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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Gothika [2004]
The title of <i>Gothika</i> prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller <i>The Crimson Rivers</i>, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl--dead for four years--sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything--including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)--in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but <i>Gothika</i> serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. --<i>Jeff Shannon</i>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Vampires: The Turning [2005]
Release Date: 2005-06-27, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Stand By Me [1986]
A sleeper hit when released in 1986, <i>Stand by Me</i> is based on Stephen King's novella The Body (from the book <i>Different Seasons</i>); but it's more about the joys and pains of boyhood friendship than a morbid fascination with corpses. It's about four boys ages 12 and 13 (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell) who take an overnight hike through the woods near their Oregon town to find the body of a boy who's been missing for days. Their journey includes a variety of scary adventures (including a ferocious junkyard dog, a swamp full of leeches and a treacherous leap from a train trestle), but it's also a time for personal revelations, quiet interludes and the raucous comradeship of best friends. Set in the 1950s, the movie indulges an overabundance of anachronistic profanity and a kind of idealistic, golden-toned nostalgia (it's told in flashback as a story written by Wheaton's character as an adult, played by Richard Dreyfuss). But it's delightfully entertaining from start to finish, thanks to the rapport among its young cast members and the timeless, universal themes of friendship, family and the building of character and self-esteem. Kiefer Sutherland makes a memorable teenage villain and look closely for John Cusack in a flashback scene as Wheaton's now-deceased and dearly missed brother. A genuine crowd-pleaser, this heartfelt movie led director Rob Reiner to even greater success with his next film, <i>The Princess Bride</i>. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Subway [1985]
An early work from director Luc Besson, <I>Subway</I> is a dark and highly stylised picture which concerns an enigmatic safecracker (Christopher Lambert) hiding out in the Paris Metro system. While living in the underground and eluding both gangsters and Metro police he meets up with a group of colourful and quirky subterranean inhabitants eager to help him and start a rock band. All the while the safecracker blackmails a rich woman (Isabelle Adjani) with whom he is in love. Meant to be a tongue-in-cheek commentary on urban life, the film works better as a light freewheeling entertainment, with well-constructed fast-paced action sequences and a breezy sense of humour about itself. <I>Subway</I> is an intriguing diversion and a chance to see the cutting-edge of contemporary French moviemaking. --<I>Robert Lane</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Wicked [1998]
A teen-themed entry in the long-established Psycho-Bitch-from-Hell sub-genre of Hollywood thriller, <I>Wicked</I> affords current high school princess Julia Stiles an opportunity to stop smiling and play a manipulative, disturbed, alienated girl who is also the number one suspect in the “did she or didn't she batter Mum to death with a heavy tragedy mask” mystery.<p>Set in one of those hideous American gated communities, a pastel suburban enclave with round-the-clock security and enough adulteries to keep a soap going for a year, the film is subtler than stablemates like <I>The Crush</I> and <I>Teacher's Pet</I>, with a more convoluted plot and enough suspects to put the outcome in doubt. However it's still a by-the-numbers mix of soap and suspense.<p> Stiles crosses her eyes and pouts a lot, making tastefully incestuous moves on her weakling father (an aptly hollow William R Moses), but she's not really well cast in a role Christina Ricci could have played in her sleep a few years ago. The best supporting performance comes from Michael Parks as a drawling cop brought into the community by the killing of the strident mother (Chelsea Field), who lingers to watch the fall-out as Stiles replaces Mum as the homemaker only to be sidelined in favour of the au pair who needs a green-card marriage. <p>When the battering and stabbing starts, the film is surprisingly explicit, splattering several distinct types of stage blood around the designer living caricature home.<p><B>On the DVD:</B> the picture is an anamorphic 1.85:1 print, with Dolby Digital surround-sound. The minimal extras include trailers, filmographies for very few of the principals, and a neat menu. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK About Last Night [1986]
