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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Tom Cruise - The Firm / Mission: Impossible / Top Gun [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian De Palma
  • Tom Cruise
  • Sydney Pollack
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Val Kilmer
  • Kelly McGillis
  • Tony Scott
  • Jon Voight
Release date: 1998-11-02
Run time: 359 min.
Creator: Ehud Yonay
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.44

Review Tom Cruise - The Firm / Mission: Impossible / Top Gun [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Teaching Mrs Tingle [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Tambor
  • Marisa Coughlan
  • Barry Watson
  • Katie Holmes
  • Kevin Williamson
  • Helen Mirren
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Harvey Weinstein
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

Review Teaching Mrs Tingle [1999] / Cinema Club:

The artwork for Teaching Mrs Tingle may feature young cuties Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlin and Barry Watson, but the real star is the actress playing the title character: Helen Mirren. Mirren is the bitter, tyrannical teacher who, due to circumstantial evidence, believes goody two-shoes Holmes is guilty of cheating on her history final. Holmes, Coughlin and Watson go to Mirren's home to convince her that there's been a misunderstanding, but Mirren refuses to listen. Terrified that this will ruin her chances to go to college, Holmes and her compatriots knock Mirren out and tie her to her bed. Unfortunately, they haven't any idea what to do next; when Mirren awakes, the situation becomes a battle of wits in which the teenagers are hopelessly outmatched. Coughlin and Watson are pretty to look at and Holmes has some genuine talent and a lot of charm, but Mirren-who's played in Shakespeare productions on the stage and been in movies ranging from lurid and trashy (Caligula) to eerie and arty (The Comfort of Strangers) to lurid, trashy, eerie, and arty (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover)-combines the cutting intelligence of Vanessa Redgrave, the steely will of Judi Dench and a sensual energy that any young starlet would kill for. This teen comedy-thriller is just an amusing footnote in Mirren's career, but if you've never been transfixed by this actress's mischievous sidelong glances, Teaching Mrs. Tingle might provide a good start. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Evil Instinct (1997)
Actors & Directors
  • Diana Pang
  • Barry Chu
  • Cheung-Ching Mak
  • Sai-Kit Yung
  • Carrie Ng
  • Bowie Lam
Release date: 1998-05-18
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Ricky Wong
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.31

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Review Warner Home Video / Crusade : War Zone & The Long Road [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Woodward
  • Daniel Dae Kim
  • Tony Dow
  • Gary Cole
  • Tracy Scoggins
  • David Allen Brooks
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Tracy Yates
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.25

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Speed [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Jan de Bont
  • Jeff Daniels
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Joe Morton
  • Dennis Hopper
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Graham Yost
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

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

Everything clicked in this 1994 action hit, from the premise (a city bus has to keep moving at 50 mph or blow up) to the two leads (the usually inscrutable Keanu Reeves and the cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock) to the villain (Dennis Hopper in psycho mode) to the director (Jan De Bont, who made this film hit the ground running with an edge-of-your-seat opening sequence on a broken elevator). This is the sort of movie that becomes a prototype for a thousand lesser films (including De Bont's lousy sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control), but Speed really is a one-of-a-kind experience almost anyone can enjoy. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Cinema Club / One Good Cop [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Heywood Gould
  • Michael Keaton
  • Rene Russo
  • Kevin Conway
  • Anthony LaPaglia
  • Rachel Ticotin
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review One Good Cop [1991] / Cinema Club:


Actors & Directors
  • Jack Bender
  • James Wilder
  • Yasmine Bleeth
  • Robin Givens
Release date: 1997-08-25
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Face [1996] / Arena:


Review ITV DVD / The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Banks
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Edna Best
  • Hugh Wakefield
  • Peter Lorre
  • Frank Vosper
Release date: 2000-01-31
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.54

Review The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934] / ITV DVD:

Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart-Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh. ) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. -Tom Keogh.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape - Vol. 2.10 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Ian Watson
  • Tony Tilse
  • Claudia Black
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Ben Browder
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Price: £12.99

Review Farscape - Vol. 2.10 [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Warner Home Video / Fugitive, The - The Chase Continues [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Timothy Daly
  • Connie Britton
  • Kelly Rutherford
  • Mykelti Williamson
  • Mikael Salomon
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.29

