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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Millennium - Vol. 2 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Megan Gallagher
  • Terry O'Quinn
  • Klea Scott
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Brittany Tiplady
Release date: 1998-01-26
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Chris Carter
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.48

Review Millennium - Vol. 2 [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Godzilla Ebirah Horror Of The Deep
Actors & Directors
  • Jun Fukuda
Release date: 1998-06-15
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review 4 Front Video / Hard Rain [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Randy Quaid
  • Mikael Salomon
  • Minnie Driver
  • Edward Asner
  • Christian Slater
  • Morgan Freeman
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Graham Yost
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99

Review Hard Rain [1998] / 4 Front Video:

It may not exactly be a disaster movie, but this terminally silly thriller is certainly disastrous, and would be pointless without the novelty of its setting in a flooding Midwestern town during a torrential rainfall. Physically impressive but idiotic in every other respect, the movie pits an armoured truck courier (Christian Slater) against a smart leader of thieves (Morgan Freeman) and a corruptible town sheriff (Randy Quaid) who are vying for possession of $3 million in cash. A waterlogged game of cat and mouse, the plot is so contrived that even the most impressive action sequences-such as a jet-ski chase through flooded high-school corridors-are robbed of their already tenuous credibility. Before long you'll be yawning as incompetent accomplices are systematically dispatched by their own stupidity, in the kind of movie where the use of power boats inevitably leads to at least one death by outboard motor. What's impressive here is the physical production itself-the effect of flooding was created by building a huge replica of downtown Huntington, Indiana, in a huge, watertight aircraft hangar in Palmdale, California! -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Release date: 1998-11-16
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.25

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Jackal [1997] [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Caton-Jones|Bruce Willis|Richard Gere|Sidney Poitier
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.89

Review The Jackal [1997] [1998] / Universal Pictures UK:

The Jackal is filmmaking by numbers: take two huge stars, Richard Gere and Bruce Willis, and pit them opposite each other in a plot that's already been audience tested. That director Michael Caton Jones' film is based not on Frederick Forsyth's novel but on the script for the 1973 original starring James Fox is the first clue that something here is amiss. Fred Zinneman's The Day of the Jackal was a genuinely taut and claustrophobic thriller; the remake is like a Rocky & Bullwinkle take on international terrorism disguised as an action movie. Dashing IRA terrorist, Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), is sprung from jail to help the FBI Deputy Director Carton Preston (Sidney Poitier) track down The Jackal, an amoral international terrorist who is a master of disguise. The FBI believes he is about to assassinate a US political bigwig and is engaged in a race against time to discover exactly who the target is and where they will be felled. Throughout the film Gere sports an Irish accent as ill-fitting and phoney as the bushy lip-wig that Willis adopts at one point as a disguise. The usually warm-hearted Willis plays the steel-jawed terrorist with a cool reserve, but he doesn't have much character development to work with (apart from a misguided attempt to introduce a gay subtext). At over two hours of running time with plenty of exposition and precious few action sequences, this film is a test of will for the audience as well as the protagonists. On the DVD: The DVD includes a lengthy "making of" featurette, several deleted scenes and an alternate ending with some small dialogue changes. There is also an exceedingly dry director's commentary by Michael Caton Jones which muses on such mind-numbingly dull details as the colour of the subway platform in the film's climactic sequence. [+]
The film is presented in a clear print in 2. 35:1 anamorphic format with 5. 1 Dolby Digital sound. -Chris Campion.

Review 4 Front Video / Farewell My Lovely [1944]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Powell
  • Otto Kruger
  • Mike Mazurki
  • Claire Trevor
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Anne Shirley
Release date: 1998-08-10
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Raymond Chandler
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.95

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Eternal - The Greatest Clips
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Manninen
  • Federico Sanchez
  • Victoria Sanchez
  • Caroline Néron
  • Conrad Pla
  • Ilona Elkin
  • Wilhelm Liebenberg
Release date: 1999-05-17
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Sandy Martinez
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.78

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers - The M. Appeal Collection - Mission 4 [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Honor Blackman
  • Diana Rigg
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Linda Thorson
  • Ian Hendry
Release date: 1998-09-14
Run time: 147 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers - The M. Appeal Collection - Mission 4 [1961] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Warner Home Video / The Mosquito Coast [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Harrison Ford
  • Conrad Roberts
  • Peter Weir
  • Andre Gregory
  • River Phoenix
  • Helen Mirren
Release date: 1998-05-18
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Paul Theroux
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.43

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.10 - In The Pale Moonlight / His Way [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Colm Meaney
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Avery Brooks
  • Alexander Siddig
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.10 - In The Pale Moonlight / His Way [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. That meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy, or beige décor. Instead they wanted inter-personal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no-one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a gutsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; The Maquis was Starfleet vs Cardassians; Section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; The True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond!), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. [+]
Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review Orion Home Video / Blacula [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Vonetta McGee
  • Thalmus Rasulala
  • William Crain
  • Gordon Pinsent
  • Denise Nicholas
  • William Marshall
Release date: 1998-10-26
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Raymond Koenig
RRP: £9.99
Price: £39.96

