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Review Network / Bless This House - Series 1-6 - Complete / Bless This House [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 1625 min.
Creator: Sid James
RRP: £89.99
Price: £52.89

Review Bless This House - Series 1-6 - Complete / Bless This House [DVD] / Network:


Review 20th Century Fox / M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell, And Amen [DVD] [1983] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Jamie Farr
  • Wayne Rogers
  • Alan Alda
  • Loretta Swit
  • William Christopher
Release date: 2007-05-15
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Elias Davis

Review M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell, And Amen [DVD] [1983] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / 20th Century Fox:


Review E1 Entertainment / Will and Grace: Series 5 (Vol. 6) [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Sean Hayes
  • Macaulay Culkin
  • Megan Mullally
  • Eric McCormack
  • Debra Messing
  • James Burrows
Release date: 2005-03-07
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Debra Messing
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.23

Review Will and Grace: Series 5 (Vol. 6) [DVD] / E1 Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / Eureka: Season One [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Jordan Hinson
  • Colin Ferguson
  • Colin Bucksey
  • Jefery Levy
  • Marita Grabiak
  • David Straiton
  • Jeff Woolnough
  • Salli Richardson-Whitfield
  • Joe Morton
  • Ed Quinn
Release date: 2007-07-03
Run time: 558 min.
Creator: Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Price: £19.59

Review Eureka: Season One [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Universal Studios:


Review Peter Cook / Peter Cook - A Posthumerous Tribute [DVD]
Release date: 2003-03-17
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.97

Review Peter Cook - A Posthumerous Tribute [DVD] / Peter Cook:


Review Warner Home Video / Friends - Series 8 - Episodes 17-20 [DVD] [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Matt LeBlanc
  • Matthew Perry
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • Courteney Cox
Release date: 2003-10-27
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Marta Kauffman
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.98

Review Friends - Series 8 - Episodes 17-20 [DVD] [1995] / Warner Home Video:

In a welcome change of pace, the relationship complications in this volume of Friends Series 8 fall upon Phoebe as "The One with the Tea Leaves" hooks her up with a stellar cameo from Alec Baldwin. He reappears for the elder Gellers' 35th wedding anniversary party in "The One in Massapequa", where it turns out some white lies have been bandied about to cover Rachel's pregnancy. Then, in what seems like a complete stand-alone episode, "The One with Joey's Interview" has Matt LeBlanc on top form preparing to be interviewed by Soap Opera Digest. Naturally he goofs things up big time. His next disaster awaits him when hosting a new quiz show, but this is all secondary in "The One with the Baby Shower" to Rachel realising how scatty her maternal instincts are while her own mother gets underfoot. This episode features an impressively emotional performance from Aniston as she comes to terms with coming into term. -Paul Tonks.

Review Revolver Entertainment / Jamie Foxx - The Foxx Box [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Jamie Foxx
Release date: 2005-03-14
Creator: Jamie Foxx
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.97

Review Jamie Foxx - The Foxx Box [DVD] / Revolver Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / NewsRadio: The Complete Third Season [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregg Heschong
  • Dave Foley
  • Vicki Lewis
  • Andy Dick
  • Alan Myerson
  • Drake Sather
  • Stephen Root
  • James Burrows
  • Judi Elterman
  • Maura Tierney
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 563 min.
Creator: Stephen Root
Price: £19.70

Review NewsRadio: The Complete Third Season [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Comedy Central / South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Trey Parker
  • Matt Stone
  • Mona Marshall
  • April Stewart
  • Trey Parker
  • Isaac Hayes
Release date: 2008-08-12
Run time: 308 min.
Creator: Trisha Nixon
Price: £23.45

Review South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Comedy Central:


Review Lionsgate / Weeds: Season 1 [Blu-ray] [2005] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Perkins
  • Craig Zisk
  • Mary-Louise Parker
  • Brian Dannelly
  • Alexander Gould
  • Lee Rose
  • Arlene Sanford
  • Hunter Parrish
  • Burr Steers
  • Kevin Nealon
Release date: 2007-05-29
Run time: 283 min.
Creator: Elizabeth Perkins
Price: £13.27

Review Weeds: Season 1 [Blu-ray] [2005] [US Import] / Lionsgate:

With its fantastic comedy series Weeds, cable network Showtime finally gave up its also-ran status to HBO and found itself with a controversial, buzz-worthy show that was as hilarious as it was dark, one about a truly desperate housewife. A recent widow with two growing sons, Nancy Botwin (Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker) looks like a typical resident of the affluent Southern California suburb of Agrestic. She keeps a clean, upscale house (with the help of a live-in maid), attends PTA meetings, goes to her kids' soccer games, makes frequent stops at the local coffee franchise. and sells marijuana in order to make it all possible. Left with no way to support herself after her beloved husband's fatal heart attack, Nancy turns herself into the "suburban baroness of bud," dealing to her neighbors in the area, with the help of her supplier Heylia (Tonye Patano) and point man Conrad (Romany Malco). Nancy's clients run from the local councilman (Kevin Nealon) to the just-barely-legal students at the local community college, but many in Agrestic are still in the dark as to how she keeps her family afloat, including her best friend, the sardonic Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), a wife and mother whose blistering, withering put-downs could make Dorothy Parker cringe in fear. But like many small-business owners, Nancy yearns for more success and cash, and like her workaholic neighbors, finds keeping a balance between work life and home life to be extremely precarious at best. [+]
While Desperate Housewives yearned to be a suburban satire with bite, Weeds was the real deal, skewering upper-middle class mores with a sharp eye, a keen wit, and a mostly forgiving heart. In episode after episode, the show's creative team (led by creator Jenji Kohan) pulled back the layers of Agrestic's superficiality to show what lies beneath the squeaky-clean exteriors and smiling faces; it turns out that hunger, fear, desire, and, yes, desperation aren't that far down. However, Weeds forsakes pulpiness and florid drama for biting yet affectionate humor - its heroine is a woman with sliding morals, but one you'll root for to the very end. The effervescent Parker, the only actress who can mix perkiness with morbidity in just the right amounts, anchored the show with her amazing turn as Nancy, who by the end of the first season had become a kind of soccer-mom version of Michael Corleone, entering a corrupt world with both trepidation and fascination - and totally enamoured of the power it brought her. Also perfectly cast, Perkins found the role of a lifetime as the bitterly hilarious Celia, and entering the show in its fourth episode, Justin Kirk (Parker's co-star in Angels in America) proved to be a potent secret weapon as Nancy's brother-in-law Andy, a slacker who wasn't above peddling t-shirts to elementary school kids. As icky as these characters might appear on the surface, Weeds made them all immensely appealing and great company to be around. Don't say we didn't warn you: one hit and you'll be hooked on this show. The DVDs feature six episode commentaries with cast and crew, out-takes, original featurettes, a music video, and most enjoyably, Agrestic Herbal Recipes (for entertainment value only, we assume) and the "Smoke and Mirrors" marijuana mockumentary. -Mark Englehart.

Review John Williams Productions / Rab C. Nesbitt - Fitba/Home [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Elaine C. Smith
  • Andrew Fairlie
  • Gregor Fisher
Release date: 2007-02-26
Creator: Elaine C. Smith
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.42

Review Rab C. Nesbitt - Fitba/Home [DVD] / John Williams Productions:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete Third Series [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Bovell
  • Beth Goddard
  • Liddy Oldroyd
  • Rosalind Knight
  • Tristram Shapeero
  • Kathy Burke
  • James Dreyfus
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 171 min.
Creator: Sue Vertue
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.49

Review Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete Third Series [VHS] [1999] / Vision Video Ltd.:

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme took situation comedy to new peaks of vulgarity when it returned for a third and final series in 2001, thanks to the full-on performances of James Dreyfus (Tom) and Kathy Burke (Linda) who suck up Jonathan Harvey's innuendo-laden scripts and spit them out like a couple of thespian tornados. "I don't think anything could relax my lips, baby," leers Burke, milking the endless supply of double entendres. "Mind you, after a couple of vodkas they're usually flapping around like flip-flops. " Tom's descent into self-parody-when he looks in the mirror, he sees the new Noel Coward-can have only one logical conclusion: the offer of a bit-part in Crossroads which eventually splits up this dysfunctional friendship. Sex-crazed Linda is deluded beyond all reason-when she looks in the mirror, she sees Catherine Zeta Jones-and here we finally get some insight into the reasons behind her grotesque traits: visits from her old Borstal wing governor (the excellent Ann Mitchell, sending up her Widows character), and the long-lost son she gave up for adoption. Like all successful comedy, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme has its dark side. It also becomes increasingly surreal as the episodes pass: Tom fails miserably in a walk-on role in a conceptual Japanese drama presented in a fire station; and Linda turns the back garden into a campsite. Sophisticated it isn't, but it's often wickedly hilarious and occasionally brilliant. On the DVD: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme is presented in standard 14:9 format with a stereo soundtrack, replicating the sitcom viewing experience. Apart from the episode index, there are no extras. [+]
At the very least biographies of Harvey, Burke and Dreyfus would have been useful. -Piers Ford.

