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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT People Will Talk [1951]
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Von Ryan's Express [1965]
Release Date: 2005-04-18, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Speed Speed 2 - Cruise Control [1997]
Release Date: 2004-01-05, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT She's The One [1997]
<I>She's the One</I> is actor-writer-director Edward Burns' second film, following the widely acclaimed <I>The Brothers McMullen</I>. Given a slightly larger budget to play with ($3m as against his debut project's $25,000), Burns revisits much the same territory--love and sibling rivalry within a New York Irish-American family--but rather more expansively. This time, too, he can run to a few stars-in-the-making (Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and John Mahoney from <I>Frasier</I>) to jazz up his cast of relative unknowns.<p> Burns himself plays Mickey, a cab-driver in the Big Apple, with Mike McGlone as his yuppie stockbroker brother, and Maxine Bahns as Hope, the girl Mickey falls for and impulsively marries, much to the romantic delight of Francis' neglected wife Renee (Aniston). Francis, meanwhile, is having a clandestine affair with Heather (Diaz), Mike's former girlfriend--something Mike has yet to learn. Dispensing flawed wisdom and generally muddying the waters yet further is the lads' blunt-spoken father (Mahoney).<p> Plotwise that's about it. Burns relies on his appealing cast and some amiably barbed repartee to hold our interest in what's essentially a dialogue-driven movie. He makes shrewd and sometimes unexpected use of his New York locations, too--it's a fair bet most people's mental image of Brooklyn wouldn't include a waterfront fishing community. This is a good-natured, slightly old-fashioned movie whose benevolent view of the battle of the sexes (where the women are invariably smarter than the men) never digs too deep or hits too hard.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>She's the One</I> is presented on disc in its original widescreen ratio (1.85:1) and Dolby 4.0 sound that does the movie fair justice. Along with the original trailer, we get a seven-minute making-of featurette and a music video of the title song Walls from Tom Petty, who composed the film's score. Burns provides an unpretentious voice-over commentary, dealing mainly with matters of casting and the problems of shooting on location. --<I>Philip Kemp</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Newton Boys [1997]
The Newton Boys were the most successful bank robbers in the history of the United States. They never killed anyone, never snitched and only robbed banks (just bigger thieves, in their opinion), until their final deal, which was a botched train robbery for $3 million. Engagingly played by Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich and Vincent D'Onofrio, the Boys don't have the kind of flaws of more brutal criminals that make for more volatile dramas. The film ambles along in a leisurely way to tell its story of the Newtons' bank-robbing career, with an ever-present air of reverent Americana. This may make some viewers impatient and cause a glow in others. It seems like a departure for director Richard Linklater (<I>Slacker</I> and <I>Dazed and Confused</I>)--a costumer to be sure but Linklater's deliberately amiable pace perfectly balances the Boys' personalities. You may wander into this movie and feel right at home. The golden-hued cinematography of Peter James (<I>Driving Miss Daisy</I>) adds a level of comfort that makes everything warm-like. The end credits intercut archival footage of two of the real-life Newton boys toward the end of their lives, one from a 1980 appearance with Johnny Carson on <I>The Tonight Show</I>. --<I>Jim Gay</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [1999]
By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's <I>A Midsummer Night's Dream</I> is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, <I>Much Ado About Nothing</I> (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars--here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer--with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Roger Rees, David Strathairn and Dominic West. Kline makes a fine Nick Bottom, with Pfeiffer equally good as the fairy queen Titania and Everett brooding effectively as Oberon. Unfortunately, while both look ravishing, it is hard to tell which actress between Anna Friel (<I>Brookside</I>) and Calista Flockhart (<I>Ally McBeal</I>) gives the most wretched performance. Both are completely out of their depth the moment they begin to speak, and utterly outclassed by the excellent Sophie Marceau. <p> Shot in Tuscany and set in the 19th century, parts of the film are extraordinarily beautiful, while other sections could have benefited from some judicious special effects magic. This is not a bad movie, but it is rather uninspired, lacking any real imaginative grasp of the play. In contrast, the much less well known and lower budget Royal Shakespeare Company version of 1996 positively revels in the fantastically surreal possibilities this timeless text. --<I>Gary S Dalkin</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT X-Men 2 [2003]
