Night At The Golden Eagle | DVD | (09/02/2004)
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| RRP In Night at the Golden Eagle, a cross-section of decrepit people live out their desperate, dead-end lives over the course of a long night at an equally decrepit LA hotel. This is the jaundiced vision of director Adam Rifkin, best known for the raucously enjoyable Detroit Rock City and the cult curiosity The Dark Backward. He's corralled some good people for this low-budget offering (Natasha Lyonne and Ann Magnuson as hookers, Vinnie Jones as a cruel pimp), but the lion's share of screen time goes to a pair of small-time crooks (Donnie Montemarano and Vinny Argiro) planning to split for Vegas in the morning. It's diverting for a while, but the bleached-sepia look and unrelenting rancidity take their toll, grinding the picture down. Even a soft-shoe shuffle for Fayard Nicholas (of the awesome Nicholas Brothers), a grace note if there ever was one, can't lift the movie out of its determined sense of gloom. --Robert Horton
Andromeda - Season 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (03/03/2003)
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| RRP The second series of Andromeda unveils a change in approach. A new traditionally heroic title theme, accompanied by rousing voice-over is one noticeable difference. Another is Kevin Sorbo's even shorter haircut. But it's back to the gore and violence that marked the cliffhanging finale of the first year with "The Widening Gyre", where many perils are resolved while others are revealed. An all-too-short deadline is also imposed on Dylan's Commonwealth dream (confirming the show's additional two-series renewal), when it's confirmed how long it will be before the travelling Magog arrive. "Exit Strategies" is all about inner demons. Poor Harper is left with a very real internal problem that leads him to contemplate the unthinkable. Rommie is wrestling with an alternate physical self. Rev is battling his religious conscience against his very survival. With so much B-plot, you could almost overlook the main story that sees the Maru crash land on an ice world--if the dazzling FX would let you that is. Beka gets an overdue share of romantic attention in "A Heart for Falsehood Framed". A sacred gem is the nub of a diplomatic dispute. In typically unpredictable fashion, the plot contrives to see all interested parties caught up in a multi-layered game of switching fakes. Some new angles appear in "Pitiless as the Sun". In case anyone's forgotten, Trance is given opportunity to thicken the mystery surrounding exactly what she is. This occurs as we meet a brand-new adversary, the unsavoury Pyrians. Xenophobia, drug addiction and slavery are all scrutinised in this episode--enough plot for an X-File. This is funny since Cigarette-Smoking Man William B Davis guest stars. Hunting for a once-glorious leader who would benefit Dylan's cause, the Maru and crew make a "Last Call at the Broken Hammer", a run-down bar in the middle of a wasteland. There are lots of twists in a mystery of hidden identities and agendas amongst the bar's patrons. Watch out for Gordon Woolvett's real-life wife among them. Another welcome sight in this episode is a change of wardrobe for the regulars, who have been sweating it out in the same gear for far too long. --Paul Tonks
Cult Action Extravaganza | DVD | (21/04/2003)
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| RRP The Cult Action Extravaganza three-disc set offers three very different movies that have nothing in common bar residency in Siren's film archive. They are: The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) and Get Christie Love! (1974). The Most Dangerous Game is a classic, one of the first talkies to get pictures moving after five very static years following the birth of sound. The plot finds resourceful hero Joel McCrea and heroine Fay Wray being hunted on the island of the insane Zaroff (Leslie Banks). One of the grandfathers of the summer blockbuster, the film's setup has been reworked many times since, notably in John Woo's Hard Target (1993). By modern standards it's technically primitive, though still gripping stuff, complete with the jungle set built as a test run for King Kong (1933) and graced by Max Steiner's prototype of all Hollywood action scores. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is another landmark or rather watermark. The third-ever CinemaScope production, this was a prestige release with Technicolor location filming at Key West, Florida of never-before-achieved underwater cinematography and four-channel stereo recording of a superlative Bernard Herrmann score. Even a still-impressive underwater battle with an octopus pre-dates the more famous giant squid of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). The humans aren't bad either, with a young Robert Wagner making a charismatic if ethnically unconvincing Greek lead as sponge fisherman Tony and Terry Moore playing Juliet to his Romeo with real vivacity. Starring Theresa Graves, Get Christie Love! is a tame TV movie imitation of early 1970s female blaxploitation films such Pam Grier's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974). Running a standard TVM 73 minutes and with a low budget and content sanitised to US network standards, this is lightweight stuff about an undercover cop determined to smash a drugs ring. Nevertheless the movie was popular enough to spawn a short-lived TV show and is significant for being the first time a black woman took the title role in any American network production. Tarantino completists may be interested, as before he paid homage to Christie Love in the dialogue of Reservoir Dogs (1991). On the DVD: Cult Action Extravaganza presents the films in their original aspect ratio and sound format; The Most Dangerous Game and Get Christie Love! are 4:3, mono. The former is faded b/w with reasonably sturdy sound, though the transfer suffers from compression artefacting. No one would expect great quality from a 1974 TV movie, but Get Christie Love! suffers from both a poor print and a mediocre DVD transfer. Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is presented in the extra wide 2.55:1 of early CinemaScope and though sadly not anamorphic both the seascapes and underwater cinematography are still impressive. The four-channel stereo sound is revelatory, clear, detailed and years ahead of what we have come to expect early 1950s films to sound like. --Gary S Dalkin
