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Review Touchstone / Disney / Brothers and Sisters: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dave Annable
  • Balthazar Getty
Release date: 2008-09-23
Run time: 671 min.
Creator: Sarah Jane Morris
Price: £26.60

Review Brothers and Sisters: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Touchstone / Disney:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Falling In Love [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Jane Kaczmarek
  • Ulu Grosbard
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Robert De Niro
  • Meryl Streep
  • George Martin (II)
Release date: 2002-06-10
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.45

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Cromwell [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Guinness
  • Ken Hughes
  • Richard Harris
  • Frank Finlay
  • Robert Morley
  • Dorothy Tutin
Release date: 2003-11-10
Run time: 134 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.87

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Review Warner Home Video / Mrs Miniver [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Pidgeon
  • Teresa Wright
  • Reginald Owen
  • William Wyler
  • Dame May Whitty
  • Greer Garson
Release date: 2004-02-16
Run time: 134 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.98

Review Mrs Miniver [1942] / Warner Home Video:

A movie doesn't win seven Oscars for nothing. A glowing Greer Garson (Best Actress) commands the screen as Mrs Miniver, a middle-class British housewife whose strength holds her family together as World War II literally hits their home. Walter Pidgeon as her architect husband seems to be the prototype for future TV dads in this affecting portrait of love-familial and romantic-during war. But the relationship between Mrs Miniver's college-age son (Richard Ney) and the upper-crust Carol (Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright) is filled with inherent drama-as the war speeds up their young love, it also has the potential to doom it. The 1942 film, which also won for Best Picture and Best Director, is filled with colourful characters, snappy dialogue and sensational plot twists. Although you spend much of the movie dreading that one of the Minivers will become a casualty of war, when it finally happens, it's not what you anticipated. Exactly what you would expect from a legendary film that lives up to its billing. -Valerie J. Nelson, Amazon. com.

Review Anthony Lapaglia / Without A Trace - Complete Season 3
Release date: 2006-07-24
RRP: £59.99
Price: £10.99

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Review Mr Bongo Films / L'Avventura [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Renzo Ricci
  • Lea Massari
  • Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Monica Vitti
  • Dominique Blanchar
  • Gabriele Ferzetti
Release date: 2008-06-30
Run time: 133 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.75

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Review Showbox Home Entertainment / First of the Few [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Howard
  • Rosamund John
  • Leslie Howard
  • Anne Firth
  • David Niven
  • Roland Culver
Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 114 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.45

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Review Ugc Films / The Return [2003] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Natalia Vdovina
  • Andrey Zvyagintsev
  • Vladimir Garin
  • Konstantin Lavronenko
  • Ivan Dobronravov
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Icon Home Entertainment / Ae Fond Kiss [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Ken Loach
  • Eva Birthistle
  • Emma Friel
  • Shabana Bakhsh
Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.96

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Roman Holiday [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • William Wyler
  • Gregory Peck
  • Eddie Albert
  • Hartley Power
  • Harcourt Williams
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.60

Review Roman Holiday [1953] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The three-way combination of ingénue Audrey Hepburn, admirable Gregory Peck and the Eternal City itself guarantees that Roman Holiday (1953) still knocks the socks off any modern rom-com you might care to name. Add to this stellar triumvirate the meticulous, loving direction of William Wyler and a warm-hearted original story by Dalton Trumbo (blacklisted and uncredited at the time) and the result is assuredly one of Hollywood's timeless classics. At the leading man's own suggestion, newcomer Hepburn was generously accorded equal above-the-title billing with Peck: he knew that the film belonged to her anyway and wasn't one to stand on ceremony. As the princess who chafes at stuffy responsibility Hepburn's appealing girlishness is suffused with a will and wilfulness that rubs delightfully against Peck's more earnest mannerisms (even playing light-hearted comedy, he's still Atticus Finch at heart). The then-unusual decision to shoot entirely on location provides the movie with its glorious travelogue backdrop, and stalwart character-actor Eddie Albert is a fine foil for the two leads. Although Wyler is best known now for the grander vistas of The Big Country and Ben-Hur, none of his epics have as much heart as this. On the DVD: Roman Holiday comes to DVD in a good digitally restored print-in itself a powerful reason to acquire the movie on disc. Sound is clean Dolby mono. Extras include a brief piece on the film restoration process, and a short documentary about costume designer Edith Head, which isn't specifically about this movie. The 25-minute making-of featurette has recent and archive interviews with cast members, including Peck and Eddie Albert, as well as William Wyler's daughter, plus Hepburn's screen test footage. [+]
Still-photo galleries and trailers complete a pleasant selection. -Mark Walker.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Somewhere In Time [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Jane Seymour
  • Jeannot Szwarc
  • Christopher Reeve
  • Bill Erwin
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Teresa Wright
Release date: 2003-11-10
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.97

Review Somewhere In Time [1980] / Universal Pictures UK:

