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Review 4 Front Video / Mother's Boys [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Yves Simoneau|Jamie Lee Curtis|Peter Gallagher|Joanne Whalley
Release date: 1996-02-19
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Michael Douglas - A Perfect Murder, Falling Down - Video Double Pack [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • David Suchet
  • Michael Douglas
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Viggo Mortensen
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Andrew Davis
  • Barbara Hershey
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 211 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.89

Review Michael Douglas - A Perfect Murder, Falling Down - Video Double Pack [1998] / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Sleeping With The Enemy [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Bergin
  • Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Joseph Ruben
  • Kevin Anderson
  • Kyle Secor
  • Julia Roberts
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

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
  • Don Siegel|Charles Bronson|Lee Remick|Donald Pleasence
Release date: 1996-08-26
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Telefon [1977] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / Secondhand Lions [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Duvall
  • Kyra Sedgwick
  • Nicky Katt
  • Haley Joel Osment
  • Michael Caine
  • Tim McCanlies
Release date: 2004-02-16
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.98

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Review Columbia Tri-Star Home Video / FX - Murder By Illusion / FX2 - The Deadly Art Of Illusion [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Dennehy
  • Bryan Brown
  • Diane Venora
  • Robert Mandel
  • Richard Franklin
  • Cliff De Young
  • Rachel Ticotin
Release date: 1993-07-12
Run time: 207 min.
Price: £12.99

Review FX - Murder By Illusion / FX2 - The Deadly Art Of Illusion [1986] / Columbia Tri-Star Home Video:


Review Entertainment in Video / Captives [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Angela Pope
  • Julia Ormond
  • Peter Capaldi
  • Tim Roth
  • Keith Allen
  • Siobhan Redmond
Release date: 1995-11-01
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Secret Games [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Delia Sheppard
  • Martin Hewitt
  • Catya Sassoon
  • A. Gregory Hippolyte
  • Michelle Brin
  • Billy Drago
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.99

Review Secret Games [1991] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review ITV DVD / Stranger, The - Vol. 1 - Summoned By Shadows / More Than A Messiah [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Baggs|Colin Baker|Nicola Bryant|Sophie Aldred
Release date: 1993-08-31
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Stranger, The - Vol. 1 - Summoned By Shadows / More Than A Messiah [1993] / ITV DVD:


Review Arrow Films / Z [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Costa-Gavras
  • Irene Papas
  • Charles Denner
  • Jacques Perrin
  • Jean-Louis Trintignant
  • Yves Montand
Release date: 1994-05-03
Run time: 121 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Z [1969] / Arrow Films:

Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech condemning the government, and is then run down in front of numerous witnesses. Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) plays the judge assigned to the investigation, who gradually discovers how far the state will go to rid itself of political opposition. As he is warned off the case by his superiors, the judge becomes even more determined to discover the truth, no matter where it might lead. Costa-Gavras (Missing, Mad City) is in familiar territory here, but no one handles this type of material better. Z is a classic of political intrigue and social consciousness. -Robert Lane.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Spy Who Came In From The Cold [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • George Voskovec
  • Claire Bloom
  • Martin Ritt
  • Oskar Werner
  • Sam Wanamaker
  • Richard Burton
Release date: 1995-09-11
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.94

Review The Spy Who Came In From The Cold [1965] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review ITV DVD / The Airzone Solution [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Bill Baggs
  • Nicola Bryant
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Colin Baker
Release date: 1994-04-25
Run time: 62 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £19.99

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Review Warner Home Video / The Third Man [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Orson Welles
  • Trevor Howard
  • Alida Valli
  • Carol Reed
  • Wilfrid Hyde White
  • Joseph Cotten
Release date: 1999-11-08
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.94

Review The Third Man [1949] / Warner Home Video:

The fractured Europe post-World War II is perfectly captured in Carol Reed's masterpiece thriller, set in a Vienna still shell-shocked from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But when Cotton first arrives in Vienna, Lime's funeral is under way. From Lime's girlfriend and an occupying British officer, Martins learns of allegations of Lime's involvement in racketeering, which Martins vows to clear from his friend's reputation. As he is drawn deeper into post-war intrigue, Martins finds layer upon layer of deception, which he desperately tries to sort out. Welles' long-delayed entrance in the film has become one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography and it is just one of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter post-war society. Cotten and Welles give career-making performances and the Anton Karas zither theme will haunt you. -Anne Hurley.

Review / Dial M for Murder
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Cummings
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • John Williams (II)
  • Grace Kelly
  • Anthony Dawson
  • Ray Milland
Release date: 2001-07-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.99

Review Dial M for Murder:

A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for improvisation. Alfred Hitchcock wisely stuck to the stage origins of Dial M for Murder, ignoring the temptation to "open up" the material from the home of the unhappy couple. The result may not be one of Hitchcock's deepest films but it's a thoroughly engaging chamber movie. It also features Grace Kelly at her loveliest, the same year she made Rear Window with Hitchcock. Dial M for Murder was filmed in the briefly trendy 3-D process and Hitchcock shot some scenes to bring out the depth of the 3-D field; it's especially good for the nail-biting attempted murder of Kelly and her desperate reach for a pair of scissors that seems to be just outside her grasp. However, the film was rarely shown with the proper 3-D projection, going out "flat" instead (a 1980 reissue restored the process for a limited theatrical release). Dial M was remade in 1998 as A Perfect Murder,a film that changed and expanded the material, with no improvement on the clean, witty original. -Robert Horton.

