Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmidDirected By: George Lucas
One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasised the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Sydney Lassick, Brad DourifDirected By: Milos Forman
This zany, eye-popping, knee-slapping landmark in combining animation with live-action ingeniously makes that uneasy combination itself (and the history of Hollywood) its subject. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based on classic Los Angeles private-eye movies (and, specifically, Chinatown), with detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) investigating a case involving adultery, blackmail, ...
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby KayeDirected By: Robert Zemeckis
James Hilton's beloved novel Goodbye Mr Chips is tenderly remade here in this 2002 TV production. Martin Clunes plays the schoolteacher over a 50-year period, from his first day as a novice Latin instructor until his death at 83 as retired headmaster. The world and Mr Chipping change dramatically over the decades. He marries a proto-feminist (Victoria Hamilton) who nicknames him "Chips" ...
Manufacturer: ITV DVDStarring: Martin Clunes, Victoria Hamilton, Conleth Hill, John Wood, Patrick MalahideDirected By: Stuart Orme
Has Hollywood produced many more rounded, enjoyable trilogies such as this? We think not, and it's real testament to the quality of the Back To The Future trilogy that it all holds up so spectacularly well over twenty years since the first film appeared. The films, as you probably know, following the time-travelling antics of Marty McFly, played by Michael J Fox, and Dr Emmett Brown, ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Michael J. Fox, Flea, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea ThompsonDirected By: Robert Zemeckis
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKeanDirected By: Jonathan Lynn
With hindsight, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is the satisfactory middle instalment of a well-rounded trilogy that began with The Wrath of Kahn and ended with The Voyage Home (after which this crew really should have retired gracefully). But on its first release, few fans knew what to expect and initial impressions were disappointing. The biggest talking points were that ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd, James DoohanDirected By: Leonard Nimoy
Stomping out their usual cuteness and carbon copying Disney's grand animation style to a tee, directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (An American Tail) create a successful musical comedy from the story of the lost Russian princess. Adapting the story of imperialism and revolution is tricky, and subsequently the film's opening is weak. Once Anya (voiced by Meg Ryan, sung by Liz Callaway) is a ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd, Kelsey Grammer, Hank AzariaDirected By: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
This slightly more cohesive follow-up to The Addams Family has the same director, Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black), but a better story line. Joan Cusack plays a busty gold digger who ingratiates herself into the Addams home and convinces Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) that she wants to marry him. Besides Lloyd, the cast includes Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia, ideal as those ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina RicciDirected By: Barry Sonnenfeld