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Review Arrow Films / Beyond Justice
Actors & Directors
  • Kabir Bedi
  • Carol Alt
  • Omar Sharif
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Elliott Gould
  • Duccio Tessari
Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Sergio Donati
RRP: £10.99
Price: £29.90

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Review Cinema Club / Children Of The Corn 5 - Fields Of Terror [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Greg Vaughan
  • Angela Jones
  • Alexis Arquette
  • Ethan Wiley
  • Eva Mendes
  • Stacy Galina
Release date: 2001-10-15
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Stephen King
RRP: £5.99
Price: £18.85

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Review Cinema Club / The Glass Shield [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Erich Anderson
  • Michael Boatman
  • Richard Anderson
  • Charles Burnett
  • Bernie Casey
  • Wanda De Jesus
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.94

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Terminator [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • James Cameron
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Paul Winfield
  • Linda Hamilton
  • Michael Biehn
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: William Wisher Jr.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.95

Review The Terminator [1985] / MGM Entertainment:

The Terminator was the film that cemented Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in the action-brawn firmament, and both his and the movie's subsequent iconic status are well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg that kills without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and direction are pared to the bone and are all the more chillingly effective for it. But don't overlook the contribution of Linda Hamilton, who more than holds her own as the Terminator's would-be victim, Sarah Connor, thus creating-along with Sigourney Weaver in Alien-a new generation of rugged, clear-thinking female action stars. The film's minimalist, malevolent violence is actually scarier than that of its far more expensive, more effects-laden sequel. -Anne Hurley, Amazon. com On the DVD: Rejoice, The Terminator is back, better looking and louder than ever. After years of inferior VHS versions, the cleaned-up print of this DVD is a revelation, as is the digitally remastered Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack: from the opening MGM lion's roar to the crunch of Arnie's boots and the pounding of Brad Fiedel's techno-industrial score, both picture and sound are of a quality that belie the movie's age. The first disc has the movie plus a DVD-ROM feature containing three different versions of the screenplay, which can be read scene-by-scene along with the film. [+]
On the second disc there are seven deleted scenes, including a fascinating foreshadowing of Sarah Connor's mission in T2, as well as trailers and TV spots. There are also two "making of" featurettes, one being an 18-minute piece from 1992 based around a friendly at-home chat with Cameron and Schwarzenegger ("We did the first Terminator for the cost of your motor home on the second film", jokes director to actor). The hour-long "Other Voices" featurette is an in-depth montage of cast and crew reminiscences covering all aspects of the production from its initial genesis as a fevered nightmare to the "guerrilla" filmmaking of getting the final shots. Script collaborator Bill Wisher neatly sums up the movie as "It's a Wonderful Life, with guns". The second disc also contains a stills archive of production photographs, James Cameron's amazing original conceptual artwork, plus his first story treatment. If you own a player, how can you resist? After all, the Terminator movies are what DVD was invented for. -Mark Walker.

Review Eureka Entertainment / Nosferatu [1922]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Granach
  • Gustav von Wangenheim
  • Max Schreck
  • Greta Schröder
  • F.W. Murnau
  • Ruth Landshoff
Release date: 2001-01-22
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Henrik Galeen
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.10

Review Nosferatu [1922] / Eureka Entertainment:

"Nosferatu. the name alone can chill the blood!". F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. [+]
Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake. )The film's full title-Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)-reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups-the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice-were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. -Geoffrey Macnab.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - 3.06 - The Beach / Heaven And Hell
Actors & Directors
  • Michael McManus
  • Brian Downey
  • Ellen Dubin
  • Xenia Seeberg
  • Nigel Bennett
  • Paul Donovan
Release date: 2000-12-26
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.80

Review Lexx - 3.06 - The Beach / Heaven And Hell / Contender Entertainment Group:

A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the show's overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H. Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2,000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Jeffrey Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (Eva Habermann), replaced in Season Two by Xev (Xenia Seeberg). A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises: by the time of the third season, the expression "anything goes" had long passed being understatement. On this tape: At last all questions are answered in what might as well be a two-part finale. "The Beach" would for any other series be considered the clips show: on an idyllic yet purgatorial stretch of sand, Stan is forced to account for his life by viewing events of the past. Judged by his harshest critic-himself-he then suffers all that Prince has promised and more as the true meaning of "Heaven and Hell" is revealed. Creator Paul Donovan clearly maintained a strong hand in every aspect of this season, but in directing his own work with these last two episodes we witness a genuinely rare example of personal vision. The narrative has been consistently surprising, but the twist left for last is literally breathtaking. [+]
TV sci-fi has never been so sexy and intelligent at the same time. -Paul Tonks.

