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Review 4 Front Video / Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde [VHS] [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Lou Costello
  • Helen Westcott
  • Craig Stevens
  • Bud Abbott
  • Boris Karloff
  • Charles Lamont
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Sid Fields
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.24

Review Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde [VHS] [1953] / 4 Front Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Digimon - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-3 [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Laura Summer
  • Mona Marshall
  • Wendee Lee
  • Jeff Nimoy
  • Joshua Seth
  • Derek Stephen Prince
  • R. Martin Klein
  • Michael Sorich
Release date: 2002-05-29
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: Michael McConnohie
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.74

Review Digimon - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-3 [VHS] [1999] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Taking Of Pelham 123 [VHS] [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Hector Elizondo
  • Joseph Sargent
  • Martin Balsam
  • Walter Matthau
  • Robert Shaw
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Robert Shaw
Price: £9.99

Review The Taking Of Pelham 123 [VHS] [1974] / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Manchurian Candidate [VHS] [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Janet Leigh
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Angela Lansbury
  • Laurence Harvey
  • Henry Silva
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Richard Condon
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.48

Review The Manchurian Candidate [VHS] [1962] / MGM Entertainment:

You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter-century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to centre on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point". Mrs Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. -Jim Emerson.

Review Playback / Miami Vice - Vol. 2 - Give A Little Take A little / No Exit [VHS] [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Talbott
  • Saundra Santiago
  • Olivia Brown
  • Philip Michael Thomas
  • Don Johnson
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Peter Lance
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.49

Review Miami Vice - Vol. 2 - Give A Little Take A little / No Exit [VHS] [1985] / Playback:

In the 1980s, in those heady days before the '87 stock-market crash brought the whole thing down, the television series Miami Vice was a symbol of the times. The brainchild of former Starsky and Hutch scriptwriter-turned-director Michael Mann, riding high on the back of the critical success of Manhunter, his adaptation of the first Hannibal Lecter novel Red Dragon, Miami Vice provided smart, slick and stylish (many would say too stylish) entertainment as it followed the career of two cops against an opulent Miami, Florida backdrop. Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) was the local cop-on-the-edge. Tough, honourable, charming and cool (he did, after all, live on boat with a pet alligator named Elvis), he became one of the 80s ultimate style icons. After only a few episodes of the series, men all over the world began to sport white suits (with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows), pastel shirts, 5 o'clock shadows and deck shoes sans socks. Crockett's less charismatic partner Ricardo Tubbs (sorry, Philip Michael Thomas, but it's true) was a transplanted New York beat cop who came to Miami with a score to settle, but ended up staying, charmed by the city's glitz and glamour (the show's general attitude was "Hey, wouldn't you?"). Although the Miami Vice pilot episode remains an essential 80s archive piece (one suspects it had a much bigger budget), the two episodes that make up Volume Two offer little to anyone other than die-hard fans. Even the addition of the always interesting Edward James Olmos as the police captain and Michael Madsen guest-star turn as a criminal gunning for one of Crockett's informants can do little to salvage the clumsy direction and cringeworthy acting of the first episode, "Give A Little, Take A Little". The terrible subplot involving a prostitution bust going wrong is especially embarrassing. The second episode, "No Exit", is exponentially better. [+]
Directed by David Soul, the blond half of Starsky & Hutch-and, therefore, a man who knows a thing or two about cop shows-"No Exit" features a much hairier Bruce Willis as an international arms dealer who's brought down with the help of his abused wife. -Robert Burrow.

Review Playback / Miami Vice - Vol. 1 - The Original Pilot - [VHS] [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Philip Michael Thomas
  • Michael Talbott
  • Saundra Santiago
  • Don Johnson
  • Olivia Brown
  • Thomas Carter
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Peter Lance
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.95

Review Miami Vice - Vol. 1 - The Original Pilot - [VHS] [1985] / Playback:

