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Exclusive Digital Home Entertainment System
40Gb Hard-Drive with USB/ USB 2.0, DAB radio, DVD playback, MP3-CD playback, WMA-CD playback, CD-R/ RW playback, Kodak Picture CD, 2-Way speakers, 100 Watts (RMS) power output, Virtual Surround Sound
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Exclusive Digital Home Entertainment System
40Gb Hard-Drive with USB/ USB 2.0, DAB radio, DVD playback, MP3-CD playback, WMA-CD playback, CD-R/ RW playback, Kodak Picture CD, 2-Way speakers, 100 Watts (RMS) power output, Virtual Surround Sound
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Rio Lobo [1970]
Release Date: 2005-06-06, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) 911 [2002]
Release Date: 2002-09-12, Rating Exempt,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) MTV - Wildboyz - Season 1
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) MTV's Punk'd - The Complete Season 2
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Brown Sugar [2003]
Release Date: 2004-09-06, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Down With Love [2003]
Release Date: 2004-02-02, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT French Connection [1971]
A milestone film from 1971 and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, <I>The French Connection</I> transformed the crime thriller with its gritty, authentic story about New York City police detectives on the trail of a large shipment of heroin. Based on an actual police case and the illustrious career of New York cop Eddie Egan, the film stars Gene Hackman as Jimmy Popeye Doyle, whose unorthodox methods of crime fighting are anything but diplomatic. With his partner (Roy Scheider), Popeye investigates the international shipment of heroin masterminded by the suave Frenchman (Fernando Rey) who eludes Popeye throughout an escalating series of pursuits. The obsessive tension of Doyle's investigation reaches peak intensity during the film's breathtaking car chase, in which Doyle races under New York's elevated train tracks in a borrowed sedan--a sequence that earned an Oscar for editing and was instantly hailed as one of the greatest chase scenes ever filmed. Produced on location, <I>The French Connection</I> had an immediate influence on dozens of movies and TV shows to follow, virtually redefining the crime thriller with its combination of brutal realism and high-octane craftsmanship. Boosted by the film's phenomenal success, director William Friedkin gained even more attention with his follow-up film, <I>The Exorcist</I>. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
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FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT Straw Dogs [1971]
According to critic Pauline Kael <I>Straw Dogs</I> was the first American film that is a fascist work of art. Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called <I>The Siege of Trencher's Farm</I> which Peckinpah described as a lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence. The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. <p> The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, <I>The Territorial Imperative</I>. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life <I>Straw Dogs</I> is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs. The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --<I>Philip Kemp</I><P><b&g t;On the DVD:</b> <i>Straw Dogs</I> is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory making of features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --<i>Nikki Disney</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1999]
Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back, stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mother whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't -we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfilment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --<I>Tom Keogh</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Ally McBeal - Season 2
Release Date: 2005-02-21, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Nick Of Time [1996]
Release Date: 2002-04-22, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Buena Vista True Identity [1991]
Release Date: 2004-03-01, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT Celtic - Jinky - The Jimmy Johnstone Story [2003]
Release Date: 2003-04-28, Rating Exempt,
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Buena Vista Thirteen Days [2001]
