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Review Paramount / Soul Food: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Felicia D. Henderson
  • Boris Kodjoe
  • Jeff Woolnough
  • Rockmond Dunbar
  • Nicole Ari Parker
  • Aaron Meeks
  • Clark Johnson
  • Bethany Rooney
  • Darrin Dewitt Henson
  • Dianah Wynter
Release date: 2007-08-07
Run time: 1010 min.
Price: £24.08

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Review Metrodome Distribution / tlc (BBC) [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoff Posner
  • Richard Griffiths
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor
  • Alexander Armstrong
  • Reece Sheersmith
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 175 min.
Creator: Fintan Coyle
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.13

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Revelations - Series 1 [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • David Semel
  • Natascha McElhone
  • Mark Rendall
  • Lili Fini Zanuck
  • Bill Pullman
  • Michael Massee
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 346 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.99

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Review Jack Rosenthal / Jack Rosenthal At ITV
Release date: 2006-06-19
Run time: 900 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £17.98

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Review Network / Black Beauty - Series 2 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Damon
  • Charles Crichton
  • Mike Pratt
  • Jack Shepherd
  • Mervyn Johns
Release date: 2008-04-14
Run time: 650 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £20.65

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Review Acorn Media / Wild At Heart - Series 1 & 2 [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Lucy Jo Hudson
  • Hayley Mills
  • Stephen Tompkinson
  • Amanda Holden
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 783 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £24.99

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Review Revelation Films / The Secret Life of Us Series 3
Release date: 2007-08-20
Run time: 1000 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £11.98

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Review ITV DVD / Catherine Cookson - The Man Who Cried [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Whyte
  • Amanda Root
  • Gemma Craven
  • Kate Buffery
  • Daniel Massey
  • Ciaran Hinds
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 155 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Kino / The Homecoming [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cyril Cusack
  • Vivien Merchant
  • Michael Jayston
  • Peter Hall
  • Terence Rigby
  • Ian Holm
Release date: 2003-07-22
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Harold Pinter
Price: £13.18

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Review Walt Disney Video / Tuesdays With Morrie [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wendy Moniz
  • Mick Jackson
  • Bonnie Bartlett
  • Hank Azaria
  • Caroline Aaron
  • Jack Lemmon
Release date: 2003-07-01
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Mitch Albom
Price: £4.35

Review Tuesdays With Morrie [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

If the idea of an Oprah Winfrey-produced film detailing the last days of a dying man and his inspirational effect on those left behind sounds a little cloying, Tuesdays with Morrie will be a rather pleasant surprise. While the presentation of this true story is certainly very American in tone, and it was obviously made for television (the points where it faded to commercial breaks are clear), it's still a surprisingly satisfying piece of work. The credit for that can firmly be laid at the door of Jack Lemmon, appearing in what was to be his last film. He excels as the terminally ill college professor Morrie Schwartz, determined to use his passing as a medium for teaching others about life. Still showing signs of the spark that made the movies of his heyday so memorable, Lemmon is also capable of bringing a magnificent pathos to the role. Co-star Hank Azaria is a more-than-equal foil, instilling his character with a growing awareness of self that blossoms before the viewer. Yes, at times it is a little too schmaltzy for its own good, but Tuesdays with Morrie is a film capable of visiting emotional extremes with ease. On the DVD: A very scanty package, with the usual scene access and Dolby Digital stereo accompanied by a text-only resume of the movie and the briefest of biographies of its cast-in Lemmon's case a massively ineffectual effort. -Phil Udell.

Review Network / Due South - Series 3 [Repackaged]
Actors & Directors
  • Callum Keith Rennie
  • Paul Gross
Release date: 2008-09-01
RRP: £29.99
Price: £29.39

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Hotel Du Lac [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Googie Withers
  • Patricia Hodge
  • Anna Massey
  • Giles Foster
  • Julia McKenzie
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Christopher Hampton
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.93

Review Hotel Du Lac [1986] / 2 Entertain Video:

Hotel du Lac is an impeccably produced BBC television adaptation of Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning novel. Middle-aged writer Edith Hope has fled London and romantic disappointment to find sanctuary at a luxury hotel on a Swiss Lake, but finding no escape from her loneliness must eventually face her past. Edith is played with compassion by Anna Massey, her intellect and wit acting as a defence against her own failings, and support comes from a superb cast including Denholm Elliott, Googie Withers, Julia McKenzie, Patricia Hodge, Irene Handl and Barry Foster. Brookner's apparently slight but multi-layered tale is skilfully crafted by writer Christopher Hampton, who has with such films as Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Quiet American (2002) become a master of literary adaptation. Giles Foster's direction focuses on bringing the best from his cast, rather than attempting any sort of cinematic sweep, and Carl Davis' eloquent theme music makes the introspection all the more touching. Ultimately, though, it is Anna Massey's insightful central performance which makes Hotel du Lac such a memorable slice of television. On the DVD: Hotel du Lac is presented in the original TV broadcast 4:3 ratio with a very poor, extremely grainy and soft picture. The sound is reasonable mono, clear and free from distortion though lacking in dynamic range. The only extra, though one well worth having, is a serious and highly informative commentary from Giles, Hampton and producer Sue Birtwistle. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Paramount / Cheers: The Tenth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Moore
  • James Burrows
  • John Ratzenberger
  • Rhea Perlman
  • Shelley Long
  • Ted Danson
  • George Wendt
  • Kirstie Alley
  • Rick Beren
Release date: 2008-09-02
Run time: 600 min.
Creator: Dan Staley
Price: £19.67

