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Cold Vengeance | DVD | (05/07/2004)
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| RRP Jimmy Coy has only known one life - crime. Starting over won't be as easy as he hopes especially when he owes one last job to 'The Family' that raised him. But Jimmy has his own feelings with respect to loyalty. When his old gang turns against him and a rival gang joins the mix Jimmy pits the two against each other. Now if he can just save himself and his new love the sexy Cassandra in the process. Drastic circumstances call for drastic measures as Jimmy and Cassandra battle double-crosses triple threats and one bomb set to explode. A dramatic climax at a sporting event where thousands of fans' lives hang in the balance will leave you breathless.
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Black Knight / Big Momma's House | DVD | (10/03/2003)
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| RRP A predictable vehicle for the resistable Martin Lawrence, Black Knight is yet another rerun of Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur concept which here plays like a horror-free, considerably less funny take on Army of Darkness. Jamal (Lawrence), minion in a mediaeval theme park, reaches into a moat for a magic amulet and is transported to the 14th century, where he is appalled by the toilet facilities, pals around with a disgraced knight (an equally disgraced Tom Wilkinson), romances a feminist lady-in-waiting (Marsha Thomason), introduces soul music to the court in a bit done better in A Knight's Tale, and becomes the legendary black knight to help the rebels overthrow the wicked king. It has a bigger, more lavish feel than most of Lawrence's makeshift knockabouts, but that may also be why it is even less funny, since his rants are rather reined-in and his screen character comes across as just overly pleased with himself rather than a comic foul-up who turns heroic. --Kim Newman No-one tries very hard in Big Momma's House so your enjoyment of this Martin Lawrence vehicle pretty much depends on how much amusement you are able to derive from a guy dressed up as a very ample woman. The setup is of the eye-rolling, only-in-Hollywood nature: Lawrence, as detective Malcolm Turner, is after a killer, and apparently the only way to capture him is to pose as the bad guy's ex-girlfriend's grandmother, who--the film cannot stress this point too much--is quite large. Apparently, Sherry (Nia Long), the young woman in question--she's as attractive as Big Momma is, well, you know--is none too bright, for she falls for Malcolm's ruse, which of course ostensibly amuses mainly because it's so transparent. Paul Giamatti is wasted as Malcolm's partner, while director Raja Gosnell's clunky sense of comic rhythm is bewildering, because he used to be an editor (he brought a similar lack of magic to Home Alone 3). Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps is far more accomplished, versatile and funny. --David Kronke
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
Battle Of Britain/The Train | DVD | (18/06/2007)
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| RRP Battle Of Britain (Dir. Guy Hamilton 1969): This is a spectacular re-telling of a true story that shows courage at its inspiring best. Few defining moments can change the outcome of war; but when the outnumbered Royal Air Force defied unsurmountable odds in engaging the German Luftwaffe they may well have altered the course of history! The Train (Dir. John Frankenheimer 1964): Inspired by a true incident during World War II in 'The Train' Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance fighter doggedly attempting to stop a train used by the Nazis (led by Paul Scofield as Colonel Von Waldheim) to steal precious French art treasures in the summer of 1944. Featuring spectacular action sequences expertly directed by John Frankenheimer 'The Train' is a truly thrilling war film. The Oscar-nominated screenplay by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis superbly recreates the tension of this heroic episode.
Paradise Postponed - Part 2 | DVD | (12/09/2005)
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| RRP Written by barrister and playwright Sir John Mortimer Paradise Postponed takes in all of the upheavals of post-war British society. Why does the left-wing cleric Rev. Simeon Simcox leave the Simcox brewery millions to the morally loathsome Leslie 'The Toad' Titmuss? Titmuss is a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister who has wheeled and dealed his way through life. Simeon's sons set out to unravel the truth behind the will.
Paradise Postponed - Part 3 | DVD | (10/10/2005)
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| RRP Written by barrister and playwright Sir John Mortimer Paradise Postponed takes in all of the upheavals of post-war British society. Why does the left-wing cleric Rev. Simeon Simcox leave the Simcox brewery millions to the morally loathsome Leslie 'The Toad' Titmuss? Titmuss is a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister who has wheeled and dealed his way through life. Simeon's sons set out to unravel the truth behind the will.
