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Actors & Directors
  • Michael Biehn
  • Linda Hamilton
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Paul Winfield
  • Lance Henriksen
  • James Cameron
Release date: 1997-05-12
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: William Wisher Jr.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review The Terminator [1985] / 4 Front Video:

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

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


Review Millivres Multimedia / Latin Boys Go To Hell [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Ruiz
  • Jenifer Lee Simard
  • Irwin Ossa
  • Alexis Artiles
  • John Bryant Davila
  • Ela Troyano
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Andre Salas
Price: £7.99

Review Latin Boys Go To Hell [1997] / Millivres Multimedia:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Jack The Ripper [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray McAnally
  • Armand Assante
  • Michael Caine
  • Ken Bones
  • Lewis Collins
  • David Wickes
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:


Review Warner Home Video / Seven Days In May [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Ava Gardner
  • Burt Lancaster
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Fredric March
  • Kirk Douglas
Release date: 2000-02-14
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.95

Review Seven Days In May [1964] / Warner Home Video:


Review Sanctuary Digital Entertainment / Charade (Wide Screen) [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Cary Grant
  • George Kennedy
  • James Coburn
  • Walter Matthau
  • Stanley Donen
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
  • Renny Harlin
  • Bruce Willis
  • William Sadler
  • William Atherton
  • Bonnie Bedelia
  • Reginald VelJohnson
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.

Actors & Directors
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Linda Hamilton
  • Michael Biehn
  • Lance Henriksen
  • James Cameron
  • Paul Winfield
Release date: 1997-05-12
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: William Wisher Jr.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review The Terminator [1985] / 4 Front Video:

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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / French Connection II [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Hackman
  • John Frankenheimer
  • Philippe Léotard
  • Fernando Rey
  • Ed Lauter
  • Bernard Fresson
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 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
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Tony Tilse
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Claudia Black
  • Ian Watson
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Ben Browder
  • Geoff Bennett
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 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
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Tony Tilse
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Ian Watson
  • Claudia Black
  • Ben Browder
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 Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape - Vol. 2.6 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Claudia Black
  • Ian Watson
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Ben Browder
  • Tony Tilse
  • Anthony Simcoe
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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Breakdown [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • J.T. Walsh
  • Jack Noseworthy
  • Kurt Russell
  • Jonathan Mostow
  • Kathleen Quinlan
  • 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.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Runaway Train [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • John P. Ryan
  • Kyle T. Heffner
  • Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Eric Roberts
  • Jon Voight
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:


Actors & Directors
  • Brewster Mason
  • Barbara Kellerman
  • Annabelle Lanyon
  • Bruce Purchase
  • Margaret Tyzack
Release date: 1994-07-11
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99

Review Quatermass - Huffity Puffity Ringstone Round / Lovely Lightning [1979] / Video Gems (Defunct):


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Breakdown [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • J.T. Walsh
  • Jonathan Mostow
  • Jack Noseworthy
  • Kurt Russell
  • M.C. Gainey
  • Kathleen Quinlan
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.

Review Uca Catalogue / Graveyard Shift [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • David Andrews
  • Stephen Macht
  • Ralph S. Singleton
  • Vic Polizos
  • Kelly Wolf
  • Andrew Divoff
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Stephen King
Price: £5.99

Review Graveyard Shift [1990] / Uca Catalogue:


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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek: Enterprise, Vol. 1.10
Actors & Directors
  • Jolene Blalock
  • Dominic Keating
  • Scott Bakula
Release date: 2002-09-23
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.82

Review Star Trek: Enterprise, Vol. 1.10 / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Star Trek: Enterprise-Vol. 1. 10 , the fifth live-action series to hail from the Star Trek universe, is without doubt the bravest concept since The Next Generation. Here we boldly go back to the future, 100 years before Captain Kirk, to the very first voyage of a starship called Enterprise. In fact, the concept-once announced at long last-caused an enormous furore among fans and critics. Would the costumes and sets be primary coloured like the 1960s original? Would the ship look like something made on Blue Peter? Would the Klingons look like Fu Manchu in boot polish? No, no and no came the official word at the same time as announcing that Scott (Quantum Leap) Bakula would be sitting in Captain Archer's squeaky new chair. He's accompanied on the new/old ship by his cute dog Porthos, antagonistic Vulcan T'Pol (Jolene Blalock filling the obligatory pin-up babe role) and an alien Doctor with indeterminate head make-up and mysterious origins. It took some time for the show to lift off. An over-familiar format (too much like Voyager) and too much involvement from previous cast and crewmembers were sources of dissatisfaction. But lurking behind the adventures was an insidiously intriguing subplot. [+]
Why are the Vulcans so darned manipulative? Who are the shadowy time-travelling baddies? How will matters build toward the Romulan War? The show also attracted guest B-star power from the likes of Dean Stockwell, Clancy Brown and Clint Howard (Blalock in the classic original series episode "The Corbomite Manoeuvre". It boasts consistently cutting-edge CGI effects and survived the marketing-driven placement of a dull MOR pop song over the opening credits. Either despite or because of these warped factors, Enterprise has been a literal flagship for the franchise in a period when many thought Trek's star was dwindling. -Paul Tonks.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Don't Bother To Knock [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Bancroft
  • Roy Ward Baker
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Jeanne Cagney
  • Donna Corcoran
  • Richard Widmark
Release date: 1989-07-06
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Daniel Taradash
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

Review Don't Bother To Knock [1952] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Marilyn Monroe's first bona fide starring role came in Don't Bother to Knock, a taut, stripped-down film noir. She plays a recently institutionalised, none-too-stable babysitter, awkwardly tending a little girl in a Manhattan hotel. Richard Widmark, jilted by the songbird (Anne Bancroft) in the hotel lounge ("The female race is always cheesing up my life", he pouts), puts the make on the lonely blonde in room 809, to his regret. The picture benefits by not being a "Marilyn" movie, but just a good little thriller with, as it happens, a terrific performance by the future superstar. Monroe's childlike distraction eerily suits her rattled character, a misfit who can't distinguish her tragic past from the confusing present. Kudos to Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity), whose script contains a collection of tart slang that neatly captures the noir feel-all without leaving the boundaries of the hotel. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

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