Rambo Stallone goes back to Vietnam to rescue a bunch of abandoned POW's in the most successful of the three insanely macho action adventures. Sly mangles dialogue as if he is chewing bullets while indulging in ludicrous comicstrip heroics. But remember: this was cooked up when a B-movie actor was in the White House. This big, dumb and fun film definitely says 'no' to diplomacy.

Buy the DVD >       Read the review >

Based on Jack Higgin's book, The Eagle Has Landed tells the story of a daring German World War II plot that could have changed the course of history. Michael Caine leads a group of German paratroopers who land in England on a mission to kidnap Churchill.

Buy the DVD >       Read the review >

Samuel Fuller's acclaimed Second World War tale of cameraderie and violence, starring Lee Marvin and a post-Star Wars Mark Hamill. The film chronicles the movements of a squad from the 1st US Infantry Division ('The Big Red One') through the World War II, from a beachhead assault in North Africa, through France, Sicily and Belgium, up to the horror of liberating a Nazi concentration camp. War is reduced to its graphic essentials in Fuller's no-holds-barred style and and Marvin brilliantly portrays the nameless battle-hardened sergeant leading the young Gis.

Buy the Video >       Read the review >

Louis Malle's film, set in France during the Nazi Occupation, centres on Lucien, a simple farmhand not long out of school, with a penchant for shooting rabbits. After failing to hook up with the Resistance movement, he ends up working for the Gestapo and starts to fall for the daughter of a local Jewish tailor. Bravely and controversially addressing his country's history of collaboration, Malle creates Lucien as a metaphor for his country's past, guilty of naivety and opportunism, but is he is evil as their invaders? The moral dilemma is never answered satisfactorily, but perhaps it's enough that the question was posed.

Buy the Video >       Read the review >

Jude Law and Nicole Kidman head the all-star cast in Anthony Minghella's stunning drama set during the American Civil War. A wounded confederate soldier named Inman (Law) attempts to return home to the eponymous North Carolina town and be reunited with Ada (Kidman), the woman he left behind. Along the way, he meets a host of colourful characters who help or hinder his passage home, while Kidman struggles to run her father's dilapidated farm and holds onto the hope that Law is still alive. The two leads give powerful performances in a poignant film about how there is no glory in war, only death, but it's the Oscar-winning Renée Zellweger who steals the show.

Buy the DVD >       Read the review >