For better or worse, David Mamet's hit play <I>Sexual Perversity in Chicago</I> is watered down into this romantic comedy about a couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who get together and then fall apart due to Lowe's character's inability to commit. Jim Belushi is on hand as the gratuitously swinish best friend who looks at women as meat, and Elizabeth Perkins is entertainingly arch as Moore's gal pal and Belushi's nemesis. There is nothing about this 1986 film by Edward Zwick (co-creator of TV's <I>thirtysomething</I > and director of <I>Glory</I> and <I>Courage Under Fire</I>) that is at all reminiscent of Mamet, but that doesn't make it bad or dull. While one can feel the script straining to fill in gaps where chunks of the original play have disappeared, Zwick often successfully tells the story without words at all, relying on the actors to convey pure emotion. Lowe is good, and the then-willowy Moore's understated performance reminds one of the actress she might have been before she became a spectacle. --<I>Tom Keogh</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Lil' Pimp [2005]
Release Date: 2005-06-13, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK Resident Evil: Apocalypse [UMD Mini for PSP] [2004]
Release Date: 2005-09-01, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Peter And The Wolf [1995]
Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic masterpiece <I>Peter and the Wolf</I>, first performed in Russia in 1936, has been lauded not only for the spectacular musical score but also for the story itself--of a young boy who outwits a wily wolf. George Daugherty brings this timeless tale to modern audiences by seamlessly weaving live-action with animation and music by the RCA Symphony Orchestra. The story opens as a grandfather (Lloyd Bridges) hosts his daughter (Kirstie Alley) and grandson (Ross Malinger) during a visit to his country cottage. After lunch, the trio settles in as grandfather recounts The Story of Peter's adventures with a bird, cat, and dizzy duck on the outskirts of a very dark forest. <p> The film morphs into a clever cartoon designed by the legendary Chuck Jones (of Wile E. Coyote fame). The story within a story leaps to life while the accompanying musical instruments also emerge as playful personalities. It is no wonder this heartwarming family film has received numerous awards for bringing an appreciation of classical music to young viewers. The DVD bonuses are a making-of featurette, and a captivating introduction to the symphony orchestra. <I>--Lynn Gibson</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Stone Cold
Release Date: 2005-10-10, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Little Women [1995]
The flaws are easily forgiven in this beautiful version of Louisa May Alcott's novel. A stirring look at life in New England during the Civil War, <I>Little Women</I> is a triumph for all involved. We follow one family as they split into the world, ending up with the most independent, the outspoken Jo (Winona Ryder). This time around, the dramatics and conclusions fall into place a little too well, instead of finding life's little accidents along the way. Everyone now looks a bit too cute and oh, so nice. As the matron, Marmee, Susan Sarandon kicks the film into a modern tone, creating a movie alive with a great feminine sprit. Kirsten Dunst (<I>Interview with the Vampire</I>) has another showy role. The young ensemble cast cannot be faulted, with Ryder beginning the movie in a role akin to light comedy and crescendos to a triumphant end worthy of an Oscar. <I>--Doug Thomas</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK XXX 2 - The Next Level [2005]
With a core audience of gameboys and hot-rodders aged 25 and under, <i>xXx 2</i> is the kind of action movie that requires literally no thought to enjoy. With Vin Diesel's original character just killed in Bora Bora (for details, see the uncensored unrated director's cut of <i>xXx</i>), Ice Cube steps in to play bad-ass, and the whole franchise takes on a hip-hop edge that's almost admirably absurd. The asinine plot is anarchy in Washington, D.C., as an insanely hawkish Secretary of State (Willem Dafoe) plots a Capitol coup just as the President (Peter Strauss, playing it straight) is giving his state-of-the-union address. All of this is prefaced by Cube's recruitment as a former Navy SEAL turned new-xXx, escaping from jail (Dafoe's character put him there), hooking up with an old flame who runs a chop-shop full of the world's hottest wheels, and reuniting with his old commander (Samuel L. Jackson) for a bullet-train climax that feels like Mission Impossible Lite. You could argue that Diesel's the smartest guy in the franchise for cashing out early, but <i> xXx 2</i> gets the job done in passable fashion, with action veteran Lee Tamahori delivering the goods while he waits for a grown-up script to come along. <i>--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</i>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Matilda - Special Edition [1996]
Release Date: 2004-06-21, Rating Parental Guidance,
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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 Blood Moon [1990]
Release Date: 2005-10-24, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Spanglish [2004]
Release Date: 2005-06-27, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK How To Make A Monster [2005]
