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Review Artificial Eye / Amateur [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Hal Hartley
  • Damian Young
  • Elina Löwensohn
  • Isabelle Huppert
  • Chuck Montgomery
  • Martin Donovan (II)
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99

Review Amateur [1995] / Artificial Eye:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Eye For An Eye [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Mantegna
  • John Schlesinger
  • Kiefer Sutherland
  • Ed Harris
  • Sally Field
  • Beverly D'Angelo
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Eye For An Eye [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Samantha Eggar
  • Terence Stamp
  • William Wyler
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: JOhn Kohn
RRP: £4.99
Price: £24.99

Review The Collector / Columbia Pictures:

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Review Tartan Video / Fun [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Renée Humphrey
  • William R. Moses
  • Leslie Hope
  • Ania Suli
  • Rafal Zielinski
  • Alicia Witt
Release date: 1996-03-04
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Fun [1995] / Tartan Video:


Review BMG Video / This World, Then The Fireworks [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Sheryl Lee
  • Will Patton
  • Gina Gershon
  • Michael Oblowitz
  • Billy Zane
  • Rue McClanahan
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.95

Review This World, Then The Fireworks [1997] / BMG Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Leviathan [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Stern
  • Peter Weller
  • Richard Crenna
  • Amanda Pays
  • George P. Cosmatos
  • Ernie Hudson
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.94

Review Leviathan [1988] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / 10 Rillington Place [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Attenborough
  • John Hurt
  • Pat Heywood (II)
  • Isobel Black
  • Judy Geeson
  • Richard Fleischer
Release date: 2003-01-13
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £5.99

Review 10 Rillington Place [1970] / 4 Front Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Heart [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Rhys Ifans
  • Christopher Eccleston
  • Kate Hardie
  • Saskia Reeves
  • Anna Chancellor
  • Charles McDougall
Release date: 2000-05-15
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Heart [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Chris Noth
  • Stacey Dash
  • David Caruso
  • John Ridley
  • John Spencer
  • Kelly Lynch
Run time: 92 min.

Review Cold Heart (1997) a.k.a; Cold Around The Heart / High Fliers:

david caruso,kelly preston in violent road movie about diamond thieves on the run.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Clear And Present Danger [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Phillip Noyce
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Joaquim de Almeida
  • Anne Archer
  • Harrison Ford
  • Henry Czerny
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review Clear And Present Danger [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The third instalment in the cinematic incarnation of Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan and the second starring Harrison Ford, this follow-up to Patriot Games is a more complex, rewarding and bolder film than its predecessor. Ford returns as Ryan, this time embroiled in a failed White House bid to wipe out a Colombian drug cartel and cover up the mess. The script, by Clancy and John Milius (Big Wednesday), has an air of true adventure about it as Ryan places himself in harm's way to extract covert soldiers abandoned in a Latin American jungle. There are a couple of remarkable set pieces expertly handled by Patriot Games director Phillip Noyce, especially a shocking scene involving an ambush on Ryan's car in an alley. The supporting cast is superb, including Willem Dafoe as the soldiers' leader, Henry Czerny as Ryan's enemy at the CIA, Joaquim de Almeida as a smooth-talking villain, Ann Magnuson as an unwitting confederate in international crime, and James Earl Jones as Ryan's dying boss. -Tom Keogh.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Revenge [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Madeline Stowe
  • Kevin Costner
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Sally Kirkland
  • Tony Scott
Release date: 1995-10-09
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £4.99

Review Revenge [1989] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Raul Julia
  • Gabriel Dell
  • Joan Hackett
  • Caleb Deschanel
  • Teri Garr
  • Griffin O'Neal
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The Escape Artist (1982) / Channel 5:


Review Warner Home Video / The Third Man [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Carol Reed|Joseph Cotten|Alida Valli|Orson Welles
Release date: 1997-04-28
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.98

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 Universal Pictures UK / The Birds [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tippi Hedren
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Rod Taylor
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Ethel Griffies
Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.42

Review The Birds [1963] / Universal Pictures UK:

Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes". From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and-despite the sci-fi trappings-one of Hitchcock's most serious films. [+]
-Robert Horton.

