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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment [1966]
Time does odd things to some films. In 1966, <I>Morgan--A Suitable Case for Treatment</I> was hailed as a touching black comedy about the destruction of a free spirit by an uncaring bourgeois world. Playwright David Mercer's screenplay is full of his standard obsessions of the time--Trotskyism and RD Laing's perception of the mad as truly sane--and Karel Reisz's direction effectively balances Morgan's failing real-world life with a fantasy life of gorillas, King Kong and sinister partisans emerging from a crisply photographed Battersea Power Station. <p>David Warner's Morgan is far more like his student rebel Hamlet of the same year than the B-Movie villains for which he has been more famous for ever since; it is a sentimentalised performance, but only because of the deep sentimentality of the film. A cast that includes Robert Stephens, Irene Handl and Bernard Bresslaw give us some effective social satire and low comedy. The trouble is that Morgan's pursuit and near-rape of his ex-wife, and his trashing of her society wedding, now look more like the behaviour of a stalker than an act of bohemian rebellion; it is significant that the film treats Vanessa Redgrave as a treacherous bimbo with nothing much to do except smile wistfully. <I>Morgan</I> may have been one of the trendiest films of its Swinging London epoch but it has not aged well. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> the DVD is presented with Dolby Digital sound that makes the most of John Danworth's jazz score in a 2:1 full frame visual aspect. The clean print makes the most of the mono photography. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Special Edition (Two Disc Set)
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT All Creatures Great And Small [1975]
Claude Whatham's 1974 film <I>All Creatures Great and Small</I> is a modest and charming cornucopia of nostalgia, cuddly calves, romance and acerbic-yet-warm-hearted Yorkshire folk. It's based of course on James Herriot's phenomenally popular tales of a vet's life in the Dales and spawned a long-running BBC series with a different cast. Here, we have a fresh-faced Simon Ward as James, joining Siegfried Farnon's small town practice. As the benignly despotic Farnon, a pre-Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins already exudes plenty of brooding charisma. Lisa Harrow, fetching in 1930s slacks, is Helen, the farmer's daughter who catches James' eye.<p> Their adventures with the local animal populace in the incredibly beautiful pre-Second World War Dales run the gamut, from arms up cows' bottoms to tender birthing scenes, over-indulged pooches, horses with torsions and one moment which will strike a poignant note with pet owners of all ages. It's taught and witty thanks to distinguished dramatist Hugh Whitemore's delightful script and as comforting as a warm blanket, a stodgy tea and a roaring fire on a winter's evening.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> with no extras apart from the chapter list, this is a basic package. Presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic aspect ratio and a Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack, it's easy viewing, offering more than adequate picture and sound quality. --<I>Piers Ford</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Men With Brooms [2002]
Release Date: 2004-01-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Learn To Play The Brazilian Way [2003]
Release Date: 2003-03-31, Rating Exempt,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Lock Up [1990]
The 1980s was the make-and-break decade for Sylvester Stallone's career, and <I>Lock Up</I> typifies the direction he took in his post-<I>Rocky</I> and <I>Rambo</I> days. It's a concept movie in the same mould as <I>Rambo III</I> just before it, and <I>Tango & Cash</I> just after. The hero (Frank Leone) is put in jeopardy (Gateway Prison), establishes a nemesis to defeat (in the shape of Donald Sutherland as Warden Drumgoole), makes a few friendships that can be sacrificed along the way (Tom Sizemore as Dallas) and does what he does in the name of love (Darlanne Flugel as Melissa). The revenge-twisted warden puts him through hell over a shared back-story. The torture ranges from being made to hold his breath in a delousing chamber to sanity-stretching periods in The Hole. It's all about how far a man can be pushed. But being a Stallone vehicle, it's not all depressing. Composer Bill Conti reunites with the star to put the same sort of heroic fuel behind a prison-yard