Release Date: 2005-11-21, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Longest Day Tora! Tora! Tora! [1962]
Release Date: 2005-06-06, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Beneath The Planet Of The Apes [1970]
Release Date: 2005-08-22, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Sink the Bismarck The Enemy Below (Double Pack) [1960]
<I>The Enemy Below</I> and <I>Sink the Bismarck!</I> form a double feature of semi-classic CinemaScope-era WWII naval dramas sailing from the Fox vault onto DVD for the first time. <p> In <I>The Enemy Below</I> Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a US destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men with a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the Cold War of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of cooperation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story that builds to a tense and exciting, moving finale. <p> <I>Sink the Bismarck!</I> is a British film dating from three years later and adopts a more documentary style in recounting the race against time to track and destroy what was in 1941 the most powerful battleship then built, the Bismarck. Shot in gleaming black and white so as to make use of genuine WWII archive footage, the film is held together by the introduction of a fictional naval officer in overall command of the operation, played excellently by Kenneth More. To add some human warmth he is given a tentative romantic subplot with a WREN played by the luminous Dana Wynter. Though initially slow to gather steam, <I>Sink the Bismarck!</I> finally delivers an epic, thoroughly horrifying conclusion. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The Enemy Below</I> and <I>Sink the Bismarck!</I> come as a two-disc set with multiple language and subtitle options, including English for Hard of Hearing, but no extras other than the original trailers. These are presented at 16:9 and 2.35:1. Both are rather faded, but are fine examples of an era when watching the previews didn't guarantee a migraine. Both films are anamorphically enhanced in their original 2.35:1 CinemaScope, and, bar a little grain in some shots and the inevitably inferior archive footage, the picture quality is excellent. <I>The Enemy Below</I> boasts sturdy three-channel sound (left, front, right) while <I>Sink the Bismarck!</I> is in very well mixed stereo. <I>--Gary S Dalkin</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 5 [1994]
Release Date: 2004-12-27, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Bandolero! [1968]
Release Date: 2005-07-04, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 5 [1994]
The fifth season of <I>The X-Files</I> is the one in which the ongoing alien conspiracy arc really takes over, building towards box-office glory for the inevitable cinematic leap in <I>The X-Files Movie</I> (1998). The series opener Redux begins with Mulder having been framed for everything going. Scully finally sees a UFO (The Red and the Black) before being presented with a potential daughter (the two-part Christmas Carol and Emily). By The End, there's an enormous tangle of threads for the big-screen adaptation to unravel (or not, as it turned out). Cigarette Smoking Man is being hunted, playing every side against the middle, as well as chasing after information on Mulder's sister. Krycek is back, too, as is an old flame for Mulder in the shape of Agent Diana Fowley. <p> If that wasn't enough to goad viewers into the cinema, there was the Lone Gunmen's 1989-set back story (Unusual Suspects, with Richard Belzer playing his <I>Homicide: Life on the Streets</I> character), a musical number in the black and white <I>Frankenstein</I> ; homage Post Modern Prometheus, and scripts co-written by Stephen King (Chinga), William Gibson (Kill Switch), and even Darren McGavin (who had inspired the show as <I>Kolchak: The Night Stalker</I>) in Travellers. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>The X-Files, Season 5</I> extras include Chris Carter's commentary over Post Modern Prometheus, which reveals the decision making behind shooting in black and white as well as the problems it caused. A second commentary is from writer/coproducer John Shiban on Pine Bluff Variant, where he openly admits the influence of <I>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</I>. Across the six discs (only 20 episodes because of the movie of course) you get credits for every episode, their TV promo spots, deleted and international versions of several scenes (some with commentary from Carter), and a couple of TV featurettes. The best of these is The Truth About Season 5, talking to an excited Dean Haglund (Langly) amongst other crew members.--<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Star! [1968]
