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Review Warner Home Video / Conspiracy Theory [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Cylk Cozart
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Steve Kahan
  • Richard Donner
  • Julia Roberts
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 1998-09-14
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Brian Helgeland
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.98

Review Conspiracy Theory [1997] / Warner Home Video:

What is it about director Richard Donner that Mel Gibson enjoys so much that he's appeared in five of Donner's films? Is it the on-set pranks? Could it be the big-budget perks and $20 million paychecks? Or is it just a well-stocked catering table? Whatever the case, the Lethal Weapon star and director teamed up again, along with fellow superstar Julia Roberts, for this typically glossy, entertaining but ultimately hokey thriller. Gibson plays New York cab driver Jerry Fletcher, whose wacky belief in conspiracies finally hits on a coincidental truth involving an evil figure named Jonas (Patrick Stewart) and a secret program of government-funded mind control. Roberts plays the Justice Department attorney who finally believes in Jerry's paranoid ramblings. With a plot (from LA Confidential co-writer Brian Helgeland) that's a lot of fun as long as you don't think about it too critically, Conspiracy Theory benefits immeasurably from the charisma of its high-magnitude stars. -Jeff Shannon.

Actors & Directors
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald
  • Ella Raines
  • Robert Siodmak
  • George Sanders
Run time: 78 min.

Review The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry [1945] / Stablecane:

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Planet of Evil [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • John Gorrie
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Richard Martin (IV)
Release date: 1993-12-29
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.90

Review Doctor Who - Planet of Evil [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Eric Close
  • Megan Ward
  • J.T. Walsh
Release date: 1997-06-11
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Dark Skies - Moving Targets / Mercury Rising / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / The Krays Box Set - The Krays / Flesh And Blood - The Story Of The Krays [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Kemp
  • Peter Medak
  • Martin Kemp
  • Susan Fleetwood
  • Billie Whitelaw
  • Tom Bell
Release date: 1999-10-11
Run time: 169 min.
Creator: Philip Ridley
Price: £9.99

Review The Krays Box Set - The Krays / Flesh And Blood - The Story Of The Krays [1990] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Taylor Hackford|Keanu Reeves|Al Pacino|Charlize Theron
Release date: 1998-11-23
Run time: 138 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.49

Review Devil's Advocate [1997] [1998] / Warner Home Video S016873:

Too old for Hamlet and too young for Lear-what's an ambitious actor to do? Play the Devil, of course. Jack Nicholson did it in The Witches of Eastwick; Robert De Niro did it in Angel Heart (as Louis Cyphre-get it?). In The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino takes his turn as the great Satan, and clearly relishes his chance to raise hell. He's a New York lawyer, of course, by the name of John Milton, who recruits a hotshot young Florida attorney (Keanu Reeves) to his firm and seduces him with tempting offers of power, sex and money. Think of the story as a twist on John Grisham's The Firm, with the corporate evil made even more explicit. Reeves is wooden, and therefore doesn't seem to have much of a soul to lose, but he's really just our excuse to meet the devil. Pacino's the main attraction, gleefully showing off his-and the Antichrist's-chops at perpetrating menace and mayhem. -Jim Emerson.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Man Who Knew Too Much [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Brenda De Banzie
  • Doris Day
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • James Stewart
  • Bernard Miles
  • Ralph Truman
Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: John Michael Hayes
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.39

Review The Man Who Knew Too Much [1955] / Universal Pictures UK:

Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his own 1934 spy thriller is an exciting event in its own right, with several justifiably famous sequences. James Stewart and Doris Day play American tourists who discover more than they wanted to know about an assassination plot. When their son is kidnapped to keep them quiet, they are caught between concern for him and the terrible secret they hold. When asked about the difference between this version of the story and the one he made 22 years earlier, Hitchcock always said the first was the work of a talented amateur while the second was the act of a seasoned professional. Indeed, several extraordinary moments in this update represent consummate film-making, particularly a relentlessly exciting Albert Hall scene, with a blaring symphony, an assassin's gun, and Doris Day's scream. Along with Hitchcock's other films from the mid-1950s to 1960 (including Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho), The Man Who Knew Too Much is the work of a master in his prime. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 2 Entertain Video / The League Of Gentlemen - The Entire First Series [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Corrie Greenop
Release date: 2000-10-09
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Peter Edwards
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.99

