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Review Water Bearer Films / Nuts in May [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Leigh
  • Eric Allan
  • Stephen Bill
  • Anthony O'Donnell
  • Roger Sloman
  • Sheila Kelley
Release date: 2004-06-29
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: David Rose
Price: £13.19

Review Nuts in May [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:

An early masterpiece from Mike Leigh, Nuts in May is a filmed-for-TV adaptation of an earlier stage play. The cast is small (only five characters who matter), but the acting is impeccable, and the mix of wicked humour and social observation make this one of Leigh's best works. Keith Pratt, a man who fully earns his surname due to his nit-picking obsessions with order and detail, takes his partner Candice-Marie, a well-meaning but irritating hippie, on a camping trip. There they meet Trevor, a shy teacher who finds their enforced friendship intrusive but is too polite to extricate himself, and a brash young couple of bikers, Honky and Finger, whose loud and chaotic personalities lead them into conflict with the repressed and dogmatic Keith. Plot isn't the issue here, since Leigh is far more interested in teasing out the subtleties of human behaviour, which he does with forensic skill in several unforgettable scenes. Funny and painful at the same time, like all Leigh's successes, Nuts in May is brilliantly acted by all concerned, though special mention must go to Roger Sloman, for bringing to life the appalling but ultimately pitiable Keith, and Alison Steadman, whose portrayal of fey, goofy and tragi-comic Candice-Marie is every bit as memorable and nuanced as her more famous turn as Beverley in Leigh's Abigail's Party. -Andy Medhurst.

Review Acorn Media / The Shell Seekers [2006] [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Hamilton
  • Piers Haggard
  • Prunella Scales
  • Victoria Smurfit
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Alastair Mackenzie
Release date: 2007-08-06
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.20

Review The Shell Seekers [2006] [1990] / Acorn Media:


Review Network / The Best Of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Actors & Directors
  • George Baker; Colin Firth; Jerome Flynn
Release date: 2007-04-09
Run time: 1750 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £33.92

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Kath And Kim - Complete Series 1 (2 Disc Set)
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn Robbins
  • Gina Riley
  • Jane Turner
  • Peter Rowsthorn
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 203 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £49.99

Review Kath And Kim - Complete Series 1 (2 Disc Set) / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Lost World [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • James Fox
  • Stuart Orme
  • Tom Ward
  • Bob Hoskins
  • Matthew Rhys
  • Elaine Cassidy
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Tony Mulholland
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.95

Review The Lost World [2001] / 2 Entertain Video:

Not the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, this Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée. As usual, the adaptation adds a woman-orphaned jungle girl Elaine Cassidy-to the expedition, and an interesting villain (religious fanatic Peter Falk) beefs up the travelogue by marooning Challenger's gang on the South American plateau where dinosaurs, cavemen and Indians coexist eventfully. The Walking with Dinosaurs-style effects work well for the TV frame, but the real success is in integrating the Boys' Own adventuring with subtle eco-awareness, complex character interplay and the reliable wonder of soaring Pteranodons and Carnosaur attacks. -Kim Newman.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Bodies - Series 1 [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Max Beesley
  • Keith Allen
  • Patrick Baladi
  • John Strickland
Release date: 2006-10-30
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.50

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Review ITV DVD / Inspector Morse - The Complete Series (33 Disc Box Set) [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Woodthorpe
  • James Grout
  • Kevin Whately
  • Colin Dexter
  • John Thaw
Release date: 2005-02-21
Run time: 3473 min.
RRP: £199.99
Price: £64.99

Review Inspector Morse - The Complete Series (33 Disc Box Set) [1987] / ITV DVD:

When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world-and with his colleagues in the police force-most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred-more deeply than he would ever admit-by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. [+]
It's a testament to Kevin Whately's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter said he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! -Piers Ford.

Review Network / Coronation Street - 1971
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Adamson
  • Pat Phoenix
  • Violet Carson
  • Julie Goodyear
  • Alan Browning
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.94

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Review Imc Vision / Between The Sheets - Complete Series One [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Alun Armstrong
  • James Thornton
  • Robin Shepperd
  • Olivia Lumley
  • Sally Walsh
  • Jane Prowse
  • Joe Armstrong
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 300 min.
Creator: Yvonne Francas
RRP: £29.99
Price: £12.97

Review Between The Sheets - Complete Series One [2003] / Imc Vision:


Review Tango Entertainment / Unlikely Angel [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eli Marienthal
  • Michael Switzer
  • Dolly Parton
  • Roddy McDowall
  • Allison Mack
  • Brian Kerwin
Release date: 2006-05-10
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Robert L. Freedman
Price: £1.31

Review Unlikely Angel [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tango Entertainment:


Review Showtime Entertainment / Brotherhood: The Complete First Season [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Ridley
  • Brian Kirk
  • Jason Clarke
  • Edward Bianchi
  • Henry Bromell
  • Annabeth Gish
  • Jason Isaacs
  • Jean de Segonzac
  • Kevin Chapman
  • Leslie Libman
Release date: 2006-09-26
Run time: 583 min.
Price: £14.86

Review Brotherhood: The Complete First Season [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Showtime Entertainment:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Lakes : Complete BBC Series 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Anderson
  • Roberto Bangura
  • Sallie Aprahamian
  • Robert Pugh
  • Clare Holman
  • David Moore
  • John Simm
  • Mary Jo Randle
  • Emma Cunniffe
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 375 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.34

Review The Lakes : Complete BBC Series 2 [1998] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:

The original series of the The Lakes brought writer Jimmy McGovern and actor John Simm a great deal of critical praise in 1997. Following a particularly dry period for British TV drama, the show's realistic characterisations and their painfully honest decisions hit audiences hard. Simm is a twentysomething trapped in a life of compulsive gambling, theft and being on the dole in Liverpool. On a whim he heads north to the Lake District. He expects to find the countryside quietude where his hidden poetical leanings might find a home, but instead gets caught up in a community like any other. Lies, temptation and tragedy beset every household just as much as the big city. In the second series, far longer than the first, an exploration of Danny's tortured soul might have been the obvious continuation to the story; instead an almost Hitchcockian murder scenario occupies far more screen time. But by stretching things out, this second series does not have the same self-contained impact of the original. Additional writers only served to drag out Danny's boy-to-man journey. Ultimately, lessons are learned, including the realistic conclusion that life is without a poetical status quo. [+]
Despite the tail-off in overall quality, you'd be hard pressed to identify a better British drama in the years since. -Paul Tonks.

Review Revelation Films Ltd / Dr Quinn - Medicine Woman Series 3 [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Lando
  • Jeremy Paul Kagan
  • Jane Seymour
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 1363 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £15.99

Review Dr Quinn - Medicine Woman Series 3 [1994] / Revelation Films Ltd:


Review Acorn Media / Love For Lydia - Complete [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Arliss
  • Beatrix Lehmann
  • Christopher Blake
  • Peter Davison
  • Mel Martin
Release date: 2004-04-19
Run time: 647 min.
Creator: Tony Maynard
RRP: £59.99
Price: £14.60

Review Love For Lydia - Complete [1977] / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / CHiPs: Complete Season 1
Actors & Directors
  • Lou Wagner
  • Paul Linke
  • Larry Wilcox
  • Robert Pine
  • Erik Estrada
Release date: 2007-08-20
Run time: 1037 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.10

Review CHiPs: Complete Season 1 / Warner Home Video:


Review Network / The Bill - The Complete First Series [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Derek Lister
  • James Hawes
  • Mark Wingett
  • Trudie Goodwin
  • Andy Goddard
  • Jon Croft
  • Gary Olsen
  • John Dower
  • Christopher Hodson
  • Peter Dean
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 600 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.98

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Review Cinema Club / Oppenheimer : The Complete BBC Series (3 Disc Box Set)
Release date: 2006-07-31
Run time: 420 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £12.94

Review Oppenheimer : The Complete BBC Series (3 Disc Box Set) / Cinema Club:


Review ITV DVD / Catherine Cookson - Colour Blind [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Grint
  • Tony Armatrading
  • Art Malik
  • Carmen Ejogo
  • Niamh Cusack
  • James Larkin
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.97

Review Catherine Cookson - Colour Blind [1998] / ITV DVD:


Review ICA Films / Jesus Camp [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Heidi Ewing;Rachel Grady
Release date: 2008-06-09
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.66

Review Jesus Camp [2006] / ICA Films:


Review Flambards / Flambards: The Complete Series (Repackaged)
Release date: 2008-09-01
RRP: £29.99
Price: £29.39

Review Flambards: The Complete Series (Repackaged) / Flambards:


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Nuts in May [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Shell Seekers [2006] [1990], The Best Of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Kath And Kim - Complete Series 1 (2 Disc Set), The Lost World [2001], Bodies - Series 1 [2004], Inspector Morse - The Complete Series (33 Disc Box Set) [1987], Coronation Street - 1971, Between The Sheets - Complete Series One [2003], Unlikely Angel [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Brotherhood: The Complete First Season [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Lakes : Complete BBC Series 2 [1998], Dr Quinn - Medicine Woman Series 3 [1994], Love For Lydia - Complete [1977], CHiPs: Complete Season 1, The Bill - The Complete First Series [1984], Oppenheimer : The Complete BBC Series (3 Disc Box Set), Catherine Cookson - Colour Blind [1998], Jesus Camp [2006], Flambards: The Complete Series (Repackaged)

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