football game as he did for <I>Rocky</I>. A couple of feel-good songs pep up the love story and a montage of camaraderie in rebuilding a broken-down car. There's a healthy sense of realism achieved by having Sly doing all his own stunts and the use of a real-life prison. If the elements lead to a by-the-numbers conclusion (it's no <I>Shawshank Redemption</I>), remember this was some years before the actor wanted to get serious. <p> <B>On the DVD</B>: A surprising amount of footage has been assembled in the two behind-the-scenes featurettes: we see Stallone directing his own fight scenes, and how use of New Jersey's Rahway Prison came with 2,500 real inmates to keep under control. Sound bite interviews reveal Stallone's worldly philosophies, then a trailer and gallery of 17 photos round out a decent overall package. --<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Rambo III [1988]
And the hits just keep on coming. Sylvester Stallone, who can't seem to draw flies unless he's playing Rocky Balboa or John Rambo, went back to the <I>Rambo</I> well (or septic system, as it were) to show his well-known solidarity with the Afghan freedom fighters who battled the Soviet army in the 1980s. This time it's personal: his handler, Richard Crenna, is captured by the Evil Empire and so it is up to Rambo to leave his work in a monastery in Southeast Asia (no, seriously) in order to rescue him from the Ruskies. Ever wonder why the Russians had such a miserable time in Afghanistan? It was because Rambo took them on single-handed and sent them packing with hammer-and-sickle all the way back to Moscow. Cartoonish action, taken ever so seriously by Stallone, who was working desperately to scrape away the unsightly wax build up from his reputation. --<I>Marshall Fine</I><p>The <I>Rambo</I> trilogy is also available on DVD as a complete set.
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT David Dickinson -- Cheap as Chips [2002]
Release Date: 2002-11-18, Rating Exempt,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Vera Drake [2004]
The brilliant writer-director Mike Leigh (<I>Topsy-Turvy</I> ;, <I>Secrets and Lies</I>, <I>Naked</I>) has crafted an utterly compelling movie about one of the most controversial of topics. An irrepressibly hopeful housecleaner in 1950s London named Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton, <I>Antonia and Jane</I>, <I>Shakespeare in Love</I>) mothers everyone around her, from her own family to helpless shut-ins and lonely men living in tiny, isolated apartments. None of these people know that Vera also helps young women get rid of unwanted pregnancies, until the police appear and tear her world apart. <I>Vera Drake</I> isn't just an inspired character portrait; through simple and straightforward scenes, the movie weaves a quiet but mesmerizing portrait of how people--both wealthy and poor--cope with adversity. Though wrenching, <I>Vera Drake</I> has too much life to be depressing. Leigh is deservedly famous for his work with actors; every character brims with truth and Staunton's performance deserves every award it could possibly win. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Rambling Rose [1991]
Release Date: 2003-09-08, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Theatre Of Death [1966]
Release Date: 2001-06-25, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Good Shepherd
Release Date: 2005-12-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Sweet Hereafter [1997]
Release Date: 2001-03-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Basic Instinct - Special Edition [1992]
With more than a decade of cinema in <I>Basic Instinct</I>'s wake it's fascinating to look back at just how influential Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller has been. The director's endless fight with censorship and unwillingness to kowtow to social mores meant his movies became notorious for graphically depicting sex and violence while pushing contemporary boundaries of taste. This whodunit about a bisexual femme fatale (Sharon Stone in a career-best performance) caused an enormous furore on its release; but after years of generally inferior imitations there's not much in it that seems quite so shocking now. It's perhaps best appreciated in retrospect more for its Hitchcockian style than the steamy sex.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> one of the most welcome elements of the disc is an acknowledgement of the film's own influences--from Hitchcock's <I>Vertigo</I> to Verhoeven's own <I>The Fourth Man</I>. The print is far superior to the previous release, looking magnificent in 1:78.1. Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated score sounds terrific in either 5.1 or DTS, as does Verhoeven's thick accent on the first commentary track alongside then Director of Photography Jan De Bont (<I>Speed</I>), who together reminisce on locations and manipulating their actors' performances. A second commentary from feminist critic Camille Paglia is a brave way of putting paid to the gay/feminist community uproar. There are some standard inclusions (trailer, production notes, photo gallery etc) but far more interesting are two mini-documentaries; Cleaning Up Basic Instinct shows how and why the TV version was so dull, while Blonde Poison focuses on the film's making and marketing. Finally, there are three storyboard comparisons and nine minutes of screen tests for Stone and Tripplehorn. This is the definitive release of an oft-cited modern classic. --<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Nightcomers [1972]
Release Date: 2002-10-21, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Release Date: 2002-07-15, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Confidence [2003]
Bathed in self-conscious cool, <I>Confidence</I> is a heist caper in which the heist is unimportant. As you might expect from <I>Glengarry Glen Ross</I> director James Foley, this pulpy concoction is more interested in giving good actors a lot of hip, salty dialogue as they scheme their way to the royal scam. It's a poor man's <I>Ocean's Eleven</I>, just as enjoyable in its own way, beginning when con artist Jake (Edward Burns) discovers he's accidentally stolen from an eccentric crime boss (Dustin Hoffman, oozing threat in a fine character turn). Promising to make amends by pulling the biggest con of his career, Jake adds a feisty pickpocket (Rachel Weisz) to his crew, which includes scene-stealer Paul Giammatti and Andy Garcia as a dishevelled FBI agent (or is he?). With a cast like this you can't go wrong, but <I>Confidence</I> cons itself into thinking it's original, while Burns's abundant voice-overs state the obvious and plot twists unfold with minimal surprise. --<I>Jeff Shannon</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Meg and Mog (Volume 2)
Release Date: 2004-10-18, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Business of Strangers [2002]
Release Date: 2003-05-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Downfall [2004]
The riveting subject of <i>Downfall</i> is nothing less than the disintegration of Adolph Hitler in mind, body, and soul. A 2005 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film, this German historical drama stars Bruno Ganz as Hitler, whose psychic meltdown is depicted in sobering detail, suggesting a fallen, pathetic dictator on the verge on insanity, resorting to suicide (along with Eva Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels) as his Nazi empire burns amidst chaos in mid-1945. While staging most of the film in the claustrophobic bunker where Hitler spent his final days, director Oliver Hirschbiegel dares to show the gentler human side of der Fuehrer, as opposed to the pure embodiment of evil so familiar from many other Nazi-era dramas. This balanced portrayal does not inspire sympathy, however: We simply see the complexity of Hitler's character in the greater context of his inevitable downfall, and a more realistic (and therefore more horrifying) biographical portrait of madness on both epic and intimate scales. By ending with a chilling clip from the 2002 documentary <i>Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary</i>, this unforgettable film gains another dimension of sobering authenticity. <i>--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</i>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Man About The House [1974]
This is the film based on the 1970s TV sitcom <I>Man About the House</I>, made during the same period with the same cast. At the time, the whole idea of a single man and two single women sharing a flat, however (more-or-less) platonically, seemed terribly naughty. The scriptwriters wickedly stirred things up even further by making Richard O'Sullivan's character a randy-but-gentlemanly heterosexual, despite being a catering student--after all, in the 70s everyone just <I>knew</I> that all chefs were roaring poofs. The trio's sex-starved landlady (Yootha Joyce) and her rodent-like, impotent husband (Brian Murphy) were later to get their own series, <I>George and Mildred</I>. <p> The plot is a perfunctory affair, as property developers attempt and fail to demolish the street in which the protagonists live. That said, the script (cowritten by John Mortimer) isn't really narrative-driven anyway, it's purely an excuse for the characters to interact with the will-they-won't-they-ooh-they- are-a-bit relationship between Robin and Chrissie (Paula Wilcox) and practically invites the viewer to cheer them on. While the transition to the big screen caused the idea to lose much of its energy, as a dollop of comedy nostalgia <I>Man About the House</I> is still great fun. And if you don't laugh at the jokes, just check out the clothes, cars, hairstyles and makeup, not to mention all that cigarette smoking! <I>--Roger Thomas</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Lost In Translation Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind [2003]