Review Nouveaux Pictures / One Deadly Summer [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Jenny Clève
  • Jean Becker
  • Suzanne Flon
  • Alain Souchon
  • Maria Machado
  • Isabelle Adjani
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £15.90

Review One Deadly Summer [1983] / Nouveaux Pictures:

Fuelled by a scorchingly erotic performance from Isabelle Adjani, the ingeniously plotted One Deadly Summer spirals from provincial drama into a disturbing and complex psychological thriller, proving itself among the most under-rated of modern French films. In the hottest summer since Body Heat, Eliane (Adjani) and local mechanic Pin Pon (Alain Souchon) begin an affair then marry. From this starting point (a similar plot device to Chabrol's Le Boucher, 1969), life in a beautiful small town in Southern France begins to come apart. Under Jean Becker's direction every character is fully rounded, and the naturalistic tone adds considerably to the impact of an intense drama that offers the perfect showcase for Adjani, establishing once and for all what an extraordinarily accomplished actress she can be. Where Beatrice Dalle in Betty Blue was similarly erotically charged and mentally unstable, Eliane has a dark and obsessive agenda that anticipates the sexual psychosis of Basic Instinct. Combining an art-house love of the French countryside with more class than a dozen Hollywood erotic thrillers, One Deadly Summer is a striking vision of sex gone bad which builds to a shocking climax. It deserves to take its place as a modern classic. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Warner Home Video / 13 At Dinner [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Jonathan Cecil
  • Lou Antonio
  • Diane Keen
  • Lee Horsley
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £24.75

Review 13 At Dinner [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Stephen King's Cujo [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Hugh Kelly
  • Dee Wallace (II)
  • Lewis Teague
  • Danny Pintauro
  • Christopher Stone
  • Ed Lauter
Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.81

Review Stephen King's Cujo [1983] / 4 Front Video:


Review Mosaic Movies / Above Suspicion [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Mantegna
  • Edward Kerr
  • Christopher Reeve
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Steven Schachter
Release date: 1996-05-03
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.99

Review Above Suspicion [1994] / Mosaic Movies:


Review Salvation Films / The Fifth Cord [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Ira von Fürstenberg
  • Franco Nero
  • Wolfgang Preiss
  • Luigi Bazzoni
  • Edmund Purdom
  • Silvia Monti
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.99

Review The Fifth Cord [1971] / Salvation Films:


Review 4 Front Video / Arlington Road [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Hope Davis
  • Tim Robbins
  • Joan Cusack
  • Robert Gossett
  • Jeff Bridges
  • Mark Pellington
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.85

Review Arlington Road [1999] / 4 Front Video:

It's easy to understand why Arlington Road sat on the studio shelf for nearly a year. No, the film isn't awful; rather, it's an extremely edgy and ultimately bleak thriller that offers no clear-cut heroes or villains. In other words, Hollywood had no idea how to sell it. Director Mark Pellington's underrated directorial debut, Going All the Way, suffered the same fate, essentially because the film-maker's presentation of suburban America often shifts dramatically within the same film. Characters are usually miserable and bordering on meltdown, no situation is straightforward and things usually end badly. Arlington Road begins as an astute study of suburban paranoia. Michael Faraday (a face-pinched Jeff Bridges, who spends most of the film on the brink of tears) is a college professor who teaches American history courses on terrorism. He's been a conspiracy freak since his wife, an FBI agent, was killed during a botched raid that feels like a thinly fictionalised reference to the Waco tragedy. After saving the life of his next-door neighbour's child, he initially befriends the family (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), but soon believes the husband is a terrorist. The first half of the film mocks Faraday: he has no real evidence and is not the most stable of protagonists. [+]
Despite the fact that it was government paranoia that got his wife killed, Faraday repeats the same type of behaviour. Pellington shifts gears in the second half, however, and for a while, it seems that the film has simultaneously sunk into a cheap, high-octane brand of Hollywood entertainment and undermined its own point. But Arlington Road possesses a stunning ending that's a real gut punch, one that may leave you needing a second viewing to catch all of its smartly executed setup. -Dave McCoy.

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Amateur [1995], Eye For An Eye [1995], The Collector, Fun [1995], This World, Then The Fireworks [1997], Leviathan [1988], 10 Rillington Place [1970], Heart [1999], Cold Heart (1997) a.k.a; Cold Around The Heart, Clear And Present Danger [1994], Revenge [1989], The Escape Artist (1982), The Third Man [1949], The Birds [1963], One Deadly Summer [1983], 13 At Dinner [1985], Stephen King's Cujo [1983], Above Suspicion [1994], The Fifth Cord [1971], Arlington Road [1999]

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