It's silly, it's superficial, it's so desperately earnest about its tale of time-spanning love that you almost wish for a cheap flatulence gag just to break the solemn mood. But there is something so unabashedly gushy and entertaining about Somewhere in Time that you can't begrudge its enduring popularity. The film has become a staple of romantic-movie lovers since its release in 1980, and endless showings on cable TV have turned it into a dubious classic of sorts-a three-hanky weepy that anyone can enjoy as a guilty pleasure or a beloved favourite, with no apologies necessary. In his first film after the star-making success of Superman, Christopher Reeve stars as a contemporary playwright who visits a posh hotel and sees the portrait of an actress (Jane Seymour) who had performed there in 1912. He becomes obsessed with this beautiful woman and learns all he can about her, and then discovers a method of hypnotically transporting himself backward in time to meet her. "Is it. you?" she says upon seeing the lovestruck playwright, and it's clearly a mutual attraction. But even the slightest reminder of the playwright's modern time can jar him from his seemingly real existence in the past, so his wonderful love affair is constantly just a step from being stolen away. [+]
Based on Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return, this flaky film may strain one's tolerance for plot holes and corny romance, but it's hard to deny its lasting appeal-and let's face it, guys, it'll make wives and girlfriends swoon if they are in a tearjerker mood. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Unfaithful [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Gere
  • Myra Lucretia Taylor
  • Adrian Lyne
  • Olivier Martinez
  • Erik Per Sullivan
  • Diane Lane
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.39

Review Unfaithful [2002] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Although the premise of infidelity and its devastating consequences on all involved may not be a new one, Unfaithful still manages to emerge as a stylish, involving thriller. Based on an obscure 1970s French offering, director Adrian Lynne's version is pure Hollywood, from its casting of Richard Gere and Diane Lane in the lead roles, to its graceful visual style and even its somewhat unsatisfactory denouement. It's impossible not to watch the film without thinking of Lynne's own Fatal Attraction, although here the gender roles have been reversed to focus on the affair between bored suburban housewife Connie and exotic French book dealer Paul. The obsessive relationship between the two provides the film with its only real frisson. Gere is given very little to work with as the dull cuckolded husband Edward and delivers even less. The film moves rather slowly towards its key plot twist which never really lives up to its promise. On the DVD: Unfaithful may be lacking a little as a film, but this DVD is an impressive package. The film has a rich visual element and the digital picture quality brings out the best in Adrian Lynne's unique eye for detail. The reams of extras include commentaries from director Lynne and the cast, a well put together documentary, interviews, features, deleted scenes and a (superior) alternative ending. Lynne is always good interview value, coming across as a slightly less eccentric Ken Russell, and Lane and Olivier Martinez are both engaging and charismatic. [+]
A shame, then, that the movie itself isn't quite so impressive. -Phil Udell.

Review ITV DVD / Prime Suspect Complete Collection Box Set [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Glenister
  • Danny Dyer
  • John Strickland
  • Helen Mirren
  • David Drury
  • Christopher Menaul
  • John Madden
  • Philip Martin
  • Lesley Sharp
  • James Laurenson
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 1402 min.
RRP: £99.99
Price: £19.99

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Review Pathe Distribution / 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Coogan
  • Shirley Henderson
  • Nigel Pivaro
  • John Thomson
  • Lennie James
  • Michael Winterbottom
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.29

Review 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002] / Pathe Distribution:

Beginning during the dawn of Factory Records-as Tony Wilson throws himself off a cliff for Granada TV-24 Hour Party People attempts to capture the essence of the ill-fated label which spawned Joy Division/New Order, The Happy Mondays and the venue that started modern Club Culture, the Hacienda in Manchester. Director Michael Winterbottom takes a very different approach to most music biographies, by making the film self-aware that it is a film and ironically looking at its own role within the history of the "Mad-chester" scene. Inspired by Wilson's autobiographical musings, the film is narrated in character by Steve Coogan as Wilson. He offers sporadic moments from his life-his "career" as a presenter at Granada and his several marriages-which in turn influence the destructive nature of the label he founded. Coogan's Wilson gives monologues to camera which remind the audience that what they are watching is only his perspective. Yet with Coogan in the title role it's impossible to ignore the similarities between Wilson and Alan Partridge; and although this adds instant humour to the film it also instantly pins Wilson with the comic "Partridge" tag of fated fool. The cinematography, on the other hand, tries faithfully to embody the feeling of the times, from grainy celluloid for the punk-like Joy Division gigs to bright, clean-cut images for the birth of the Hacienda. The film also benefits from an amazing soundtrack and strong supporting characters. It all adds up to a picture that's purely British in character: imbued with irony, down-and-out inspiration, and a touch of the surreal. On the DVD: 24 Hour Party People comes as a two-disc set, but there really is little need. [+]
Disc 1 is loaded with great extras, such as the deleted scenes, commentaries and Mad-chester musings, but the second disc is a little on the dull side. This really could have been just a single great DVD. There's an excellent screen and audio transfer that brings both the music and the lurid colours to life and the disc also offers that all-important function for hardcore clubbers: a hard of hearing option. -Nikki Disney.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Waking The Dead : Complete BBC Series 1 [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Sue Johnston
  • Martin Hutchings
  • Robert Del Maestro
  • Trevor Eve
  • Gary Love
  • Ben Bolt (II)
  • Jim O'Hanlon
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 400 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £8.50