In the 1980s, in those heady days before the '87 stock market crash brought the whole thing down, the television series Miami Vice was a symbol of the times. The brainchild of former Starsky and Hutch scriptwriter-turned-director Michael Mann, riding high on the back of the critical success of Manhunter, his adaptation of the first Hannibal Lecter novel Red Dragon, Miami Vice provided smart, slick and stylish (many would say too stylish) entertainment as it followed the career of two cops against an opulent Miami, Florida backdrop. Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) was the local cop-on-the-edge. Tough, honourable, charming and cool (he did, after all, live on boat with a pet alligator named Elvis), he became one of the 80s ultimate style icons. After only a few episodes of the series, men all over the world began to sport white suits (with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows), pastel shirts, 5 o'clock shadows and deck shoes sans socks. Crockett's less charismatic partner Ricardo Tubbs (sorry, Philip Michael Thomas, but it's true) was a transplanted New York beat cop who came to Miami with a score to settle, but ended up staying, charmed by the city's glitz and glamour. What's most impressive about Miami Vice's feature-length pilot episode is how well it still holds up today. Sure, the script is full of clichés (the opening credits have barely ended before Crockett is getting chewed out by his captain), but the show looks impressively glossy and well produced. It's so well put together, in fact, that even the Phil-Collins-packed soundtrack blends seamlessly into the whole package. Well directed and well acted (especially by Don Johnson, who was born to the part of raffish rogue), it's only let down by the weakness of a storyline designed primarily to introduce us to the characters. [+]
Nonetheless, the Miami Vice pilot remains an essential 80s archive piece, demonstrating the triumph of style over substance. -Robert Burrow.

Review Manga Entertainment / Goku Midnight Eye - Part 2 [VHS] [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Forstadt
  • Clara York
  • Yoshiaki Kawajiri
  • Steve Blum
  • Kirk Thornton
  • Wendee Lee
Release date: 1996-03-04
Run time: 56 min.
Creator: Buichi Terasawa
Price: £5.99

Review Goku Midnight Eye - Part 2 [VHS] [1989] / Manga Entertainment:


Review Playback / Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 3 - Float Like A Butterfly / Resurrection / Horizon Hero [VHS] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Deepa Mehta
  • Babby Singh
  • Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  • Maia Sethna
  • Kitu Gidwani
  • Nandita Das
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Bapsi Sidhwa
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.01

Review Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 3 - Float Like A Butterfly / Resurrection / Horizon Hero [VHS] [1997] / Playback:


Review Ilc Prime / Urban Gothic - Vol. 1 [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Ingrid Pitt
  • Ashley Walters
  • Gary Webster
  • Lindsey Coulson
  • Keith-Lee Castle
  • Marcus De White
  • Andrew Morgan
  • Colin Bucksey
Release date: 2000-07-17
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Keith-Lee Castle
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.99

Review Urban Gothic - Vol. 1 [VHS] / Ilc Prime:

Urban Gothic is an interesting original horror short story anthology format, uniting standard horror material with contemporary urban London settings. Tom De Ville has a good ear for streetwise chatter, and a reasonably acute sense of class and ethnic difference-those of his pieces which are essentially character-driven tend to be more successful than those which depend rather more on sensation and plot device. The London locations and young cast combine to make something surprisingly creepy. There are thee episodes on this first volume. In "Deadmeat" a group of sensation-seeking young people, on the run from drug dealers and sexually rapacious employers, find a corpse with a look of horror on its face and decide to experiment with necromancy. Then they discover that there are some people you just don't want back from the dead. "Vampirology" is a tour de force parody of fly-on-the wall documentaries, as a film crew follows a vampire on his nightly round of drinks with yuppie friends and the devouring of a lost tourist. Keith-Lee Castle's portrait of a lost soul is remarkable, and the guest appearance of Ingrid Pitt, every vampire's favourite starlet, is hilarious. Finally in "Old Nick" small children in a block of flats made sinister by bad thoughts and bad dreams know, just know, that the Devil himself lives three floors up. -Roz Kaveney.

Review E1 Entertainment / The Avengers Evolution Collection - Vol. 3 - Avengers International [VHS] [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Honor Blackman
  • Ian Hendry
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Linda Thorson
  • Diana Rigg
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 203 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers Evolution Collection - Vol. 3 - Avengers International [VHS] [1961] / E1 Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / Element Of Doubt [VHS] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Morahan
  • Nigel Havers
  • Sarah Berger
  • Christopher Baines
  • Helen Anderson
  • Polly Adams
Release date: 1997-01-13
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: David Pirie
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.99

Review Element Of Doubt [VHS] [1996] / ITV DVD:


Review Playback / Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 4 - Live Free Or Die / Sandoval's Run / The Scarecrow Returns [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Maia Sethna
  • Nandita Das
  • Deepa Mehta
  • Kitu Gidwani
  • Babby Singh
  • Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Bapsi Sidhwa
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99