Review GT Media / Totally Spies!, Vol. 2 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Jess Harnell
  • Adrian Truss
  • Jennifer Hale
  • Andrea Baker
  • Katie Leigh
Release date: 2004-04-20
Run time: 22 min.
Creator: Jeny Quine

Review Totally Spies!, Vol. 2 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / GT Media:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Blackadder - The Second - Bells, Head, Potato [VHS] [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Allen
  • Brian Blessed
  • Elspet Gray
  • Tim McInnerny
  • Rowan Atkinson
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Brian Blessed
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.16

Review Blackadder - The Second - Bells, Head, Potato [VHS] [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Sony Pictures / News Radio: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Maura Tierney
  • Judi Elterman
  • Vicki Lewis
  • Andy Dick
  • Gregg Heschong
  • Joe Furey
  • James Burrows
  • Alan Myerson
  • Stephen Root
  • Dave Foley
Release date: 2006-06-20
Run time: 480 min.
Creator: Alan J. Higgins
Price: £19.45

Review News Radio: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Sony Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / Friends - Series 9 - Vol. 1 - Eps 1-4 [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Courteney Cox
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • David Schwimmer
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Matthew Perry
Release date: 2003-10-27
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Courteney Cox
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.99

Review Friends - Series 9 - Vol. 1 - Eps 1-4 [DVD] [2003] / Warner Home Video:

Nine years is a long time for any group of Friends to stick so closely together, but somehow the gang are still as daftly charming as ever. After the birth of Emma, Rachel comes to terms with being a mother surprisingly well. It's how everyone else deals with it that makes things interesting. Joey's accidental proposal creates weird friction between him and Ross, who breaks his finger throwing the show's first ever punch. Monica becomes desperately broody and attempts all manner of convoluted ways of persuading Chandler (unfortunately he inadvertently bankrupts them in a move to Tulsa). Phoebe, on the other hand, occupies herself in the dating game, holding on to Mike (Paul Rudd) in the longest guest star relationship anyone's ever had. Other surprise guests this year include Freddie Prinze Jr as an overly sensitive nanny (in the 200th episode), Christina Applegate as another of Rachel's sisters and Jeff Goldblum playing himself on the set of another movie on which Joey is trying to get a break. As always the sparks occasionally fly between Rachel and Ross, while the others manage to strain their own relationships to the max. The real reason for watching now is the one-off kooky scenarios in which they-or rather Joey-get into. His endless dating finally sees him stuck for remembering if he's already slept with a girl; he botches an attempt at eyebrow waxing; and he manages to make Chandler think that Monica wants a breast enhancement. [+]
A 10th series and potential movie spin-off were announced well before the year was over, meaning six very rich actors will be supplying the fun for some time yet to come. -Paul Tonks.

Review Acorn Media / The Good Life - Series 3 - Episodes 4 To 6 [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Felicity Kendal
  • Paul Eddington
  • Richard Briers
  • Penelope Keith
Release date: 2001-04-02
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Felicity Kendal
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.00

Review The Good Life - Series 3 - Episodes 4 To 6 [VHS] / Acorn Media:

The Good Life has proven an enduring jewel in the BBC's mainstream comedy archive. More than 25 years after it first appeared in our living rooms, nostalgia must be a major reason for its appeal. A whole generation of young men-and their fathers-found the weekly sight of Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good, pert in denim dungarees, irresistible. But it's the quality of the playing that has really stood the test of time and triumphs over a premise-self-sufficiency in Surbiton-that now seems naïve. Even in 1975, a Tom Good (a masterpiece of comic eccentricity from Richard Briers) quitting the rat race would probably have sold up his semi and chanced his luck as a small holder somewhere more remote than suburban Surrey. Comic tensions arise not just from the Goods' daily struggle to beat the system on their own terms, but also from the relationship with their incredulous, often horrified, but usually supportive neighbours. Penelope Keith's Margo Leadbetter remains one of the great comic creations in British sitcom history-a simmering volcano of conservatism waging her own battle against creeping mediocrity in all aspects of life, whose human frailty somehow keeps her loveable. Paul Eddington as Jerry, her long-suffering husband, spars splendidly. Happy memories indeed. -Piers Ford.

