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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape - Vol. 2.5 - 2.10 A Kiss Is But A Kiss / 2.11 I Do I Think / 2.12 The Maltese Crichton [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Tilse
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Ben Browder
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Claudia Black
  • Ian Watson
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review Farscape - Vol. 2.5 - 2.10 A Kiss Is But A Kiss / 2.11 I Do I Think / 2.12 The Maltese Crichton [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Internal Affairs [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Travis
  • Andy Garcia
  • Laurie Metcalf
  • Richard Gere
  • Richard Bradford
  • Mike Figgis
Release date: 1995-09-11
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Henry Bean
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.92

Review Internal Affairs [1990] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Mike Figgis' Internal Affairs makes great play with some fairly obvious ironies-"Trust me, I'm a cop", Richard Gere says to a couple for whom he is arranging the death of their parents-but its real strength lies in a cluster of central performances. Gere has rarely been better than he is as the charismatic, self-righteous entirely corrupt and corrupting Dennis Peck, but Andy Garcia is at least as impressive as the "selfish yuppy bastard", the ambitious Internal Affairs cop Avila whose determination to bring Peck down is as much to do with massaging his own ego as with fighting the good fight, particularly after Peck starts making moves on Avila's gallery curator wife. This is a film about men destructively manipulating each other's self-love-the two men have more in common than they like to admit, a point sardonically made by Amy, the world-weary lesbian cop who is Avila's partner (an impressive performance by Figgis regular Laurie Metcalfe). Internal Affairs was the best thriller of 1990 and one of the decade's best. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape - Vol. 2.6 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Browder
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Claudia Black
  • Tony Tilse
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Ian Watson
  • Lani John Tupu
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.61

Review Farscape - Vol. 2.6 [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:

The second season of Farscape expands upon and develops the characters introduced in the ambitious first season. John Crichton's new nemesis is the deadly Scorpius, replacing Crais who has taken the living ship Moya's offspring on a voyage into the unknown. Moya's regular crew-Aeryn, Zhaan, Chiana, D'Argo and Rygel-remain as divided and suspicious of each other as ever, yet somehow manage to pull together at times of crisis. The writers continue to exploit the show's gift for surprising as well as emotionally convincing character development, while the CGI effects, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry-courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop-continue to make Farscape the most original looking sci-fi show on TV. The witty scripts, peppered with postmodern pop culture references and cinematic in-jokes, are also a breath of fresh air. The result is episodic TV sci-fi that continually pushes at the accepted boundaries of the genre. -Mark Walker.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Runaway Train [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • John P. Ryan
  • Jon Voight
  • Eric Roberts
  • Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Kyle T. Heffner
Release date: 2002-04-22
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Ryuzo Kikushima
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.95

Review Runaway Train [1985] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Reflective Film Dist. / The Church [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Quarshie
  • Barbara Cupisti
  • Tomas Arana
  • Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
  • Antonella Vitale
  • Michele Soavi
Release date: 1994-04-25
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: M.R. James
Price: £10.99

Review The Church [1989] / Reflective Film Dist.:


Review Cinema Club / 976 Evil [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Metzler
  • Robert Englund
  • Stephen Geoffreys
  • Sandy Dennis
  • Leslie Deane
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.00

Review 976 Evil [1987] / Cinema Club:


Review 4 Front Video / Bruce Lee - Big Boss / Game Of Death / The Legend [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Colleen Camp
  • Robert Clouse
  • Tai Chung Kim
  • Gig Young
  • Jiaxiang Wu
  • Dean Jagger
  • Bruce Lee
  • Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
  • Bruce Lee
  • Leonard Ho
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 272 min.
Creator: Jan Spears
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.93

Review Bruce Lee - Big Boss / Game Of Death / The Legend [1971] / 4 Front Video:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / I Want You [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Winterbottom
  • Labina Mitevska
  • Luka Petrusic
  • Rachel Weisz
  • Carmen Ejogo
  • Alessandro Nivola
Release date: 1999-09-20
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Eoin McNamee
Price: £12.99

Review I Want You [1998] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / French Connection II [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Ed Lauter
  • Fernando Rey
  • Philippe Léotard
  • Bernard Fresson
  • Gene Hackman
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Robert Dillon
Price: £12.99

Review French Connection II [1975] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Roaring Twenties [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Raoul Walsh|James Cagney|Priscilla Lane|Humphrey Bogart
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £17.40

Review Roaring Twenties [1939] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Speed 2 - Cruise Control [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Jan de Bont|Sandra Bullock|Jason Patric|Willem Dafoe
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £13.99

