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Review Entertainment in Video / Split Second / Wedlock [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • James Remar
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Stephen Tobolowsky
  • Joan Chen
  • Mimi Rogers
  • Lewis Teague
Release date: 1993-08-31
Run time: 184 min.
Creator: Michael Jaffe
Price: £12.99

Review Split Second / Wedlock [1991] / Entertainment in Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Davison
  • Gordon Hessler
  • David Patrick Kelly
  • D.W. Moffett
  • David Carradine
  • Oliver Reed
Release date: 1993-01-11
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Wheels Of Terror [1987] / Polygram:


Actors & Directors
  • Joan Allen
  • Brian Cox
  • Kim Greist
  • Michael Mann
  • Dennis Farina
  • William Petersen
Release date: 1998-10-10
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Thomas Harris
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.92

Review Manhunter [1989] / Bmg Video:

Released to box-office indifference in 1986, Manhunter introduced Hannibal Lecter and established the rules of the modern race to find serial killer thriller five years before The Silence of the Lambs packed cinemas everywhere. This was Michael Mann's third feature, reuniting William L Petersen and Dennis Farina from his debut Thief (1981) as FBI agents hunting the killer dubbed "The Tooth Fairy". Petersen's Will Graham is the man who put Lecktor (as it is spelt here) behind bars, and as in Lambs consults with the Doctor, played with understated malevolence by Brian Cox. Manhunter is an exceptionally well-photographed film: Mann's regular cinematographer Dante Spinotti created sparse, elegantly framed, often mono-chromatically lit compositions which are essential to the shifting psychological moods. The performances are very good, and the typically 1980s, Vangelis-esque electronic score effectively sustains tension. Once the killer is introduced the scenes with Joan Allen have a genuinely unsettling, almost surreal quality. There is at least one serious plot flaw-how does "The Red Dragon" get his letter to Lecktor? Manhunter never packs the sheer excitement of Lambs, nevertheless, it is a powerful and compelling thriller which remains far superior to the third instalment in the series, Hannibal (2001). On the DVD: In addition to the trailer there is a revealing 10-minute conversation with Dante Spinotti in which he explains how he created the very distinctive look of Manhunter. Also included is a more general 17-minute retrospective "making-of" documentary. This is good but too short, the extras failing to live up to the wealth of material on the Lambs and Hannibal DVDs. [+]
The anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 image is generally very good, being just a little soft in one or two early scenes. The sound is listed as Dolby Digital 5. 1, but appears to replicate the main stereo signal in the rear channels. Audio is none the less powerful and clear, though lacks the sheer edge and atmospherics of some more recent thrillers. -Gary S Dalkin.

Actors & Directors
  • Tim Hunter
Run time: 89 min.

Review Lies of the Twins - vhs pal video tape / C I C - UNIVERSAL VHA 1539:

Pal VHS tape 89 mins approx

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.2 - The Visitor / Hippocratic Oath [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Siddig
  • Colm Meaney
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1996-03-11
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.39

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.2 - The Visitor / Hippocratic Oath [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 interpersonal 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 ballsy 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 4 Front Video / Color of Night [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Willis
  • Ruben Blades
  • Richard Rush
  • Jane March
  • Lesley Ann Warren
  • Brad Dourif
Release date: 1997-09-08
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £15.73

Review Color of Night [1994] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Pennant Roberts
  • Peter Davison
  • Peter Moffatt
  • Frazer Hines
  • Richard Hurndall
  • John Nathan-Turner
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Terrance Dicks
RRP: £19.99
Price: £99.97

Review Doctor Who - The Five Doctors / The King's Demons - Box Set [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel
  • Colin Bucksey
  • Paul Guilfoyle
  • Jenny Robertson
  • John Shea
  • Marisa Berenson
Release date: 1993-07-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Notorious - Based On The Hitchcock Classic [1991] / Pathe Distribution:


Review Pathe Distribution / Light Sleeper [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Schrader
  • Mary Beth Hurt
  • David Clennon
  • Dana Delany
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Susan Sarandon
Release date: 1993-09-13
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Ronna B. Wallace
Price: £10.99

Review Light Sleeper [1991] / Pathe Distribution:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Roadkill [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Walker
  • Stuart Stone
  • Leelee Sobieski
  • Steve Zahn
  • John Dahl
  • Jessica Bowman
Release date: 2003-02-17
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.45