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Review 4 Front Video / Heart of Justice [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruno Barreto|Vincent Price|Dennis Hopper|Paul Teschke
Release date: 1999-03-08
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Troma Inc / Monster In The Closet [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Duff
  • Denise DuBarry
  • Henry Gibson
  • Claude Akins
  • Donald Grant
  • Bob Dahlin
Release date: 1996-04-29
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Terrence Corey
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.91

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Millennium - Vol. 1 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Klea Scott
  • Megan Gallagher
  • Brittany Tiplady
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Terry O'Quinn
Release date: 1998-01-26
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Chris Carter
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.95

Review Millennium - Vol. 1 [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Mummy [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Byron
  • Karl Freund
  • Edward Van Sloan
  • Boris Karloff
  • Zita Johann
  • David Manners
Release date: 2003-05-19
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Richard Schayer
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review The Mummy [1932] / Universal Pictures UK:

You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. Im-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. Once freed, Im-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias Ardath Bey and gets to the task of resurrecting his ancient lover-which will, of course, require a living human surrogate. While the premise may sound formulaic, The Mummy in fact turns out to be bracingly weird, relying on atmospheric creepiness rather than on jump-out-and-scare-you effects. Boris Karloff gives a terrific performance as Im-Ho-Tep. He has all the malevolence the film requires, but also manages subtler touches; the expression in his eyes as he is wrapped in preparation for being buried alive is absolutely chilling. [+]
Instead of forcing him to do all the tedious shambling around that so many mummies resort to, the filmmakers have wisely given Im-Ho-Tep/Ardath Bey a nearly living appearance once he's cleaned up and has a few psychic powers to boot, making him a potent adversary. Stock up on ace bandages and prepare for a good spooky evening. -Ali Davis.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / John Grisham's The Rainmaker [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Francis Ford Coppola
  • Matt Damon
  • Jon Voight
  • Claire Danes
  • Mary Kay Place
  • Danny DeVito
Release date: 2002-03-04
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Michael Herr
Price: £5.99

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Review Orion Home Video / Coffy [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Hill
  • Booker Bradshaw
  • Allan Arbus
  • William Elliott
  • Robert DoQui
  • Pam Grier
Release date: 1998-10-26
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Samuel Z. Arkoff
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Escape From Alcatraz [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Siegel
  • Roberts Blossom
  • Patrick McGoohan
  • Jack Thibeau
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Fred Ward
Release date: 1996-01-01
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Richard Tuggle
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.99

Review Escape From Alcatraz [1979] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

One of Clint Eastwood's two most important filmmaking mentors was Don Siegel (the other was Sergio Leone), who directed Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules for Sister Sara and this enigmatic, 1979 drama based on a true story about an escape from the island prison of Alcatraz. Eastwood plays a new convict who enters into a kind of mind game with the chilly warden (Patrick McGoohan) and organises a break leading into the treacherous waters off San Francisco. As jailbird movies go, this isn't just a grotty, unpleasant experience but a character-driven work with some haunting twists. -Tom Keogh.

Review 4 Front Video / The Gingerbread Man [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Tom Berenger
  • Robert Altman
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • Daryl Hannah
  • Kenneth Branagh
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: John Grisham
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.85

Review The Gingerbread Man [1998] / 4 Front Video:

When released in 1997, The Gingerbread Man was the only John Grisham movie that did not use one of the popular novelist's bestsellers as its inspiration. Rather, it's based on an original screenplay by Grisham that displays the author's familiar flair for Southern characters and settings within a labyrinthine plot propelled by his trademark narrative twists and turns. Sporting a spot-on Georgian accent, Kenneth Branagh plays a Savannah attorney who comes to the assistance of a troubled woman (Embeth Davidtz) and finds himself enmeshed in a scenario involving the woman's father (Robert Duvall) that grows increasingly complex and dangerous, where nothing, of course, is really as it seems. It's a totally absorbing movie made in the modern film noir tradition; what's most interesting here (and most underrated by critics at the time) is the combination of Grisham's mainstream mystery and the offbeat style of maverick director Robert Altman. Despite a battle with executives that nearly caused Altman to disown the film, The Gingerbread Man demonstrates the director's skill in bringing a fresh, characteristically offbeat approach to conventional material, especially in the use of a threatening hurricane to hold the plot in a state of dangerous urgency. Unfortunately overlooked during its theatrical release, this intelligent thriller provides a fine double bill with Francis Coppola's film of Grisham's The Rainmaker. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers - The M. Appeal Collection - Mission 3 [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Linda Thorson
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Honor Blackman
  • Diana Rigg
  • Ian Hendry
Release date: 1998-09-14
Run time: 148 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers - The M. Appeal Collection - Mission 3 [1961] / Contender Entertainment Group:


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Millennium - Vol. 2 [1996], Godzilla Ebirah Horror Of The Deep, Hard Rain [1998], Star Trek-Gt.Battles, The Jackal [1997] [1998], Farewell My Lovely [1944], Eternal - The Greatest Clips, The Avengers - The M. Appeal Collection - Mission 4 [1961], The Mosquito Coast [1986], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.10 - In The Pale Moonlight / His Way [1995], Blacula [1972], Heart of Justice [1992], Monster In The Closet [1987], Millennium - Vol. 1 [1996], The Mummy [1932], John Grisham's The Rainmaker [1998], Coffy [1974], Escape From Alcatraz [1979], The Gingerbread Man [1998], The Avengers - The M. Appeal Collection - Mission 3 [1961]

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