Release Date: 2002-06-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Joe And Max [2002]
Release Date: 2004-04-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Following [1999]
Release Date: 2003-07-07, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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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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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Labyrinth -- Superbit [1986]
Release Date: 2003-05-12, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Muppets - Muppets From Space [1999]
<I>Muppets from Space</I> is the film that answers the immortal question: what species is Gonzo? Kermit the Frog's curly nosed friend feels alone in the world. When his breakfast cereal starts spelling out questions and he hears disembodied voices, Gonzo is convinced he must be from outer space, and his alien brothers are coming to earth. Of course, there are evil scientists (led by <I>The Larry Saunders Show</I>'s Jeffrey Tambor) who kidnap Gonzo to learn his secrets (What do you do with a nose like that?). The usual brand of merriment from the gang is in good order, especially in the opening scene when the Muppets, who all live together in one house, begin their morning routine, bafflingly set to the lyrically inappropriate Brick House by The Commodores. It's not as memorable as earlier Muppet films, but nevertheless the joy and sly humour will warm most souls age 5 and up. Human cameos include Ray Liotta, Andie MacDowell, David Arquette, and F. Murray Abraham (as Noah, no less). --<I>Doug Thomas</I><p><I >DVD Special Features:</I> Commentary with Kermit the Frog, Gonzo, Rizzo and director Tim Hill <br> Theatrical trailer; Teaser trailer; 19 deleted scenes;Filmographies<br> Music Video: Shining Star by The Dust Brothers; 1:85:1 widescreen anamorphic ;Dolby Digital 5.1
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Hollywood Pictures Home Video Arachnophobia [1991]
Release Date: 2001-01-22, Rating Parental Guidance,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK To Sir With Love [1967]
Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced and directed this 1967 British film (based on the novel by E. R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Sidney Poitier is very good as a man struggling with the extent of his commitment to the job, and even more as a teacher whose commitment is to proffering life lessons instead of just academic ones. The spirit of this movie can also be found in more recent films such as <I>Dangerous Minds</I> and <I>Mr. Holland's Opus</I>, but none are as moving as this. Besides, the others don't have a title song performed by Lulu, who also stars. --<I>Tom Keogh</I>
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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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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Random Hearts [1999]
Reviled by critics and largely ignored by moviegoers when released in 1999, <I>Random Hearts</I> is a pox on the reputations of Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas and director Sydney Pollack, but it doesn't entirely deserve its lowly fate. The movie's lugubriously paced and its repressed passions are dulled under the weight of relentless melancholy, but Pollack deserves credit for defying the Hollywood Zeitgeist with a mature, substantial film about the power of betrayal to reach beyond the grave.<p> Ford plays a Washington, DC detective; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman in the midst of a re-election campaign. When their spouses die in a plane crash, the cop is convinced they'd been having an affair, and his obsessive, masochistic quest for the painful truth draws him closer to the Congresswoman despite the mutual risks to their careers and domestic privacy. While she hides behind a façade of denial, his agonised investigation makes him simultaneously unappealing (a risk Ford may have taken as a challenge), sympathetic and sadly compelling. <p> Pollack takes his own chances by keeping everything so relentlessly downbeat, but anyone receptive to the story will find that <I>Random Hearts</I> is a subtly rewarding study of tormented adults who've discovered too late the weaknesses of their seemingly stable marriages. It's anything but cheerful, and a subplot involving a corrupt cop (Dennis Haysbert) is a formulaic distraction. But <I>Random Hearts</I> provides welcome relief from dramas that flirt with emotional anguish without delving into its deeper consequences. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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Hollywood Pictures Home Video Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later [1998]
<I>Halloween</I> is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. <I>Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later</I>, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (<I>Friday the 13th</I> parts 2 and 3, <I>House</I>), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humour and style, but it's all set up for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of <I>Scream</I> and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (<I>Dawson's Creek</I>) co-star, and the script received uncredited polish from <I>Scream</I> writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. <I>--Sean Axmaker</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK The Broken Hearts Club - A Romantic Comedy [2001]