Review Warner Home Video / Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Scorsese|Mia Bendixsen|Ellen Burstyn|Alfred Lutter III
Release date: 1997-02-17
Run time: 107 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More [1974] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Eyes Wide Shut [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Madison Eginton
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Nicole Kidman
  • Sydney Pollack
  • Jackie Sawiris
  • Tom Cruise
Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 152 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99

Review Eyes Wide Shut [1999] / Warner Home Video:

It was inevitable that Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut would be the most misunderstood film of 1999. Kubrick died four months prior to its release and there was no end to speculation about how much he would have tinkered with the picture, changed it, "fixed" it. We'll never know. But even without the haunting enigma of the director's death-and its eerie echo/anticipation in the scene when Dr Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) visits the deathbed of one of his patients-Eyes Wide Shut would have perplexed and polarised viewers and reviewers. After all, virtually every movie of Kubrick's post-US career had; only 1964's Dr. Strangelove opened to something approaching consensus. Quite apart from the author's tinkering, Kubrick's movies themselves always seemed to change-partly because they changed us, changed the world and the ways we experienced and understood it. And we may expect Eyes Wide Shut to do the same. Unlike Kubrick himself, it has time. So consider, as we settle in to live with this long, advisedly slow, mesmerising film, how challenging and ambiguous its narrative strategy is. [+]
The source is an Arthur Schnitzler novella titled Traumnovelle (or "Dream Story") and it's a moot question how much of Eyes Wide Shut itself is dream, from the blue shadows frosting the Harfords' bedroom to the backstage replica of New York's Greenwich Village that Kubrick built in England. Its major movement is an imaginative night-journey (even the daylight parts of it) taken by a man reeling from his wife's teasing confession of fantasised infidelity and toward the end there is a token gesture of the couple waking to reality and, perhaps, a new, chastened maturity. Yet on some level-visually, psychologically, logically-every scene shimmers with unreality. Is everything in the movie a dream? And if so, who is dreaming it at any given moment and why?Don't settle for easy answers. Kubrick's ultimate odyssey beckons. And now the dream is yours. -Richard T Jameson.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Gambit [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Ronald Neame
  • Michael Caine
  • Shirley MacLaine
  • Arnold Moss
  • Roger C. Carmel
  • Herbert Lom
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £19.79

Review Gambit [1966] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Hand That Rocks The Cradle [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Curtis Hanson
  • Ernie Hudson
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • Julianne Moore
  • Annabella Sciorra
  • Matt McCoy
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01

Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle [1992] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being. Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face-literally-after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it-she's the doc's widow. The movie follows a tried and trusted formula, with the audience in on everything. However, the story does surprise us in intense and intimate ways. [+]
The visit to the obstetrician is one of the creepiest moments in the film. You definitely hear the voice of writer Amanda Silver in a plot concerned with the vulnerabilities of a family, a newborn, a marriage. Since we know so much up front, there is an overall lack of inventiveness in the plot machinations. It may not jolt us, but De Mornay does. It's unsettling to watch someone who appears so attractive and who behaves so kindly suddenly reveal hideous psychopathic tendencies. Restraining herself from going over the top, she instead oozes such malevolence you'll want to shudder. -Rochelle O'Gorman.

Review Odyssey Video / Small Sacrifices [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Ryan O'Neal
  • Gordon Clapp
  • Farrah Fawcett
  • John Shea
  • Emily Perkins
  • David Greene
Release date: 1993-06-07
Run time: 186 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.99

Review Small Sacrifices [1988] / Odyssey Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Edge [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Lee Tamahori
  • Harold Perrineau
  • Bart the Bear
  • Elle Macpherson
  • Alec Baldwin
Release date: 1999-05-24
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.49

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

In The Edge writer David Mamet created two engrossing and memorable characters; an urbane fashion photographer played by Alec Baldwin and a reserved and intellectual billionaire played by Anthony Hopkins. They find themselves teamed up against both a giant Kodiak bear and their own inner demons, when lost together in the Alaskan wilderness. The subject matter includes male rivalry, the isolationism of extreme wealth and, most conspicuously, the survival of the fittest. Mamet's script, which sounds a little too arched in spots, is well served by New Zealand director Lee Tamahori, who knows how to capture beauty and brutality in one frame. Although the themes are enormous in scope, they are well balanced and one rarely overpowers the other, nor does the achingly beautiful scenery overshadow the acting. Even if you don't like the intellectualism of the dialogue, there are some great scenes with the bear. -Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon. com.

Models & Brands:
Mother's Boys [1994], Michael Douglas - A Perfect Murder, Falling Down - Video Double Pack [1998], Sleeping With The Enemy [1991], Telefon [1977], Secondhand Lions [2003], FX - Murder By Illusion / FX2 - The Deadly Art Of Illusion [1986], Captives [1995], Secret Games [1991], Stranger, The - Vol. 1 - Summoned By Shadows / More Than A Messiah [1993], Z [1969], The Spy Who Came In From The Cold [1965], The Airzone Solution [1993], The Third Man [1949], Dial M for Murder, Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More [1974], Eyes Wide Shut [1999], Gambit [1966], The Hand That Rocks The Cradle [1992], Small Sacrifices [1988], The Edge [1998]

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