Ian Hart's second performance as John Lennon (the first was the little-seen The Hours and Times) commands attention in this marvellous musical bio of the Beatles in Hamburg directly before their stardom. The focus is on the "5th Beatle" Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), a bluesy bass guitar player who finds Germany has more interesting things (art and a woman) than music. The woman, Astrid ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Marcelle Duprey, John White
Directed By: Iain Softley

This 1992 crowd pleaser made almost as much money for Whitney Houston as its chart-busting soundtrack. A high-wattage star vehicle as only Hollywood can make, The Bodyguard stars Houston as a pop-music diva (now there's a stretch) and Kevin Costner as the stern bodyguard who is assigned to protect her after the singer receives some nasty death threats. Pop star and bodyguard don't hit it ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite
Directed By: Mick Jackson

Whoopi Goldberg returns in a gratuitous, poorly written sequel that contrives a reason to get her character back into Maggie Smith's convent. The "socially conscious" plot finds Goldberg being asked to relate to a bunch of street kids and pull them together into a choir. Since a bad guy is needed, the script grabs that old chestnut about a rich guy (James Coburn) preparing to close down the ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes
Directed By: Bill Duke

Manufacturer: Rosette Records
Starring: Daniel O'Donnell

Manufacturer: Sony Bmg
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Philip Austin, Judith Gordon, Mike Myers, Steve Susskind
Directed By: Dwight Hemion

Manufacturer: Avid Entertainment

Manufacturer: Vision Video Ltd.
Starring: Vera Lynn, George Formby, Gracie Fields, Anne Shelton, Glenn Miller

Manufacturer: Castle Home Video
Starring: Ewen Murray

Manufacturer: Revelation Films
Starring: Diane Horner

A Hard Day's Night may have been The Beatles' first big-screen experience but, as they had become the biggest band in the world by the time of its production, the Moptops were able to ensure it was a bit different from the band-movie norm. "We'd made it clear that we weren't interested in being stuck in one of those nobody-understands-our-music plots," John Lennon would later recall. "The ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Directed By: Richard Lester