On its theatrical release <I>Thirteen Days</I> was pummelled by American critics for taking liberties with the facts of the Cuban missile crisis and smothering its compelling drama with phoney Boston accents by its primary stars. But anyone who enjoys taut, intelligent political thrillers will find little to complain about here. Co-star and co-producer Kevin Costner drew criticism for fictionally enhancing the White House role of presidential aide Kenneth O'Donnell, but while Costner's Boston accent may be grating, his fine performance as O'Donnell offers expert witness to the crisis, its nerve-wracking escalation and the efforts of John F Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and Robert F Kennedy (Steven Culp) to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia. While Soviet missiles approach operational status in Cuba, director Roger Donaldson (who directed Costner in <I>No Way Out</I>) cuts to exciting US Navy flights over the missile site, ramping up the tension that history itself provided. Donaldson's occasional use of black and white is self-consciously distracting, and he's further guilty of allowing a shrillness (along with repetitive, ominous shots of nuclear explosions) to invade the urgency of David Self's screenplay. Still, as Hollywood history lessons go, <I>Thirteen Days</I> is riveting stuff. You may find yourself wondering what might happen if reality presented a repeat scenario under less intelligent leadership.--<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Gazza's Golden Balls
Release Date: 2005-11-21, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Collateral - Double Disc Edition [2004]
<I>Collateral</I> offers a change of pace for Tom Cruise as a ruthless contract killer, but that's just one of many reasons to recommend this well-crafted thriller. It's from Michael Mann, after all, and the director's stellar track record with crime thrillers (<I>Thief</I>, <I>Manhunter</I>, and especially <I>Heat</I>) guarantees a rich combination of intelligent plotting, well-drawn characters, and escalating tension, beginning here when icy hit-man Vincent (Cruise) recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through a nocturnal tour of Los Angeles, during which he will execute five people in a 10-hour spree. While Stuart Beattie's screenplay deftly combines intimate character study with raw bursts of action (in keeping with Mann's directorial trademark), Foxx does the best work of his career to date (between his excellent performance in <I>Ali</I> and his title-role showcase in <I>Ray</I>), and Cruise is fiercely convincing as an ultra-disciplined sociopath. Jada Pinkett-Smith rises above the limitations of a supporting role, and Mann directs with the confidence of a master, turning L.A. into a third major character (much as it was in the Mann-produced TV series <I>Robbery Homicide Division</I>). <I>Collateral</I> is a bit slow at first, but as it develops subtle themes of elusive dreams and lives on the edge, it shifts into overdrive and races, with breathtaking precision, toward a nail-biting climax. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
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Buena Vista Stakeout [1988]
A comedy thriller with a silken thread of romance, 1987's <I>Stakeout</I> stars Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as a pair of undercover cops assigned to watch the apartment of the former girlfriend (Madeleine Stowe) of a violent escaped convict. Complications ensue when Dreyfuss' cop poses as a telephone inspector to get in and bug the girlfriend's phone and they strike up a relationship. <p> Initially coming on a bit like a cross between Hitchcock's <I>Rear Window</I> and <I>Porky's</I>, <I>Stakeout</I> ends up falling between the two stools of mirth and suspense. Some half-amusing business involving a series of practical jokes between the cop duo and their relief partners doesn't add materially to the film. Emilio Estevez's sidekick role is under-developed and he brings to this none of the loose cannon mania he would later bring to <I>Young Guns</I>. Dreyfuss isn't entirely convincing as a tough, seasoned cop and Aidan Quinn as the villain comes across as a poor man's James Woods. Yet for all these flaws, director John Badham just about manages to cobble together a watchable caper. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Stakeout</I> on disc has no extras of any kind, not even a trailer. The feature is presented in widescreen 1.85:1 format with Dolby digital 5.1 sound. The dubbing briefly goes awry near the end. --<I>David Stubbs</I>
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Dd Video Battlefield Britain - The Battle Of Britain 1940
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Exempt,
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Optimum Twin Sisters
Release Date: 2005-08-15, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Rebound [2005]
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Optimum Drunken Monkey
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Street With No Name
Release Date: 2006-01-16, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Optimum The Bullet Train
Release Date: 2005-09-19, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Optimum Duck Season [2004]
Release Date: 2005-06-27, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Dd Video I Only Arsked
Release Date: 2004-01-12, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Optimum Rancho Notorious
Release Date: 2005-07-04, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Optimum Dragonwyck [1946]
Release Date: 2005-04-04, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Millennium - Season 3 [1996]
Release Date: 2004-10-25, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Beach [2000]