Release Date: 2005-07-04, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Aliens [1986]
Release Date: 2000-05-15, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Speed [1994]
Release Date: 2004-05-03, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Aliens Predator
Release Date: 2004-10-11, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Behind Enemy Lines [2002]
Smart casting and sensible plotting make <I>Behind Enemy Lines</I> an above-average military thriller. Perfectly timed to bolster US patriotism, the film is partly set (during a hypothetical day after tomorrow) on the aircraft carrier USS <I>Carl Vinson</I>, which was on alert status in the Persian Gulf when this film was released theatrically in the States. Proving his versatility as an unconventional movie star, Owen Wilson plays a navy navigator who is shot down over Bosnia during a reconnaissance mission. Pursued by rebel Serbian forces, Wilson must fight for survival while his commanding officer (Gene Hackman) plots a daredevil rescue. <p> After a successful career in TV commercials, Irish director John Moore makes a promising feature debut on Slovakian locations, borrowing a few techniques from <I>Saving Private Ryan</I> while adding impressive flourishes of his own. The gung-ho ending's a foregone conclusion, but it works like a charm after the movie's exciting game of cat and mouse.--<I>Jeff Shannon</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Willow [1988]
Billed as a fantasy to please kids and adults alike in 1988, <I>Willow</I> was revolutionary in its day. Not only did it have a vertically challenged actor (Warwick Davis) as its leading man, it also set new standards for special effects, using the first known morfing (sic) systems. To top it all off it combined the talents of two of Hollywood's biggest names, director Ron Howard and writer-producer George Lucas, and changed Val Kilmer's destiny, influencing both his career and love life. In theory all this should have added up to a rip-roaring success of a film. <p> Alas, the end result has been unkindly if accurately described as the bastard son of <I>Lord of the Rings</I>, with <I>Star Wars</I> as its doting mother. The plot line (plucky young man sent off on a quest to protect something which could change the reign of evil) has obvious links to Tolkien's classic; Kilmer's Madmartigan (the diamond in the rough) has distinct similarities to Hans Solo. And with the great advances in modern cinemas special effects, <I>Willow</I>'s ferocious two-headed dragons now look like something out of 1963's <I>Jason and the Argonauts</I>. However, even though it marked the end of the road for fantasy films in the 1980s, <I>Willow</I>'s combination of locations, set design and groundbreaking SFX set new standards and influenced much modern cinema, including Peter Jackson's epic <I>Lord of the Rings</I>. All in all, this is a movie with its heart, soul and magic in the right place.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Willow</I> is brought up to date on DVD with this excellent special effects enhancing anamorphic transfer of the original 2.35:1 screen ratio; the Dolby 5.1 surround sound boosts the power behind Badmorda's roar as well as spotlighting James Horner's swashbuckling score. A lively commentary is offered by Warwick Davis, although he has a tendency to dwell on his own musings rather than the film as a whole. Other features include The Making of the Adventure, which is a standard TV behind-the-scenes documentary/advert and a wealth of TV spots, trailers and photos. By far the most interesting feature is the Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Film documentary including interviews with George Lucas, Ron Howard and Dennis Muren (the renowned special effects guru) on the creation of morphing and its influence on later movies. --<I>Nikki Disney</I>
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Stir of Echoes [2000]
The only real problem with <I>Stir of Echoes</I> has nothing to do with the movie itself, but with unlucky coincidence. Adapted from a Richard Matheson novel, this film arrived around the same time as <I>The Sixth Sense</I>. Surface similarities made it suffer by cursory comparison and the competing film's phenomenal success. It's a pity, because this one features one of Kevin Bacon's best performances, in a psychological thriller that makes a lot more right moves than wrong ones. <p> Bacon plays a blue-collar guy who laments his ordinary life, only to learn, when his sister-in-law (Ileanna Douglas) hypnotizes him, that he is a receiver capable of seeing spirits and split-second glimpses of past and future events. It's a torturous gift to have--especially since his friendly Chicago neighbourhood possesses a dark secret--and Bacon plays the role with an appropriate mixture of obsession and internalised torment. Similarity to <I>The Sixth Sense</I> applies only to the basic premise and the character of Bacon's young son. Otherwise, this is more of a hard-edged journey of self-discovery, marital crisis, and recovery, with Bacon's wife (played by the highly underrated Kathryn Erbe) involved in an underdeveloped sub-plot about a group of people who share Bacon's gift as paranormal receivers. Furthering his career as a writer-director of intelligent thrillers, David Koepp makes a few mis-steps in pacing and thematic overkill, but overall <I>Stir of Echoes</I> is a sharp, sensitive thriller that unfolds to reveal a dramatically satisfying solution to its mystery. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Rebound [2005]