Once in the Life | DVD | (07/06/2004)
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| RRP 'Once In The Life' is a powerful urban crime thriller written directed and starring Lawrence Fishburne. Estranged half-brothers Torch and Mike 20/20 are re-united in a prison cell. Both are involved in the citys underground crime scene - Torch to raise cash to feed his drug habit and Mike wanting to raise enough to enable him to leave crime behind. Mike is planning to intercept a heroin deal and persuades Torch to help. When the manic junkie-brother shoots one of the young drug couriers the pair take refuge in an abandoned building. Mike seeks help from his friend and old cell-mate Tony not realising that the dope they have stolen is his. Based on Fishburne's play 'Riff Raff'.
The Last Concert: UZEB | DVD | (26/02/2007)
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Alien Species | DVD | (13/10/2003)
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| RRP A group of scientists employed by multi-national drugs company Earthtek are nearing the end of their two and a half year isolation five miles below the surface of the planet. In his quest for the perfection of their DNA experiments a radical young scientist working on a hidden agenda from the rest of the group unleashes a near immortal organism a hostile being capable of instant regeneration. With the lab's life support systems about to shut down the five scientists face their longest day five miles down with five minutes to live.
Arkoff - Vol. 1 | DVD | (01/11/2004)
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| RRP A unique collection of some of the seminal 1950's monster and sci-fi movies made by the greatest director of the time including Roger Corman Bruno VeSota and Edward L Cahn. Featuring Monsters vampires delinquent school girls and giant arachnids along with the earliest performances of some of Hollywood's greatest stars. How To Make A Monster: Peter Drummond has been chief of make up at a Hollywood studio for 25 years. When his services are abruptly dispensed with Drummond takes his revenge on the callous heads of the studio by hypnotising a couple of actors and bringing his murderous creations Teenage Frankenstein and Teenage Werewolf to life! The Spider: When a man doesn't return home one night his daughter Carol and her boyfriend Mike go out to search for him. On finding Carol's father's wrecked car by a cave they decide to investigate further. Before they know it the kids have been enmeshed in a giant spider's web woven of course by a giant spider! After finally escaping the eight legged beast's clutches and raising the alarm the spider is seemingly killed and brought back to town. However.... is the spider really dead? War Of The Colossal Beast: A frightened young man races his truck down a dirt road constantly looking back in terror. He is being pursued by some unseen menace! Undoubtedly it is this menace that is responsible for a series of mysterious food truck robberies and the main suspect is the 60-foot tall Colossal Man! Previously presumed dead he is discovered living in a desolate mountain range in Mexico insane and horribly disfigured his face covered in scar tissue and missing an eye. Every effort of communicating with the giant fails and the military drugs him and transports him back to America where he promptly escapes to wreak havoc on an unfortunate city! The Brain Eaters: Strange things are happening in Riverdale Illinois. A huge seemingly alien structure has been found jutting out of the Earth. A bizarre Earth-drilling craft discharges a horde of fuzzy parasitic creatures that fasten themselves to the necks of the townsfolk and control their brains. Sent to investigate the origin of the mysterious object Senator Walter Powers and scientist Dr.Paul Kettering are responsible for stopping the invasion when it becomes clear that the whole town is under the control of the invaders. The Blood Of Dracula: Six weeks after her mother dies Nancy Perkins' father remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy off to a school for girls where the innocent girl falls under the spell of evil chemistry teacher Miss Branding. Putting Nancy under hypnosis Miss Branding converts the poor damsel to vampirism causing her to commit murders and then forget about them. The villainess recieves her comeuppance when Nancy refuses to snap out of her spell transforming into a slavering vampiric beast.
School Of Life | DVD | (23/01/2006)
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| RRP Ryan Reynolds lights up the screen as the charismatic Mr D A teacher whose lessons extend far beyond the classroom in this heart-warming tale of learning to appreciate every moment we're given. At Fallbrook Middle School a Warner has won the coveted Student-Elected Teacher of the Year award 43 years in a row. Unfortunately it was ""Stormin"" Norman Warner each time and now that he's passed away the burden of maintaining the family legacy falls to Matt Warner (David Paymer) who's
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What Would Jesus Buy? | DVD | (24/11/2008)
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| RRP What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
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The Sting | DVD | (20/02/2006)
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| RRP All it takes is a little Confidence. After the huge success of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid George Roy Hill re-teamed with Hollywood stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman for this dazzlingly inventive tale about revenge in 1930s Chicago. The Sting is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of all time. Set in the 1930's this intricate comedy caper deals with an ambitious small time crook (Robert Redford) and a veteran con man (Paul Newman) who seeks revenge on the vicious crime lord (Robert Shaw) who murdered one of their gang. How this group of charlatans puts the sting on their enemy makes for the greatest double-crosses in movie history complete with an amazing surprise finish... The Sting was nominated for ten Oscars collecting seven on the night: Best Art Direction (Henry Bumstead James W. Payne) ; Best Costume Design (Edith Head); Best Director (George Roy Hill) ; Best Editing (William Reynolds) ; Best Score (Marvin Hamslich); Best Picture (Tony Bill Michael Phillips Julia Phillips); Best Screenplay (David S. Ward).