Leonardo DiCaprio sought to distance himself from the cloying wholesomeness of his character in <I>Titanic</I>, and his role in <I>The Beach</I> is in many ways a polar opposite. As Richard, a young American seeking to suck in the experience of freestyle travel in Thailand, he is a chronic liar, a pot-smoking hedonist, an amoral lover and ultimately an unstable snake in a doomed Garden of Eden. This crazy descent might be expected from the filmmakers of <I>Trainspotting</I&g t;, but <I>The Beach</I> is a movie without a rudder, venturing into fascinating territory, promising a stimulating adventure and then careening out of control.<p>After receiving a not-so-secret map to a secluded island from a stoned-out loony (Robert Carlyle, full of dark portent and spittle), Richard sets out to find the hidden paradise with a young French couple (Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet). What they find is a tropical commune existing in delicate balance with Thai pot farmers, and before long--as always--there is trouble in paradise. There is trouble in the movie, too, as DiCaprio is reduced to histrionics when the plot turns into a muddled mix of <I>Lord of the Flies</I> and <I>Apocalypse Now</I>, with shark attacks tossed in for shallow tension. Director Danny Boyle attempts perfunctory romance and a few audacious moves (notably DiCaprio's vision of life as a violent video game), but what's the point? Tilda Swinton registers strongly as the commune's charismatic leader, but her character--and the entire film--remains largely undeveloped, and pretty scenery is no guarantee of a laudable film. --<I>Jeff Shannon</I>
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Optimum G.I. Samurai
Release Date: 2005-09-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Heaven Can Wait
Release Date: 2006-01-16, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Roswell: Complete Season 3 [2000]
Release Date: 2004-10-11, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Optimum Deep Blue
Release Date: 2004-10-25, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Roswell: Complete Season 2 [2003]
Release Date: 2004-08-09, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Buena Vista Air Bud
Release Date: 2004-10-04, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Optimum Trauma
Release Date: 2005-07-25, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Release Date: 2005-03-21, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Optimum Detective (1985)
Release Date: 2005-05-16, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT X Files: Season 8 [2000]
The eighth season of <I>The X-Files</I> will always be remembered as the year of brave decisions. David Duchovny's increasing dissatisfaction with the role meant he'd only appear in a few episodes. The solution? Enter Agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick) who basically stole the show within his first two minutes of screen time (and watch out for several Terminator 2 in-jokes too!). Scully (Gillian Anderson) switched roles to being the believer alongside Doggett's skeptic in a year that was more reliant on the background story arc than ever before. <P> Her pregnancy remained at the foreground, while a more prominent Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) joined in a hunt for the abducted Mulder that drew upon the black oil, cloning, and bounty-hunting aspects of the convoluted alien conspiracy story. A distinct lack of guest stars or writers indicated maturity beyond the need for ratings stunts: dedicated fans were pleased to see sinister Krycek, the reliable Lone Gunmen, and the return of the show's very first abductee. <P> The real strengths of the season came from new characters, including alternative female role model Special Agent Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish), and some terrific standalone episodes. Investigations covered a man going backward in time, deaths aboard an oil rig, a contagion in the Boston subway tunnels, and creatures resembling bats and slugs. Agent Leyla Harrison (named after an <I>X-Files</I> fan who died of cancer) got to ask all the petty questions regular viewers want to know themselves. With season 9 promised to be the last, this year was a remarkable achievement so late in a show's life.--<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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Oracle Home Entertainment Limited Battle For The Bulge [1975]
Release Date: 2004-02-23, Rating Exempt,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Me, Myself and Irene [2000]
In <I>Me, Myself & Irene</I>, Jim Carrey plays Charlie Baileygates, a cop for the finest police force in the world (Rhode Island's). In denial about his wife's affair, he's a nice guy who goes around trying to do the right thing but is taken advantage of every step of the way. Instead of confronting people, he takes the abuse, balls it up and hides it in the pit of his stomach. His psyche can only take so much, though and soon his <I>alter-ego</I> Hank pops out to do every libidinous thing Charlie would never do. It's a great premise for a Jim Carrey film. Unfortunately, it's not a great Jim Carrey film. Famous for the lowbrow, shock comedies like <I>Dumb and Dumber</I>, <I>Kingpin</I> and <I>There's Something About Mary</I>, here the Farrelly brothers get lost in a series of lazy gags and an even lazier plot about some evil golf development and the woman, Irene (Renée Zellweger), who needs to be protected because she knows something about it. Some of the jokes hit (there's a bathroom scene that's 10 times funnier than the hair-gel gag in <I>There's Something About Mary</I>), but many more miss. There are some great concepts (his three sons are hip-hop geniuses) that don't go anywhere (they swear a lot). It's like the movie itself has a split personality--funny ideas trapped in a less-than-funny film. --<I>Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com</I>