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Zebra Lounge [2001]
Release Date: 2005-12-26, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Out Of Time [2003]
The Denzel Washington thriller <I>Out of Time</I> is quite enjoyable if you ignore its implausible plotting. Partly inspired by 1948's <I>The Big Clock</I> and its nominal 1987 remake <I>No Way Out</I>, this reunion of Washington and his <I>Devil in a Blue Dress</I> director Carl Franklin is about a man--in this case the police chief (Washington) of sleepy Banyan Key, Florida--who falls into a trap set by others, sinks into legal quicksand of his own making, and must race the clock to extricate himself from a series of incriminating setbacks. The Florida setting adds welcome character to the pot-boiler plot, and Washington's screen credibility makes it easy to overlook the absurdities of rookie writer David Collard's screenplay. Eva Mendes is sharp and sensible as Washington's estranged wife (do you think they'll reconcile for a happy ending?), and the talented John Billingsley--whose portrayal of Dr Phlox on TV's <I>Enterprise</I> is vastly underrated--is a constant delight as Washington's medical examiner, beer buddy and wily co-conspirator. --<I>Jeff Shannon</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Cliffhanger [1993]
<I>Cliffhanger</I> was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action hero Sylvester Stallone, this time thanks to director Renny Harlin (<I>Die Hard 2</I>) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing, high-mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title promises, and there's an extraordinary airplane stunt that was later reprised, with modifications, in <I>Air Force One</I>. Stallone, looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves, is a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks (headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a US Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies with millions of bucks. Outrageous action-packed, snow-packed and scenery-packed chase sequences (featuring whirring helicopters, whooshing skis, popping gunfire and clanging pitons that earned the movie Oscar nominations for sound and sound editing) abound. --<I>Jim Emerson, Amazon.com</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Clay Pigeons [1998]
Release Date: 2005-12-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Hoffman [1969]
<I>Hoffman</I> is an odd cross between <I>There's a Girl in My Soup</I> and <I>The Collector</I> and is clearly one of the few film projects Peter Sellers took seriously enough to work hard on, rather than one of the many he breezed through on a talent for funny voices and unleashed chaos. The set-up is that secretary Miss Smith (Sinead Cusack) is blackmailed by meek, middle-aged Mr Hoffman (Sellers) into spending a week of domesticity with him in his flat, while she tells her fiance (Jeremy Boba Fett Bulloch) that she's with her gran in Scarborough. At first, the tone is creepy as Cusack dreads the terrors of sharing a bed with Sellers and he mutters darkly about an absent wife in terms that recall Crippen and the brides-in-the-bath murderer, but it becomes more poignant as both characters learn to see each other as people. <p> The worst Sellers does in bed is snore loudly, while the unattainably glamorous young woman suffers from minor ailments like a bruised heel and night-time constipation, and the at-first simple relationship between them deepens as the girl comes to understand the half-life Hoffman has been leading. The script gives Sellers a lot of funny business, acid lines and whimsical turns, but he plays Hoffman as a repressed soul half-ashamed of his attempts to be funny, telling genuinely good jokes as if he expects no one will laugh. Cusack, more interesting than the expected dolly bird, keeps up with her co-star, and almost makes the strangely upbeat last reel believable. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Hoffman</I> comes to disc in a nice widescreen print. Otherwise, nada. The film is also available as part of the four-disc <I>Peter Sellers Collection</I>.--<I&g t;Kim Newman</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Keeper [2003]
