993-09-21
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Stephen Evans
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.90

Review Peter's Friends / Entertainment in Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Ian Marter
Release date: 1995-03-06
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £11.99

Review Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Gypsy [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Rosalind Russell
  • Betty Bruce
  • Natalie Wood
  • Paul Wallace
  • Karl Malden
  • Mervyn LeRoy
Release date: 2000-03-27
Run time: 137 min.
Creator: Leonard Spigelgass
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.75

Review Gypsy [1962] / Warner Home Video:


Release date: 1994-09-26
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Dennis Spooner
Price: £10.99

Review Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased - Vol. 9 - The Man From Nowhere - Commemorative 25th Anniversary Edition [1969] / Itc Home Video (UK):


Actors & Directors
  • Noah Taylor
  • Graeme Blundell
  • Lynette Curran
  • John Duigan
  • Ben Mendelsohn
  • Loene Carmen
Release date: 1991-06-17
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Terry Hayes
Price: £10.99

Review The Year My Voice Broke / Palace Video (Defunct):


Review Odyssey Video / The Sonny And Cher Story - And The Beat Goes On...
Actors & Directors
  • David Burton Morris
  • Jay Underwood
  • Renee Faia
Release date: 1999-11-11
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.99

Review The Sonny And Cher Story - And The Beat Goes On... / Odyssey Video:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Edward And Mrs Simpson [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • David Waller
  • Edward Fox
  • Cynthia Harris
  • Peggy Ashcroft
Release date: 2002-02-25
Run time: 360 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.99

Review Edward And Mrs Simpson [1978] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

Produced by Thames Television in 1981 (the video opens with that immortal logo), Edward & Mrs Simpson was made at a time when the "Royal Wedding" of Charles and Diana had revived interest in the monarchy's past. As well as topicality, the series benefited greatly from the quality of the script and casting. Frances Donaldson's biography, with its many insights into a still-controversial period of recent British history, was sensitively adapted for the screen by Simon Raven. As Edward VIII, Edward Fox gets to the heart of the urbane but emotionally vulnerable heir to the throne, unable to reconcile the callings of state with the promptings of his heart. Cynthia Harris is wholly plausible as the charming but scheming Wallis Simpson-part-femme fatale, part-social climber-who dupes herself into misjudging the protocol of the British aristocracy. The supporting cast, including Cherie Lunghi as the flirtatious Lady Thelma Furness, Peggy Ashcroft as the formidable Queen Mary and David Waller as the long-suffering Stanley Baldwin, uphold the highest standards of TV drama, while Ron Grainer's theme-song effortlessly evokes the glamour of the era. Both videos in this boxed set contain three episodes and the credits are retained at the beginning and end of each episode, as-more surprisingly-are the mid-episode breaks. Considering its age, the picture quality of the series has survived remarkably well. As the winner of BAFTA and Emmy Awards, this series certainly does its subject justice, and the story is unlikely to ever be told more stylishly. -Richard Whitehouse.

Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Cope
  • Annette Andre
  • Richard Kerley
  • Mike Pratt
  • Ivor Dean
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Dennis Spooner
Price: £10.99

Review Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased - Vol. 8 - Commemorative 25th Anniversary Edition - The Smile Behind The Veil [1969] / Itc Home Video (UK):


Review Ilc Entertainment / Prisoner Cell Block H - Episodes 7 and 8 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Kerry Armstrong|Carol Burns|Sheila Florence|Margaret Laurence
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Prisoner Cell Block H - Episodes 7 and 8 [1987] / Ilc Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Is Harry On The Boat?
Actors & Directors
  • Will Mellor
  • Daniela Denby-Ashe
  • Danny Dyer
  • Des Coleman
  • Kate Magowan
Release date: 2001-08-20
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Is Harry On The Boat? / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Lions Gate Home Entertainment / A Walk To Remember [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Adam Shankman
  • Shane West
  • Mandy Moore
  • Peter Coyote
  • Daryl Hannah
Release date: 2003-03-31
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £10.99

Review A Walk To Remember [2002] / Lions Gate Home Entertainment:

With refreshing intelligence, A Walk to Remember offers welcome relief from the recent onslaught of teen-movie crudeness. Adapted from the novel by Nicholas Sparks and transplanted from 1958 to the present day, this admirable teen romance recognises that two 18-year-olds-Landon (Shane West) and Jamie (pop singer Mandy Moore)-can be smart, mature and sensible about the very real love they share. He's a popular kid in the cool crowd. She's got a goody-goody reputation as the dowdy daughter of a local minister (Peter Coyote); her values and priorities aren't rooted in peer pressure, and Landon feels blessed by her self-assured nobility. Their mutual affection inevitably heads into Love Story territory, but the movie is honest enough to survive its own schmaltz, and its attractive cast (including Daryl Hannah as Landon's mum) embraces a tone of sincerity and mutual respect. Finally, a teen movie with teens you can admire. -Jeff Shannon.

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Over Exposed [1993], All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Vol. 2 - It Takes All Kinds / Calf Love [1978], Shattered [1991], Set It Off, The Young Americans [1993], Metropolis [1985], Inspector Morse - Who Killed Harry Field? - Series 5 - Episode 3 [1987], I Shot Andy Warhol [1995], Holiday [1938], Peter's Friends, Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963], Gypsy [1962], Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased - Vol. 9 - The Man From Nowhere - Commemorative 25th Anniversary Edition [1969], The Year My Voice Broke, The Sonny And Cher Story - And The Beat Goes On..., Edward And Mrs Simpson [1978], Randall And Hopkirk: Deceased - Vol. 8 - Commemorative 25th Anniversary Edition - The Smile Behind The Veil [1969], Prisoner Cell Block H - Episodes 7 and 8 [1987], Is Harry On The Boat?, A Walk To Remember [2002]

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