Release date: 1992-09-07
Run time: 177 min.
Price: £19.99
Review Doctor Who - The Tom Baker Years [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Return Of The Jedi [1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KTCF1H4QL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Mark Hamill
- Anthony Daniels
- Billy Dee Williams
- Harrison Ford
- Carrie Fisher
- Richard Marquand
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Lawrence Kasdan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99
Review Return Of The Jedi [1983] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Rosemary's Baby [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FNRJYWB9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Sidney Blackmer
- Maurice Evans
- John Cassavetes
- Roman Polanski
- Mia Farrow
- Ruth Gordon
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: Ira Levin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99
Review Rosemary's Baby [1968] / Paramount Home Entertainment:Horror films don't get much better than this. Even 30 years later, Roman Polanski's adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling book can still give you the willies. Mia Farrow plays Rosemary, a young wife in New York living in an old apartment building (actually, the Dakota) with a strange history. When her actor-husband (John Cassavetes) befriends their elderly neighbours (Ruth Gordon, who won an Oscar for her performance, and Sidney Blackmer), things start to go right in his career-but she becomes pregnant and begins to have strange premonitions about both the baby and her neighbours. Polanski keeps you on the edge of your seat, using strong performances as well as skilful editing and camerawork to prove that you don't need a knife-wielding serial killer to scare the pants off an audience. -Marshall Fine.
![Review 4 Front Video / Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5177A3PJ6KL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ade
- Guy Ritchie
- Brad Pitt
- Jason Statham
- Dexter Fletcher
- Jason Flemyng
Run time: 205 min.
Creator: Michael Dreyer
Price: £9.99
Review Snatch/Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels [1998] / 4 Front Video:
![Review BMG Video / This World, Then The Fireworks [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AXDHGTYJL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Billy Zane
- Sheryl Lee
- Gina Gershon
- Michael Oblowitz
- Will Patton
- Rue McClanahan
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £5.99
Review This World, Then The Fireworks [1997] / BMG Video:
![Review Odyssey Video / Murder Between Friends [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HN4KNQNCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Waris Hussein
- O'Neal Compton
- Stephen Lang
- Timothy Busfield
- Martin Kemp
- Lisa Blount
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Philip Rosenberg
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.64
Review Murder Between Friends [1993] / Odyssey Video:
Actors & Directors
- Theresa Russell
- Michael Crabtree
- Ken Russell
- John Diehl
- Benjamin Mouton
- Antonio Fargas
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Deborah Dalton
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.98
Review Whore [1991] / 4 Front Video:
![Review 4 Front Video / The Time Guardian [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KFKGTFNWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Brian Hannant
- Tom Burlinson
- Peter Merrill
- Nikki Coghill
- Carrie Fisher
- Dean Stockwell
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: John Baxter
Price: £5.99
Review The Time Guardian [1987] / 4 Front Video:
![Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / She Killed In Ecstasy [1970]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G9XWYEMEL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Soledad Miranda
- Jesus Franco
- Howard Vernon
- Ewa Strömberg
- Paul Muller
- Fred Williams
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Arturo Marcos
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.69
Review She Killed In Ecstasy [1970] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:
![Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / The Killing Of Sister George [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S34R3SAAL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Aldrich
- Ronald Fraser
- Beryl Reid
- Coral Browne
- Patricia Medina
- Susannah York
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.99
Review The Killing Of Sister George [1968] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:Director Robert Aldrich, best known for his tough action films and Gothic thrillers, brings his fierce vision of human nature to The Killing of Sister George, based on Frank Marcus's play. The titular "Sister George" is Britain's best-loved soap opera character, played by actress June Buckeridge (Beryl Reid). Buckeridge has become so identified with her character-a sweet old Miss Marple-ish nurse who putters around her quaint little village on a motor scooter-even her friends call her George. But outside the studio she's a hard-drinking, hot-tempered, foul-mouthed lesbian living with an immature young thing nicknamed Childie (Susannah York, who makes her memorable entrance in a sheer baby-doll nightie). At her worst Sister George is an abusive monster (in a moment of rage she forces Childie to eat the butt of her cigar), but beneath the bluster is an insecure television actress. When the studio decides to kill off her character and an executive makes a play for Childie, the soap star desperately clings to her young lover. In its best moments the film simmers in angry suspicion and helpless frustration, brought to life by Reid's vivacious performance; but other scenes are overlong and stage-bound and would have benefited greatly from judicious trimming and tightening. The caricatured portrayals of lesbian life have aged rather poorly-an inevitable sign of the times-but this acidic show-biz drama still carries a hefty emotional punch. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.
![Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Mr Arkadin [1955]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NKD11FG3L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Orson Welles
- Patricia Medina
- Peter van Eyck
- Grégoire Aslan
- Akim Tamiroff
- Orson Welles
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Louis Dolivet
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.82
Review Mr Arkadin [1955] / Delta Visual Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Dennis Hopper
- Jennifer Connelly
- Don Johnson
- William Sadler
- Virginia Madsen
- Charles Martin Smith
Creator: Nona Tyson
Review The Hot Spot:The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams' source novel Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favours and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehaviour to qualify The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure. -Jeff Shannon.
