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Review Turner Home Entertainment / Ben 10: The Complete Season 1 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scooter Tidwell
  • Paul Eiding
  • Richard Steven Horvitz
  • Dee Bradley Baker
  • Richard McGonagle
  • Alex Soto
  • Steve Blum
Release date: 2007-02-06
Run time: 286 min.
Creator: Kevin Hopps
Price: £10.04

Review Ben 10: The Complete Season 1 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home Entertainment:


Review Family Guy / Family Guy - Series 1 To 5 - Complete
Release date: 2006-10-30
Run time: 754 min.
RRP: £99.99
Price: £49.56

Review Family Guy - Series 1 To 5 - Complete / Family Guy:


Review Entertainment in Video / Little Nicky [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Rhys Ifans
  • Adam Sandler
  • Steven Brill
  • Patricia Arquette
Release date: 2001-05-14
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Tim Herlihy
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.00

Review Little Nicky [2000] / Entertainment in Video:

In Little Nicky, Adam Sandler plays the sweetest of three sons of Satan (Harvey Keitel), who's got to go to Earth and retrieve his nasty, power-hungry brothers lest they take over Hell and make it a thoroughly evil place. As with Sandler's other films, this weird premise (based oh-so-loosely on King Lear) is just an excuse to trot out a hodgepodge of comic bits and cameo performances. Admittedly, a lot of the jokes don't work (there was no need to repeat the one about shoving a pineapple up Hitler's ass) but the ones that do tend to be more memorable than the ones that don't, making for a pretty funny movie, when all is said and done. Sure, it's hard to overcome Sandler's speech impediment du jour, not to mention that romantic subplot with Patricia Arquette but it can be done by focusing on the brilliant cameos by Regis Philbin, Reese Witherspoon, Ozzy Osborne, and Henry Winkler (especially when he's covered with bees), as well as one of the funniest uses of a scene from De Palma's Scarface in years. Supporting Sandler throughout are two very funny heavy metal disciples and a bulldog named Beefy (voiced by Robert Smigel, the man behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). And, in an almost unrecognisable cameo, that's Clint Howard as the cross-dressing fetishist named "Nipples". -Andy Spletzer, Amazon. com.

Review Uca / Bottle Rocket [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Musgrave
  • Owen C. Wilson
  • James Caan
  • Wes Anderson
  • Luke Wilson
Release date: 2007-12-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Clockwise [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Morahan
  • Penelope Wilton
  • John Cleese
  • Sharon Maiden
  • Stephen Moore
  • Alison Steadman
Release date: 2006-08-21
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.97

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' [1990-2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Merton
  • Ian Hislop
  • Angus Deayton
Release date: 2002-11-25
Run time: 217 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.99

Review The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' [1990-2002] / 2 Entertain Video:

Presented chronologically, The Very Best of Have I Got News for You is a massive three-and-a-quarter-hour compilation of many of the funniest and all the most famous moments from the first 12 years of the BBC comedy satire quiz show. From host Angus Deayton's witty 1990 hairstyle to his double introduction for the DVD and video versions of this compilation, revel in the ribald rivalry as "TV's Mr Sex" struggles to control team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. Relive such highlights as Paula Yates dubbing Hislop the "sperm of the devil", Roy Hattersley's stand-in, a tub of lard, and Germaine Greer and the infamous "F-me shoes" incident. See Boris Johnson get well and truly "stitched up" over an ill-advised phone call, Mr & Mrs Neil Hamilton accept their fees in brown paper bags and Piers Morgan totally fail to understand what makes the word "jam" hilarious. Other great moments include the controversy over John Birt's attempt to gag the BBC referring to Peter Mandelson's private life, John Simpson's good-natured account of his jungle trip, and Merton desperately trying to keep awake as Sir Rhodes Boyson droned on, and on, and on about, err. something or other. It's quite simply, TV comedy at its best. On the DVD: Have I Got News For You features a commentary with Ian Hislop and Paul Merton in which, rather than play for comedy, they talk interestingly about their memories of the various episodes. [+]
Nevertheless there are still some laughs to be had. Optional onscreen text provides a wealth of background to half-forgotten news stories, as well as usefully identifying the more obscure guests. Seven minutes of trailers are often hilarious, while a Newsnight feature intriguingly analyses why politicians go on HIGNFY. Terry Wogan tries to get the show into Room 101 in an extract from that show, and various politicians offer their views on the programme. The sound is functional stereo and the excellent picture is encoded to switch automatically from 4:3 to anamorphic 16:9 when HIGNFY moved to widescreen. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Fawlty Towers: Complete Series 1
Actors & Directors
  • Prunella Scales
  • Connie Booth
  • Andrew Sachs
  • John Cleese
  • Ballard Berkeley
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.98