Review Cinema Club / Craft, The / Urban Legend [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ariauna Albright
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 192 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.93

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Review Cinema Club / Hand That Rocks The Cradle, The / Single White Female [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Bridget Fonda
  • Peter Friedman
  • Steven Weber
  • Barbet Schroeder
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Stephen Tobolowsky
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 209 min.
Creator: John Lutz
Price: £9.99

Review Hand That Rocks The Cradle, The / Single White Female [1992] / Cinema Club:

You can take this 1992 thriller one of two ways: it's either a highly suspenseful movie about an unfortunate young woman's psychological breakdown, or it's a glossy slasher movie starring two of Hollywood's best young actresses. Or maybe it's both at the same time-or perhaps it's the clever and well-acted thriller for its first hour before resorting to the routine shocks of a cheap horror flick. However you look at it, there's no denying that this is a dynamite showcase for Jennifer Jason Leigh as the flatmate from hell who becomes the bane of Bridget Fonda's existence. First she picks up Fonda's mannerisms, then starts to borrow her wardrobe, cuts her hair to resemble Fonda's, and even "borrows" her roommate's boyfriend for a deceitful night of lovemaking. By that point Fonda's totally freaking out (wouldn't you?), and, well, that's when the whole thing gets a little too silly. Still, this is a nifty little shocker, and director Barbet Schroeder brings more intelligence and style to the material than it really deserves. Add that to the fine performances by the battling roommates and you've got a movie that will make you think twice before inviting total strangers to live with you. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Natural Born Killers [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Woody Harrelson
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • Juliette Lewis
  • Oliver Stone
  • Robert Downey Jr.
Release date: 2001-11-12
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.70

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Review Cinema Club / Godzilla / Anaconda [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Pitillo
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Hank Azaria
  • Jean Reno
  • Kevin Dunn
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 219 min.
Creator: Terry Rossio
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.75

Review Godzilla / Anaconda [1998] / Cinema Club:

As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit that Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. There's really no other way to approach it-you just have to accept the fact that Independence Day creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are unapologetic plagiarists, incapable of anything more than mindless spectacle that can play in any cinema in the world without dubbing or subtitles. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s; it's little more than a rehash of the Jurassic Park movies. The derivative script is so trivial that it's unworthy of comment, apart from a few choice laughs and the casting of Michael Lerner as New York's mayor, whose name is Ebert and who closely resembles a certain well-known movie critic. Perhaps that's a clever hint that this movie's essentially critic-proof. It's stupid but it's fun, and for most audiences that's a fitting definition of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. -Jeff Shannon Zorro, a pop-fiction creation invented by Johnston McCulley in 1918, is given new blood in this fast-moving and engaging version. Director Martin Campbell wisely instils a measure of frivolity into the deftly choreographed action sequences, while letting a serious tone creep in when appropriate. This covers much ground under the banner of romantic-action-adventure and it does so most excellently. [+]
-Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon. com Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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Tom Cruise - The Firm / Mission: Impossible / Top Gun [1996], Teaching Mrs Tingle [1999], Evil Instinct (1997), Crusade : War Zone & The Long Road [1999], Speed [1994], One Good Cop [1991], The Face [1996], The Man Who Knew Too Much [1934], Farscape - Vol. 2.10 [1999], Fugitive, The - The Chase Continues [2000], Beyond Justice, Children Of The Corn 5 - Fields Of Terror [2001], The Glass Shield [1994], The Terminator [1985], Nosferatu [1922], Lexx - 3.06 - The Beach / Heaven And Hell, Craft, The / Urban Legend [1996], Hand That Rocks The Cradle, The / Single White Female [1992], Natural Born Killers [1995], Godzilla / Anaconda [1998]

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