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Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army : The Complete BBC Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Arthur Lowe
  • Clive Dunn
Release date: 2007-10-29
RRP: £99.99
Price: £59.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2
Actors & Directors
  • Paul King
  • Rich Fulcher
  • Matt Berry
  • Michael Fielding
  • Julian Barratt
  • Noel Fielding
Release date: 2006-02-13
Run time: 408 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.98

Review The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Entertainment in Video / Sex and the City: The Movie [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Kim Catrall
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Kristin Davis
  • Cynthia Nixon
  • Chris Noth
  • Michael Patrick King
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 139 min.
Creator: Candace Bushnell
RRP: £22.99
Price: £12.98

Review Sex and the City: The Movie [2008] / Entertainment in Video:

As light and frothy as the Vivienne Westwood wedding gown that's an unofficial fifth star, the film version of Sex and the City is both captivatingly stylish and sweetly sentimental. Viewers who loved hanging with Carrie Bradshaw and her three pals during the series' TV run will feel as though no time has passed. Except that it has: Carrie and Big are poised to make a Big Commitment; Miranda and Steve are facing the breakup of their wonderful family; Charlotte and Harry have added to their brood; and Samantha (are we sitting down?) has been devoted to hunky Smith for five full years. Still, in all that time, the women's style, conviviality, and appetite for bons mots have only grown. When practical attorney Miranda learns that Carrie is considering moving in with Big (in possibly the coolest apartment in Manhattan), she can't help but frown in that but-you-might-lose-everything way. Carrie's retort: "For once, can't you feel what I want you to feel-jealous?!" The cast is spot-on, as always. Sarah Jessica Parker is effortless as the angst-ridden yet practical, stylish yet vulnerable Carrie. Kim Cattrall is deliciously decadent as Samantha, but she's wiser now and knows herself and her needs for a real relationship. Kristin Davis, as Charlotte, has quietly become the most gorgeous among the beauties, her sleek presence both winsome and sophisticated. And Cynthia Nixon (Miranda) shows nuance as a woman torn between betrayal and grudging hope. [+]
Supporting roles include Candice Bergen as the Vogue editor who anoints Carrie "The Last Single Girl in New York," and Jennifer Hudson, as a starry-eyed, ambitious romantic who represents the new generation of SATC women. Through it all, New York is a benevolent cocoon that envelopes and nurtures the women and their friendships and careers. No matter that none of them appears to have any semblance of "real" family; as long as they have each other, and Manhattan, all will be right with their world. -A. T. Hurley.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Aladdin [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • Jonathan Freeman
  • Linda Larkin
  • John Musker
  • Scott Weinger
Release date: 2008-07-07
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.84

Review Aladdin [1992] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Disney's 1992 animated feature is a triumph of wit and skill. The high-tech artwork and graphics look great, the characters are strong, the familiar story is nicely augmented with an interesting villain (Jafar, voiced by Jonathan Freeman) and there's an incredible hook atop the whole thing: Robin Williams's frantically hilarious vocal performance as Aladdin's genie. Even if one isn't particularly moved by the love story between the title character (Scott Weinger) and his girlfriend Jasmine (Linda Larkin), you can easily get lost in Williams's improvisational energy and the equally entertaining performances of Freeman and Gilbert Gottfried (as Jafar's parrot). -Tom Keogh.

Review 2 Entertain Video / The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 3 [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Julian Barratt
  • Dave Brown
  • Noel Fielding
  • Rich Fulcher
  • Michael Fielding
  • Paul King
Release date: 2008-02-11
Run time: 165 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.45

Review The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 3 [2007] / 2 Entertain Video:

Is there anything on television quite like The Mighty Boosh? Bluntly, who cares, for the ongoing adventures and antics of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt remain a comedic treat, even if season three does have its up and down moments. Let's temper that, quickly: The Mighty Boosh on one of its lesser days can still generate more laughs than 90% of other modern-day comedy series, and that's certainly the case with the six episodes here. Lead characters Howard and Vince are found working in the Nabootique this time, and it's not long before they're joined by some old favourites. Cue Bob Fossil, the sublime Shamen, and the Moon, among others. If there's one downside to The Mighty Boosh's third season, it is perhaps a little too much self-indulgence, which occasionally tempers things. But then that's set against some brilliantly ambitious episodes, some of the finest surrealist humour on the telly, and the terrific Crack Fox. There's little denying that as a show, The Mighty Boosh can easily be classed as bizarre, bonkers, and straight-out odd. But here, that's turned into the show's strength. And given the side-splitting laughs it continues to generate, we wouldn't have it any other way. -Jon Foster.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Juno [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Page
  • Jason Reitman
  • Jennifer Garner
  • Allison Janney
  • J.K. Simmons
  • Michael Cera
Release date: 2008-06-09
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

Review Juno [2007] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Somewhere between the sharp satire of Election and the rich human comedy of You Can Count On Me lies Juno, a sardonic but ultimately compassionate story of a pregnant teenage girl who wants to give her baby up for adoption. Social misfit Juno (Ellen Page, Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) protects herself with a caustic wit, but when she gets pregnant by her friend Paulie (Michael Cera, Superbad), Juno finds herself unwilling to terminate the pregnancy. When she chooses a couple who place a classified ad looking to adopt, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated. But Juno is much more than its plot; the stylised dialogue (by screenwriter Diablo Cody) seems forced at first, but soon creates a richly textured world, greatly aided by superb performances by Page, Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the prospective parents, and J. K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Allison Janney as Juno's father and stepmother. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) deftly keeps the movie from slipping into easy, shallow sarcasm or foundering in sentimentality. The result is smarter and funnier than you might expect from the subject matter, and warmer and more touching than you might expect from the cocky attitude. Page's performance is deceptively simple; she never asks the audience to love her, yet she effortlessly carries a movie in which she's in almost every scene. That's star power. [+]
- Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Channel 4 DVD / Peep Show Series 5 [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Webb
  • David Mitchell
  • Rachel Blanchard
  • Matt King
  • Olivia Colman
  • Becky Martin
Release date: 2008-06-16
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

Review Peep Show Series 5 [2008] / Channel 4 DVD:

The multi award-winning and critically acclaimed comedy returns to DVD for a fifth series. Peep Show continues to delve into the innermost thoughts of Mark (David Mitchell) - the conventional one seething with inner rages and desires - and Jeremy (Robert Webb) - the loose cannon full of expressed rages and desires - but seething with even more rage on the inside. Mark and Jeremy are entering their 30s with failed marriages behind them, few prospects, and a sense of impending crisis. Time is running out for them to sort out their lives. Jeremy's mother appears on the scene and it soon becomes clear why he's ended up as he is. Mark goes speed dating, and discovers money can buy you love. Jeremy and Superhans (Matt King) play at a Christian Rock Festival; the flat suffers multiple burglaries and the boys endure their worst ever night out - at the theatre. Extras: BEHIND THE SCENES with Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong guiding you through the production process, from how they get ideas for the series, read throughs and rehearsals with cast, to shooting on set and on location to the final product! PEEP SHOW RELATIONSHIP TREE - your guide to whose slept with whom throughout all the Peep Show series'… this is a trip through Mark and Jeremy's love lives throughout series 1-5, with clips and graphics to explain the various connections! DELETED SCENES SOPHIE'S POV - existing scenes from episode 6 written by Sam and Jesse from Sophie's point of view.

Review Momentum Pictures / P.S. I Love You [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Gerard Butler
  • Richard LaGravenese
  • Jeffery Dean Morgan
  • Hilary Swank
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • Gina Gershon
Release date: 2008-05-12
Run time: 122 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.49

Review P.S. I Love You [2008] / Momentum Pictures:

Based on the best-selling novel from Cecelia Ahern, P. S. I Love You is far more than the standard chick flick that it may first appear to be. Relocating the novel from Ireland to America, multiple Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars as the young woman who has recently lost her husband. And yet amidst her grief, she discovers a series of letters that he's written to help. These letters give her certain things she has to do, to help her move on with her life. It's not a completely clean adaptation of the book, and yet P. S. I Love You has more than enough in its tank to qualify as a good, quality bona fide weepy. Swank in particular is a terrific actress, and delivers another worthy performance here. [+]
Credit too to Gerard Butler (Phantom Of The Opera, 300) for his work as her late husband. The film does have a few problems. It meanders a little, and its running time could use a little pruning. Yet nonetheless P. S. I Love You is a well made, engaging drama, and likely to be responsible for a fair bit of blubbing among its target audience by the time the credits roll. Worth a look. -Jon Foster.

Review Warner Home Video / Friends: Complete Series 1 - New Edition [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Matt Le Blanc
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Matthew Perry
  • Courteney Cox
Release date: 2004-10-25
Run time: 528 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £8.00

Review Friends: Complete Series 1 - New Edition [1995] / Warner Home Video:

This handsome box set includes all the episodes from Series One-from our favourite coffee-drinking sextet's initial meeting in the pilot right up to the series cliff-hanger "The One Where Rachel Finds Out"-that Ross is in love with her, that is. Other highlights include: "The One With the Butt", in which Joey gets a big break as Al Pacino's stunt bottom; "The One With the Monkey" in which Ross acquires Marcel, his pet monkey; and the two-parter (imaginatively called "The One with the Two Parts") in which Joey starts dating Ursula, Phoebe's twin sister and Monica and Rachel double-date cute doctors played by George Clooney and Noah Wyle from ER. -Leslie Felperin.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Gavin And Stacey : Complete BBC Series 1 [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • James Corden
  • Rob Brydon
  • Mathew Horne
  • Joanna Page
  • Ruth Jones
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 168 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.86

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / 27 Dresses [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Judy Greer
  • Malin Akerman
  • Anne Fletcher
  • Edward Burns
  • Katherine Heigl
  • James Marsden
Release date: 2008-07-28
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

Review 27 Dresses [2008] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Katherine Heigl is delightful as Jane, a self-effacing Gal Friday so addicted to organizing weddings in her off time, that 27 Dresses opens with her character juggling two nuptials on the same night. A perpetual bridesmaid, Jane's hobby is discovered by a matrimony reporter named Kevin (James Marsden), who hides a romantic side behind his wall of cynicism. While Kevin gradually develops feelings for Jane, the latter's superficial sister, Tess (Malin Akerman), pursues George (Edward Burns), Jane's boss and the object of her love. This romantic circle could go on forever, except that Jane is unexpectedly moved by Kevin despite her general irritation with him and without knowing that he's on the verge of sandbagging her with a ridiculing article in his newspaper. The situation is absurd, but the emotions are not. Heigl is very good, rooted in a long tradition of comely comediennes playing characters who fly under the radar of life. She makes Jane's pain palpable and conveys her character's inability to say no without making her look unappealing or weak. Marsden perfectly captures the part of a rumpled, underdressed writer with repressed passions, Akerman is as convincingly shrewish here as she was in The Heartbreak Kid, and Burns is fine as one of those guys so busy saving the world he barely pays attention to the people in his life. The script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada) is fun if predictable, and Anne Fletcher's direction is vibrant. -Tom Keogh.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Katey Sagal
  • Peter Avanzino
  • Billy West
Release date: 2008-06-30
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.50

Review Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [2008] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The latest feature-length DVD spin-off from Matt Groening's terrific Futurama, The Beast With The Billion Backs picks up directly after the recent Bender's Big Score, and the momentum and fun from that production comes along with it. The story of The Beast With The Billion Backs follows, as you may have guessed from the title, the arrival of a strange creature on Earth. Said creature then takes control of Fry, who becomes the Pope of a brand new religion that soon begins to exert its grip on the planet. And without giving too much away, the panic and paranoia becomes just one part of an ambitious animated adventure, that makes a fair few points among its many, many laughs. The good news for fans of Futurama is that The Beast With The Billion Backs really delivers, with more guffaws and a better all-round script than the mightily enjoyable Bender's Big Score. It's not without the odd problem, and still doesn't quite manage to match the highs of the TV show at its finest, but it's a very welcome fresh addition to the Futurama universe. Two further direct-to-DVD movies are in the works at the time of this review being written, and with them comes continued hope for a full-on revival of one of the funniest animated programmes of the past ten years. It may not make suitable family viewing, but Futurama is brilliant television, and The Beast With A Billion Backs offers plenty of evidence as to why. Strongly recommended. -Jon Foster.

Review Warner Home Video / Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete HBO First Season
Actors & Directors
  • Bret McKenzie
  • Jemaine Clement
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 346 min.
RRP: £25.99
Price: £11.98

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Review Warner Home Video / The Bucket List [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Sean Hayes
  • Beverly Todd
  • Jack Nicholson
  • Rob Reiner
Release date: 2008-07-07
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.97

Review The Bucket List [2008] / Warner Home Video:

"You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you," says the quietly wise Carter Chambers, played with gravitas and grace by a Morgan Freeman. In Rob Reiner's moving, often hilarious film The Bucket List, all sorts of people measure themselves against the two heroes, Chambers and his hospital suitemate, Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). But as Cole finds, having spent his entire life building a Fortune 500 company, none of that much matters when cancer, the great equalizer, pays a visit. The film traces the adventures of the two unlikely friends, who meet in a hospital cancer ward, each given six months to live. The "bucket list" of the title refers to a lifelong list of goals that a teacher of Chambers once advised him to compile-and achieve-"before you kick the bucket. " Soon the two are off on what may be the last grand adventure of their life, vowing to tick off as many goals (skydiving, race-car driving, seeing the wonders of the world) as they can in the time they have left. What starts as a medical melodrama becomes a road trip, yet the men's mortality realities are never far from thought. The two leads give impressive performances, and remind the viewer of just how few American films focus on the lives and loves of senior citizens. Nicholson even manages to lose his persona in his character, much as he did in About Schmidt. There's a lovely John Mayer tune, "Say (What You Need to Say)," that's perfectly matched to the film's clear-eyed view of life: What does one person leave behind as his true legacy? -A. [+]
T. Hurley.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Alvin And The Chipmunks [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Cameron Richardson
  • Tim Hill
  • David Cross
  • Jane Lynch
  • Jason Lee
Release date: 2008-04-14
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.14

Review Alvin And The Chipmunks [2007] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

A staggering surprise success at the box office just before Christmas 2007, the reason for the popularity of Alvin and the Chipmunks soon becomes clear. Not only is it a new adventure for a popular set of characters of old, it's also a fun, breezy family movie, that the kids in particular will enjoy. Starring Jason Lee (of My Name Is Earl fame), Alvin and the Chipmunks mixes in live action and CGI chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore) in a story that sees that moved from their natural habitat into the midst of the big city. The plot then becomes as predictable as you'd expect, but there's still plenty of fun to be had anyway. For Alvin and the Chipmunks has plenty in its corner. It's funny, first and foremost, and moves along at a good pace, never forgetting that its prime job is to entertain its audience. And that's something it easily manages to do, wrapping everything up by remembering not to outstay its welcome, either. Considering that Alvin and the Chipmunks enjoy a legion of fans that stretch back decades, it's perhaps not a surprise after all that the film enjoyed the success it did. But what's pleasing is that the spirit of the source material, in spite of its contemporary setting, is adhered to, and there's fun for all in the end product. -Jon Foster.

Review Entertainment in Video / St Trinian's [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Russell Brand
  • Rupert Everett
  • Oliver Parker
  • Colin Firth
  • Tallulah Riley
  • Jodie Whittaker
  • Barnaby Thompson
Release date: 2008-04-14
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.71

Review St Trinian's [2007] / Entertainment in Video:

To some extent, the team behind the revival of St. Trinian's were on a bit of a hiding to nothing. The old films, contextualised by a far different age, were knockabout, energetic, yet innocent comedies about the antics of a boisterous girls' school and its inhabitants. Surprisingly though, the remake-again inspired by the Ronald Searle cartoons-manages to sidestep the bulk of the obstacles in its path, and proves itself as a likeable, entertaining comedy. The plot of St. Trinian's is as paper-thin as you'd expect, and serves merely as a platform for the anarchic actions of the cast of characters (some hokum about stealing a picture and saving the school). And a mischievous lot they prove to be: while they don't quite live up to the memories of the generation of St. Trinian's students before them, the primarily young cast still attack their roles with tremendous, and infectious, gusto. And leading the cast is Rupert Everett, in an entertaining duel role at St. Trinian's headmistress Miss Frinton and her brother, Carnaby. [+]
Joined by Colin Firth, he's clearly having a whale of a time, and his casting process a wise decision. It's great to see the always-wonderful Celia Imrie in there, too. St Trinian's, as you'd expect, has plenty of problems, notably a script that relies too much on the charm of its cast to pull it through. But heck, it's still fun, and a hard film not to enjoy. It won't win Oscars, but it will put a grin on your face. -Jon Foster.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Fawlty Towers : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 Box Set [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Spiers
  • Connie Booth
  • John Howard-Davies
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Prunella Scales
  • John Cleese
  • Andrew Sachs
Release date: 2005-10-03
Run time: 360 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £14.87

Review Fawlty Towers : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 Box Set [1975] / 2 Entertain Video:

Often hailed as the greatest ever British sitcom, Fawlty Towers is closer to the more elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Connie Booth. Unlike most British farces, however, Fawlty Towers deals with the big themes-death, psychology, xenophobia and even sex-o-phobia (Basil's marriage to Sybil is the most sterile ever depicted in a sitcom). Basil's contempt for his guests is, of course, legendary. It takes little from patrons to unleash his sledgehammer sarcasm: "Rosewood, mahogany, teak? Sorry, I was wondering what you'd like your breakfast tray made out of," he sneers at a guest who dares request breakfast in bed. Like every Englishman, he wants to be king of his own castle and resents having to take in lodgers to maintain the place, especially the open-necked younger generation, whom he regards as sub-human. Mostly, though, Fawlty Towers is comedy of exasperation-who can forget the "damn good thrashing" Basil gives his clapped-out car, or the nervous breakdowns he almost suffers trying to make himself understood to Manuel? It's also comedy of embarrassment. The very fear of losing his dignity generally leads Basil into the most spectacularly undignified of predicaments. His inevitable misery is our sheer delight. -David Stubbs.

Review Universal Pictures Video / Knocked Up [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Jay Baruchel
  • Judd Apatow
  • Katherine Heigl
  • Jonah Hill
  • Paul Rudd
  • Martin Starr
Release date: 2007-12-26
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.97

Review Knocked Up [2007] / Universal Pictures Video:

In a year that otherwise struggled to deliver where comedies were concerned, Knocked Up proved to be a very welcome treasure trove of laughs. It's from Judd Apatow, the man behind The 40 Year Old Virgin and the excellent TV show Freaks and Geeks, and sits easily as an equal to both. It's also a long-awaited showcase for the talents of Seth Rogen, who proves with some conviction that he can headline a movie. The premise of Knocked Up is simple. Seth Rogen and Kathryn Heigl share, for differing reasons, a one-night stand, and several weeks later, the latter discovers she's pregnant. Given that Rogen's character has been jobless for years, and that Heigl is trying to build a TV career, the two don't prove to be a logical match, yet as the pregnancy progresses, they try valiantly to get to know one another. The narrative itself is quite straightforward, but it's the execution and characters that lift it significantly. Apatow knows how to direct comedy, and with a script peppered with plenty of guffaw-out-loud moments and situations, he wrings very hearty laughs from the material. Plus, while its Rogen and Heigl who power the film, the supporting cast is simply superb, particularly the collection of people that Rogen's character surrounds himself with. It's perhaps guilty of running ten minutes too long, and there's little to surprise in the story itself, yet Knocked Up is nonetheless a terrific, earthy and grounded comedy, with so much to enjoy. [+]
It's hard to single out individual moments, and instead it simply seems more appropriate to declare Knocked Up as one of the best, and most rewatchable, comedies of the last few years. Don't miss it. -Simon Brew.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Frasier - Season 10
Actors & Directors
  • Kelsey Grammer
  • David Hyde Pierce
  • Jane Leeves
  • John Mahoney
  • Peri Gilpin
Release date: 2008-07-28
Run time: 507 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £22.00

Review Frasier - Season 10 / Paramount Home Entertainment:

"Irritating, but endearing. " That's Frasier Crane in a nutshell, as diagnosed by Julia Wilcox (an Emmy-worthy Felicity Huffman), KCAL's abrasive and condescending new financial analyst. That's a delicate balance, but Kelsey Grammer still manages it with the usual aplomb in Frasier's penultimate season. Grammer is at his best when his character is at his stubborn, high dudgeon worst, as in "Enemy at the Gate" when he causes a parking garage backup while protesting a $2 parking fee, trying to find a suitable new coffee shop after Café Nervosa hires a folk singer (Elvis Costello) in "Farewell, Nervosa," or, after scamming his way into becoming a silver level member at an exclusive health spa, "chasing the eternal carrot" of the gold level ("'Please remain in the relaxation grotto. ' Have crueler words ever been spoken?") in "Door Jam. " But he wins us over anew as he does the hard-hearted Julia with his insistence on doing the right thing and faith in the good in people. Frasier's tenth season takes a dramatic turn early on with a three-episode arc in which Niles (David Hyde Pierce) undergoes heart surgery, but, much like Niles, the show rebounds quickly with more characteristic episodes such as the Emmy-nominated farce "Daphne Does Dinner," in which another Crane party hurtles toward disaster. In addition to Huffman, other memorable star turns this season include Millicent Martin as Daphne's impossible mother, Jeanne Tripplehorn as a coach whose berating of her students causes Frasier to conjure up hallucinations of his own former gym teacher, portrayed by Bob Hoskins. Bebe Neuwirth returns as Lilith, as does the magnificent Harriet Sansom Harris as Bebe Glazer, who shows up as Dr. Phil's agent (or is it just another Bebe scheme?) in "The Devil and Dr. [+]
Phil. " There are throughout this season some wonderful play-it-again moments, such as the unwitting Frasier speaking Klingon at his son's bar mitzvah and invoking Sam Malone's classic, "Are you as turned on as I am" to bring a shouting match with Julia to an hilarious anti-climax ("No!" she screams disgustedly). A showdown between Roz (Peri Gilpin) and Julia doesn't make for the most compelling season finale, but because season 11 was previously released on DVD to coincide with the broadcast of the series finale, at least we don't have to wait to see how that turns out. -Donald Liebenson.

Review Momentum Pictures Home Ent / Doc Martin - Series 3 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Absolom
  • Carol Catz
  • Lucy Punch
  • Minkie Spiro
  • Martin Clunes
  • Ben Bolt
  • Stephanie Cole
Release date: 2008-02-18
Run time: 372 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.82

Review Doc Martin - Series 3 - Complete / Momentum Pictures Home Ent:

The adventures of Doctor Martin Ellingham-more commonly known as Doc Martin-have proven to be one of ITV's most popular hits of recent years. And within this series three DVD set, you've got plenty of evidence as to why. For newcomers, Doc Martin, played with effortless skill by Martin Clunes, is a surgeon based in a small Cornish village. But it's not his direct, blunt manner that proves to be his only problem. No, the issue too is that the Doc has a phobia of blood. It's not the handiest problem for a Doctor to have, but it does allow Doc Martin to mix in good chunks of comedy alongside its drama. The third season of the show, spread across three discs in this set, finds it in terrific form. Boasting a strong cast, with Caroline Catz's Louisa. Stephanie Cole's Joan and Joe Absolom's Al among the standouts, Doc Martin's popularity is easy to understand. Because not only is the acting terrific, and Clunes must really take the plaudits too, but the scripts are of consistent quality. [+]
It should be noted that the end of the third series was the cause of some debate among fans, although this reviewer was certainly impressed by it. But what's less up for debate is that Doc Martin is one of the best mainstream dramas British television has thrown up in recent years, and that this DVD set offers some super entertainment. -Jon Foster.

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Dad's Army : The Complete BBC Collection, The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2, Sex and the City: The Movie [2008], Aladdin [1992], The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 3 [2007], Juno [2007], Peep Show Series 5 [2008], P.S. I Love You [2008], Friends: Complete Series 1 - New Edition [1995], Gavin And Stacey : Complete BBC Series 1 [2007], 27 Dresses [2008], Futurama - The Beast with a Billion Backs [2008], Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete HBO First Season, The Bucket List [2008], Alvin And The Chipmunks [2007], St Trinian's [2007], Fawlty Towers : Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 Box Set [1975], Knocked Up [2007], Frasier - Season 10, Doc Martin - Series 3 - Complete

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