Review The League Of Gentlemen - The Entire First Series [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:

Critically acclaimed and rapidly breeding a cult following, the bizarre BBC television series The League of Gentlemen is to sitcoms like The Good Life or even Friends what David Lynch's films are to Frank Capra movies. Instead of the usual one-family-in-suburbia or group-of-pals set up, Gentlemen centres on the whole town of Royston Vasey. A Northern village of, to say the least, eccentric characters, the weird people of Royston Vasey look like they've been intermarrying for too long and are suffering from a particularly demented variety of xenophobia that drives them to extremes of tetchiness and psychosis. There's the local shopkeepers Edward and Tubbs, who go to murderous lengths to ensure their shop remains for local people only; the Denton family, toad-breeders obsessed with maintaining their household rituals at all costs; inept veterinary surgeon Dr Chinnery, who's never yet saved a patient; Barbara, the local transsexual taxi driver (one of the show's more well adjusted characters); Pauline the demonic Restart Officer at the local Job Centre; and Lance, the sadistic owner of Lance's Joke Shop which sells poisonous sweets and the ever-popular finger in a matchbox (with a real finger), among many others. Slow to start at first, the show really gets into its stride by the sixth episode when events start to tie up and take a turn so fiendishly complicated, there's no point in even trying to explain it all. Most of the characters are performed by three of the four core members of the group-Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith (co-writer Jeremy Dyson doesn't actually perform on stage), sporting a disturbing variety of prosthetic demi-masks and latex make-up-who started the concept off with a stage show and then transferred it to radio before taking it on TV, which may explain why The League of Gentlemen seems blithely oblivious of normal sitcom conventions and has a stately air of surrealism that feels like The Archers as written by playwright Eugene Ionesco. It's brilliant stuff. Leslie Felperin.

Review Dd Home Entertainment / The Final Programme [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Finch
  • Jenny Runacre
  • Robert Fuest
  • Sterling Hayden
  • Hugh Griffith
  • Patrick Magee
Release date: 2002-11-04
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Michael Moorcock
RRP: £12.99
Price: £44.99

Review The Final Programme [1973] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The League Of Gentlemen - Christmas Special [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Jeremy Dyson
  • Reece Shearsmith
  • Steve Pemberton
  • Paul Hays-Marshall
Release date: 2002-11-25
Creator: Peter Edwards
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.70

Review The League Of Gentlemen - Christmas Special [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:

A Gothic-comedy masterpiece, The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special is a horrific anthology of three related stories, all set in Royston Vasey, which takes its inspiration as much from the writings of MR James and Edgar Allan Poe as the low-budget Hammer and Amicus shockers that the team parody so affectionately. The stories are all linked by the Dickensian device of Reverend Bernice receiving unexpected guests on Christmas Eve: the first concerns troubled married couple Charlie and Stella becoming unwittingly involved in voodoo and witchcraft; the second features the horrendous Herr Lipp in a Nosferatu skit that reveals the terrible truth about what really goes on in Duisburg; while the third, and best, tells of the horrible hereditary curse that afflicted Dr Chinnery's great-grandfather. This one-off special distils all the League's penchant for disturbing, twisted characterisation and macabre humour into a single hour; the result is one of the most daring "comedies" ever seen on British TV. On the DVD: The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special on disc contains the hour-long main feature accompanied by a diverse and entertaining array of extras. There's another illuminating group commentary; a 20-minute documentary "Tales from Behind the Crypt", in which we get to see excerpts from the team's first ensemble effort, "Highgate House of Horror"; a chat with composer Jody Talbot; and the League themselves "In Conversation" with Paul Jackson in the complete Radio 4 broadcast. A selection of out-takes, extended scenes, character biographies and a photo gallery are all worthwhile, but best of all is a Jackanory special with Mark Gatiss as the Victorian Dr Chinnery telling the Gothic tale of "The Curse of the Karrit Poor", a spot-on Arthur Conan Doyle spoof. -Mark Walker.

