Items Matching Tag 'Review'

Al Di Là Delle Nuvole (Beyond The Clouds) (DVD Details)
Four vignettes are linked by the brooding contemplation of ‘The Director’ (John Malkovich). After finishing his latest film, he hops on a plane to Ferrara in northern Italy to scout for new locations. As he walks through the ancient streets, taking photos and making notes, musing on the ghosts of his imagination, situations of love pass through his mind…

WWE Live in the UK 2009 (DVD Details)
A compilation of WWE matches performed in the U.K. during April 2009. Recorded live at the O2 Arena in London, this release features footage from the Wrestlemania Revenge European Tour 2009.

WWE Royal Rumble 2001 and 2002 Tagged Classics (DVD Details)
ROYAL RUMBLE 2001 World Tag Team Championship Match Edge & Christian vs. Dudley Boyz Ladder Match for the Intercontinental Championship Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho Women’s Championship Match Ivory vs. Chyna WWE Championship Match Kurt Angle vs. Triple H Royal Rumble Match ROYAL RUMBLE 2002 World Tag Team Championship Match Tazz & Spike Dudley vs. Dudley Boyz...

Backlash 2009 (DVD Details)
Backlash 2009 Last Man Standing Match for the World Heavyweight Championship John Cena vs. Edge ECW Championship Match Jack Swagger vs. Christian "I Quit" Match Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy Chris Jericho vs. WWE Hall of Famer Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat Triple H, Batista & Shane McMahon vs. Randy Orton & The Legacy CM Punk vs. Kane

The Emperor's New Clothes (DVD Details)
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES recasts history in 19th Century France. Based on the novel by Simon Leys, The Death of Napoleon, the film supposes that Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile in St. Helena and returned to Paris in 1821, whereas the history books say he died that year. With imaginative photography, beautiful costumes, an upbeat orchestral score, and solid acting, the film is a fanciful,...

The Street Series 3 (DVD Details)
The popular Manchester-based drama from BAFTA award winning writer Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) continues with a glittering cast including Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), Bob Hoskins (Mrs Henderson Presents) and Timothy Spall (Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban). As usual, life in the street is never dull. When wounded soldier Nick returns from Afghanistan his hero's welcome is short-lived when...

Compulsion (DVD Details)
Anjika Indrani (Parminder Nagra) is a young Cambridge graduate, happy and settled with her loving boyfriend. However, Anjika's contented freedom is shattered when her strict father tries to force her into an arranged marriage of convenience. Feeling trapped and desperate she makes the life-altering decision to turn to her father's shady employee Don Flowers (Ray Winstone) for help.

The Wrestler (DVD Details)
Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey. Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the...

Knock Knock (DVD Details)
Bloody, violent and unashamedly gory, Knock Knock is a harkening back to the glory days of the 80s slasher movie. Few brutal details are spared as the massive killer works his way through the cast, delivering severed limbs and gutted innards in all shapes and sizes, and making a thoroughly enjoyable – and gruesome – experience. Knock Knock will be released on DVD courtesy of DNC Entertainment...

Clough (DVD Details)
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Nottingham Forest's first European Cup triumph, masterminded by Brian Clough. A provincial football club, broke and slipping towards Football League Division Three when he took charge, had conquered England and Europe inside three years.

The Apollo Story (DVD Details)
... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.' With these words, delivered in a speech at Rice University on 12th September 1962, President John F. Kennedy signalled the start of a space race that was to end with Neil Armstrong stepping on to the surface of the Moon. But...

Ships with Wings (1942) (DVD Details)
Lt. Dick Stacey is dismissed from the Fleet Air Arm for poor discipline. He joins the Aircraft Carrier "HMS Ark Royal" (The Ship with Wings). When they go into battle in the Mediterranean he acts heroically and redeems himself

Adam: Giselle (The Royal Ballet) (DVD Details)
Perhaps the most celebrated ballet of the Romantic era, Adolphe Adam’s intoxicating ballet Giselle is the dramatic story of a peasant girl whose betrayal by her aristocratic lover causes her to go mad before dying and returning as a ghost. Featuring the fabulous Alina Cojocaru in the title role and Johan Kobborg as a torn Count Albrecht, Peter Wright’s sparkling production and John Macfarlane’s...

