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Review Pathe Distribution / Bound [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Pantoliano
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • John P. Ryan
  • Gina Gershon
  • Andy Wachowski
  • Larry Wachowski
  • Christopher Meloni
Release date: 1998-07-27
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Jeffrey Sudzin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.98

Review Bound [1997] / Pathe Distribution:

Destined for cult status, this provocative thriller offers a grab bag of genres (gangster movie, comedy, sexy romance, crime caper) and tops it all off with steamy passion between lesbian ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) and a not-so-ditzy gun moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly), who meets Corky and immediately tires of her mobster boyfriend (Joe Pantoliano). Desperate to break away from the Mob's influence and live happily ever after, the daring dames hatch a plot to steal $2 million of Mafia money. Their scheme runs into a series of escalating complications, until their very survival depends on split-second timing and criminal ingenuity. Simultaneously violent, funny and suspenseful, Boundis sure to test your tolerance for bloodshed but the film is crafted with such undeniable skill that several critics(including Roger Ebert) placed it on their top-10 lists for 1996. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Pathe Distribution / The Spanish Prisoner [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Gazzara
  • Ricky Jay
  • Campbell Scott
  • Rebecca Pidgeon
  • David Mamet
  • Steve Martin
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Sarah Green
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.35

Review The Spanish Prisoner [1998] / Pathe Distribution:


Review Warner Home Video / Cal [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • John Kavanagh
  • Pat O'Connor
  • Donal McCann
  • Helen Mirren
  • Ray McAnally
  • John Lynch
Release date: 1995-11-27
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Bernard MacLaverty
RRP: £5.99
Price: £44.99

Review Cal [1984] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Russell Lawrence
  • Valerie Vernon
  • Tom Whyte
  • Archie Kao
  • Kim Strauss
Release date: 2003-05-12
Creator: Shuki Levy
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.98

Review Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - Escape the Lost Galaxy / Buena Vista:


Review 4 Front Video / Mortal Kombat [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Lambert
  • Linden Ashby
  • Paul W.S. Anderson
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Bridgette Wilson
  • Robin Shou
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Kevin Droney
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.74

Review Mortal Kombat [1995] / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Chinatown [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hillerman
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Roman Polanski
  • Perry Lopez
  • John Huston
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Robert Towne
Price: £11.99

Review Chinatown [1974] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency-and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is J J Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mould, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole centre of this tale of treachery, incest and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted colour cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. Chinatown is one of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. -Anne Hurley Roman Polanski's brooding film noir exposes the darkest side of the land of sunshine, the Los Angeles of the 1930s, where power is the only currency-and the only real thing worth buying. Jack Nicholson is JJ Gittes, a private eye in the Chandler mould, who during a routine straying-spouse investigation finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a jigsaw puzzle of clues and corruption. The glamorous Evelyn Mulwray (a dazzling Faye Dunaway) and her titanic father, Noah Cross (John Huston), are at the black-hole centre of this tale of treachery, incest, and political bribery. The crackling, hard-bitten script by Robert Towne won a well-deserved Oscar, and the muted colour cinematography makes the goings-on seem both bleak and impossibly vibrant. [+]
Polanski himself has a brief, memorable cameo as the thug who tangles with Nicholson's nose. One of the greatest, most completely satisfying crime films of all time. -Anne Hurley, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 7.1 - Image In The Sand / Shadows And Symbols [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Siddig
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Colm Meaney
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 7.1 - Image In The Sand / Shadows And Symbols [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 inter-personal 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 gutsy 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 ITV DVD / The Scarlet And The Black [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Raf Vallone
  • Gregory Peck
  • John Gielgud
  • Jerry London
  • Kenneth Colley
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 137 min.
Creator: J.P. Gallagher
Price: £5.99

Review The Scarlet And The Black [1983] / ITV DVD:


Review Arrow Films / La Bonne Annee [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Lino Ventura
  • Claude LeLouch
  • Charles Gerard
  • Francoise Fabian
Release date: 1995-03-06
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.50

Review La Bonne Annee [1973] / Arrow Films:


Review Blue Dolphin Film and Video / The Ninth Configuration [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Miller
  • Stacy Keach
  • William Peter Blatty
  • Scott Wilson
  • Ed Flanders
  • Neville Brand
Release date: 2002-11-21
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: William Paul
Price: £12.99

Review The Ninth Configuration [1981] / Blue Dolphin Film and Video:

The lunatics are running the asylum in The Ninth Configuration-but are they really lunatics? Is Colonel Kane (Stacy Keach) really a noted psychiatrist assigned to supervise patients in an experimental government clinic or is he really "Killer" Kane, a decorated US Marine who committed atrocities in Vietnam before going insane? These are just some of the puzzles that will eventually be solved in this giddy and often brilliant drama created by William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist before going on to direct this adaptation of his own novel, Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane. A satirical study of war's traumatic aftermath, the film uses battle psychosis as the springboard for a delirious and scathingly intelligent human tragedy, laced with some of the wittiest dialogue you're ever likely to hear. The film boasts a veritable menagerie of crazy characters, all brought vividly to life by a stellar supporting cast. One patient is preparing a production of Shakespeare with an all-dog cast. Another is convinced he's Superman and the resident doctor can't seem to find his trousers. But there's a method to this madness and it takes a barroom brawl-one of the most memorable in film history-to provide the harsh slap of reality to Blatty's elaborate group therapy scheme. When the true purpose of The Ninth Configuration is revealed, the film (and particularly the fine performances of Keach and Wilson) offers a depth of compassionate sanity that may well take you completely by surprise. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Beast Wars - Transformers - The Beginning - Vol. 1
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Chalk
  • Ian James Corlett
  • Richard Newman
  • David Kaye
  • Scott McNeil
Release date: 2001-07-09
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: Stéphane Reichel
RRP: £11.99
Price: £39.98