Review Pathe Distribution / Rogue Trader [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Friel
  • Yves Beneyton
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Caroline Langrishe
  • Betsy Brantley
  • James Dearden
Release date: 2000-07-24
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Nick Leeson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.96

Review Rogue Trader [1999] / Pathe Distribution:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Quantum Leap - Americanization Of Machiko / What Price Gloria [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Gilbert Shilton
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Alan J. Levi
  • Scott Bakula
Release date: 1994-07-25
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.45

Review Quantum Leap - Americanization Of Machiko / What Price Gloria [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Ocean's Eleven [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Soderbergh
  • George Clooney|Brad Pitt|Julia Roberts|Andy Garcia
Release date: 2002-10-14
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.01

Review Ocean's Eleven [2002] / Warner Home Video:

Ocean's Eleven improves on 1960's Rat Pack original with supernova casting, a slickly updated plot and Steven Soderbergh's graceful touch behind the camera. Soderbergh reportedly relished the opportunity "to make a movie that has no desire except to give pleasure from beginning to end", and he succeeds on those terms, blessed by the casting of George Clooney as Danny Ocean, the title role originated by Frank Sinatra. Fresh out of jail, Ocean masterminds a plot to steal $163 million from the seemingly impervious vault of Las Vegas's Bellagio casino, not just for the money but to win his ex-wife (Julia Roberts) back from the casino's ruthless owner (Andy Garcia). Soderbergh doesn't scrimp on the caper's comically intricate strategy, but he finds greater joy in assembling a stellar team (including Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Carl Reiner) and indulging their strengths as actors and thieves. The result is a film that's as smooth as a silk suit and just as stylish. -Jeff Shannon On the DVD: Ocean's Eleven on disc is hardly swarming with special features, but just like all good heists it's quality not quantity that counts. Although the DVD-ROM feature is simply a game of computer blackjack, the cast list simply that and the HBO special just a standard Hollywood promo, the two refreshing and honest commentaries more than compensate. The cast commentary is lively and it's nice to hear intelligent comments coming from Hollywood's big league for a change. However, it's the director and writer's commentary that is the real gem; it's funny, enlightening and most of all it allows Ted Griffin to put the case forward for all screenwriters across the world as to the importance of their craft. The main feature has an impressive transfer of sound and visuals, making the suits sharper and David Holmes' soundtrack even funkier. [+]
-Nikki Disney.

Review Visionary Comms. Ltd. / Freaks [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Victor
  • Olga Baclanova
  • Roscoe Ates
  • Wallace Ford
  • Tod Browning
  • Leila Hyams
Release date: 1995-02-27
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: Willis Goldbeck
Price: £15.99

Review Freaks [1932] / Visionary Comms. Ltd.:

One of the most famous, most shocking and, for much of its existence, most elusive of cult films, Tod Browning's Freaks remains worthy of its dubious top billing by literary critic Leslie Fiedler as the greatest of all Freak movies. At the centre of the story are two circus midgets, Hans and Frieda (already well known in the 1930s through film and advertising appearances as Harry and Daisy Earles), whose marriage plans are blasted when Hans becomes the target of the aerialist Cleopatra's plot to marry him then kill him off for his money. During what is certainly one of the most notorious scenes in cult film history, the wedding party of freaks ritually embrace Cleopatra as one of us. Through her undisguised horror at this and her gruesome punishment by the freaks, the film bluntly confronts viewers about our awkwardness about different bodies while simultaneously stirring up fear and alarm in familiar horror-movie style. Better known for the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula (1931), Brownings showmanship was equally a product of the circus (he was himself an adolescent contortionist in a travelling show). His meshing of circus and cinema-two dangerous entertainments-produces Freaks' uniquely disquieting effect. Startled and indignant preview audiences forced the producers to add an explanatory foreword to the film but even this crackles with sensationalism as it veers between sideshow-style sympathy and fright warning. None the less, protests and local censorship ensued and the film never reached the mass audience for which it was made. Still, some of the real stars of the midway Ten-in-One shows of the 1920s and 30s (Johnny Eck, Daisy and Violet Hilton the Siamese twins, Prince Randian, the Hindu Living Torso) are showcased here as themselves and it is their undeniably real presence in what is otherwise familiar fictional terrain which is still so provocative. -Helen Stoddart.

