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A superb cast and an even-handed treatment of a true story buoy Into the Wild, Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestselling book. Emile Hirsch stars as Christopher McCandless, scion of a prosperous but troubled family who, after graduating from Atlanta's Emory University in the early 1990s, decides to chuck it all in and become a self-styled "aesthetic voyager" in search of ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener
Directed By: Sean Penn

Not the egregious foul it seemed to be in cinemas, Disney's Hercules (1997) stands up as an entertaining spritzer of an animated feature. The continual peppering of in-jokes and cultural references becomes less irksome on the small screen. That there is no majesty or awe invested in the beloved Greek legends also seems less of an error. Also on the plus side is the bounciest Alan Menken ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart
Directed By: John Musker, Ron Clements

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Directed By: Alan J. Pakula

In Wall Street Michael Douglas perfectly embodies the Reagan-era credo that "greed is good" and won an Oscar for his efforts. As a Donald Trump-like Wall Street raider aptly named Gordon Gecko (for his reptilian ability to attack corporate targets and swallow them whole), Douglas found a role tailor-made to his skill in portraying heartless men who've sacrificed humanity to power. He's a ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer
Directed By: Oliver Stone

Inspired by the controversial E.C. Comics of the 1950s--which also provided the title and inspiration for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series--director George Romero and screenwriter Stephen King serve up five delightfully frightful stories. Utilising comic-book panels, animated segues, and exaggerated lighting and camera angles, Romero and cinematographer Michael Gornick come very ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, E.G. Marshall
Directed By: George A. Romero

This first film adaptation of a John Grisham novel is a crackerjack popcorn movie that satisfies even though it radically changes the last half of the book. The novel's dynamic setup is intact: Mitch McDeere, a hot law graduate (a well-suited Tom Cruise), finds a dream job in a luxurious Memphis law firm. His superiors (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook) provide Mitch and his young wife, Abby (Jeanne ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney
Directed By: Sydney Pollack

Originally, Men of Honour was simply called Navy Diver and no doubt all involved held high hopes that it would be an award-winning biopic. Unfortunately, Carl Brashear's life as the first African-American Master Diver went through that vaguely distasteful contemporary Hollywood Marketing makeover and the result is not quite so worthy of its subject and intentions. The film's ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis, Hal Holbrook
Directed By: George Tillman Jr.

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook
Directed By: Jack Smight

Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh.

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis
Directed By: John Carpenter

Thanks to repeated showings on cable television and home video, this speculative thriller has built quite a loyal following since its release in 1978. The provocative "what if?" scenario still packs a punch, even if it is not always believable. James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O J Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on ...

Manufacturer: Network
Starring: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson
Directed By: Peter Hyams