![Review Tartan Video / Darkness In Tallinn [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D7EC3N6SL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Milena Gulbe
- Ilkka Järvi-Laturi
- Väino Laes
- Enn Klooren
- Ivo Uukkivi
- Monika Mäger
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Paul Kolsby
Price: £15.99
Review Darkness In Tallinn [1993] / Tartan Video:
Actors & Directors
- Robby Kiger
- Duncan Regehr
- Fred Dekker
- Stephen Macht
- Tom Noonan
- Andre Gower
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Shane Black
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.99
Review The Monster Squad [1987] / Entertainment Today Ltd.:
![Review Warner Home Video / Westworld [1973]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71ZREH5GJZL._SL160_.gif)
Actors & Directors
- Richard Benjamin
- Yul Brynner
- Michael Crichton
- Norman Bartold
- James Brolin
- Alan Oppenheimer
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Paul Lazarus III
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.78
Review Westworld [1973] / Warner Home Video:Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin, Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices being Roman World and Medieval World), where they are free to indulge their movie-inspired fantasies of the Wild West). The place is populated by perfectly humanlike robots programmed and monitored to cater to every guest's fancy, from brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (such as the villain played by Yul Brynner). But fun turns into abject horror when the robots-particularly Brynner's villain-begin to malfunction and Delos turns into an amusement park that's anything but amusing. Westworld has moments of camp and the look of a low-budget back-lot production, but two decades before Crichton revamped his idea to create Jurassic Park, this movie made the most of its interesting and exciting premise. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Sleeping With The Enemy [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411QXB0NPML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kyle Secor
- Patrick Bergin
- Kevin Anderson
- Joseph Ruben
- Julia Roberts
- Elizabeth Lawrence
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Ronald Bass
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.95
Review Sleeping With The Enemy [1991] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (True Believer) works up to a point: Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson). The best part of the film is the moody isolation of Roberts's life with Bergin. Ruben ingeniously stakes out the story by presenting what looks like an ideal life between the two-a nice house on the ocean, a seemingly healthy sex life, before pulling the rug out from under you feet. Vital to the plot but less interesting is everything afterward, but that's less an inherent script problem than it is obvious studio pressure to push Roberts as a cute star. There's even a sequence where the actress tries on a series of hats while Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" plays on the soundtrack. Such insistent valentines to Roberts destroy most of Ruben's momentum and the film's credibility, and the project never quite recovers. -Tom Keogh.
Actors & Directors
- John Hurt
- Kathleen Robertson
- Patrick Dewolf
- Marion Peterson
- Marthe Keller
- Mathew Mackay
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Robert Cormier
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.69
Review Lapse Of Memory [1991] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Odyssey Video / Till Death Us Do Part [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41P45PWFNCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Yves Simoneau
- J.E. Freeman
- Arliss Howard
- Embeth Davidtz
- Rebecca Jenkins
- Treat Williams
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.27
Review Till Death Us Do Part [1991] / Odyssey Video:
![Review Cinema Club / Angels And Insects [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4126ZEZGBDL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Mark Rylance
- Patsy Kensit
- Philip Haas
- Douglas Henshall
- Jeremy Kemp
- Kristin Scott Thomas
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: A.S. Byatt
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99
Review Angels And Insects [1995] / Cinema Club:Angels and Insects-an ambitious costume drama-tells the tale of William Adamson (Mark Rylance), a buttoned-down Victorian explorer who returns to England penniless and dependent on the kindness of his sponsor, Sir Harald Alabaster (Jeremy Kemp). Adamson's intelligence and lower social standing endear him to the old man, but Sir Harald's son, Edgar, seems annoyed by his presence. Nevertheless, Adamson falls in love with Sir Harald's daughter, a shy sex kitten (Patsy Kensit), and offers to marry her. As the web of sexual politics, true love, and class struggles develop; the explorer begins an intriguing study of a nearby ant colony. With encouragement from a dirt-poor Alabaster cousin (Kristin Scott Thomas), Adamson begins to write about the insects, never realising the parallels with his own life. The film, too, is a puzzle for the audience to solve while savouring the beauty of flesh and outlandish, vibrant costumes. Rylance is a perfect hero to root for, with his impeccable manners and soothing Scottish tones. All in all it's another curious winner from filmmakers Philip and Belinda Haas (The Music of Chance). -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Paul Wegener
- Lyda Salmonova
- Albert Steinrück
- Hans Stürm
- Ernst Deutsch
- Carl Boese
- Paul Wegener
Creator: Henrik Galeen
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99
Review Der Golem [1920] / Scream Time Video:A relic certainly, but a fascinating one, Der Golem is perhaps the screen's first great monster movie. Though it was actually the third time director-star Paul Wegener had played the eponymous creation, the earlier efforts (sadly lost) were rough drafts for this elaborate dramatisation of the Jewish legend. When the Emperor decrees that the Jews of mediaeval Prague should be evicted from the ghetto, a mystical rabbi creates a clay giant and summons the demon Astaroth who breathes out in smoky letters the magic word that will animate the golem. Intended as a protector and avenger, the golem is twisted by the machinations of a lovelorn assistant and, like many a monster to come, runs riot, terrorising guilty and innocent alike until a little girl innocently ends his rampage. Wegener's golem is an impressively solid figure, the Frankenstein monster with a slightly comical girly clay-wig. The wonderfully grotesque Prague sets and the alchemical atmosphere remain potent. On the DVD: Der Golem on disc has an imaginative menu involving the rabbi opening a book of spells that leads to alternate versions of the film with German or English inter-titles. The print is cobbled from several sources and tinted to the original specifications, with an especially impressive crimson glow as the ghetto burns. The extras are an audio essay, illustrated with clips, on Der Golem and German Expressionist cinema in general, plus a gallery of stills and other illustrations. -Kim Newman.
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