Release Date: 2006-02-06, Rating Parental Guidance,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Lost In Space - Season 3
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Parental Guidance,
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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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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Grand Canyon [1991]
Release Date: 2002-05-06, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Lost In Space - Season 1 [1965]
<I>Lost in Space</I> began life in 1965 as a science-fiction take on <I>The Swiss Family Robinson</I>. Produced by Irwin Allen, then in the midst of his run of spectacular-but-childish TV SF (before he became the master of big-screen disaster movies), the show featured a family of all-American space colonists cast away on a mysterious planet. Gradually the whole thing devolved into a silly (but sometimes fun) exercise in childish camp. This box set includes all 29 black and white episodes from the first season (with a burst of colour at the end of the last show--a foretaste of the garish look of the remaining two seasons) along with No Place to Hide, the expensive pilot show that sold the series but which prompted Allen to revamp the whole premise in comic mode when network execs responded best to its unintended humour. <p> No Place to Hide has action scenes that cropped up in the first six regular episodes but is missing several of the show's trademark aspects, most notably that infectious theme from Johnny Williams (later, John Williams of <I>Star Wars</I> fame) and the scheming presence of Dr Smith (Jonathan Harris) and his alternately menacing and comical robot (It does not compute). As the series progresses (or degenerates, depending on your taste), Harris's Smith changes from pantomime villain, a saboteur who is trying to kill the family, into pantomime dame, a panicky old idiot whose foolishness, cowardice and avarice are an endless source of plots. It mostly makes do with the regular cast plus an array of shaggy-suited, snarling aliens, but you do get sterling ham from visiting astronauts such as Warren Oates (Welcome Stranger), Robby the Robot from <I>Forbidden Planet</I> (War of the Robots) and a very young Kurt Russell (The Challenge). Stories about surviving on an alien world give way to lifts from fairy tale, myth and old movies as Smith gets hold of a wishing cap, becomes a giant, is chosen as a sacrificial king, turns the children over to an alien zoo, squeaks in fright as a werewolf approaches or is cursed with a platinum Midas touch. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Harsh Realm - Season 1
The dark and fantastic <I>Harsh Realm</I>, a science fiction series about a war fought by flesh-and-blood humans trapped inside virtual reality, was launched by <I>The X-Files</I> creator Chris Carter in 1999 and died a regrettable, premature death on the Fox channel after three episodes. The remaining six shows found sanctuary on the FX network, and then <I>Harsh Realm</I> slipped into history, its wild story, based on a comic book, far from resolved. Perhaps <I>Harsh Realm</I>'s ratings failure had something to do with its broad similarities to the hugely popular <I>The Matrix</I>, released only a few months before, or, for that matter, David Cronenberg's 1999 <I>eXistenZ</I>, in which characters fight for their lives inside a video game. Whatever the reason, enough time has passed to take an objective look at <I>Harsh Realm</I>, and there is a lot to be admired in its high level of imagination, complex plotting, and cutting-edge production values. <p> Scott Bairstow stars as U.S. Army Lieutenant Tom Hobbes, a decorated hero who risked his life rescuing a buddy, Major Mel Waters (Max Martini), during a peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia. Set to return to civilian life and marry his fiancée, Sophie (Samantha Mathis), Hobbes is summoned by a mysterious superior (Lance Henriksen) and asked to test-run <I>Harsh Realm</I>, a virtual reality war game devised by the Pentagon. Once he begins, however, Hobbes is mentally imprisoned in the dangerous game (his body, along with those of hundreds of other volunteers, is cared for in a secret military hospital), where he is identified by other, desperate captives as the savior they've been awaiting. D.B. Sweeney is very good as another soldier, Mike Pinocchio, whose sense of mission is re-awakened by Hobbes and who becomes a partner in an endless effort to defeat a madman named Santiago (Terry O'Quinn), who rules <I>Harsh Realm</I> from within. As with <I>The X-Files</I>, the nine episodes in this boxed set are each very striking on their own terms, with post-apocalyptic sets, constant surprises, and that special Chris Carter touch (fans of his <I>Millennium</I> will like <I>Harsh Realm</I>, too) that makes every story look and feel like a collision of a nightmare and a crisis of faith. <I>--Tom Keogh</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Lady In Cement [1968]
