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Review Imc Vision / The Swap [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Maloney
  • David Drury
  • Jonathan Cake
  • Jemma Redgrave
Release date: 2005-04-04
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.48

Review The Swap [2001] / Imc Vision:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Roswell: Complete Season 1 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Behr
  • Shiri Appleby
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 990 min.
Creator: Lisa Klink
RRP: £39.99
Price: £24.50

Review Roswell: Complete Season 1 [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Opening with a Dido theme tune and featuring character-driven, sweet-natured melodrama, Roswell was a show with a surprisingly dedicated fan base, who twice won it reprieve from cancellation. One of its main strengths was, of course, the extent to which its premise-alien teenagers trying to sort out their identities while involved emotionally with their human contemporaries-was a free-floating metaphor for race and sexuality issues. Another was the strong ensemble that its cast developed; you believed in the strangeness of the alien trio and the well-intentioned normality of their three human friends. Jason Behr gave the alien Max a quiet authority and Majendra Delfino took the sidekick role of Maria and gave it both intensity and fine comic timing. It was also a show in which you were never sure what adults you could trust-William Sadleir trod a fine line of ambiguity as the local sheriff and Julie Benz was silkily sinister as an FBI agent. Anyone who ever loved this show will want these DVDs-and many others may want to find out what the fuss was about. On the DVD: Roswell is presented in 1. 85:1 anamorphic widescreen. The special features include commentaries on six episodes by writer Jason Kanims, the directors and various of the cast as well as a featurette on the making of the show and another on its adaptation from the original Roswell High series of young adult novels. The commentaries are unusually insightful on the casting process and the discs also include the auditions for the part of Tess as well as a deleted scene and a music video. [+]
-Roz Kaveney.

Review 2 Entertain Video / He Kills Coppers [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Robertson
  • Kelly Reilly
  • Liam Garrigan
  • Adrian Shergold
  • Mel Raido
  • Rafe Spall
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.96

Review He Kills Coppers [2008] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Paramount / 7th Heaven: The Seventh Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Snider
  • Beverley Mitchell
  • Happy
  • Bradley M. Gross
  • Harry Harris
  • Catherine Hicks
  • Lynn Harris
  • Stephen Collins
  • Jessica Biel
  • Joel J. Feigenbaum
Release date: 2008-11-11
Run time: 971 min.
Creator: Brenda Hampton
Price: £24.10

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Review 20th Century Fox / Robin Hood [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Owen Teale
  • Danny Webb
  • Barry Stanton
  • Patrick Bergin
  • Conrad Asquith
  • John Irvin
Release date: 2004-05-11
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Sarah Radclyffe
Price: £4.01

Review Robin Hood [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

Film buffs may remember the tangled tale of competing Robin Hood projects in 1991. Kevin Costner, riding high from his Oscar wins for Dances with Wolves, had his pick of projects at the time, and he juggled his interest in parallel Hood films that were under development at different studios. Costner chose Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, of course, directed by his friend Kevin Reynolds, while the other production (the one described here), attached to veteran British director John Irvin (The Dogs of War), ended up on cable television with another Yank, Patrick Bergin, in the lead. Comparisons were inevitable, even though the two films were very different from one another. A little harder edged and more surprising than Reynolds's work, the Irvin-Bergin movie made all that medieval heroism seem more an effort of the heart than previous versions. Roughing things up a bit is Uma Thurman as a bratty Maid Marion, not quite the traditional damsel in distress of yesteryear. Irvin keeps the adventure quotient up, but this is simply a darker, grittier variation on the old tale. With Jürgen Prochnow, Jeroen Krabbé, and Conrad Asquith. -Tom Keogh.

Review Miramax / Clerks: Uncensored (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Smith
  • Jeff Anderson
  • Kevin Michael Richardson
  • Brian O'Halloran
  • Jason Mewes
Release date: 2001-02-20
Run time: 22 min.
Price: £4.10

Review Clerks: Uncensored (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Heroes - Series 1 - Complete [HD DVD] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Donna Deitch
  • Ernest R. Dickerson
  • Santiago Cabrera
  • Ali Larter
  • Allan Arkush
  • Adam Kane
  • David Semel
  • Tawny Cypress
  • Noah Gray-Cabey
  • Greg Grunberg
Release date: 2007-12-10
Run time: 1013 min.
RRP: £79.99
Price: £22.25

Review Heroes - Series 1 - Complete [HD DVD] [2006] / Universal Pictures UK:

It's hard to remember a science fiction series that has hit so big so quickly. Yet by the end of the first series of Heroes, it feels-for all the right reasons-that the show's been around for longer than it has, such is the huge amount of success it's enjoyed. The setup is simple, yet undeniably intriguing. It essentially tells the stories of a series of people who discover they have legitimate, differing superhero powers. On top of that, these people then gradually appreciate that these powers are needed for reasons that soon become apparent, and the story of Heroes builds up from there. Heavily influenced by comics both in its structure and story, Heroes sustains interest through a number of story arcs of different magnitudes, skilfully weaving them throughout the 23 episodes that make up the season. It's contained enough to keep you interested, yet offers enough threads to make several more seasons a very appealing prospect. Heroes, though, really gels because the basics are right. It's plotted intelligently, written and directed with real nerve and talent, and has a cast who you can't help but get emotionally involved with. It's also, for the overwhelming majority of its episodes, utterly compelling televisions. [+]
Ironically, its few miss-steps of any note come right at the back end, by which time you really would forgive it pretty much anything. Heroes is rightly being heralded as a sci-fi classic in the making. Yet even if subsequent seasons don't fully do justice to those words-and at the time of writing, season two is still some way from debuting-this boxset will serve as a glowing testament to just how good television can be when it's just done right. Quite brilliant. -Jon Foster.