Review Manga Entertainment / Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 3
Actors & Directors
  • Yuriko Yamamoto
  • Kenji Utsumi
  • Chikao Ôtsuka
  • Toyoo Ashida
  • Akira Kamiya
  • Toshio Furukawa
Release date: 1999-06-14
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: Tetsuo Hara
Price: £5.99

Review Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 3 / Manga Entertainment:


Review Manga Entertainment / Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 2
Actors & Directors
  • Kenji Utsumi
  • Toshio Furukawa
  • Yuriko Yamamoto
  • Akira Kamiya
  • Toyoo Ashida
  • Chikao Ôtsuka
Release date: 1999-05-10
Run time: 63 min.
Creator: Tetsuo Hara
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.95

Review Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 2 / Manga Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Twilight's Last Gleaming [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Widmark
  • Robert Aldrich
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Joseph Cotten
  • Roscoe Lee Browne
  • Melvyn Douglas
Release date: 1998-03-30
Run time: 138 min.
Creator: Walter Wager
Price: £12.99

Review Twilight's Last Gleaming [1977] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Species 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Mykelti Williamson
  • Marg Helgenberger
  • Michael Madsen
  • George Dzundza
  • Peter Medak
  • Natasha Henstridge
Release date: 2000-05-15
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Chris Brancato
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.50

Review Species 2 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

"They could fuck the human race out of existence!" warns Michael Madsen in this inevitable-and inevitably contrived-sequel to 1995's surprise sci-fi hit. He's referring to a celebrated astronaut (Justin Lazard) infected with alien DNA from his history-making Mars landing, and the half-alien Eve (Natasha Henstridge), who was created from alien-human embryo splicing by biochemist Dr Laura Baker (Marg Helgenberger) in an effort to discover the alien species' vulnerabilities on Earth. While the astronaut sows his gruesomely wild oats with doomed women (resulting in a bevy of creepy kids in alien cocoons), Eve goes into heat until she and the astronaut can consummate their procreative lust. Sex and death are served up like money-shots in a porno flick, with an emphasis on gory flesh-regeneration, explosive pregnancies and slimy-tentacled intercourse. All of which makes this is the kind of derivative schlock that only a true fan could love, but it's boosted to a tolerable level of entertainment by the returning cast (Madsen, Henstridge and Helgenberger) from the previous film. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Beyblade - Vol. 7 [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Hiroo Takeuchi
  • Illich Guardiola
  • Susan Aceron
  • Katie Griffin
  • Aya Hisakawa
  • Toshifumi Kawase
  • Stephanie Beard
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 63 min.
Creator: Shelley Hoffman
Price: £7.99

Review Beyblade - Vol. 7 [2002] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Shaughnessy
  • Byron Haskin
  • Eric Fleming
  • Walter Brooke
  • William Hopper
Run time: 78 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Conquest Of Space [1955] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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Conspiracy Theory [1997], The Strange Affair Of Uncle Harry [1945], Doctor Who - Planet of Evil [1963], Dark Skies - Moving Targets / Mercury Rising, The Krays Box Set - The Krays / Flesh And Blood - The Story Of The Krays [1990], Devil's Advocate [1997] [1998], The Man Who Knew Too Much [1955], The League Of Gentlemen - The Entire First Series [1999], The Final Programme [1973], The League Of Gentlemen - Christmas Special [1999], Rogue Trader [1999], Quantum Leap - Americanization Of Machiko / What Price Gloria [1989], Ocean's Eleven [2002], Freaks [1932], Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 3, Fist Of The North Star - Vol. 2, Twilight's Last Gleaming [1977], Species 2 [1998], Beyblade - Vol. 7 [2002], Conquest Of Space [1955]

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