Review Speed 2 - Cruise Control [1997] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Anybody seen Keanu? The action star of Speed opted out of this overbearing sequel, which finds co-star Sandra Bullock in love with another guy (Jason Patric) and in trouble aboard a cruise ship under the control of a mad extortionist (Willem Dafoe). Speed director Jan de Bont is back at the helm for part 2, but even he seems to have forgotten that what made the first film work was the simplicity of its hook (the bomb, the bus that can't drive below 50 mph, the handful of sympathetic passengers, etc. ). Speed 2 is all about hugeness: big ship, lots of places to get into trouble and so on. Even with an eye-popping, endless finale of the vessel crashing into port (and causing mondo destruction), there is nothing about this movie that is remotely as involving as its predecessor. -Tom Keogh.

Review Sanctuary Digital Entertainment / Charade (Wide Screen) [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • James Coburn
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Stanley Donen
  • George Kennedy
  • Cary Grant
  • Walter Matthau
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Peter Stone
Price: £4.99

Review Charade (Wide Screen) [1963] / Sanctuary Digital Entertainment:

Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid but his real motives aren't entirely clear-could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film but suspense-wise it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. One wants Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. -Tom Keogh In Charade Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid, but his real motives aren't entirely clear-could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen, but it has been called "Hitchcockian" for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant as a Hitchcock film, but in terms of suspense it holds its own; and Donen's glossy production lends itself to the welcome experience of stargazing. You want Cary Grant to be Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn to be no one but Audrey Hepburn in a Hollywood product such as this, and they certainly don't let us down. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review / Die Hard 2: Die Harder [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Willis
  • Reginald VelJohnson
  • William Sadler
  • William Atherton
  • Bonnie Bedelia
  • Renny Harlin
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Walter Wager

Review Die Hard 2: Die Harder [1990]:

Director Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island) took the reins of this 1990 sequel, which places Bruce Willis's New York City cop character in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle. - Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Jack The Ripper [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray McAnally
  • Armand Assante
  • Lewis Collins
  • David Wickes
  • Michael Caine
  • Ken Bones
Release date: 2003-07-17
Run time: 183 min.
Creator: Derek Marlowe
RRP: £9.99
Price: £17.90

Review Jack The Ripper [1988] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Elke Sommer
  • Sylva Koscina
  • Alessio Orano
  • Gabriele Tinti
  • Mario Bava
  • Telly Savalas
  • Alfredo Leone
Release date: 1989-06-01
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Lisa And The Devil [1977] / Redemption Films:


Review VCI / Ghost Dog-Way Of The Samurai (1999)
Actors & Directors
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Jim Jarmusch
  • Henry Silva
  • Cliff Gorman
  • Isaach De Bankole
  • Tricia Vessey
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.95

Review Ghost Dog-Way Of The Samurai (1999) / VCI:

Forest Whitaker makes an unlikely modern samurai with his laser-sighted pistols, shabby street clothes, and oddly graceful gait-but then Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is an unusual film. Quirky, contemplative and at times absurd, it is just the kind of offbeat vision we have come to expect from the fiercely independent Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, Dead Man). Whitaker is Ghost Dog, a mysterious New York hit man who lives simply on a tenement rooftop and follows a code of behaviour outlined in : Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (passages of this book are interspersed throughout the film). When the local mob marks him for death in a complicated code of Mafiosi-style honour, Ghost Dog sends a cryptic message to his foes. "That's poetry. The poetry of war", remarks mobster Henry Silva, with sudden respect upon reading the verse. He could be describing the ethereal beauty of Jarmusch's vision, full of wonderful imagery (a night drive across town seems to float in time) and off-centre humour. Though it briefly stalls in a series of assassinations (Jarmusch is no action director), it settles back into character-driven drama in a quietly epic showdown, equal parts samurai adventure, spaghetti western and existential crime movie. The film is likely too unconventional and offbeat for general audiences, but cult-movie buffs and Jarmusch fans will appreciate his idiosyncratic vision. He finds a strange sense of honour in the clash of Old World traditions, and salutes his heroes with a skewed but sincere respect. [+]
-Sean Axmaker.