Review Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 4 - Live Free Or Die / Sandoval's Run / The Scarecrow Returns [VHS] / Playback:


Review 4digital Media / Ghoulies [VHS] [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Luca Bercovici|Peter Liapis|Lisa Pelikan|Michael Des Barres
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Luca Bercovici|Peter Liapis|Lisa Pelikan|Michael Des Barres
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

Review Ghoulies [VHS] [1985] / 4digital Media:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / The Mind Benders [VHS] [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Ure
  • Basil Dearden
  • Wendy Craig
  • John Clements
  • Michael Bryant
  • Dirk Bogarde
Release date: 2002-11-04
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: James Kennaway
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.94

Review The Mind Benders [VHS] [1962] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Marquee Pictures / Lap Dancer [1995] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Egeli|Elizabeth Wagner|Steve Kesmodel|Jennifer Wolf
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Arthur Egeli|Elizabeth Wagner|Steve Kesmodel|Jennifer Wolf
Price: £12.99

Review Lap Dancer [1995] [VHS] / Marquee Pictures:


Actors & Directors
  • Rex Linn
  • Sylvester Stallone
  • Janine Turner
  • Renny Harlin
  • John Lithgow
  • Michael Rooker
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Michael France
Price: £4.99

Review Cliffhanger [VHS] [1993]:

Cliffhanger was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action hero Sylvester Stallone, this time thanks to director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing, high-mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title promises, and there's an extraordinary airplane stunt that was later reprised, with modifications, in Air Force One. Stallone, looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves, is a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks (headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a US Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies with millions of bucks. Outrageous action-packed, snow-packed and scenery-packed chase sequences (featuring whirring helicopters, whooshing skis, popping gunfire and clanging pitons that earned the movie Oscar nominations for sound and sound editing) abound. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Review Made in Hong Kong / Once A Thief (1991) [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Kong Chu
  • Leslie Cheung
  • Chow Yun-Fat
  • Cherie Cheung
  • John Woo
  • Kenneth Tsang
Release date: 1996-09-02
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Leslie Cheung
Price: £13.99

Review Once A Thief (1991) [VHS] / Made in Hong Kong:


Review Douglas Michael / The Game [VHS]
Release date: 2001-02-19
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.99

Review The Game [VHS] / Douglas Michael:


Review E1 Entertainment / The Avengers Evolution Collection - Vol. 4 - Sock It To Me! [VHS] [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Linda Thorson
  • Ian Hendry
  • Diana Rigg
  • Honor Blackman
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 204 min.
Creator: Sydney Newman
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers Evolution Collection - Vol. 4 - Sock It To Me! [VHS] [1961] / E1 Entertainment:


Review E1 Entertainment / Farscape Vol. 1.8 - 1.17 Through the Looking Glass / 1.18 A Bug's Life [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Watson
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Andrew Prowse
  • Claudia Black
  • Tony Tilse
  • Ben Browder
  • Geoff Bennett
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
RRP: £12.99
Price: £13.99

Review Farscape Vol. 1.8 - 1.17 Through the Looking Glass / 1.18 A Bug's Life [VHS] [1999] / E1 Entertainment:


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Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde [VHS] [1953], Digimon - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-3 [VHS] [1999], The Taking Of Pelham 123 [VHS] [1974], The Manchurian Candidate [VHS] [1962], Miami Vice - Vol. 2 - Give A Little Take A little / No Exit [VHS] [1985], Miami Vice - Vol. 1 - The Original Pilot - [VHS] [1985], Goku Midnight Eye - Part 2 [VHS] [1989], Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 3 - Float Like A Butterfly / Resurrection / Horizon Hero [VHS] [1997], Urban Gothic - Vol. 1 [VHS], The Avengers Evolution Collection - Vol. 3 - Avengers International [VHS] [1961], Element Of Doubt [VHS] [1996], Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 4 - Live Free Or Die / Sandoval's Run / The Scarecrow Returns [VHS], Ghoulies [VHS] [1985], The Mind Benders [VHS] [1962], Lap Dancer [1995] [VHS], Cliffhanger [VHS] [1993], Once A Thief (1991) [VHS], The Game [VHS], The Avengers Evolution Collection - Vol. 4 - Sock It To Me! [VHS] [1961], Farscape Vol. 1.8 - 1.17 Through the Looking Glass / 1.18 A Bug's Life [VHS] [1999]

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