Release Date: 2005-04-18, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT X Files: Season 7 [1999]
Release Date: 2005-03-14, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT M.A.S.H. [1969]
<I>MASH</I>--a 1970 comedy-drama set among surgeons drafted into the Korean war--was a breakthrough not just for director Robert Altman but for movie-making in general. Although set in the 50s, there are few who did not realise that the film's anti-war messages were directed at the US involvement in Vietnam. Indeed, the Pentagon banned US servicemen from seeing the film. <p> Starring Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye Pierce and Elliot Gould as Trapper John McIntyre, two hip young surgeons drafted against their will. Their general attitude--while never corroding either their humanity or their professionalism as surgeons--is one of insolence towards military authority and the arbitrary structures and regulations continually droning from the tannoy system. The film, too, thrives on a lack of attention to conventional order, with its cross-dialogue and random, episodic style reflecting the vivacious and unbuttoned feel of the content.<p> However, <I>MASH</I> has dated and much of what seemed like liberating high jinks, today smacks of sexist, frathouse boorishness and harassment, especially at the expense of Major Hotlips Hoolihan (Sally Kellerman), while the episode in which Painless plans a suicide out of a fear of being gay reflects the persistence of homophobia even in 60s counterculture. Despite this <I>MASH</I> feels ahead of its time and certainly sharper and blacker than the too-cute sitcom it spawned. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> this is an excellent restoration, overseen by Altman himself, in which any obfuscation from the original have been cleaned up, especially the sound quality. As well as a commentary from Altman, there are three separate documentaries, featuring interviews with Altman, the cast and screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr, who had been blacklisted during the anti-Communist witch-hunt which swept through Hollywood in the 1950s. We learn he was initially appalled at how little of his script Altman actually used but was mollified by the Academy Award he received. Altman is candid about the making of the movie (It wasn't released by Fox, it escaped from Fox). There's an abundance of similarly rich, anecdotal material here. --<I>David Stubbs</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Family Guy, Series 1 [1999]
<I>Family Guy</I> shouldn't work at all. Even by the witless standards of modern television, it is breathtakingly derivative: does an animated series about the travails of a boorish, suburban yob with a saintly wife, a hopeless son, a clever daughter and a baby sound familiar at all? Even the house in <I>Family Guy</I> looks like it was built by the same architects who sketched the residence of <I>The Simpsons</I>.<p> However, <I>Family Guy</I> does work, transcending its (occasionally annoyingly) obvious influences with reliably crisp writing and the glorious sight gags contained in the surreal flashbacks which punctuate the episodes. Most importantly, the show's brilliance comes from two absolutely superb characters: Stewie, the baby whose extravagant dreams of tyrannising the world are perpetually thwarted by the prosaic limitations of infanthood, and the urbane family dog Brian--Snoopy after attendance at an obedience class run by Frank Sinatra. <I>Family Guy</I> does not possess the cultural or satirical depth of <I>The Simpsons</I>--very little art in any field does. But it is a genuinely funny and clever programme. --<I>Andrew Mueller</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Born To Be Bad [1934]
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Desert Fox [1951]
Release Date: 2005-08-01, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 4 [1994]
In Season 4 of <I>The X-Files</I>, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since <I>Dragnet</I>. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is Home, the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed (Kaddish), let the monster get away (Sanguinarium) and cause tragedies (The Field Where I Died). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage. <p> The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire (Teliko) and a cancer vampire (Leonard Betts), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek (Tunguska/Terma). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode (Small Potatoes) and its most disappointing (Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man). Small Potatoes, with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --<I>Kim Newman</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Longest Day [1962]