Scar | DVD | (06/06/2005)
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| RRP It was just bad timing. While hiking in a remote forest college student Zack disappears leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom (Randy Wayne). Now a year later and plagued by nightmares Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny (Ashley Nelson) in a last desperate attempt to find out what happened to his friend. But the local small town Sheriff (Joe Estevez) suspects Tom as a handful of people have turned up dead with a mysterious bl
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David Cronenberg Collection - Double Horror - Shivers / Rabid | DVD | (06/10/2003)
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| RRP One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe
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Razor Eaters | DVD | (14/04/2008)
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| RRP First turned on during a home invasion the gang's video camera never lets up as they take on the city and become our anti-heroes by targeting all those we'd love to see get punished - corrupt politicians filthy drug dealers arrogant sports stars...and parking inspectors! This controversial feature film launched a police investigation and is currently thrilling and dividing audiences all around the world.
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Merlin - The Return | DVD | (28/09/2009)
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| RRP In ancient times the vast army of evil sorcerer Mordred Craig Sheffer ('Turbulence 2 & 3' 'A River Runs Through It') brought legendary King Arthur Pendragon Patrick Bergin ('Sleeping With The Enemy' 'Patriot Games') and his Knights of the Round Table to their knees. In desperation Merlin the magician Rik Mayall ('Drop Dead Fred' TV's 'The Young Ones') used the immense power of Stonehenge to banish Mordred to the Netherworld and send Arthur and Sir Lancelot Adrian Paul (Highlander) into a long dark sleep so that they would be on-hand to save the world should Mordred ever escape. Fifteen hundred years later Merlin's spell is weakening. Scientist Joan Maxwell Tia Carrere ('True Lies' 'Wayne's World 1 & 2') is experimenting with the source of Merlin's magic - the Earth's magnetic flows - and is using her knowledge to free Mordred from his prison. Arthur and his Knights awaken and join forces with fourteen-year old Ritchie Gould to fight the evil sorcerer. In a tale of myth mythology demons and duels spanning fifteen centuries the forces of good and evil once more do battle. And at stake is the world as we know it....
Sickle | DVD | (15/05/2006)
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| RRP Blood will flow... Marty Sickle was a loner who lived and worked in the old slaughterhouse where a young woman was once murdered. Marty was the prime suspect but a lack of evidence kept him free. However the girl's boyfriend and his friends broke into the old slaughterhouse and left Marty for dead. Little did they know that Marty didn't die...
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From Hell (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006)
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| RRP Adapted from the acclaimed graphic novel this dark film follows the police investigation into the Jack The Ripper killings in Victorian London, with Johnny Depp as Scotland Yard Detective Fredrick Abberlines.
Scar | DVD | (07/08/2006)
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| RRP It was just bad timing. While hiking in a remote forest college student Zack disappears leaving nothing but a bloody trail for his traumatized friend Tom (Randy Wayne). Now a year later and plagued by nightmares Tom returns to the woods with Zack's girlfriend Jenny (Ashley Nelson) in a last desperate attempt to find out what happened to his friend. But the local small town Sheriff (Joe Estevez) suspects Tom as a handful of people have turned up dead with a mysterious bleeding scar on their stomachs. Tom and Jenny soon find themselves unraveling a string of cyrptic secrets and caught in an intense struggle for their sanity as well as survival. From a redneck convenience store clerk to a motel owner moonlighting as a Psychic (Dee Wallace-Stone) everyone in this small town has something to hide. And when the dreaded scar appears on Jenny will they have enough time to figure out how to thwart the evil that dwells in the woods...
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