Chirpily likeable rather than profound, <I>The Broken Hearts Club</I> covers a few months in the lives of a group of young gay men on the West Hollywood scene and their pursuit of love and happiness. They admire the long-term domestic bliss of Jack (John Mahoney) in whose restaurant some of them work, but have no real sense of how to get there, of how to grow out of shallow dating relationships and the perpetual chase of the next cute body. Patrick Ben Weber is average-looking in a world of beautiful men like Cole (Dean Cain) and has developed a nasty tongue to go with the insecurity; Howie (Matt McGrath) over-intellectualises his relationships and their breakup; Dennis (Timothy Olyphant) is not even sure he should be hanging out with these people when he should be working on his photography. A little too much of this charming film is devoted to winding these characters up and letting them bitch at each other in a variety of locations and emotional messes, and yet there is real wit here and some moments of fine perceptiveness about being young and in a hurry to find what you need. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Cirque Du Soleil - The Fire Within Varekai
Release Date: 2005-01-31, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Sea Of Souls - Series 1 [2004]
Release Date: 2005-01-31, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters And Marvels [2002]
Release Date: 2002-06-17, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Legends Of The Fall - Superbit [1994] [1995]
Release Date: 2003-07-07, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind--Collector's Edition (two discs) [1978]
Released in 1977, <I>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</I> was that year's cerebral alternative to <I>Star Wars</I>. It's arguably the archetypal Spielberg film, featuring a fantasy-meets-reality storyline (to be developed further in <I>E.T.</I>), a misunderstood Everyman character (Richard Dreyfuss), apparently hostile government agents (long before <I>The X-Files</I>), a sense of childlike awe in the face of the otherworldly, and a sweeping feel for epic film-making learned from the classic school of David Lean. Contributing to the film's overall success are the Oscar-winning cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Trumbull's lavish effects and an extraordinary score from John Williams that develops from eerie atonality <I>à la</I> Ligeti to the gorgeous sentiment of When You Wish Upon a Star over the end credits. <p> Not content with the final result, Spielberg tinkered with the editing and inserted some new scenes to make a Special Edition in 1980 which ran three minutes shorter than the original, then made further revisions to create a slightly longer Collector's Edition in 1998. This later version deletes the mothership interior scenes that were inserted in the Special Edition and restores the original ending. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>CE3K</I> is packaged here with confusing documentation that fails to make clear any differences between earlier versions of the film and this Collector's Edition--worse, the back cover blurb misleadingly implies that this disc is the 1980 Special Edition edit. It is not. A gorgeous anamorphic widescreen print of Spielberg's 1998 Collector's Edition edit occupies the first disc: this is the version with the original theatrical ending restored but new scenes from the Special Edition retained. <p> The second disc rounds up sundry deleted scenes that were either dropped from the original version or never made it into the film at all--fans of the Special Edition can find the mothership interior sequence here. The excellent making-of documentary dates from 1997 and has interviews with almost everyone involved, including the director speaking from the set of <I>Saving Private Ryan</I>. Thankfully the superb picture and sound of the feature make this set entirely compelling and more than compensate for the inadequate packaging. --<I>Mark Walker</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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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK And Now For Something Completely Different [1971]
<I>And Now for Something Completely Different</I>, Monty Python's first feature, is a reworking of their best skits from the first two seasons of the TV series. Originally made for the US market (where the show had yet to be aired), it was shot on film outside the usual studio sets (Nudge Nudge, for example, is set in a tavern filled with passers-by). The writing and performances are fine and the film is packed with some of their best bits: How to Avoid Being Seen, Hell's Grannies, Blackmail, The Lumberjack Song and The Upper Class Twit of the Year, among others. Many of the sketches have been shortened, however, and the loss of the overly bright video sheen (the film has a muddy, dull look to it) and the invigorating presence of a live audience leaves the film sluggish at times. They're still feeling out the possibilities of the feature length, which they conquered with their next movie, <I>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</I> (1974). <I>--Sean Axmaker</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Pauline And Paulette [2001]