Review Alta Vista Productions / Haunted Palace
Actors & Directors
  • Lon Chaney
  • Vincent Price
  • Debra Paget
  • Roger Corman
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £17.97

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Review Sovereign Multimedia Ltd / Final Combination [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Kenny
  • Lisa Sinclair
  • Michael Madsen
  • Nigel Dick
  • Paul Leslie Disley
  • Nicholas Kenny
Release date: 1998-05-04
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Larry Golin
Price: £6.99

Review Final Combination [1994] / Sovereign Multimedia Ltd:


Review MGM Entertainment / Species [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Madsen
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Alfred Molina
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Roger Donaldson
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Mark Egerton
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.74

Review Species [1995] / MGM Entertainment:

There's a kind of perverse marketing genius at work in this cheesy sci-fi hit from 1995 in which scientists create a half-human, half-alien woman named Sil (Natasha Henstridge) who's capable of morphing from a slimy, tentacled creature into a blonde babe with the body of a Playboy centrefold. This makes it easy for Sil to lure gullible guys who are only too willing to indulge her voracious mating urge, realising too late that sex with Sil is anything but safe. As the body count rises, a handpicked team of specialists tracks the alien's killing spree, but their diverse expertise is barely a match for the ever-morphing Sil. Borrowing elements of the Alien movies (including bizarre alien designs by Swedish artist HR Giger) and spicing them up with some tantalising nudity, Species is a wet dream for creature-feature fans-kind of like watching a sci-fi vampire fantasy while browsing through the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Breakdown [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Noseworthy
  • Kurt Russell
  • J.T. Walsh
  • Kathleen Quinlan
  • Jonathan Mostow
  • M.C. Gainey
Release date: 1999-04-06
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Sam Montgomery
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.95

Review Breakdown [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Tautly directed and superbly photographed, this crowd-pleasing thriller from 1997 is indebted to Steven Spielberg's Duel but more closely resembles Dead Calm in its strengths and weaknesses. Kurt Russell plays a stressed-out husband whose wife (Kathleen Quinlan) disappears after their car breaks down in the desert. Tracking down her whereabouts leads to an interstate theft and kidnapping ring, and as Russell pursues-and is pursued by-a vicious redneck played to perfection by J T Walsh (in one of his final film roles), the movie succumbs to several tense but utterly conventional action sequences. That doesn't stop the movie from being an above-average nail-biter. It is so effectively directed by co-writer Jonathan Mostow that even the more surreal situations seem plausible and altogether unsettling. Russell's performance is key to the film's success-he's smart enough to be admirable and we can readily identify with his frustration, confusion and torment. Through him, Breakdown takes on the edgy quality of a wide-awake nightmare. -Jeff Shannon The sinister side of the divide between urban and rural America has inspired countless film makers and, although by no means original, Breakdown is a tense and at times dark example of the genre. Travelling to California to start a new life, Jeff and Amy Taylor are the perfect American couple, young, prosperous and devoted to each other. When they find themselves stranded in the desert following the breakdown of their car their dream descends into a vicious nightmare. [+]
With his wife disappearing into what seems like thin air, Taylor becomes embroiled in an increasingly desperate to rescue her: repeatedly facing a wall of silence from the local community. Kurt Russell handles the role well, comfortable with the numerous action sequences but also adept at portraying Taylor's increasing mental anxiety in the kind of role perhaps more associated with the likes of Harrison Ford (a man who loses his wife more often than you or I might lose our car keys). The locals, led in suitably sinister form by the excellent JT Walsh, are a straight out of Deliverance-presented as dumb hicks but also capable of organising a complex kidnap. The film zips by at a pace, dwelling briefly but effectively on the astonishing number of people who go missing each year before culminating in a high-action, edge-of-the-seat climax. Not rocket science but fun all the same. On the DVD: Breakdown has a suitably epic feel thanks to the vast expanses of desert, and the picture quality on the DVD and the soundtrack's clear effects do much to enhance this perception. Extras are kept to the bare minimum, with the standard chapter and subtitle selection all that is on offer. -Phil Udell.

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Farscape - Vol. 2.5 - 2.10 A Kiss Is But A Kiss / 2.11 I Do I Think / 2.12 The Maltese Crichton [1999], Internal Affairs [1990], Farscape - Vol. 2.6 [1999], Runaway Train [1985], The Church [1989], 976 Evil [1987], Bruce Lee - Big Boss / Game Of Death / The Legend [1971], I Want You [1998], French Connection II [1975], Roaring Twenties [1939], Speed 2 - Cruise Control [1997], Charade (Wide Screen) [1963], Die Hard 2: Die Harder [1990], Jack The Ripper [1988], Lisa And The Devil [1977], Ghost Dog-Way Of The Samurai (1999), Haunted Palace, Final Combination [1994], Species [1995], Breakdown [1998]

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