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Review Warner Home Video / The Bodyguard [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Waite
  • Mick Jackson
  • Gary Kemp
  • Whitney Houston
  • Bill Cobbs
  • Kevin Costner
Release date: 1999-09-27
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £2.99

Review The Bodyguard [1992] / Warner Home Video:

This 1992 crowd pleaser made almost as much money for Whitney Houston as its chart-busting soundtrack. A high-wattage star vehicle as only Hollywood can make, The Bodyguard stars Houston as a pop-music diva (now there's a stretch) and Kevin Costner as the stern bodyguard who is assigned to protect her after the singer receives some nasty death threats. Pop star and bodyguard don't hit it off at first, but they wear down each others' defenses, and before long Houston is baring her tonsils with a rousing rendition of the Dolly Parton chestnut "I Will Always Love You. " The film, written by Lawrence Kasden, was originally intended for Steve McQueen, but the script languished for years before Houston took an interest in the project. A proposed sequel would potentially have starred Costner and Princess Diana, until Diana's tragic death precluded that possibility. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review 2 Entertain Video / The State Within : Complete BBC Series [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Offer
  • Ben Daniels
  • Neil Pearson
  • Sharon Gless
  • Daniel Percival
  • Jason Isaacs
Release date: 2007-01-22
Run time: 351 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £5.00

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Thirteen Days [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Costner
  • Lucinda Jenney
  • Caitlin Wachs
  • Shawn Driscoll
  • Drake Cook
  • Roger Donaldson
Release date: 2005-08-01
Run time: 145 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.38

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Review Warner Home Video / John Adams [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Polley
  • David Morse
  • Justin Theroux
  • Tom Hooper
  • Tom Wilkinson
  • Paul Giamatti
Release date: 2009-01-01
RRP: £39.99
Price: £17.99

Review John Adams [2008] / Warner Home Video:

Based on David McCullough's bestselling biography, the HBO miniseries John Adams is the furthest thing from a starry-eyed look at America's founding fathers and the brutal path to independence. Adams (Paul Giamatti), second president of the United States, is portrayed as a skilled orator and principled attorney whose preference for justice over anti-English passions earns enemies. But he also gains the esteem of the first national government of the United States, i. e. , the Continental Congress, which seeks non-firebrands capable of making a reasoned if powerful case for America's break from England's monarchy. The first thing one notices about John Adams' dramatisations of congress' proceedings, and the fervent pro-independence violence in the streets of Boston and elsewhere, is that America's roots don't look pretty or idealised here. Some horrendous things happen in the name of protest, driving Adams to push the cause of independence in a legitimate effort to get on with a revolutionary war under the command of George Washington. But the process isn't easy: not every one of the 13 colonies-turned-states is ready to incur the wrath of England, and behind-the-scenes negotiations prove as much a part of 18th century congressional sessions as they do today. Besides this peek into a less-romanticised version of the past, John Adams is also a story of the man himself. Adams' frustration at being forgotten or overlooked at critical junctures of America's early development-sent abroad for years instead of helping to draft the U. [+]
S. constitution-is detailed. So is his dismay that the truth of what actually transpired leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence has been slowly forgotten and replaced by a rosier myth. But above all, John Adams is the story of two key ties: Adams' 54-year marriage to Abigail Adams (Laura Linney), every bit her husband's intellectual equal and anchor, and his difficult, almost symbiotic relationship with Thomas Jefferson (Stephen Dillane) over decades. Giamatti, of course, has to carry much of the drama, and if he doesn't always seem quite believable in the series' first half, he becomes increasingly excellent at the point where an aging Adams becomes bitter over his place in history. Linney is marvelous, as is Dillane, Sarah Polley as daughter Nabby, Danny Huston as cousin Samuel Adams, and above all Tom Wilkinson as a complex but indispensable Ben Franklin. -Tom Keogh.

Review ITV DVD / Whistle Down The Wind [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Bird
  • Bryan Forbes
  • Hayley Mills
  • Elsie Wagstaff
  • Alan Bates
  • Bernard Lee
Release date: 2004-05-17
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.13

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Brothers and Sisters: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Falling In Love [1984], Cromwell [1970], Mrs Miniver [1942], Without A Trace - Complete Season 3, L'Avventura [1961], First of the Few [1942], The Return [2003] [2004], Ae Fond Kiss [2004], Roman Holiday [1953], Somewhere In Time [1980], Unfaithful [2002], Prime Suspect Complete Collection Box Set [2006], 24 Hour Party People - Single Disc Edition [2002], Waking The Dead : Complete BBC Series 1 [2001], The Bodyguard [1992], The State Within : Complete BBC Series [2006], Thirteen Days [2001], John Adams [2008], Whistle Down The Wind [1961]

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