Release Date: 2004-12-20, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Shape Of Things [2003]
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT My House In Umbria [2003]
Release Date: 2005-03-21, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Simpatico [2000]
They call horse racing the sport of kings but <I>Simpatico</I> makes it look more like the sport of shifty, money-grubbing sleaze bags. This intricately plotted drama centres around a clutch of former business partners--Vinnie, Carter and Rossie--who 20 years ago pulled a scam with a ringer (a fast horse secretly substituted for a slow one) to make a killing on the Kentucky Derby. However, the plot was rumbled by racing-inspector Simms (Albert Finney), so the trio blackmailed him with dirty pictures. All this is revealed in grainy Super 8 flashbacks with one set of young actors (apart from Finney) while in the present, the mature versions of the three cohorts, played by Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges and Sharon Stone, struggle with their consciences and regrets. It all looks set to unravel once Vinnie decides to make restitution to Simms. <p> There's some meaty, ambitious stuff here, but director Matthew Warchus and co-writer Sam Shepard's reaches for more than it can grasp. For example, the over-the-top symbolism of having the horse swap mirrored in a lifestyle swap between Vinnie and Carter defies all plausibility. The stars all reprise well-rehearsed personas: here's Nolte playing the crazy bum as in <I>Down and Out in Beverly Hills</I>, there's Jeff Bridges unveiling yet-another of his patented smug yuppies brought low; and haven't we already seen Sharon Stone playing an embittered lush in <I>Casino</I>? (Admittedly she didn't do a Southern accent that time.) As ever, <I>Being John Malkovich</I>'s Catherine Keener steals the show as dreamy checkout girl grabbing her chance at the brass ring. But in the end, <I>Simpatico</I>'s sluggish pacing means it slows to a trot right when it should start to gallop. --<I>Leslie Felperin</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT CSI: Miami - Season 1 Part 1
<i>CSI: Miami</i> follows the same super-successful formula as <i>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</i>. Fortunately, this instantly popular spin-off established its own unique identity from the start. Like Gil Grissom's motley crew, the Dade County criminalists of <i>CSI: Miami</i> solve murders using forensic science. Unlike the Vegas crew, however, they're cops with the power to arrest, their coroner talks to dead people, and almost everybody speaks Spanish. Sometimes their crime scene is a swamp, sometimes a resort hotel. Either way, the skies are always sunny, the gators always biting. Real-life Florida resident David Caruso--playing Lt Horatio Caine, the head honcho--is joined by Khandi Alexander (<i>NewsRadio</i>) as coroner Alexx Woods, Emily Procter (<i>The West Wing</i>) as ballistics expert Calleigh Duquesne, Adam Rodriguez (<i>Roswell</i>) as underwater recovery expert Eric Delko, and featured player Rory Cochrane (<i>Dazed and Confused</i>) as Tim Speed Speedle--though Cochrane wouldn't become a full-fledged cast member until the 12th episode (Entrance Wound). Kim Delaney (Caruso's former <i>NYPD Blue</i> cast mate) features in the first few episodes, but left after the tenth, reportedly due to a lack of chemistry with Caruso. <p> Just as <i>CSI</i> has made the most of its location with stories about showgirls and casino owners, so has <i>CSI: Miami</i> exploited its surroundings for all they're worth. Like its parent show, <i>CSI: Miami</i> quickly became a US ratings powerhouse and was followed by <i>CSI: New York</i> in 2004. --<i>Kathleen C. Fennessy</i>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Crimes Of The Heart [1986]
Release Date: 2003-09-08, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Creature Comforts - Series 2.1
Release Date: 2005-11-21, Rating Parental Guidance,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Wicker Park [2004]
Release Date: 2005-02-07, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Benny Hill - The Best Of Benny Hill [1974]