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Review 2entertain / Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 3 [2002] [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Noel Clarke
  • Tim Healy
  • Paul Seed
  • David Innes Edwards
  • Timothy Spall
  • Baz Taylor
  • Jimmy Nail
  • Kevin Whately
  • Anthony Garner
  • Sandy Johnson
Release date: 2002-11-18
Run time: 347 min.
Price: £19.99

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Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / The Kids Of Degrassi Street
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Duckworth-Pilkington II
  • Nancy Lam
  • Zoe Newman
  • Dawn Harrison
  • Linda Schuyler
Release date: 2008-02-11
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.93

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Review Paramount / The Homecoming: A Christmas Story [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Corby
  • Cleavon Little
  • Richard Thomas
  • Edgar Bergen
  • Fielder Cook
  • Patricia Neal
Release date: 2003-09-23
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Earl Hamner Jr.
Price: £6.71

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Review Warner Home Video / The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Edie Falco
  • Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • Michael Imperioli
  • Lorraine Bracco
  • James Gandolfini
Release date: 2001-06-25
Run time: 720 min.
Creator: David Chase
RRP: £58.99
Price: £44.89

Review The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [1999] / Warner Home Video:

The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. -David Stubbs.

Review Untouchables / The Untouchables - Season 1
Release date: 2008-08-18
Run time: 1004 min.
RRP: £36.99
Price: £17.45

Review The Untouchables - Season 1 / Untouchables:

Though certainly tame by The Shield standards, the inaugural 14 episodes from The Untouchables' 1959-60 season are still as potent as a shot of Al Capone's bootleg whiskey. Dames get slapped around. Mugs are mowed down in a hail of wall-pocking, mirror-shattering bullets. Upstanding citizens are brutally terrorised by thugs. Incorruptible Feds are brazenly rubbed out. Sometimes, criminals have the last laugh. It has the visceral kick of watching one of those pre-code Hollywood movies produced before the Hays Office stepped in to sanitise objectionable content. This set opens with the theatrically released version of the two-part pilot episode that set the noir sensibility of the series. Robert Stack (in his iconic and oft-parodied role) stars as Elliot Ness, a straight-arrow Federal agent who forms a special squad of "reliable, courageous, dedicated and honest" men who initially take on Al Capone's corrupt criminal empire in 1929 Chicago. Ness is "a real man," (as a "burly-q" stripper observes). [+]
He's just not exactly loaded with personality. Nor do any other of the squad members stand out, except perhaps for Martin Flahrety, and that's only because he's played by a pre-Dick Van Dyke Show Jerry Paris. But from Neville Brand's Al Capone and Claire Trevor's Ma Barker to an unbilled Harry Dean Stanton as a suspect blind newspaperman, it's the legendary criminals and their henchmen (and the great character actors who portray them) who give each episode considerable moxie. Produced by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's Desilu Studios, this groundbreaking series is based on the book The Untouchables: The Real Story by Ness and Oscar Fraley. Real? Not quite. Despite Walter Winchell's signature rat-a-tat narration that gives the proceedings a documentary-like tone, liberties were taken in retelling the sagas of Capone, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, "Bugs" Moran, "Mad Dog" Coll, and others. But the episodes are so pulpishly good that even if Ness was never really involved in a shootout with Barker (and he wasn't), more forgiving viewers will be of the opinion that he should have been. -Donald Liebenson.

Review Acorn Media / Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Richardson
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Sam Dastor
  • Tom Clegg
Release date: 2005-08-08
Run time: 293 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.65

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Review Network / The Bill - The Complete Third Series [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Slater
  • Graham Cole
  • Eric Richard
  • Jeff Stewart
  • Ashley Gunstock
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 600 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £14.76

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Models & Brands:
Soul Food: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), tlc (BBC) [2002], Revelations - Series 1 [2005], Jack Rosenthal At ITV, Black Beauty - Series 2 - Complete, Wild At Heart - Series 1 & 2 [2006], The Secret Life of Us Series 3, Catherine Cookson - The Man Who Cried [1993], The Homecoming [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tuesdays With Morrie [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Due South - Series 3 [Repackaged], Hotel Du Lac [1986], Cheers: The Tenth Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 3 [2002] [1983], The Kids Of Degrassi Street, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [1999], The Untouchables - Season 1, Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy [1986], The Bill - The Complete Third Series [1984]

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