Review ITV DVD / Bob And Rose [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Ryan
  • Lesley Sharp
  • Joe Wright
  • Dave Hill
  • Penelope Wilton
  • Julian Farino
  • Alan Davies
Release date: 2002-04-15
Run time: 276 min.
Creator: Russell T Davies
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.98

Review Bob And Rose [2001] / ITV DVD:


Review Paramount / 7th Heaven: The Seventh Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Happy
  • Joel J. Feigenbaum
  • Harry Harris
  • Stephen Collins
  • Paul Snider
  • Catherine Hicks
  • Bradley M. Gross
  • Lynn Harris
  • Jessica Biel
  • Beverley Mitchell
Release date: 2008-11-11
Run time: 971 min.
Creator: Brenda Hampton
Price: £24.10

Review 7th Heaven: The Seventh Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Earthsea
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Lieberman
  • Kristin Kreuk
  • Danny Glover
  • Shawn Ashmore
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 243 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.49

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Review ITV DVD / Sharpe's Justice / Sharpe's Waterloo [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Sean Bean
  • Alexis Denisof
  • Abigail Cruttenden
  • Tom Clegg
  • Cécile Paoli
  • Daragh O'Malley
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 202 min.
Creator: Patrick Harbinson
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.96

Review Sharpe's Justice / Sharpe's Waterloo [1997] / ITV DVD:


Review Scanbox Entertainment / Man In The Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Moyle
  • Amy Sloan
  • Eugene Clark
  • Flex Alexander
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.94

Review Man In The Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story [2004] / Scanbox Entertainment:


Review Network / Kidnapped - Series 1 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Windsor
  • David McCallum
  • Patrick Magee
Release date: 2008-02-18
Run time: 325 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.25

Review Kidnapped - Series 1 - Complete / Network:


Review Scanbox Entertainment / Man In The Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Amy Sloan
  • Flex Alexander
  • Eugene Clark
  • Alan Moyle
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.94

Review Man In The Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story [2004] / Scanbox Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Attila The Hun
Actors & Directors
  • Gerard Butler
  • Alice Krige
  • Reg Rogers
  • Simmone Mackinnon
  • Powers Boothe
  • Dick Lowry
Release date: 2002-03-04
Run time: 177 min.
Creator: Robert Cochran
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.96

Review Attila The Hun / Universal Pictures Video:

Straight out of the American television movie school of historical thought, Attila the Hun is a glossy, at times long and often ridiculous re-telling of one of the great stories of Ancient Rome. How much of it is historically accurate is debatable-much of the action is ludicrously far fetched-and the image that most of us have of Attila is quite different to the bare-chested, longhaired reject from an 80s soft rock band that is presented here. The film does have its own slightly warped charm, though. The storyline is surprisingly complex, involving plots and counter plots, and the movie does exhibit a sense of epic somewhat in the vein of Gladiator, but is sadly lacking the budget, style or talent. The acting is awful (as befits anything that stars Steven Berkoff) and reduces the political machinations of Rome to little more than Dynasty in togas. Gerrard Butler is a fine actor-as he proved in the recent TV drama The Jury-but is woeful here, delivering his lines in a bizarre trans-Atlantic Scottish accent. At three hours it's way too long, too. There does remain something strangely compelling about Atilla the Hun, though you'll find more reliable facts about Roman history in an Asterix book. -Phil Udell.

Review Acorn Media UK Ltd / The Chase : Complete BBC Series 2
Actors & Directors
  • Gaynor Faye
  • Nicholas Gleaves
  • Nicola Stephenson
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 720 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.92

Review The Chase : Complete BBC Series 2 / Acorn Media UK Ltd:


Review Warner Home Video / Batman: The Animated Series - The Complete Animated Series [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Riba
  • Eric Radomski
  • Bob Hastings
  • Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
  • Loren Lester
  • Bruce W. Timm
  • Boyd Kirkland
  • Dick Sebast
  • Jane Alan
  • Kevin Conroy
Release date: 2008-11-04
Price: £60.58

Review Batman: The Animated Series - The Complete Animated Series [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Minder - Series 4
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Waterman
  • Diana Dors
  • John Thaw
Release date: 2008-01-01
Run time: 566 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £18.74

Review Minder - Series 4 / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review John Williams Productions Ltd / High Times; The Complete Flats Pack
Release date: 2008-10-20
RRP: £16.99
Price: £16.59

Review High Times; The Complete Flats Pack / John Williams Productions Ltd:


Review Cinema Club / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • David Suchet
  • Hugh Fraser
  • Richard Bebb
  • Pauline Moran
  • Philip Jackson
Release date: 2003-06-16
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Nick Elliott
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders [1989] / Cinema Club:


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The Swap [2001], Roswell: Complete Season 1 [2000], He Kills Coppers [2008], 7th Heaven: The Seventh Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Robin Hood [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Clerks: Uncensored (REGION 1) (NTSC), Heroes - Series 1 - Complete [HD DVD] [2006], Bob And Rose [2001], 7th Heaven: The Seventh Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Earthsea, Sharpe's Justice / Sharpe's Waterloo [1997], Man In The Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story [2004], Kidnapped - Series 1 - Complete, Man In The Mirror - The Michael Jackson Story [2004], Attila The Hun, The Chase : Complete BBC Series 2, Batman: The Animated Series - The Complete Animated Series [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Minder - Series 4, High Times; The Complete Flats Pack, Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The ABC Murders [1989]

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