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Optimum Deadful Melody [1993]
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Waking Ned [1999]
When local wag Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) discovers that one of his neighbours in the village of Tulaigh Mohr is a lottery winner he sees a chance to share in the wealth. Things get complicated when Jackie and his pal Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) discover that the winner, Ned Devine, died of shock at the very moment he learned of becoming a millionaire. Undaunted, Jackie and Michael dispose of the lucky stiff and hatch a plot to impersonate him and claim the prize. Soon the whole village is involved and the plot rapidly thickens.<p> This film has been compared to <I>The Full Monty</I>, but it lacks the vein of desperation that added depth to that film. Instead, <I>Waking Ned</I> is closer in tone to classic British comedies like <I>Whisky Galore!</I>, with its cast of eccentrics gleefully conspiring to outwit the authorities. Those with a low tolerance for twinkly eyed Irish charm might be tempted to steer clear, although the movie is saved, for the most part, by its central performances. Bannen is superb as an old man who is clearly hungry for any excitement he can drum up and David Kelly is remarkable as his scrawny sidekick. Kelly has had a long career as a character actor in film and television, but here he has a chance to really let loose. His naked motorcycle ride is a marvellous set-piece and in all of his other scenes his twitchy, perfectly timed performance quite simply steals the movie. --<I>Simon Leake, Amazon.com</I>
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Optimum Two Bits
Release Date: 2005-05-09, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Optimum Claire's Knee [1970]
Eric Rohmer's <I>Claire's Knee</I> is one of his series of Moral Tales, though it deals delicately with areas of intense moral ambiguity rather than in any obvious certainty. Jerome, a man holidaying at the very end of his youth, allows his old friend Aurora to co-opt him in her experiments with the hearts of two teenage girls. Sensitive gawky Laura fixates on him, but knows enough to realise he is dangerous to her, whereas Claire, for whom he develops a vague obsession, largely ignores him as a sexual being. He develops elaborate theories in justification of what he does and says, and the film does not dismiss these theories, while allowing for the possibility that Jerome is nothing but a manipulative self-deceived letch. This is a movie with a delicate visual palette; Nestor Almendros' elegiac camera work constantly makes clear that for all the characters this is a summer vacation with consequences. It is also a conversation piece in which almost nothing happens--the most Jerome ever allows himself is to stroke Claire's knee--and the interesting thing is how all the intense talk and extended scenes of one-to-one dialogue make that quite enough to sustain our fascinated interest. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Optimum Golgo 13
Release Date: 2005-09-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Tigerland [2001]
Shot in the rough, 16-millimeter style of a low-budget documentary, <I>Tigerland</I> marked director Joel Schumacher's welcomed return to simplicity after a slew of bloated blockbusters such as <I>Batman & Robin</I>. In revitalising Schumacher's directorial talent, <I>Tigerland</I>-- which is partially inspired by the Danish Dogme 95 movement of no-frills filmmaking--suggested that one solution to Hollywood's moribund product was to abandon excess, focus on essentials, and assemble a fine cast of unknown actors to make it all worthwhile. To that end, <I>Tigerland</I> also marked the deserving arrival of Irish actor Colin Farrell as Hollywood's hottest new discovery. <p> Its story never leaves US soil, so <I>Tigerland</I> differs from such in-country Vietnam films as <I>Platoon</I> and <I>Full Metal Jacket</I>. Instead, it's about the anxieties and moral dilemmas that arise from the <I>anticipation</I> ; of death and killing. These roiling emotions are focused on the character of Private Bozz (Farrell), whose insubordination betrays a singular knack for leadership during infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1971. Part RP McMurphy and part Cool Hand Luke, Bozz is a defiant maverick, barely tolerated by his superiors, challenged or revered by his fellow grunts and ultimately honed into a soldier of remarkable promise. An intense final week in the live-ammo training ground nicknamed Tigerland galvanises the platoon and Bozz's place in it, and although the film (partially based on co-writer Ross Klavan's own experience) lacks the emotional impact of <I>Platoon</I>, it deals quite poignantly with the internal conflicts that must be waged before external warfare can be endured. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT Danger Mouse - Who Stole The Bagpipes? [1981]