Review Fawlty Towers: Complete Series 1 / 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 farce, 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 Series 1: A Touch of Class The Builders The Wedding Party The Hotel Inspectors Gourmet Night The Germans.

Review Vital / Ross Noble - Randomist [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Cal Barton
  • Ross Noble
  • Ross Noble
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 540 min.
Creator: Colin Dench
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.84

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Review Pathe Distribution / Love's Labour's Lost [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Natascha McElhone
  • Alicia Silverstone
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Carmen Ejogo
  • Alessandro Nivola
  • Kenneth Branagh
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.97

Review Love's Labour's Lost [2000] / Pathe Distribution:

Having taken Shakespeare at his word on Hamlet (i. e. , not cutting a single syllable out of a very long play), Kenneth Branagh selects a more radical approach with Love's Labour's Lost. Here the prolific director-star weeds out much of the play's dialogue, and adds songs and dances of a decidedly modern bent. The King of Navarre (Alessandro Nivola, Nicolas Cage's wacko brother in Face/Off) and his three comrades (Branagh, Matthew Lillard, Adrian Lester) take a vow: no womanly distractions while they pursue their studies. Ah, but at that very moment, floating down a magical studio-built river, is the queen of France (Alicia Silverstone), accompanied by three ladies-in-waiting. You do the maths. Branagh has set the tale on the eve of the Second World War, which allows for the inclusion of vintage pop songs, including "Cheek to Cheek", "The Way You Look Tonight" and a rousing chorus of "There's No Business Like Show Business", led by-who else?-Nathan Lane. The fact that most of the cast members are not accomplished song-and-dance folk is clearly meant to charm, but the results are spotty at best. Perhaps the most dynamic performer is Natascha McElhone (memorable from Ronin), whose aristocratic bearing and bottomless eyes lend a gravity to the material that is otherwise absent from Branagh's twinkly staging. [+]
The play contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest paeans to the language of love, yet Branagh seems to be in a hurry to juice everything up lest the audience lose interest. The labour shows. -Robert Horton.

Review Universal Pictures UK / A Town Called Eureka - Series 1 - Complete [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Jefery Levy
  • Debrah Farentino
  • Jordan Hinson
  • Salli Richardson
  • Colin Ferguson
  • Michael Lange
  • Joe Morton
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 537 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £17.74

Review A Town Called Eureka - Series 1 - Complete [2006] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Turner Home / Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scooter Tidwell
  • Claudia Schmidt
  • Marieke Oeffinger
  • Dwight Schultz
  • Sebastian Montes
  • Rob Paulsen
  • Paul Eiding
Release date: 2008-08-05
Run time: 220 min.
Creator: Joe Casey
Price: £9.71

Review Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Road To Zanzibar/Road To Morocco/Road To Singapore
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Hope
  • Anthony Quinn
  • Victor Schertzinger
  • Dorothy Lamour
  • Charles Coburn
  • David Butler
  • Bing Crosby
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 246 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.25

Review Road To Zanzibar/Road To Morocco/Road To Singapore / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Cinema Club / Drop The Dead Donkey - Complete Season 1
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Duncan
  • Jeff Rawle
  • Liddy Oldroyd
  • Victoria Wicks
  • Neil Pearson
  • David Swift
Release date: 2005-06-27
Run time: 240 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.85

Review Drop The Dead Donkey - Complete Season 1 / Cinema Club:

Drop the Dead Donkey was a situation, satirical comedy, set in the offices of "Globelink News", a fictional TV news company in the style of CNN, ITN, Sky News, etc. Globelink has been acquired by a multi-millionaire tycoon who prefers a more sensationalist stance to the news. The characters were created to exaggerate the perceived ideas of office/media stereotypes and each programme was recorded close to transmission, allowing script changes to incorporate maximum topicality in particularly of a political nature. The last scene, or voiceover for the ending credits was filmed either the day before or even on the day of broadcast to coincide with relative news stories. First aired in 1990, Drop the Dead Donkey was an innovative comedy that launched the careers of several successful comic actors.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Frasier - Season 7
Actors & Directors
  • Jane Leeves
  • John Mahoney
  • David Hyde Pierce
  • Peri Gilpin
  • Kelsey Grammer
Release date: 2007-07-09
Run time: 504 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £17.57

Review Frasier - Season 7 / Paramount Home Entertainment:

This is the pivotal season that finally, finally brings together Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Daphne (Jane Leeves), Frasier's answer to Ross and Rachel. Daphne, engaged to Donny (Saul Rubinek), learns of Niles' unrequited feelings for her from an extremely medicated Frasier in "Back Talk. " If Daphne's impending marriage was not obstacle enough to keep them apart, there is fussy, phobic, and formidable Dr. Mel Karnofsky (Jane Adams), Maris's former plastic surgeon, who is introduced in "The Late Dr. Crane" as a romantic interest for Niles. The season culminates in the Emmy-nominated episode "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue," arguably the show's very best, and most satisfying cliffhanger, in which Niles and Daphne make like Ben and Elaine in The Graduate, only in a Winnebago. Bebe Neuwirth makes another memorable return as the dread Lilith Crane in "The Apparent Trap," in which son Frederick employs psychological warfare to try and get a mini-bike from his parents. Episodes featuring Frasier's amoral agent Bebe Glaser (Harriet Samson Harris) are always a season highlight, and "Morning Becomes Entertainment" is no exception, as Bebe and Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) team up to host a TV morning chat show (who knew that Frasier had "a way with voices," as witness his Sean Connery and James Mason impressions!). Dan Butler also returns as Bulldog in the poignant episode "The Dog That Rocks the Cradle," A welcome addition to Frasier's gallery of colorful characters in Simon (Anthony LaPaglia in an Emmy-nominated performance), Daphne's besotted brother. Frasier Crane is a witty and urbane New Yorker cartoon in a lewd, crude shock jock world. [+]
In the hilarious episode "Radio Wars," he literally becomes the butt of his radio station's new morning team's stunts. Frasier is also at odds with his substitute producer, Mary (Kim Coles), a you-go-girl black woman, in "Something About Dr. Mary. " The series excelled at farce, and "RDWRER" is vintage Frasier, as the Crane men embark on a New Year's Eve road trip to Sun Valley, and Niles mistakenly thinks he's been kidnapped when he falls asleep in the wrong Winnebago. Another season benchmark is "Out with Dad," in which Frasier is compelled to pass off his father (John Mahoney) as gay. The lack of extras on this four-disc set is disappointing, but as wine snob Frasier might say, the seventh season was a very good year for the show that bears his name, and it's a pleasure to uncork its many delights. -Donald Liebenson.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Still Game - Series 1 [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Hines
  • Greg Hemphill
  • Sanjeev Kohli
  • Ford Kiernan
  • Jane McCarry
  • Paul Riley
Release date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.97

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Review 4 Front Video / Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Wincer
  • Jere Burns
  • Alec Wilson
  • Paul Hogan
  • Jonathan Banks
  • Linda Kozlowski
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Matthew Berry
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.54

Review Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles [2001] / 4 Front Video:

Made 13 years after the previous sequel, 2001's Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles sees Paul Hogan's likeable, heroic and unworldly Aussie hero accompany his partner Sue (Linda Kozlowski, Hogan's real-life wife) to Los Angeles. There he finds himself wrestling with the niceties of the Californian lifestyle somewhat less easily than he wrestles with crocs back in the outback. Sue, meanwhile, uncovers a smuggling plot involving artworks from Yugoslavia. Dundee duly steps forward to go undercover and-with a bit of muscle and survivalist nous-saves the day. As anyone who saw Escape from LA will testify, the moral here is: never make a sequel in Los Angeles. The kindest thing that can be said about this outing is that it is harmless. It exudes a family-friendly geniality throughout that almost makes its many flaws endurable-almost but not quite. Hogan-61 when he made this-makes for an embarrassingly implausible action hero, lacquered in trowel-loads of make-up to fill in the facial creases. The antipodean-abroad jokes are insultingly feeble; Dundee strolls into a gay bar by mistake, thinks the parking valet is a mugger, can't operate the remote control, etc. There's a cameo involving Mike Tyson that belongs nowhere and Kozlowski's performance only fuels suspicion that this is a husband and wife vanity project. [+]
If nothing else, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles is proof that Hollywood's alleged stony-heartedness is a myth, for it can only have been out of charity and benevolence to an elderly Australian thespian down on his luck that this movie was given the green light. On the DVD: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles is presented in anamorphic widescreen format with excellent image quality, bringing out the rich contrasts between the early outback scenes and the early establishing shots of sunlit LA. Sound quality is impeccable also. The only extras, however, are the trailer and some "behind the scenes" clips so perfunctory and unrevealing they might as well not have bothered. -David Stubbs.

Review Universal Pictures UK / W.C. Fields Collection [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • W.C. Fields
Release date: 2007-12-10
RRP: £69.99
Price: £30.48

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Review MGM Entertainment / Sleeper [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Woody Allen
  • John Beck
  • Don Keefer
  • Mary Gregory
  • Woody Allen
  • Diane Keaton
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Ralph Rosenblum
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.71

Review Sleeper [1973] / MGM Entertainment:

If Interiors was Woody Allen's Bergman movie, and Stardust Memories was his Fellini movie, then you could say that Sleeper is his Buster Keaton movie. Relying more on visual/conceptual/slapstick gags than his trademark verbal wit, Sleeper is probably the funniest of what would become known as Allen's "early, funny films" and a milestone in his development as a director. Allen plays Miles Monroe, cryogenically frozen in 1973 (he went into the hospital for an ulcer operation) and thawed 200 years later. Society has become a sterile, Big Brother-controlled dystopia, and Miles joins the underground resistance-joined by a pampered rich woman (Diane Keaton at her bubbliest). Among the most famous gags are Miles' attempt to impersonate a domestic-servant robot; the Orgasmatron, a futuristic home appliance that provides instant pleasure; a McDonald's sign boasting how many trillions the chain has served; and an inflatable suit that provides the means for a quick getaway. The kooky thawing scenes were later blatantly (and admittedly) ripped off by Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. -Jim Emerson.

Review Arrow Films / Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Pauline Collins
  • Gwenllian Davies
  • Anna Wilson-Jones
  • Sheila Reid
  • Ian Sharp
  • Peter Capaldi
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Vernon Coleman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.03

Review Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War [2003] / Arrow Films:


Review 4dvd / Peep Show - Series 2 [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • David Mitchell
  • Sam Bain
  • Robert Webb
  • Tristram Shapeero
  • Jesse Armstrong
Release date: 2005-11-14
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.97

Review Peep Show - Series 2 [2005] / 4dvd:


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Ben 10: The Complete Season 1 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Family Guy - Series 1 To 5 - Complete, Little Nicky [2000], Bottle Rocket [1995], Clockwise [1985], The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You' [1990-2002], Fawlty Towers: Complete Series 1, Ross Noble - Randomist [2006], Love's Labour's Lost [2000], A Town Called Eureka - Series 1 - Complete [2006], Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Road To Zanzibar/Road To Morocco/Road To Singapore, Drop The Dead Donkey - Complete Season 1, Frasier - Season 7, Still Game - Series 1 [2002], Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles [2001], W.C. Fields Collection [1932], Sleeper [1973], Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War [2003], Peep Show - Series 2 [2005]

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