As a rule, Flemish-language films rarely make much of an international impact, but <I>Pauline & Paulette</I> is a refreshing exception. Director Lieven Debrauwer's debut is an affectionate coming-together of two sisters: the mentally-restricted Pauline, living in a world of flowers and fantasy, and Paulette, her life occupied with lingerie and operetta. The story focuses on the exasperation of Pauline as she is shunted between provincial Belgium and Brussels and the realisation of Paulette, having retired to the coast, that a sister in her life might not be a bad option after all. The interplay between veteran actresses Dora van der Groen and Ann Petersen is minutely observed in detail, with the remaining cast a triumph of ensemble acting, not least Rosemarie Bergmans as the sophisticated other sister Cecile and Idwig Stéphane as the pompous Albert. At just 72 minutes, the film is almost too taut for its own good, but if this was Debrauwer's way of avoiding the sentimental, so much the better. Witty and touching in equal measure, this is a film to savour. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Pauline & Paulette</I> has a 1.85:1 widescreen picture format that captures the flowers and clothing of Paulette's shop with gorgeous realism. There are subtitles in five languages. The original trailer is included, and there's an insightful running commentary from Debrauwer. --<I>Richard Whitehouse</I>
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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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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Lords Of Dogtown Dogtown And Z-Boys [2004]
Release Date: 2006-01-16, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Dawsons Creek - Seasons 1 To 6 (Complete Dawson's Creek)
Release Date: 2006-01-30, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK The Harder They Fall [1956]
A movie that proved a fine swansong for Humphrey Bogart, <I>The Harder They Fall</I> is a gripping drama set against a background of fixed boxing matches. Not so much about the fights as the exploitation of the sport, the film is based on a novel by Budd Schulberg, whose Oscar-winning screenplay for <I>On the Waterfront</I> (1954) helped turn Rod Steiger into a star. Here Steiger delivers an equally bravura performance as the chillingly corrupt manager, Nick Benko, a man who will do anything to turn a buck. Bogart meanwhile is outstanding as unemployed sports writer Eddie Willis, hired against his better judgement to promote a no-hope Argentinean boxer, Toro Moreno (Mike Lane). <p> Powerfully written, if built around the unlikely premise of building a 10th-rate fighter into a world-class contender, the drama is essentially a battle for Willis's soul as he is torn between money and conscience. Though the scenes with Bogart and Steiger facing off are the strongest and a veritable masterclass of hardboiled characterisation, Mark Robson, who also helmed the Kirk Douglas boxing classic <I>Champion</I> (1949), directs with a convincingly dirty realism, the final punishing and bloody match a clear influence on Scorsese's <I>Raging Bull</I> (1980). <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The Harder They Fall</I>'s anamorphic 1.77:1 transfer is excellent with only one brief scene showing any significant print damage. Burnett Guffey's <I>noir</I>-ish black-and-white cinematography looks sharp and fresh as the day it was shot, with only minimal grain. The mono sound is strong and clear, without a hint of distortion or compression. The only extra is a scored gallery of posters and lobby cards from other Bogart films available on Columbia. There are dubbed versions in French, German, Spanish and Italian, and a plethora of subtitle options. --<I>Gary S Dalkin</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK XXX (Xtreme Edition) [2002]
Release Date: 2005-04-18, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK The Freshman [1990]
Andrew Bergman's tongue-in-cheek comedy <I>The Freshman</I> keeps the spoofing low key, underplaying the outrageous situations even as he piles them higher. Young Clark Kellog (Matthew Broderick) had no idea film school would drop him into the hands of a real-life Godfather, but after a street punk robs him during his first day in New York City, that's just where the road leads. Marlon Brando lets everyone know he's in on the joke with his hammy, good-humoured performance as the bulldog-jowled Mafioso Carmine Sabatini, the man Clark's prissy, self-important professor swears was the real-life inspiration for Don Corleone. Carmine has a modest proposal for the naive kid from Vermont involving Carmine's gorgeous daughter Tina (Penelope Ann Miller) and the illegal importing of an endangered lizard. And if the sight of a six-foot-long lizard scattering shoppers as it runs wild through a New York City mall doesn't do it for you, there's always Bert Parks' rousing rendition of Bob Dylan's Maggie's Farm.--<I>Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK House Of Nine