Release Date: 2005-05-09, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Leave Her To Heaven [1946]
<I>Leave Her to Heaven</I> is one of the most unblinkingly perverse movies ever offered up as a prestige picture by a major studio in the golden age of Hollywood. Gene Tierney, whose lambent eyes, porcelain features, and sweep of healthy-American-girl hair customarily made her a 20th Century Fox icon of purity, scored an Oscar nomination playing a demonically obsessive daughter of privilege with her own monstrous notion of love. By the time she crosses eyebeams with popular novelist Cornel Wilde on a New Mexico-bound train, her jealous manipulations have driven her parents apart and her father to his grave. Well, no, not grave: Wilde soon gets to watch her gallop a glorious palomino across a red-rock horizon as she metronomically sows Dad's ashes to the winds. Mere screen moments later, she's jettisoned rising-politico fiancé Vincent Price and accepted a marriage proposal the besotted/bewildered Wilde hasn't quite made. Can the wrecking of his and several other lives be far behind? Not to mention a murder or two.<p> Fox gave Ben Ames Williams's bestselling novel (probably just the sort of book Wilde's character writes) the Class-A treatment. Alfred Newman's tympani-heavy music score signals both grandeur and pervasive psychosis, while spectacular, dust-jacket-worthy locations and Oscar-destined Technicolor cinematography by Leon Shamroy ensure our fixed gaze. Impeccably directed by the veteran John M. Stahl (who'd made the original <I>Back Street</I>, <I>Imitation of Life</I>, and <I>Magnificent Obsession</I> a decade earlier), the result is at once cuckoo and hieratic, and weirdly mesmerizing. Bet Luis Buñuel loved it. <I>--Richard T. Jameson</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 6 [1994]
Release Date: 2004-12-27, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The X Files: Season 3 [1994]
Focused lightning bolts, stigmata, possession, and ancient curses become secondary in Season 3 of <i>The X-Files</i> as more episodes are devoted to pursuing the increasingly complex story threads. The Blessing Way is an explosive start, introducing the Syndicate's well-manicured man (John Neville), while Scully's sister Melissa is shot and Mulder experiences <i>Twin Peaks</i>-like prophetic visions. We learn of medical records of millions, including Scully, who have been experimented upon (Paper Clip): the fast-paced train-bound two-parter Nisei and 731 suggests the experiments are about alien hybridisation. Krycek turns out to be hosting an alien in the next double-act, Piper Maru and Apocrypha, in which Skinner is shot by Melissa's killer. Two great one-offs outside the arc are Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, a bittersweet tale of foreseeing death (featuring an Emmy-winning performance from Peter Boyle) and Jose Chung's From Outer Space, a spoof of alien conspiracy theories through an author's investigations into abductees. --<i>Paul Tonks</i>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Lost In Space - Season 2 [1965]
Release Date: 2004-07-05, Rating Parental Guidance,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Best Laid Plans [1999]
At first, <I>Best Laid Plans</I> comes off like yet another all-flash-no-substance crime thriller but it's one of those rare films that end better than they start. Nick (Alessandro Nivola from <I>Face/Off</I>), broke and desperate to get out of his suffocating small town, agrees to take part in a drug heist. When his partners get caught, he has less than a week to come up with $15,000 or suffer the consequences. When his college buddy Brice (Josh Brolin--<I>Flirting with Disaster</I>) comes back to town, Nick and his girlfriend Lissa (Reese Witherspoon) hatch a plan to blackmail Brice out of a rare collectable. Of course, things go wrong--which is where things get entertaining. The plot could use a few more twists to really crackle but the surprises it does have work and the ending is both clever and affecting. Along the way, the best scene features a drug dealer who quotes economic theory from the bible of capitalism, <I>The Wealth of Nations</I>. In the past few years, Reese Witherspoon has turned in superb performances in such varied movies as <I>Freeway</I>, <I>Pleasantville</I&g t; and especially <I>Election</I>; <I>Best Laid Plans</I> doesn't make much use of her talent but she's always watchable. --<I>Bret Fetzer</I>
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Garfield - Fantasies
Release Date: 2005-11-07, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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