Great Opera Arias (DVD Details)
World-renowned tenor Plácido Domingo is joined by Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna and a host of other international stars including Susan Graham, in the famously glittering 1996 Gala Concert on the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Asher Fisch conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a programme of many of the world’s best-loved operatic arias with music by composers...

Halliwell’s – The Movies That Matter (Book Details)
Halliwell’s - The Movies that Matter is a new version of the classic and highly acclaimed Halliwell’s film guide. Smaller and more accessible than its predecessors it’s still packed with information on nearly 3000 films from Bogart to Bond and all the latest film releases. They are the movies that have stood out over seven decades of film-making as the most iconic and well-loved – the movies that...

Monte Carlo Or Bust (DVD Details)
Screen Legend Tony Curtis leads an all star international cast in this hilarious romantic and action-packed romp! Set in glorious Monte Carlo, this hugely entertaining follow-up to Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines follows dashing Chester Schofield (Curtis) as he sets out to better his rival Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) on the arduous Monte Carlo Rally.

Day of the Dead (2008) (DVD Details)
From the director of Friday 13th Parts 3 & 4 and Halloween H20, and the writer of Final Destination comes this homage to George A Romero’s classic Day of the Dead, starring American Beauty’s Mena Suvari, Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction) and Nick Cannon. When the population of a small town is struck by a flu-like virus the military is called in to set up a quarantine. The locals soon turn into flesh-e...

Alive (DVD Details)
Based on the comic books by Tsutomu Takahashi Alive is a live-action sci-fi horror-fest. Tenshu (Hideo Sakaki) survives his own execution and then is given the choice between another death sentence or submitting himself for a serious of bizarre and dangerous experiments by the prison officials. Unsurprisingly perhaps he choses the latter, and finds himself stuck in a cell with a convicted rapist...

Ninja Gaiden II (VideoGame Details)
Massively gory sequel to Ninja Gaiden, starring Ryu the worlds worst Ninja.

Rock Band (VideoGame Details)
The hugely expensive, multi-instrument plastic clackathon finally makes it to Europe. Twice the price it was in America...

Dazzle Ships (CD Details)
Experimental and sample heavy fourth album from Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark, the follow-up to seminal album Architecture And Morality.

How Not To Make It In The Pop World (Diary Of An Almost Has-Been) (Book Details)
Heard of the Swinging Laurels? No? Join the club...

Monte Montgomery: Live - at Workplay (DVD Details)
Monte Montgomery has taken the acoustic guitar beyond anyone's expectations. His legendary reputation has spread like wildfire since he appeared on Austin City Limits. Since then countless articles have been written about Monte describing him as "The Evel Knievel of Guitar", "Six Strings Attached To Dynamite", "The Answer To The Fermi Paradox" and "The Acoustic Shred Master" to name a few. His...

NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series Countdown to the Championship 2007: Year in Review (DVD Details)
Relive the excitement of the inaugural NHRA POWERade Countdown to the Championship on this special DVD. Follow your favourite NHRA POWERade Series racers in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. Watch as they battle through the Countdown to 8, Countdown to 4 and the last two races of the season - the Countdown to 1 - at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and historic Auto...

Dracula's Daughter (DVD Details)
The Countess Marya Zaleska seeks advice from a noted psychiatrist about her "obsession", but drinking the blood of the living is hardly unusual behaviour for Dracula's Daughter.

Son Of Dracula (DVD Details)
Dracula is back, bringing terror to the deep south of America.

Untraceable (DVD Details)
A tech-savvy internet predator intent on revenge is displaying his graphic murders on his own deadly website – killwithme.com. The fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public as news spreads of the sick game and more and more people log on…. unwittingly speeding the innocent victims towards their gruesome death. At first the site seems too outrageous to be real but...

I'll Be Seeing You (DVD Details)
The strains of a popular song formed the background for a tender wartime romance that sustains its impact today.