
Regissör: Steve Barron, Samuel Bayer, ,
Starring: David Bowie, Carlos Alomar, Naveen Andrews, Steven Berkoff, Trevor Bolder, Jennifer Connelly, Gail Ann Dorsey, Steve Elson, James Fox, Peter Frampton, Alan Freeman, Reeves Gabrels, Stan Harrison, Mick Jagger, Patsy Kensit, David LeBolt, Chris Lowe, Lenny Pickett, Trent Reznor, Paul Ridgeley, Carmine Rojas, Mick Ronson, Louise Scott, Frank Simms, George Simms, Earl Slick, Steve Strange, Neil Tennant, Tony Thompson, Mick Woodmansy
Genre: Music
Studio: EMI Records (UK) Releasedatum: 2002 Lämplig:
Språk (Land): (UK)
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Sammanfattning: Probably the most comprehensive anthology of any musical artist to date, the 47-track Best of Bowie traces the guises of David Bowie over the last four decades. From the androgynous, glam rock rebel of the 1970s, to his more recent incarnation as the self-labelled, postmodern pop ironist of the 90s. The collection provides an added insight into wider developments in fashion, music and the pop video. Most of the early material is taken from television music programmes such as The Old Grey Whistle Test ("Oh! You Pretty Things", "Queen Bitch", and "Five Years"), however, as the demands of television and music promotion progress, Bowie ventures into more sophisticated stand-alone videos culminating in 1983's "Let's Dance". As with any biographical visual record of the past, there's plenty of material, which will embarrass Bowie. Throughout his cheesy performance of "Rebel, Rebel" for Dutch programme Top Pop, Bowie sports what looks like a ginger tomcat on his head. There's also the George Michael-style bleach blonde quiff for 1987's "Time Will Crawl". Despite the mountains of material on both discs, there are a number of unexplainable absences such as "Changes", "Under Pressure" and "Sound and Vision". Watch out for the Best of Bowie part two. On The DVD: Best of Bowie's animated menus, and the opening menu sequence of both discs are excellent. Although there are no listed bonus features, the discs are swarming with extra "Easter egg" features such as alternative videos and vintage interviews (these can be accessed via the track-listing menu, by pressing the RIGHT followed by the SELECT key on selected tracks). Background information about each video is displayed before the start of every promo, which is reproduced in the accompanying glossy booklet. The sound and picture quality is variable for early videos but improves (admittedly erratically) for later videos. --John Galilee

Regissör: Paul Justman, ,
Starring: Ritchie Blackmore, Tommy Bolin, David Coverdale, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Joe Lynn Turner
Genre: Music DVDs - Concerts
Studio: Warner Music Vision Releasedatum: 1991 Lämplig:
Språk (Land): (USA)
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Sammanfattning: My God, were Purple raw... perhaps the most spontaneous performers of written music ever to tread the rock stage.This DVD, made from lots of fascinating TV clips and good historical interviews with band members, especially Glover but also plenty of Lord, Blackmore and Paice - Gillan and Joe Lynn Turner having a few words too - is a quite satisfying history of the band up to 1991. However there is only ONE complete song (Hush, engagingly performed in a typical '60s US TV environment) and most of the added graphics are tackily presented and not particularly interesting.Most of all, it made me want a copy of "Live in Denmark 1972". I hope it's going to be released on DVD. And even though I find David Coverdale mysteriously horrid <fx: shudders> I probably want "Live at California Jam 1974" too.

Regissör: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, Judi Dench, John Cleese, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee, Kenneth Tsang, Emilio Echevarría, Mikhail Gorevoy, Lawrence Makoare, Colin Salmon, Samantha Bond
Genre: Action & Adventure - General
Studio: Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. Releasedatum: 2002 Lämplig: PG-13
Språk (Land): English, Spanish, French, (UK)
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Sammanfattning: The 20th "official" 007 outing released in the 40th anniversary year of the series, Die Another Day is big, loud, spectacular, slick, predictable and as partially satisfying as most Bond movies have been for the last 30 years. Pierce Brosnan gives his best Bond performance to date, forced to suffer torture by scorpion venom administered by a North Korean dominatrix during the Madonna-warbled credits song. He traipses from Cuba to London to Iceland while feuding with a smug insomniac millionaire (Toby Stephens), who admits that he's an evil parody of Bond's own personality. There are many nods to the past: Halle Berry recreates Ursula Andress's entrance from Dr No, the gadget-packed car (which can become invisible) is a Goldfinger-style Aston Martin (albeit a brand-new model), the baddie's line in smuggled "conflict gems" and super-weapons derives from Diamonds Are Forever and the jet-pack from Thunderball can be seen in Q's lab. It's the longest of the franchise to date (two-and-a-quarter hours) and the first to augment stunts and physical effects with major CGI, though the best fight is traditional: a polite club fencing match between Brosnan and Stephens that gets out of hand and turns into a destructive hack-and-slash fest with multiple edged weapons. Berry may be the first Bond girl with an Oscar on her shelf, but she's still stuck with a bad hairdo as well as having to endure 007's worst chat-up lines. Amazingly, most of the old things here do still work, though it's a shame that director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) wasn't given a better script to play with. On the DVD: Die Another Day arrives on disc in a transfer that makes some of the CGI look less dodgy than it did in cinemas. The first disc includes two separate commentaries: an interesting, enthusiastic technical one with Tamahori and producer Michael Wilson, and a blander drone from Brosnan with input from "bad girl" actress Rosamund Pike. On Disc Two the main extra is "Inside Die Another Day", a 75-minute making-of with the usual 007 DVD extra mix of boosterism and solid background how-the-hell-they-did-it info. The "Region 2 exclusive" turns out to be another making-of, a video diary effort that takes a more interesting, wry approach to the mix of enterprise and chaos that is the Bond production machine. --Kim Newman

Regissör: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason, De'voreaux White, William Atherton, Hart Bochner, James Shigeta, Robert Davi, Grand L. Bush, Clarence Gilyard Jr., Bruno Doyon, Andreas Wisniewski
Genre: Action
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Releasedatum: 1988 Lämplig:
Språk (Land): English, French(USA)
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Sammanfattning: This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank), and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet, and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. This film is exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh
Regissör: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Daniell, Billy Gilbert, Grace Hayle, Carter DeHaven, Paulette Goddard, Maurice Moscovitch, Emma Dunn, Bernard Gorcey, Paul Weigel, Chester Conklin, Esther Michelson, Hank Mann
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Releasedatum: 1940 Lämplig:
Språk (Land): English, (USA)
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Sammanfattning: In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel.