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Review Verve Pictures / Nina's Heavenly Delights [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Raji James
  • Pratibha Parmar
  • Shelley Conn
  • Laura Fraser (II)
  • Art Malik
  • Ronny Jhutti
Release date: 2007-01-22
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.92

Review Nina's Heavenly Delights [2006] / Verve Pictures:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Clarence - Series 1
Actors & Directors
  • Ronnie Barker
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 177 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.98

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Review 4dvd / Nathan Barley
Actors & Directors
  • Claire Keelan
  • Chris Morris
  • Julian Barratt
  • Nicholas Burns
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.32

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Will and Grace: Complete Series 5
Actors & Directors
  • Eric McCormack
  • Megan Mullally
  • Sean Hayes
  • Debra Messing
Release date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £49.99
Price: £10.00

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Review Cinema Club / Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer - Complete Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Mortimer
  • Vic Reeves
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.48

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Review Acorn Media / Dear Ladies (Hinge & Bracket) : Complete BBC Series 2 [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Fyffe
  • George Logan
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 210 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.98

Review Dear Ladies (Hinge & Bracket) : Complete BBC Series 2 [1984] / Acorn Media:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Hotel Babylon : Complete BBC Series 2 [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Heap
  • Tamzin Outhwaite
  • Alexander Armstrong
  • Kacey Ainsworth
  • Julian Clary
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 468 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £10.99

Review Hotel Babylon : Complete BBC Series 2 [2007] / 2 Entertain Video:

Series two of Hotel Babylon picks up and quickly adopts the style of the popular preceding season. Once again following the things you never see at a luxury hotel-along with what the staff get up to when you're not looking-it's hardly classic television, but you can't deny its irresistible mix of entertainment. So, with a cast led by Tamzin Outhwaite and Max Beesley, and with a few surprising star guests, Hotel Babylon soon gets down to business. Across this second series there's the arrival of a Premiership football team, for instance, along with a bit of politics and a few gangsters too. All of these sit side-by-side with the antics of the staff themselves, who aren't short of a few scandals to keep the entertainment factor powering along. What sets Hotel Babylon aside from many of the shows that seem to quickly come and go is the sheer sense of fun. It's an ideal show to switch on and relax to, rarely requiring you to engage your brain, but not falling short when it comes to outright enjoyment. Based around the book by Imogen Edwards-Jones, Hotel Babylon enjoys good performances, zippy direction and plenty going on. And, crucially, it works as a happily diverting piece of television, with a giddy sense of soap opera about it. -Jon Foster.

Review 4dvd / Skins - Series 2 - Complete [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Mitch Hewer
  • Adam Smith
  • Harry Enfield
  • Minkie Spiro
  • April Pearson
  • Aysha Rafaele
  • Paul Gay
  • Larissa Wilson
  • Joseph Dempsie
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £12.53

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Review Marcus Brigstocke / Marcus Brigstocke - Planet Corduroy [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Marcus Brigstocke
Release date: 2007-11-26
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.90

Review Marcus Brigstocke - Planet Corduroy [2007] / Marcus Brigstocke:

Planet Corduroy is the first DVD brought out by the award-winning stand-up comedian Marcus Brigstocke (of We Are History, News Knight, Have I Got News For You and BBC Radio 4's The Now Show). Directed by Geoff Posner (Little Britain) and recorded at the Shaw Theatre, the show is sprinkled with Brigstocke's idiosyncratic brand of liberal politics and satirical humour, with issues ranging from climate change, religious extremism, immigration and loans companies to compensation culture, women's magazines, The EU and David Blaine - and his own battle against his middle class roots. It's side-splitting and intelligent stuff.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Vicar Of Dibley: Holy Wholly Happy Ending (BBC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Lloyd-Pack
  • Dawn French
Release date: 2007-11-26
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.46

Review The Vicar Of Dibley: Holy Wholly Happy Ending (BBC) / Universal Pictures UK:

Bringing to an end one of the most successful British sit-coms of the last decade, Vicar Of Dibley: Holy Wholly Happy Ending is a fitting conclusion to one of the most enjoyable programmes of recent times. There are two feature episodes here, which feature the now-traditional Vicar Of Dibley cast of characters. Dawn French, of course, takes the lead role as Geraldine Grainger, but in the traditional of all good sit-coms, she's joined by a terrific supporting cast. Highlights include Gary Waldhorn as David Horton, Emma Chambers as Alice and Roger Lloyd Pack's Owen. The laughs are then spread fairly evenly, and very frequently, between the whole ensemble. The focus of these final episodes, however, is Geraldine's romance with Harry (Richard Armitage), and while the script (co-written by Richard Curtis) treads a comfortable and predictable path through this particular storyline, that's besides the point. It's the warmth and charm of the characters of The Vicar Of Dibley that win through here, and ultimately deliver an appropriate send-off for the series. So while it's a pity that The Vicar Of Dibley has finally drawn to an end, Holy Wholly Happy Ending proves to be a great way to go for a show that'll be fondly remembered and frequently rewatched for many years to come. Amen to that. -Simon Brew.

Review Old School / Old School [2003]
Release date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.93

Review Old School [2003] / Old School:

Jovial comedy Old School sees three thirtysomething friends with woman troubles (Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn) deciding to form a college fraternity. It's supposedly to save Wilson from losing his house, which the nearby college is trying to claim for academic purposes, but really Ferrell and Vaughn are desperate to return to the reckless, feckless days of beer bongs and hot chicks, and they drag Wilson along with them as they throw themselves into gathering frat pledges of all ages. Old School could have been just another string of bad jokes hanging on a flimsy plot, but the script and the cast have energy and just enough grounding in reality-at least, up until the obligatory beat-the-system ending, but by that point you'll forgive the excesses of this silly, cheerful, and frequently funny movie. Featuring Jeremy Piven and Juliette Lewis, with cameos by Snoop Dog, Andy Dick, and others. -Bret Fetzer.

Review John Williams Productions / Mrs Brown's Boys Box Set
Actors & Directors
  • Brendan O'Carroll
Release date: 2006-10-23
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.97

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Review Vision Video Ltd. / About a Boy [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Grant|Toni Collette|Rachel Weisz
  • Chris & Paul Weitz
Release date: 2002-12-02
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.98

Review About a Boy [2002] / Vision Video Ltd.:

The film version of Nick Hornby's novel About a Boy takes a deeper though no less entertaining approach than the easy laughs of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity. The "coming together" of idle playboy Will (Hugh Grant) and put-upon loner Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) is a revealing tale of self-understanding and role reversal. Will finds that being yourself is of little consequence without a defining human context, while Marcus finds that pleasing others counts for little without a degree of self-confidence. How they arrive at this complementary awareness is the intriguing subject matter of the film, involving well-meaning single mothers, difficult adolescents and helpless older adults. Yet there's a wider significance to all this in the guise of human stereotypes-how we fall into them and how we can try to get out of them. The film's wit and amusement comes down to deft and understated directing from Chris and Paul Weitz, and a snappily crafted screenplay from Peter Hedges and the Weitz brothers. Grant clips his hair as well as his vowels for a believable and ultimately sympathetic Will-by far his best performance since Four Weddings and a Funeral. As Marcus, Hoult is convincingly self-dependent, but could have been even more self-absorbed. Toni Colette is a dead-ringer for the well-meaning but ineffectual hippie mother Fiona, while Rachel Weisz gives her best screen performance to date as the attractive and vulnerable Rachel, with whom Will comes of age emotionally. Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack will delight those who enjoy his brand of reconstituted 1970s Dylan; the title track has a wistful charm and there's a gem of an instrumental in the "Countdown" sequence. [+]
About a Boy is in the best traditions of British comedy: enlightening as it amuses, it's a film to enjoy and come back to. -Richard Whitehouse.

Review Dreamworks Home Entertainment / Anchorman / Old School (Box Set) [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Todd Phillips
  • Vince Vaughn
  • Paul Rudd
  • Will Ferrell
  • Luke Wilson
  • Christina Applegate
Release date: 2005-01-31
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £5.20

Review Anchorman / Old School (Box Set) [2003] / Dreamworks Home Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / Peter's Friends [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Stephen Fry
  • Hugh Laurie
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Emma Thompson
  • Phyllida Law
Release date: 2001-11-19
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.78

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Review Bfi Video / Mon Oncle [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Tati
  • Jacques Tati
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.92

Review Mon Oncle [1958] / Bfi Video:

A comic masterpiece from director-star Jacques Tati (Playtime, Traffic), this 1958 film-Tati's first in colour-reprises the carefree, oblivious title character from the director's hilarious international hit Mr. Hulot's Holiday. This time, the story finds Hulot, a self-involved twit on a constant collision with the physical world, grappling with 1950s-style progress. Visiting his sister and brother-in-law in their ultra-progressive household full of noisy gadgets and futuristic decor, Hulot inevitably has dust-ups with modernity, each one exceptionally funny. Taking a page from Buster Keaton's play book, Tati also employs his trademark techniques with sound and production design to achieve the indefinable, comic genius of his films: the rhythmic clacking of footsteps, the cartoon-panel distance of his camera frame from the heart of the action. (Why are funny things funnierwhen seen from a few extra feet away?) Tati is one of the cinema's great treasures, and Mon Oncle is unforgettable. -Tom Keogh.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Series 2
Actors & Directors
  • Sydney Lotterby
  • Derek Fowlds
  • Paul Eddington
  • Nigel Hawthorne
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 224 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.85

Review Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Series 2 / 2 Entertain Video:

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's superb sitcom Yes, Prime Minister entered 10 Downing Street with Jim Hacker now Prime Minister of Britain, following a campaign to "Save the British Sausage". Whether tackling defence ("The Grand Design"), local government ("Power to the People") or the National Education Service, all of Jim Hacker's bold plans for reform generally come to nothing, thanks to the machinations of Nigel Hawthorne's complacent Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey (Jeeves to Hacker's Wooster) who opposes any action of any sort on the part of the PM altogether. This is usually achieved by discreet horse-trading. In "One of Us", for instance, Hacker relents from implementing defence cuts when he is presented with the embarrassingly large bill he ran up in a vote-catching mission to rescue a stray dog on an army firing range. Only in "The Tangled Web", the final episode of Series 2, does the PM at last turn the tables on Sir Humphrey. Paul Eddington is a joy as Hacker, whether in mock-Churchillian mode or visibly cowering whenever he is congratulated on a "courageous" idea. Jay and Lynn's script, meanwhile, is a dazzlingly Byzantine exercise in wordplay, wittily reflecting the verbiage-to-substance ratio of politics. Ironically, Yes, Prime Minister is an accurate depiction of practically all political eras except its own, the 1980s, when Thatcher successfully carried out a radical programme regardless of harrumphing senior civil servants. -David Stubbs.

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: £5.30

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


Review Universal Pictures Video / Extras : Complete BBC Series 1 [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Merchant
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Stephen Merchant
  • Ashley Jenson
  • Ben Stiller
  • Ricky Gervais
  • Ricky Gervais
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £2.97

Review Extras : Complete BBC Series 1 [2005] / Universal Pictures Video:

Extras,Ricky Gervais' much-anticipated follow-up to The Office, is a quieter affair, and a little less accessible that its award-laden predecessor. But across the six episodes on this first season DVD set are several episodes that will richly reward repeated viewings. Gervais plays Andy Millman, an actor whose roster of jobs seems to consistently consist of extras work. Each episode follows him on a different production, and also brings in a notable guest star. Lining up throughout the series are the likes of Samuel L Jackson, Kate Winslet and Ben Stiller. And while their presence undoubtedly adds something to each carefully crafted episode, it's perhaps those with the lesser names that show the programme on top form-certainly the appearance of Les Dennis makes for an excellent half hour of comedy-drama. At the core though is Gervais' Millman-a far easier character to warm to than David Brent-and Ashley Jensen's marvellous Maggie Jacobs. It's these two who consistently provide the show's highlights, and while the headlines have been generated by the all-star roster of names attracted to appear in Extras, it's the two less showy characters who work the best. Extras isn't a show full of belly laughs, and its fanbase is likely to be smaller than that of The Office. But it's still a quality creation, properly crafted, with an awful lot to it to enjoy and appreciated. [+]
-Simon Brew.

Review Warner Home Video / Miss Congeniality [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Michael Caine
  • Candice Bergen
  • Donald Petrie
  • William Shatner
  • Benjamin Bratt
Release date: 2001-11-12
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £1.99

Review Miss Congeniality [2001] / Warner Home Video:

It's a good thing Sandra Bullock knows her strengths and weaknesses, because without Bullock as star and producer, Miss Congeniality would be an insufferable mess as opposed to being a mildly enjoyable trifle that is custom-made for Bullock's established screen persona. Here she plays nerdy FBI agent Gracie Hart, who is given the horrific pseudonym Gracie Lou Freebush (one example of the film's juvenile tendencies) when assigned to infiltrate a beauty pageant to investigate threats of a terrorist attack. Transforming Bullock from frumpy to stunning is a piece of cake (although she gives pageant coach Michael Caine a run for his money), so the film's premise is trivial at best. More enjoyable is her character's uncouth disdain for pageant contestants and her mistaken perception that they're all a bunch of bimbos. The film nicely charts Gracie's realisation that her pageant makeover provides a much-needed ego boost. In addition to Caine's effortless scene-stealing, pageant host William Shatner and organiser Candice Bergen are smart choices for comedic support (Shatner is a perfect Bert Parks wannabe), but the film desperately needs a credible foundation for its comedy to really pay off. None of the plotting is as smart as predecessors like Beverly Hills Cop in combining procedure with laughs. That leaves Bullock to carry the burden of a comedy that barely works in her favour. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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Nina's Heavenly Delights [2006], Clarence - Series 1, Nathan Barley, Will and Grace: Complete Series 5, Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer - Complete Collection, Dear Ladies (Hinge & Bracket) : Complete BBC Series 2 [1984], Hotel Babylon : Complete BBC Series 2 [2007], Skins - Series 2 - Complete [2007], Marcus Brigstocke - Planet Corduroy [2007], The Vicar Of Dibley: Holy Wholly Happy Ending (BBC), Old School [2003], Mrs Brown's Boys Box Set, About a Boy [2002], Anchorman / Old School (Box Set) [2003], Peter's Friends [1992], Mon Oncle [1958], Yes, Prime Minister - The Complete Series 2, Al Murray : The Pub Landlord - Live At The Palladium [2007], Extras : Complete BBC Series 1 [2005], Miss Congeniality [2001]

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