Benny Hill was always best at quasi-silent slapstick, so it's no surprise that some of the best stuff on <I>The Best of Benny Hill</I> seems to owe more to the work of Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle than to mainstream TV comedy. It may also be no coincidence that, unusually, this release began life in the cinema. There's some classic material on offer here: the extended opening item, Hospital Care for example, almost transcends buffoonery to become social comment, but best of all is the sketch which features Hill as a chat-show host (people really used to wear matching shirts and ties) attempting to deal with a West End star and starlet, the former monosyllabic, the latter catastrophically plastered. <p>Among the 15 other items featured, the knowing send-up of the pretentiousness of avant-garde French cinema is also very funny, while the short linking items include a wicked parody of Alan Whicker and a sideswipe at barely literate actresses (What's that in the road? A head?). Fans will be pleased to know that Hill's regular supporting cast, including Patricia Hayes, Nicholas Parsons and Rita Webb, are all present. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The Best of Benny Hill</I> on DVD comes with full-frame picture as expected but no extras, which is a shame as at the very least some biographical material would have been welcome. <I>--Roger Thomas</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Chaplin [1991]
<I>Chaplin</I>, Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film of the life and times of the famous comic, is a little thin as a narrative, but it is so charmingly creative and ultimately moving that it's hard to worry about the deficits. Robert Downey Jr does an excellent job re-creating Chaplin's graceful slapstick and getting inside the silent-film superstar's head over the years of triumph, defeat, scandal, official persecution, exile and inner peace. A huge cast portray the allies, friends, lovers and enemies in Chaplin's life, including Moira Kelly as his final, long-time wife Oona, Kevin Kline as Douglas Fairbanks, Geraldine Chaplin as Charlie's mother and James Woods as a prosecutor working hard to nail Chaplin for anti-American sentiments. Attenborough declines to tell the story in a flat, linear way, employing such clever techniques as detailing one chapter in Chaplin's life as a silent comedy. The climactic scene set at an Oscar tribute for Chaplin will get the tears flowing. --<I>Tom Keogh, Amazon.com</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Deep Star Six [1989]
Release Date: 2002-05-20, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Dracula's Widow [1988]
Release Date: 2005-10-24, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Johnny Handsome [1988]
Release Date: 2002-03-25, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Jacob's Ladder [1991]
In <I>Jacob's Ladder</I>, Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. Or worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the after-effects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. Or perhaps his post-traumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it's not good. Director Adrian Lyne sparks our interest and maintains high production values, but this confusing film chokes on its surprise ending. It owes much to Ambrose Bierce's haunting and more straightforward short story, <I>An Occurrence at Owl Creek</I>. Written by Bruce Joel Rubin, who also explored the other side in <I>Ghost and My Life</I>, <I>Jacob's Ladder</I> ultimately feels like an exercise in self-indulgence. A spirited performance by Elizabeth Peña outshines Robbins, who is surprisingly lethargic. --<I>Rochelle O'Gorman</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Hana-Bi [1998]
The ideal starter movie for those who wish to familiarise themselves with the work of the paradoxical Japanese auteur, <I>Hana-Bi</I> (the word means fireworks in Japanese) is an <I>echt</I> example of Beat's Takeshi Kitano's distinctive brand of existential crime thrillers. Like <I>Violent Cop</I>, <I>Boiling Point</I>, <I>Sonatine</I> or his LA-set <I>Brother</I>, <I>Hana-Bi</I> juxtaposes shocking bursts of violence with reflective moments of lyricism, setting up a slap-caress-slap rhythm that's as disquieting as it is addictive. <p> Kitano himself plays weary Tokyo cop Nishi, an impassive-faced detective in hock to <I>yakuza</I> mobsters, toughened by a career in violence (at one point he takes out an attacker's eye with a chopstick, an assault so swiftly edited one barely has time to register it). Nishi's Achilles-heel is his love for his wife Miyuki (Kayoko Kishimoto) who is dying of cancer, following their late daughter to the grave. When Nishi leaves a stakeout to attend to her in hospital, a colleague, Horibe (Ren Osugi) is paralysed in the ensuing shootout. Nishi, guilt-stricken, goes on