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Review Warner Home Video / Entourage: HBO Season 3 Part 1 [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Debi Mazar
  • Adrian Grenier
  • Jerry Ferrara
  • Kevin Connolly
  • Jeremy Piven
Release date: 2007-11-26
Run time: 307 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.98

Review Entourage: HBO Season 3 Part 1 [2006] / Warner Home Video:


Review Playback / All Creatures Great & Small - Series 1 - Volume 1 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Fred Feast
  • Christopher Timothy
  • Peter Moffatt
  • Peter Grimwade
  • Carol Drinkwater
  • Robert Hardy
  • Terence Dudley
  • Christopher Baker
  • Peter Davison
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 306 min.
Creator: James Herriot
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.99

Review All Creatures Great & Small - Series 1 - Volume 1 [1978] / Playback:


Review MGM Entertainment / Death At A Funeral [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Egan
  • Kris Marshall
  • Rupert Graves
  • Alan Tudyk
  • Thomas Wheatley
  • Frank Oz
Release date: 2008-02-25
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.98

Review Death At A Funeral [2007] / MGM Entertainment:

The latest comedy from director Frank Oz, Death at a Funeral unusually sets a funeral at the heart of a film that's trying to generate laughs. It does prove to be quite a hurdle, but it's to the credit of those involved that the film proves to be a worthwhile and diverting way to spend an hour and a half. Starring Rupert Graves, Matthew MacFadyen and Peter Egan among a talented ensemble cast, Death at a Funeral ticks most of the boxes you'd expect of its concept, but does throw in a few twists of its own, too. There are family secrets, mix-ups, battling characters and the funeral itself to deal with, and Oz proves skilful at marrying the threads together. Death at a Funeral manages to generate a good few laughs on the way to its fine ending, but it does have its problems. There are perhaps one too many contrivances to put up with, and the script doesn't really do the director and his cast too many favours. In spite of its slight running time, it also manages to feel a little too long. But Death at a Funeral is still, despite these problems, a perfectly competent British comedy, and a useful way to fill a night in. Don't expect a masterpiece, and chances are you'll have some fun with it. -Jon Foster.

Review Warner Home Video / Any Which Way You Can / Every Which Way But Loose [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Buddy Van Horn
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Beverly D'Angelo
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Sondra Locke
  • James Fargo
Release date: 2006-02-27
Run time: 220 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.98

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Review Warner Home Video / Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Jane Powell
  • Howard Keel
  • Tommy Rall
  • Stanley Donen
  • Jeff Richards
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Stephen Vincent Benet
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.95

Review Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [1954] / Warner Home Video:

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring MGM soprano Jane Powell and handsome baritone Howard Keel, has retained a remarkably loyal following among fans of the musical film ever since its release in 1954. Although it was filmed in state-of-the-art CinemaScope, Stanley Donen was obliged to direct much of the film on Metro's sound stages, where the artificial sets and painted backdrops don't inevitably live up to the scenes shot on location in Oregon. Viewers coming fresh to the picture may find this visual discrepancy jarring and some too may find Miss Powell's singing a shade plummy. The screenplay, by husband and wife team Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich with Dorothy Kingsley, tells the story of seven brothers living in the Oregon hills and their adventures to find themselves wives. The casting of each brother with his rugged, masculine looks and ability to dance with grace and athleticism, presided over by an authoritative Howard Keel, gives the film a dynamic impetus second to none in an MGM musical. The lengthy barn-raising episode under choreographer Michael Kidd's intrepid direction, where the music and the incredibly agile and energetic male and female dance ensemble unite as one, produces a square dance without parallel. The music and lyrics by Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer-including the mating chorus, "Spring, Spring, Spring", the rollicking "Bless You're Beautiful Hide", the rousing "Sobbin' Women" and the visually enchanting "June Bride"-are both tuneful and mindful of the plot's exposition. Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin won the Academy Award in 1954 for their arrangements and conducting. On the DVD: The digital remastering has created a clearer picture of what had been a faintly muddy Ansco colour system on the original print while the polish and attack with which the MGM Studio Orchestra play the music on this full-bodied stereophonic soundtrack remains a thing of wonder. Howard Keel, standing tall and erect in his 80s, hosts the "making of" documentary. [+]
Director Donen, choreographer Kidd, Jane Powell and several of the dancers recall how the film was considered a "sleeper" during production and wasn't expected to do as well as Brigadoon, in production at the same time. The documentary also highlights the care taken over the casting of the brothers, two of whom including Keel were not dancers and their often brave and brilliant feats of acrobatic dancing executed on precarious planks and other props. When Howard Keel takes his farewell walk down the main street lot at MGM, breaking into a few brief dance steps, it's impossible not to feel a moment of regret that the curtain had to come down on MGM's most treasured possession. -Adrian Edwards.

Review 2 Entertain Video / The Catherine Tate Show : Complete BBC Series 1-3 Box Set
Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Tate
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 510 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £14.93

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Review Seinfeld / Seinfeld - Season 9 (Complete) [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Alexander
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • Jerry Seinfeld
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 531 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £9.94

Review Seinfeld - Season 9 (Complete) [1997] / Seinfeld:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Ladykillers [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Guinness
  • Peter Sellers
  • Katie Johnston
  • Herbert Lom
  • Alexander MacKendrick
  • Cecil Parker
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.90

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army - The Complete First Series Plus the 'Lost' Episodes of Series Two [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • James Beck
  • John Laurie
  • Arthur Lowe
  • John Le Mesurier
  • Clive Dunn
Release date: 2004-09-13
Run time: 270 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.98

Review Dad's Army - The Complete First Series Plus the 'Lost' Episodes of Series Two [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Playback / Last of the Summer Wine - Series 1 & 2 [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • John Comer
  • Peter Sallis
  • Jane Freeman
  • Bill Owen
  • Michael Bates
Release date: 2002-09-02
Run time: 390 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £9.92

Review Last of the Summer Wine - Series 1 & 2 [1973] / Playback:


Review 2 Entertain Video / In Sickness And In Health - The Christmas Specials [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Warren Mitchell
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.98

Review In Sickness And In Health - The Christmas Specials [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Al Murray - The Pub Landlord LIVE - Giving It Both Barrels [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Al Murray
Release date: 2006-05-29
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.93

Review Al Murray - The Pub Landlord LIVE - Giving It Both Barrels [2006] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review ITV DVD / Al Murray : The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Al Murray
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.93

Review Al Murray : The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium [2007] / ITV DVD:


Review Gervase Phinn / Gervase Phinn - Tales From The Dales - Live [2007]
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.90

Review Gervase Phinn - Tales From The Dales - Live [2007] / Gervase Phinn:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Hobson's Choice [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Brenda De Banzie
  • David Lean
  • John Mills
  • Charles Laughton
Release date: 2008-08-11
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.41

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Review Revolver Entertainment / Star Wars Robot Chicken [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Seth Green
  • Ahmed Best
  • Tom Kane
  • Seth McFarlane
  • George Lucas
  • Mark Hamill
Release date: 2008-08-11
Run time: 195 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.97

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The IT Crowd - Series 2 [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Morris
  • Chris O'Dowd
  • Katherine Parkinson
  • Richard Ayoade
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 141 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.28

Review The IT Crowd - Series 2 [2006] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Not Going Out: Complete BBC Series 1 [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Lee Mack
  • Megan Dodds
  • Tim Vine
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 168 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.92

Review Not Going Out: Complete BBC Series 1 [2006] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review ITV DVD / Will Hay Collection [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Will Hay
Release date: 2008-09-01
Run time: 720 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £16.68

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Review Arrow Films / Cinema Paradiso [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Leo Gullotta
  • Giuseppe Tornatore
  • Isa Danieli
  • Enzo Cannavale
  • Philippe Noiret
  • Antonella Attili
Release date: 2001-05-21
Run time: 170 min.
Creator: Vanna Paoli
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.96

Review Cinema Paradiso [1989] / Arrow Films:

Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War II. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't just one of those films for people who are already in love with the cinema. But if you are one of those folks, the emotional resonance between the action in Tornatore's world and the images on Noiret's screen will seem all the greater-and the finale all the more powerful. -Tom Keogh.

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Entourage: HBO Season 3 Part 1 [2006], All Creatures Great & Small - Series 1 - Volume 1 [1978], Death At A Funeral [2007], Any Which Way You Can / Every Which Way But Loose [1980], Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [1954], The Catherine Tate Show : Complete BBC Series 1-3 Box Set, Seinfeld - Season 9 (Complete) [1997], The Ladykillers [1955], Dad's Army - The Complete First Series Plus the 'Lost' Episodes of Series Two [1968], Last of the Summer Wine - Series 1 & 2 [1973], In Sickness And In Health - The Christmas Specials [1985], Al Murray - The Pub Landlord LIVE - Giving It Both Barrels [2006], Al Murray : The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium [2007], Gervase Phinn - Tales From The Dales - Live [2007], Hobson's Choice [1953], Star Wars Robot Chicken [2007], The IT Crowd - Series 2 [2006], Not Going Out: Complete BBC Series 1 [2006], Will Hay Collection [1935], Cinema Paradiso [1989]

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