Release Date: 2005-07-18, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Labyrinth [1986]
There are only two human actors in Jim Henson's <I>Labyrinth</I>: a teenage Jennifer Connelly and glam-rocker David Bowie (who performs five of his songs). The rest of the cast are puppets, a wonderful array of Henson's imaginative masterpieces set within a film combining the highest standards of art, costume and set decoration. Henson gives credit to children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, and the creatures in the movie will remind Sendak fans of his drawings, while the castle of the Goblin King (Bowie) is a living MC Escher set that adults will enjoy. Like executive producer George Lucas's other fantasies, <I>Labyrinth</I> mixes adventure with lessons about growing up. --<I>Lloyd Chesley</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Dawson's Creek: Complete Season 1
Even viewers who consider themselves beyond their teen-angst years might find <I>Dawson's Creek</I> compelling. In the first series we are introduced to Dawson (James Van Der Beek) and Joey (Katie Holmes), who for years have watched movies and slept in the same bed; but they find that as they enter high school their relationship will inevitably change. That becomes especially clear when Dawson is immediately attracted to Capeside's sexy new arrival, Jen (Michelle Williams). Meanwhile, their friend Pacey (Joshua Jackson) pursues an unachievable love object. <p> Creator Kevin Williamson based <I>Dawson's Creek</I> on his own youth, and even though the characters may not really look or sound 15 years old, the Dawson-Joey-Jen interplay--especially embodied by the sad-eyed and cynical (but still adorable) Joey and the smart but emotionally inept Dawson--gives the show its heart. And just like Williamson's fresh take on the teen-horror genre, <I>Scream</I>, <I>Dawson's Creek</I> has a winking self-awareness, for example when Dawson says they're having a <I>90210</I> moment or explains that they use big words because they watch too many movies. Highlights of the first series include Dawson's discovery that his perfect home life may not be so perfect, an unwelcome reminder of Jen's past, the <I>Breakfast Club</I> takeoff Detention, the <I>Scream</I> takeoff The Scare, a beauty contest in which two unlikely competitors square off, and the heart-rending finale. --<I>David Horiuchi</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Funny Girl Funny Lady [1969]
Like giant monuments to good old-fashioned star quality, <I>Funny Girl</I> (1968) and <I>Funny Lady</I> (1975) hark back to the golden days of American vaudeville, while essentially celebrating one of the great, egotistical show-business talents of all time. Viewed end to end, these two films, which tell the story of Ziegfeld comedienne Fanny Brice, run for almost five hours. That's a lot of biopic. But with the greatest of respect to Brice, undoubtedly a formidable star of her time, the talent really in the spotlight here belongs to Barbra Streisand. Streisand created the role of Fanny Brice in the 1964 Broadway stage musical and her performance for the big screen is a <I>tour de force</I>, fully deserving the Best Actress Oscar which she received. <p> As a biopic, <I>Funny Girl</I> is superior fare, full of sumptuous production numbers. Brice's glory days are explored against the background of her turbulent private life with her flawed playboy husband Nicky Arnstein (a sympathetic performance from Omar Sharif) with considerable attention to the details of her inner turmoil. More rambling and less cohesive, <I>Funny Lady</I> finds Fanny divorced but still in love with Arnstein (Sharif also revisiting his role), drifting into marriage number two with uncouth songwriter and impresario Billy Rose (the excellent James Caan), her successful career again juxtaposed with a less than happy personal life. <p> Combined, both films measure Streisand's rise to greatness. In <I>Funny Girl</I>, the bravura of the performance as a whole masks occasional gaucheness, while if <I>Funny Lady</I> is the less impressive picture overall, it still marks how far she has developed as a screen actress. The rough edges are gone, replaced by a sophisticated poise and the sense of a talent that has come to terms with itself. And of course throughout she is superb in the musical numbers, which include her theme song People and the classic belter Don't Rain on my Parade, as well as Brice's classic torch song, My Man.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> this package of tremendous, old-fashioned entertainment takes the viewer back to pre-multiplex days when going to the cinema was an event you might dress up for. <I>Funny Lady</I>'s soundtrack includes a pre-picture Overture to give you time to unwrap the chocolates. You really need some plush velvet curtains to swing back across the television screen. Then, guaranteeing a twinge of nostalgia, there's an intermission break. Both films are presented in their original widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Dolby Digital 5.0 (<I>Funny Girl</I>) and LCR (<I>Funny Lady</I>) soundtracks do justice to Streisand's lung power. The first disc offers the most interesting extras, including a couple of featurettes about Streisand. Both discs provide standard filmographies and song highlights so Streisand addicts can skip between numbers to their hearts' content.--<I>Piers Ford</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Jumanji Special Edition [1995]