the run with Miyuki, taking her to beauty spots to enjoy simple pleasures like kite-flying and picnics before she dies, although the <I>yakuza</I> are never far behind. Meanwhile, Horibe takes up painting, and discovers in the process a calming new vocation (the na&239;ve, disturbing and strangely beautiful images are by Kitano himself, painted after he had his own near-fatal experience in a motorcycle accident). <p> The cumulative effect is a profoundly moving and enigmatic movie, one that discreetly withholds many of the narrative crutches--backstory, motivation--you would expect from a conventional Hollywood movie with the same story. It's not surprising Kitano is so drawn to characters teeming with contradictions, given that his own career seems so bi-polar on paper: he started out a television presenting clown, and his move into glowering policiers represented an image volte-face as surprising to Japanese audiences as it would be if Dale Winton had started making Scorsese-style gangster movies. His comic sensibility shines through in spots in <I>Hana-Bi</I>, even more so in the broad comedy <I>Kikujiro</I>. Considered by many critics Kitano's best film, <I>Hana-Bi</I>^'s power is augmented by Hideo Yamamoto's lapidary cinematography, and Jo Hisaishi's lush, string-laden score. --<I>Leslie Felperin</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT A Chorus Line [1985]
Release Date: 2002-05-20, Rating Parental Guidance,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT A Kind Of Loving [1962]
Pity poor Vic (Alan Bates): when he begins a relationship with Ingrid (June Ritchie), a typist at the Lancashire factory where he works as a draughtsman; his life comes apart at the seams. Ingrid's gossiping, malicious friends are bad enough, but her mother Mrs Rothwell (the terrifying Thora Hird) is something else. Vic has to marry Ingrid-she's pregnant--and the only place for them to stay is chez Rothwell.<p> There's a tenderness about <I>A Kind of Loving</I> which you don't find in the more abrasive kitchen sink films of the 60s. Vic is not a rebel like Arthur Seton in <I>Saturday Night, Sunday Morning</I> or a macho lunk like Richard Harris' rugby-league player in <I>This Sporting Life</I>. He's a likable, easygoing youngster who soon discovers that real-life love affairs are infinitely messier than he and his mates could ever have imagined. The acute, witty screenplay, adapted by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse from Stan Barstow's novel, shows how limited Vic and Ingrid's choices really are. They have no privacy or independence. Bounced into a marriage that neither necessarily wants, their romance quickly sours. Mrs Rothwell is truly the mother-in-law from Hell--a busybody and a tyrant. Look out for the Queen Victoria-like expression on her face when a drunken Vic throws up in her front room. Debut-feature director John Schlesinger captures the humour and the pathos in the young lovers' plight without ever making fun of them. --<I>Geoffrey Macnab</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Carnal Knowledge [1971]
Release Date: 2002-03-25, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Backyard
Release Date: 2004-07-05, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Possible Worlds [2001]
Release Date: 2003-02-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Howling [1980]
Release Date: 2004-10-18, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT The Manitou [1978]
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Momentum Pictures Home Ent Terminator 2: Judgment Day (One Disc Edition)
Release Date: 2003-07-28, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT CSI: Miami - Season 2 Part 1
Release Date: 2005-09-12, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT My Little Eye -- Special Edition [2002]
<I>My Little Eye</I> comes from the same school as <I>Series 7: The Contenders</I> and <I>The Blair Witch Project</I>, attempting to play on our fears by using the medium of film itself. The difference here is this film's willingness to use striking camera angles, editing and night view cameras that take the idea of <I>Big Brother</I> onto pay-per-view internet where no-one is around to hear you scream. <p> Locked away in a deserted house, six contestants (or stereotypes) are adhering to curfews and confinement in a bid to win money: unlike <I>Big Brother</I>, though, the twist here is that no-one gets evicted, they all have to stay to win. To begin with the company looks after them, delivering food and warmth, however towards the end of their six-month stay weird things begin to happen. Rex, the most clued-up of the contestants, despite his alleged mental imbalance, surmises that the company are trying to scare them out of the prize money, but as time goes on and a mystery visitor mysteriously disappears it becomes clear that things are about to become very brutal in a bid to please their pay-per-view audience. <p> Although the reality-film premise may be wearing a little thin by now, director Marc Evans still manages to pull a few surprises out of the bag, particularly at the macabre ending, which subverts all rules of the horror genre and will leave the audience trembling because maybe, just maybe, this could be happening. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>My Little Eye</I> two-disc set is a genuinely innovative achievement. Disc 2 offers the standard DVD special features, including a 30-minute making of featurette, which is beautifully filmed. However, it's Disc 1 which has the real gem. Along with a well transferred film (16:9, Dolby 5.1 sound) and informative director's commentary, there is also the option to view the film in Interactive Browser Mode. What this means is that once you've entered the hidden code you are able to watch as if you are a pay-per-view customer on the internet, with the ability to view audition tapes and archives (six deleted scenes of them in the first few months), eavesdrop into conversations, and choose different cameras for certain scenes. The result is a truly interactive experience that definitely increases the fear factor. --<I>Nikki Disney</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 3 Part 2 [2001]
The second half of <I>CSI</I>'s third season serves up generous amounts of the bizarre and depraved for our voyeuristic viewing pleasure: a man driving with a wooden spike in his head, ultra-violent Robot Wars, decomposing bodies in toxic waste drums and violent death during foam-soaked debauchery all add up to a typical night's work for the Las Vegas crime lab. Standout episodes include the 90-minute special, Lady Heather's Box, in which Grissom renews his acquaintance with the sultry bordello madam and her world of S&M. But is the delightful dominatrix the murderer? In Night at the Movies the plot hinges on a reworking of a Hitchcock classic and in Play with Fire an explosion in the lab has disastrous consequences for the team. <p> Personal concerns come to the fore in these 12 episodes more prominently than ever before (a contrast to the show's original single-minded focus on the cases). Here, Sara Sidle's paramedic boyfriend unwittingly reveals a guilty secret when he is involved in a devastating car accident (Crash & Burn); Warwick witnesses his boyhood mentor falling apart when the older man's daughter is killed in a drive-by shooting (Random Acts of Violence); Catherine Willows' daughter and ex-husband are caught up in more violence and mayhem; and Grissom finally has to admit that his hearing problem can no longer be ignored. A welcome development is the expansion of the CSI unit and the introduction of some new, albeit secondary, team members. Guest stars include Elizabeth Berkely (Lady Heather's Box) and Bobcat Goldthwait (Last Laugh). The show remains unrivalled for slick, fast-paced entertainment. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>CSI, Series 3 Part 2</I> is a three-disc set with a handful of minor extra features. It has two frankly rather uninspiring episode commentaries featuring the directors, scriptwriters and other crew. Better are the two small featurettes--Making It Real and The Writer's Room--that shed more light on the making of the show. --<I>Mark Walker</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Red Heat [1989]
After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller <I>48 Hours</I>, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he's matched up with city cop Art Ridzik (James Belushi), whose work ethic is considerably more relaxed. Most of the humour revolves around Danko's grumpy reaction to good ol' American capitalism, while Ridzik urges him to chill out. <I>Red Heat</I> is not bad as action comedies go, but only if you get into the absurd spirit of this predictable fare, in which the unlikely buddies get to wisecrack and act casually while mayhem erupts everywhere they go. Incidentally, <I>Red Heat</I> was the first American film allowed to shoot in Moscow's Red Square. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Manhunter--Special Edition
Released to box-office indifference in 1986, <I>Manhunter</I> introduced Hannibal Lecter and established the rules of the modern race-to-find-the-serial-killer thriller five years before <I>The Silence of the Lambs</I> packed cinema |