Release Date: 2003-03-10, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT Cabaret - 30th Anniversary Special Edition [1972]
<I>Cabaret</I> is one of those film musicals whose cultural and stylistic influence extend well beyond the cinema. It confirmed Bob Fosse's status as one of the boldest choreographers of the 20th century and gave Liza Minnelli an early peak in a film career which would never scale such heights again. Minnelli is both the film's strength--on its own merits her performance is an Oscar-winning <I>tour de force</I>--and weakness. The real Sally Bowles was a third-rate performer and just one of a rich gallery of characters; here, the constant allowances for Minnelli's star turns and mannerisms ultimately throw the story off balance. But the source material is impeccable: Kander and Ebb's stage show, based on the autobiographical stories of Christopher Isherwood, has long since been acknowledged a classic. The songs, augmented by some new numbers in the film, are ageless. <p> Joel Grey from the original Broadway production is the Emcee, the master of ceremonies who, with his Kit Kat Klub girls, provides a depraved Greek chorus satirising the rise of the Nazi regime and the lazy complacency of the 1930s Berlin cabaret-goers. The divine decadence tag is only part of the story, though. <I>Cabaret</I> still works a sinister, uncomfortable magic which sets it apart as a uniquely powerful film musical. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Cabaret</I>'s 30th Anniversary Special Edition is packed with extras which include a scratchy making of documentary from 1972 and a retrospective from 1997, the latter featuring reminiscences from the cast. There's also the original theatrical trailer, though in the absence of the late director Fosse the lack of some kind of commentary is a disappointment. The picture itself, presented in widescreen 16:9 letterbox format with a Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack, gleams as sharply, visually and aurally, as it did on its first release. --<I>Piers Ford</I>
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Optimum Restless Natives [1985]
Release Date: 2005-04-18, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 2 [1998]
Release Date: 2002-10-07, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Kurt Cobain - The Cobain Case
Release Date: 2005-06-20, Rating Exempt,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) MTV - Pimp My Ride - Season 1
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Lost In Space - Season 3
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Optimum The Three Swordsmen
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Optimum I Was A Male War Bride [1949]
Release Date: 2004-07-19, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Dark Angel - Season 2 [2001]
The second and last series of <I>Dark Angel</I>, the inventive James Cameron show about mutants during a future Depression, has some real strengths, as well as having one or two bad ideas that partly explain its much-regretted cancellation. Among the strengths are Alex, the thoroughly unreliable mutant charmer whose flirtations with heroine Max complicate her doomed love for Logan, the crippled newshound whom she cannot now even touch--she has been infected with a deadly virus tailored specifically to kill him. The distrust this sows between the doomed couple does not always avoid soap opera clichés, but often produces fine performances, especially from Jessica Alba as Max. <p> On the down side, John Savage's memorably ambiguous villain Lydeker from Series 1 (who is alternately the mutants' nemesis and their protector), disappears to be replaced by the melodramatically sinister Agent White. White appears to be just a shoot-to-kill operative of the state but turns out to be another sort of superhuman, a product of an occultist breeding programme going back to the dawn of history. After White's first ruthless killing, Max's reluctance to use deadly force is tested to near implausible limits. The show ends with a rousing and moving finale, Freak Nation, in which a theme often neglected in this final year--Max's relationship with her fellow couriers at Jam Pony--reaches a powerful climax. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Dark Angel</I>'s Series 2 release is ungenerous with special features, giving us an interesting but short documentary in which James Cameron, producer Charles Eglee and various designers describe how they created this rundown future Seattle with a mixture of location shots, set dressing and CGI, as well as a preview of the <I>Dark Angel</I> game. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Oracle Home Entertainment Limited Classical Ballet 1 - From Dream To Reality - The Basics
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Optimum Pippi Longstocking
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