Make Way For Tomorrow | DVD | (25/10/2010)
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| RRP Of Make Way For Tomorrow Orson Welles told Peter Bogdanovich: Oh my God that's the saddest movie ever made. Long unavailable for home viewing Leo McCarey's personal favourite among all his films (which included The Awful Truth and An Affair To Remember) is sad yes but it also stands as cathartic affirmation of the dignity of human feeling and in the testament of such achieves a subtle complexity of characterization on par with Renoir Ford and Hawks. Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi two of the great Hollywood character actors appear makeup-aged beyond their actual years to portray the couple whose house the bank has foreclosed upon (the film was set and produced in the midst of the Great Depression) and who are forced subsequently to move into their children's homes in the city. A near-musical restructuring of gratitude and debt ensues once the offspring deem the couple's lodging an imposition: the two are separated then reunited weeks later... as they glide inexorably into an uncertain future. Unrelentingly unsentimental yet maintaining a balance of pathos and levity unseen in not only American studio pictures but most of the rest of world cinema Make Way For Tomorrow exerted a powerful influence on Yasujir'' Ozu's Tokyo Story and several other key entries in the Japanese master's body of work. It is a film profoundly concerned with questions of filial obligation and the way we treat one another as human beings; it is a film that to give Welles the last word could make a stone cry. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Leo McCarey's truly great Make Way For Tomorrow for the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world.
Children Of Men | HD DVD | (07/05/2007)
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| RRP No children. No future. No hope. In a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind... Based on the novel by P.D. James.
Elvira-Mistress of the Dark | DVD | (12/01/2001)
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Really Wild Animals - Dinosaurs And Other Creatures / Deep Sea Dive | DVD | (04/04/2005)
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| RRP An ideal documentary double-bill for children curious about creatures! Featuring narration by the late comedian Dudley Moore. Produced by the National Geographic. Dinosaurs And Other Creatures: Spin the talking globe (Dudley Moore) takes kids on a musical journey to meet such dinosaurs as the Tyrannosaurus Rex the Struminothus and the Deinonchyus as well as such contemporary creatures as the vampire bat and the black widow spider. For ages 5-11. Deep Sea Dive: A t
Greyfriar's Bobby / Darby O'Gill | DVD | (02/10/2006)
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| RRP Greyfriar's Bobby (Dir. Don Chaffey 1961): The true story of a Skye terrier who after a vigil at his master's grave for fourteen years became well-known throughout Scotland and eventually received a gold licence from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Darby O'Gill (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1959): Take a wee bit of ancient folklore mix in some spectacular special effects and a magical cast (including Sean Connery) - and you've got one of the most enchanting fantasies of all time! A frisky old storyteller named Darby O'Gill is desperately seeking the proverbial pot of gold. There's just one tiny thing standing in his way: a 21-inch leprechaun named King Brian. In order to get the gold Darby must match his wits against the shrewd little trickster - which proves no small task indeed!
SNUB | DVD | (24/05/2010)
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| RRP A junior minister in the British Government discovers a terrorist plot to detonate a nuclear device in London. Putting self-preservation first he flees with a young American political advisor to a re-commissioned Secret Nuclear Underground Bunker - S.N.U.B. They find themselves entombed in the bunker together with a disparate group of individuals caught in the wrong place at the wrong time along with Army and RAF personnel. The terrorist bomb is found but attempts by bomb disposal experts fail to prevent it exploding destroying central London and contaminating the surrounding countryside. As a result of the blast a group of dangerous convicts break out from a local high security prison but are contaminated with radiation and start to mutate. The mutants infiltrate the bunker and one by one the occupants endure a horrible grisly death. Eventually one of the survivors escapes from the bunker to make contact with the outside world and a rescue helicopter is organised. But inside the S.N.U.B. the mutants are closing in. Not everyone will make it...
Escape From the Bronx | Blu Ray | (30/06/2015)
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License To Wed | HD DVD | (18/02/2008)
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| RRP First Came Love...Then Came Reverend Frank! License To Wed follows newly engaged Ben Murphy (John Krasinski) and his fianc''e Sadie Jones (Mandy Moore) in their quest to live happily ever after. The problem is that Sadie's family church St. Augustine's is run by Reverend Frank (Robin Williams) who won't bless Ben and Sadie's union until they pass his patented 'foolproof' marriage-prep course. Consisting of outrageous classes outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy; Reverend Frank's rigorous curriculum puts Ben and Sadie's relationship to the test. Forget happily ever after... do they even have what it takes to make it to the altar?