Review Beast Wars - Transformers - The Beginning - Vol. 1 / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Tartan Video / Wild Side [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Allen Garfield
  • Anne Heche
  • Donald Cammell
  • Steven Bauer
  • Joan Chen
  • Christopher Walken
Release date: 2000-11-20
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.57

Review Wild Side [1998] / Tartan Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Angel Of Vengeance [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Abel Ferrara
  • Zoe Tamarlis
  • Steve Singer
Release date: 1997-09-08
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Angel Of Vengeance [1981] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / For Your Eyes Only [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • John Glen
  • Julian Glover
  • Lynn-Holly Johnson
  • Topol
  • Roger Moore
  • Carole Bouquet
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Richard Maibaum
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.50

Review For Your Eyes Only [1981] / MGM Entertainment:

After the lavish, effects-heavy splash of Moonraker, the twelfth Bond film and the seventh with Roger Moore concentrates more on core car-chase-and-crumpet values, evoking an almost retro feel that harks back to the first pressings of the Bond vintage in the 1960s. Starting to look a little wrinkly around the edges by this point, Roger Moore toughens his usually smarmy act up here with a gratuitous bit of killing, casually kicking a baddie and his car over a precipice, reviving memories of the ruthless streak with which Sean Connery made his name. Good old-fashioned Cold War politics lie at the heart of the plot, concerning a weapons system hijacked in the Mediterranean Bond must rescue. He's assisted by the exquisite Carole Bouquet, the only actress in history who can claim to have been both a 'Bond girl' and the star of a Luis Buñuel movie (That Obscure Object of Desire). Sadly, this is the first film to lack Bernard Lee's spymaster M, the actor having died beforehand, although British comedienne Janet Brown is on hand for an amusing Margaret Thatcher impersonation. -Leslie FelperinOn the DVD: The first audio commentary here is another one of those edited selections of interviews with sundry cast and crew members, tied together by an over-earnest host. Producer Michael G Wilson and others provide a somewhat more illuminating second commentary track. Once again the best extra feature is the "making of" documentary, which gives an almost scene-by-scene breakdown of the movie. The animated storyboard sequences will appeal to filmmaking aficionados. Avoid, if at all possible, the Sheena Easton video of arguably the most forgettable Bond song of all time (both song and score were perpetrated by series newcomer Bill Conti, not the estimable John Barry). [+]
-Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Miss Marple - Murder At The Gallop [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • George Pollock
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Robert Morley
  • Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
  • Flora Robson
  • Stringer Davis
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: James P. Cavanagh
Price: £5.99

Review Miss Marple - Murder At The Gallop [1963] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Stephen King's Thinner [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert John Burke
  • Kari Wuhrer
  • Lucinda Jenney
  • Tom Holland
  • Michael Constantine
  • Joe Mantegna
Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Stephen King
Price: £5.99

Review Stephen King's Thinner [1997] / Warner Home Video:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Legends Of The Fall / The Devil's Own [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Pitt
  • Edward Zwick
  • Julia Ormond
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Aidan Quinn
  • Harrison Ford
  • Alan J. Pakula
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 235 min.
Creator: William D. Wittliff
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.60

Review Legends Of The Fall / The Devil's Own [1997] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • David Suchet
  • Hugh Fraser
  • Richard Bebb
  • Pauline Moran
  • Philip Jackson
Release date: 2004-04-19
Creator: Nick Elliott
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.85

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - 5 Little Pigs [1989] / Granada Media:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Nine Queens [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Gabriel Correa
  • María Mercedes Villagra
  • Gastón Pauls
  • Fabián Bielinsky
  • Ricardo Darín
  • Graciela Tenenbaum
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Pablo Bossi
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.73

Review Nine Queens [2002] / Optimum Home Entertainment:

If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom-and how, and why-it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up. The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully-but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. -Philip Kemp.

Review Playback / Murder She Wrote - Vol. 1 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Angela Lansbury
  • Louis Herthum
  • Ron Masak
  • Tom Bosley
  • William Windom
Release date: 2000-02-07
Creator: William Link
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.84

Review Murder She Wrote - Vol. 1 [1985] / Playback:


Models & Brands:
Bound [1997], The Spanish Prisoner [1998], Cal [1984], Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - Escape the Lost Galaxy, Mortal Kombat [1995], Chinatown [1974], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 7.1 - Image In The Sand / Shadows And Symbols [1995], The Scarlet And The Black [1983], La Bonne Annee [1973], The Ninth Configuration [1981], Beast Wars - Transformers - The Beginning - Vol. 1, Wild Side [1998], Angel Of Vengeance [1981], For Your Eyes Only [1981], Miss Marple - Murder At The Gallop [1963], Stephen King's Thinner [1997], Legends Of The Fall / The Devil's Own [1997], Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - 5 Little Pigs [1989], Nine Queens [2002], Murder She Wrote - Vol. 1 [1985]

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