Release Date: 2006-01-23, Rating Parental Guidance,
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK A Few Good Men [1993]
<I>As Good as it Gets</I> is one of the sharpest Hollywood comedies of the 1990s, for all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon (Jack Nicholson) who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbour (Greg Kinnear) and particularly a waitress (Helen Hunt) who inspires his best behaviour. It's questionable whether a romance between Hunt and the much older Nicholson is entirely believable, but this movie's smart enough--and charmingly funny enough--to make it seem endearingly possible. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I><p> Astonishingly, Jack Nicholson's legendary performance as a military tough guy in <I>A Few Good Men</I> really amounts to a glorified cameo: he's only in a few scenes. But they're killer scenes, and the film has much more to offer. Cruise also shines as a lazy lawyer who rises to the occasion, and Demi Moore gives a command performance. Director Rob Reiner poses important questions about the rights of the powerful and the responsibilities of those just following orders in this classic courtroom drama. --<I>Alan Smithee, Amazon.com</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Hush [1997]
In the tradition of <I>Die! Die! My Darling</I> comes this tale of a young heroine made miserable by a lover's eccentric relations. Gwyneth Paltrow plays a New Yorker who marries a handsome boyfriend (Jonathon Schaech) and--following a confidence-shattering encounter with Manhattan crime--moves to his family's thoroughbred ranch. There, the young man's dominating mother (a hammy, Blanche DuBois-like role for Jessica Lange) goes to war with new bride's claim on mama's Oedipal turf. A stock thriller ensues and while one has a sense of déjà vu about the whole thing, the film is fun for its audacity, its underpinnings of dime-store psychology and some gothic stereotypes. (Hal Holbrook is perfect as one's fantasy of a country doctor.) <I>--Tom Keogh</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Easy Rider [1969]
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (<I>The Little Shop of Horrors</I>) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. -- <I>Tom Keogh, Amazon.com</I>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Bewitched [2005]
As one of many in the ongoing trend of resurrecting old TV shows and turning them into contemporary Hollywood product, <I>Bewitched</I> tries awfully hard to distinguish itself. It succeeds in lots of surprising ways, not least of which is the star power brought by Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell. Even if they don't create the kind of romantic chemistry that would have elevated the already high concept, they act as delightful foils to each other, but more often to themselves. The conceit of this <I>Bewitched</I> is that it's a self-reflexive look at the entertainment business, with Ferrell playing Jack Wyatt, an actor starring in an updated version of the classic TV show. Out of favour with the Hollywood elite and desperately in need of a hit, he insists on an unknown to play Samantha, as he wants the show to be about <I>him</I>, since if something doesn't come his way soon, he's going to be hearing a lot of no's, despite the yes-men surrounding him. While his agent gets him the unknown Samantha deal, it's Jack himself who discovers his own leading lady in the delightful figure of Isabel Bigalow, who possesses just the right nose wiggle, not to mention other wiggles. <P> But wouldn't you know it, Isabel really <I>is</I> a witch, and exactly the kind of good witch trying to rely less on her magical powers that Samantha Stevens was back in her real world. Instead of a cranky mother like Endora, Isabel has a distinguished father, Nigel who lurks around her as a constant reminder that she can't be who she's not, and she certainly can't be the star of some zany TV show. As the plot thickens and the movie's reflexivity grows more convoluted, Nigel falls for the non-witch actress who plays Endora, and Jack and Isabel fall for each other. Here's where the Ferrell/Kidman gel doesn't quite become aspic, but her perkiness and his goofiness are more than enough to make the entirety of the proceedings a delectable trifle. Director Nora Ephron has fun skewering her own business in the script she co-wrote with her sister Delia, and her eye for quality craft makes everything sparkle as it should. Even if we have yet to see the definitive remake of an old TV show o | | |