Really Wild Animals - Hot Dogs And Cool Cats / Monkey Business And Other Family Fun | DVD | (04/04/2005)
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| RRP An ideal documentary double-bill for children curious about creatures! Featuring narration by the late comedian Dudley Moore. Produced by the National Geographic. Hot Dogs And Cool Cats: That mischievous globe Spin takes kids on an international expedition to explore the wild relatives of our own house pets. Monkey Business And Other Family Fun: This round-the-world tour of wildlife families is hosted by Spin the talking globe. Just like humans many animals ha
Care Bears - The Care Bears Family - Vol. 1 | DVD | (04/08/2003)
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| RRP The Care Bears are a group of adorable bears that each has their own special caring mission. They live in a star-speckled rainbow trimmed with cotton candy world called Care-A-Lot. In Care-A-Lot Bears help each other with their own challenges in caring each using their own special expertise.Contains 5 original episodes from this classic much loved series.Care-A-Lot's BirthdayGrumpy's Three wishesThe Great RaceHome Sweet HomelessLost At SeaIncludes Your Own CARE BEAR!
The Forgotten / Gothika | DVD | (21/03/2005)
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| RRP This boxset combines two great thriller movies which are based around supernatural occurences. The Forgotten (2004 Dir. Joseph Ruben): A grieving mother Telly Parada is struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist and her husband tell her that she has created eight years of memories of a son she never had. But when she meets the father of one of her son's friend who is having the same experience Telly embarks on a mission to
The Fugitive | HD DVD | (04/12/2006)
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| RRP Catch him if you can. 'The Fugitive' is on the run! Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. Jones (1993 Academy Award and Golden Globe winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of a U.S. Marshal. They are hunted and hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege) their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out. So catch him if you can. And catch an 11-on-a-scale-of-10 train wreck (yes the train is real) a plunge down a waterfall a cat-and-mouse jaunt through a Chicago St. Patrick's Day parade and much more. Better hurry; Kimble doesn't stay in one place very long!
Beneath The 12-Mile Reef | DVD | (07/04/2008)
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| RRP Father and son Mike Petrakis (Gilbert Roland) and Tony (Robert Wagner) are coral-sponge diving entrepreneurs whose business is being threatened by the Rhys family of fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and even murder to maintain and establish their fishing grounds. Run-ins between the Rhys and Petrakis families lead to threats resulting in all-out brawls and a most surprising outcome - love. When Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys (Terry Moore) he falls head over heels. In this adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will the rivalry of the two families bring Tony and Gwyneth closer together or will it end in tragedy? In one of the earliest films shot in Cinemascope this timeless movie gathered critical acclaim for the break-through underwater photography.
The Cannonball Run | DVD | (18/05/2009)
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| RRP Star-studded car chase comedy from Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham the same actor-director partnership behind such classics as 'Hooper' and 'Smokey and the Bandit'. The action focuses on a mixed bunch of people who have come together to take part in an illegal coast-to-coast car race across America. Reynolds plays ace driver J.J. McClure; Dom DeLuise is McClure's superhero partner Captain Chaos; Roger Moore appears as Seymour Goldfarb a man convinced that he is really the actor Roger Moore; Jackie Chan is a Kung Fu fighting Subaru driver; Jamie Farr is The Sheik; Farrah Fawcett and Adrienne Barbeau are fellow drivers Pamela and Marcia; and Rat Packers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr play a couple of hard-drinking priests.
Pitbull's Fistfull | DVD | (17/04/2000)
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| RRP Includes a collection of the most gruesome moments in rugby history. Not for the faint hearted! Introduced by Brian 'Pitbull' Moore one of the greatest England hookers to grace the game. Brian earnt his nickname not from his kindness and tolerance to the opposition but for his tendency to get stuck in..and not let go! Rugby has always been a contact sport but in these two video Brian looks at amazing clips from around the world where contact has been taken too far. From knockout punches to stomping stamping from head-butts to head-high tackles from individual moments of horror to all out war - they're all included in Brian's compilation of rugby mayhem. From individual incidents such as the Argentinean Mendez knocking out England's Paul Ackford to the full scale 30 man brawl of the likes of Natal and Pontypridd Brian puts his seal of approval on them all. Other spectacular incidents include Willie John McBride's famous 1974 Lions 'call of 99' heralding a massive all out attack on the Springboks and fabulous action from the Welsh who dish it out to all-comers as they attempt to conquer the world. Brian ends the programme with his own Top 10 'top of the bops' needless to say these are not chosen for their rugby content! We are definitely not bringing the game into disrepute and to all members of the RFU committee and to Colonel Bufty Sir Tufty Wufty Bufty from Surrey..remember it's a joke! - Brian Moore solicitor. This is a compilation of Pitbull's Punch Ups - Volumes One and Two.
TV Comedy Classics | DVD | (21/04/2003)
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| RRP Classic episodes from 'The Beverly Hillbillies' 'The Groucho Marx Show' and 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'.
The Wrong Box | DVD | (13/08/2007)
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