Review Warner Home Video / South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Kay Bergman
  • Isaac Hayes
  • Trey Parker
  • Matt Stone
  • Jesse Howell
  • Trey Parker
Release date: 2000-03-27
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Pam Brady
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.29

Review South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut [VHS] [1999] / Warner Home Video:

Ok, let's get all the disclaimers out of the way first. Despite its colourful (if crude) animation, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is in no way meant for kids. It is chock full of profanity that might even make Quentin Tarantino blanch and has blasphemous references to God, Satan, Saddam Hussein (who's sleeping with Satan, literally), and Canada. It's rife with scatological humour, suggestive sexual situations, political incorrectness and gleeful, rampant vulgarity. And it's probably one of the most brilliant satires ever made. The plot: flatulent Canadian gross-meisters Terrance and Philip hit the big screen, and the South Park quartet of third graders-Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman-begin repeating their profane one-liners ad infinitum. The parents of South Park, led by Kyle's overbearing mom, form "Mothers Against Canada", blaming their neighbours to the north for their children's corruption and taking Terrance and Philip as war prisoners. It's up to the kids then to rescue their heroes from execution, not mention a brooding Satan, who's planning to take over the world. To give away any more of the plot would destroy the fun, but this feature-length version of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Comedy Central hit is a dead-on and hilarious send-up of pop culture. And did we mention it's a musical? From the opening production number "Mountain Town" to the cheerful anti-profanity sing-along "It's Easy, MMMKay" to Satan's faux-Disney ballad "Up There", Parker (who wrote or cowrote all the songs) brilliantly shoots down every earnest musical from Beauty and the Beast to Les Misérables. [+]
And in advocating free speech and satirising well-meaning but misguided parental censorship groups, Bigger, Longer & Uncut hits home against adult paranoia and hypocrisy with a vengeance. And the jokes, while indeed vulgar and gross, are hysterical; we can't repeat them here, especially the lyrics to Terrance and Philip's hit song, but you'll be rolling on the floor. Don't worry, though-to paraphrase Cartman, this movie won't warp your fragile little mind. -Mark Englehart.

Review Mollin Video / Asterix In Britain [1986] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Pino Van Lamsweerde|Roger Carel|Pierre Tornade|Nicolas Silberg
Release date: 1999-04-19
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Pino Van Lamsweerde|Roger Carel|Pierre Tornade|Nicolas Silberg
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.99

Review Asterix In Britain [1986] [VHS] / Mollin Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Cow Belles [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Coleman (II)
  • Francine McDougall
  • Sheila McCarthy
  • Michael Trevino
  • Alyson Michalka
  • Amanda Michalka
Release date: 2006-06-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Amanda Michalka
Price: £3.32

Review Cow Belles [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Walt Disney Video:


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Bless This House - Series 1-6 - Complete / Bless This House [DVD], M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Farewell, And Amen [DVD] [1983] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Will and Grace: Series 5 (Vol. 6) [DVD], Eureka: Season One [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Peter Cook - A Posthumerous Tribute [DVD], Friends - Series 8 - Episodes 17-20 [DVD] [1995], Jamie Foxx - The Foxx Box [DVD], NewsRadio: The Complete Third Season [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Weeds: Season 1 [Blu-ray] [2005] [US Import], Rab C. Nesbitt - Fitba/Home [DVD], Gimme, Gimme, Gimme - The Complete Third Series [VHS] [1999], Totally Spies!, Vol. 2 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Blackadder - The Second - Bells, Head, Potato [VHS] [1983], News Radio: The Complete Fourth Season [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Friends - Series 9 - Vol. 1 - Eps 1-4 [DVD] [2003], The Good Life - Series 3 - Episodes 4 To 6 [VHS], South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut [VHS] [1999], Asterix In Britain [1986] [VHS], Cow Belles [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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