Review Roadkill [2002] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Director John Dahl has made more ingenious thrillers than Roadkill, but few with quite its sense of terrible consequences arising from a minor prank. On a road trip, jailbird Fuller (Steve Zahn) persuades his younger, student brother Lewis (Paul Walker) to pretend to be a girl on a CB radio; they set a pushy trucker up with a date with an obnoxious guest at the motel where they stay for the night. The results are far from funny-the guest ends up dead and they find themselves being chased for a while by a large sinister truck. And then, when they have picked up Veena (Leelee Sobieski), the girl with whom Lewis is in love, it all gets worse, much worse. Dahl has picked up on one of the most sinister aspects of hostage situations, which is that quite minor concessions in negotiation can often be more meaningful than they seem. If the film has a weakness it is that the irresponsibility of the two young men is eminently plausible and not especially sympathetic, and the trucker, rather like the faceless driver in Steven Spielberg's Duel, is never more than a monstrous force of nature. Along the way, though, Roadkill delivers an appropriate number of thrills and sudden reversals, which all makes for an exciting journey into terror. On the DVD: Roadkill on disc has commentaries by the director, by the writers and by stars Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski; it also has a fascinating wealth of alternate endings including one in which the whole third act of the movie goes in a radically different direction. It has a widescreen anamorphic visual ratio 2. 35:1 and vibrant Dolby 5. [+]
1 sound that pumps up the tension in some crucial scenes. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Entertainment in Video / Mad Dogs And Englishmen [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Cole
  • Christopher Adamson
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Marcus Bentley
  • Claire Bloom
  • Joss Ackland
Release date: 1996-04-16
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Tim Sewell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.48

Review Mad Dogs And Englishmen [1995] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Artificial Eye / L'Appartement [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Monica Bellucci
  • Gilles Mimouni
  • Jean-Philippe Écoffey
  • Vincent Cassel
  • Romane Bohringer
  • Sandrine Kiberlain
Release date: 1998-02-23
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Yves Marmion
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.97

Review L'Appartement [1997] / Artificial Eye:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Woman In White
Actors & Directors
  • Justine Waddell
  • Susan Vidler
  • Tara Fitzgerald
  • Tim Fywell
  • Andrew Lincoln
  • John Standing
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Wilkie Collins
RRP: £12.99
Price: £34.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Train [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Paul Scofield
  • Michel Simon
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Arthur Penn
  • Suzanne Flon
  • Jeanne Moreau
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Walter Bernstein
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.89

Review The Train [1964] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Empire Strikes Back [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Daniels
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Harrison Ford
  • Irvin Kershner
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Mark Hamill
Release date: 1995-10-16
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.03

Review The Empire Strikes Back [1980] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - Part 1 [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Wing-Davey
  • David Dixon
  • Sandra Dickinson
  • Peter Jones
  • Simon Jones
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.98

Review The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - Part 1 [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 1 - Unopened File [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Rob Bowman
  • David Duchovny
  • R.W. Goodwin
Release date: 1996-01-15
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £0.98

Review The X Files : File 1 - Unopened File [1995] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Tripods - 1
Actors & Directors
  • Graham Theakston
Release date: 1994-04-05
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.90

Review The Tripods - 1 / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Sony Bmg / Michael Jackson - History On Film Volume II [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • James Yukich
  • Paula Abdul
  • Rosanna Arquette
  • Don Mischer
  • Michael Jackson
  • Colin Chilvers
  • Michael Jackson
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Bob Giraldi
  • Brandon Quintin Adams
Release date: 1997-05-14
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.01

Review Michael Jackson - History On Film Volume II [1996] / Sony Bmg:


Review / Gone in Sixty Seconds [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • William Lee Scott
  • Giovanni Ribisi
  • T.J. Cross
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Angelina Jolie
  • Dominic Sena
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Scott Rosenberg

Review Gone in Sixty Seconds [2000]:

Gone in 60 Seconds opens on Kip Raines (Giovanni Ribisi), a cocky young car thief working with a crew to steal 50 cars for a very bad man whose nickname is "The Carpenter". Being young and cocky, Kip messes up, so it's up to his big brother, Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage), to come out of car-thief retirement and save him. With a cast that includes Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie, Delroy Lindo, Cage and Ribisi, it would be easy to say this story wastes all their talents-which it does, but that's not the point. This is a Jerry Bruckheimer film. A good story and complex characters would only get in the way of the action scenes and slow the movie down. No, Gone in 60 Seconds (based on the cult 1974 film of the same name) is not about the stars as much as it's about cars. Fast cars. Rare cars. Wrecked cars. All cars. [+]
Too bad director Dominic Sena (Kalifornia) doesn't come across as more of a gearhead; he seems less interested in fast cars than fast cuts. But is this movie fun? Absolutely, and it's fun because it's so stupid. With pointless car chases and hackneyed dialogue in one of the most predictable plots of the year, Gone in 60 Seconds is a comic film that's not quite a parody of itself, but darn close. -Andy Spletzer, Amazon. com.

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Split Second / Wedlock [1991], Wheels Of Terror [1987], Manhunter [1989], Lies of the Twins - vhs pal video tape, Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.2 - The Visitor / Hippocratic Oath [1995], Color of Night [1994], Doctor Who - The Five Doctors / The King's Demons - Box Set [1983], Notorious - Based On The Hitchcock Classic [1991], Light Sleeper [1991], Roadkill [2002], Mad Dogs And Englishmen [1995], L'Appartement [1997], Woman In White, The Train [1964], The Empire Strikes Back [1980], The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy - Part 1 [1981], The X Files : File 1 - Unopened File [1995], The Tripods - 1, Michael Jackson - History On Film Volume II [1996], Gone in Sixty Seconds [2000]

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