Review, buy Drama: The Net - Complete First Series, Monarch Of The Glen - Series 6 - Part 1, The Pretender: The Complete Second Season [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [1999], The Pretender: The Complete First Season [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bill - The Complete Third Series [1984], BBC Shakespeare: Richard II - 1978, Catherine Cookson - The Black Candle [1991], Beauty [2004], Walker Texas Ranger: The Complete Third Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Perfect Body [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), My Name Is Bill W. [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Soldier's Girl [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Footballers' Wives - Series 1 And 2, Dockers [1999], Cheers: The Complete Eighth Season [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Law & Order: Criminal Intent - The Third Year, 2003-2004 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Baywatch - Series 2 - Complete, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Big Love: The Complete Second Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Brooke Langton / The Net - Complete First Series

The Net - Complete First Series (Brooke Langton)

Release date: 2006-05-15
Run time: 990 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £7.04

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Review Acorn Media / Monarch Of The Glen - Series 6 - Part 1

Monarch Of The Glen - Series 6 - Part 1 (Acorn Media)

Actors & Directors

Robert Knights
Dawn Steele
Lloyd Owen
David Caffrey
Susan Hampshire
Alexander Morton
Tom Baker

Release date: 2005-10-10
Run time: 296 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £10.94

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Review 20th Century Fox / The Pretender: The Complete Second Season [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Pretender: The Complete Second Season [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (20th Century Fox)

Actors & Directors

Chuck Bowman
Ryan Merriman
Jon Gries
Frederick King Keller
Andrea Parker
James Whitmore Jr.
Jim Charleston
Michael T. Weiss
Patrick Bauchau
Joe Napolitano

Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 1071 min.
Price: £20.84

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

The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [1999] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

James Gandolfini
Edie Falco
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Lorraine Bracco
Michael Imperioli

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.

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Review 20th Century Fox / The Pretender: The Complete First Season [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Pretender: The Complete First Season [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (20th Century Fox)

Actors & Directors

Andrea Parker
Frederick King Keller
Sam Ayers
Jon Gries
Ian Toynton
Gabrielle Beaumont
Patrick Bauchau
Anson Williams
Charles Siebert
Michael T. Weiss

Release date: 2005-03-22
Run time: 1078 min.
Price: £21.41

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Review Network / The Bill - The Complete Third Series [1984]

The Bill - The Complete Third Series [1984] (Network)

Actors & Directors

Eric Richard
Graham Cole
Simon Slater
Ashley Gunstock
Jeff Stewart

Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 600 min.
RRP: ~~£29.99~~
Price: £14.76

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Review DDHE/SIMPLY - under license from BBC Worldwide / BBC Shakespeare: Richard II - 1978

BBC Shakespeare: Richard II - 1978 (DDHE/SIMPLY - under license from BBC Worldwide)

Actors & Directors

David Giles
Jon Finch
Derek Jacobi
John Gielgud
Charles Gray
Wendy Hiller

Run time: 158 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
Price: £21.65

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Review Cinema Club / Catherine Cookson - The Black Candle [1991]

Catherine Cookson - The Black Candle [1991] (Cinema Club)

Actors & Directors

James Gaddas
Cathy Sandford
Roy Battersby
Bob Smeaton
Brian Hogg
Nathaniel Parker

Release date: 2003-04-14
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Gordon Hann
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £8.50

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Beauty [2004] (Imc Vision)

Actors & Directors

Martin Clunes
Sam Kelly
Peter Vaughan
Sienna Guillory
Cristian Solimeno
Ben Bolt

Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 49 min.
Creator: Simon Nye
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £10.24

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Review Paramount / Walker Texas Ranger: The Complete Third Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Walker Texas Ranger: The Complete Third Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Paramount)

Actors & Directors

Eric Norris
Clarence Gilyard Jr.
Michael Dailey
Sheree J. Wilson
Alexander Singer
Chuck Norris
Jerry Jameson
Christian I. Nyby II
Joe Coppoletta
Adam Russell Stuart

Release date: 2007-06-12
Run time: 1173 min.
Creator: Albert S. Ruddy
Price: £20.66

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Review Image Entertainment / Perfect Body [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Perfect Body [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Image Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Brett Cullen
Douglas Barr
Amy Jo Johnson
Wendie Malick
Ray Baker
Tara Boger

Release date: 2004-08-10
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Melissa Gould
Price: £4.86

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Review Warner Home Video / My Name Is Bill W. [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

My Name Is Bill W. [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

George Coe
James Garner
Gary Sinise
James Woods
JoBeth Williams
Daniel Petrie

Release date: 2006-06-06
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: William G. Borchert
Price: £10.02

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Review Showtime Entertainment / Soldier's Girl [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Soldier's Girl [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Showtime Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Frank Pierson
Troy Garity
Andre Braugher
Lee Pace
Philip Eddolls
Shawn Hatosy

Release date: 2004-01-27
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Linda Gottlieb
Price: £6.80

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Footballers' Wives - Series 1 And 2

Footballers' Wives - Series 1 And 2 (Contender Entertainment Group)

Actors & Directors

Philip Bretherton
Peter Ash
Nathan Constance
John Forgeham
Susie Amy

Release date: 2005-02-07
Price: £24.99

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Dockers [1999] (Prism Leisure)

Actors & Directors

Christine Tremarco
Ricky Tomlinson
Ken Stott
Lee Ross
Crissy Rock
Bill Anderson

Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Jimmy McGovern
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £4.99

Review Dockers [1999] / Prism Leisure:

Dockers is a landmark one-off drama suspended somewhere between Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff. A striking Channel Four production Dockers dramatises the infamous struggle that developed when five Merseyside dockworkers were fired for refusing to work overtime with no pay, and gained the support of co-workers who wouldn't cross their picket line. As a result, those who stood in solidarity with the original five were sacked as well-500 in total-leading to a two-year stand-off. Co-written by award-winning screenwriters Jimmy McGovern (Cracker) and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting), the two-year ordeal is brought home with startling reality, not least because of the contribution of the real-life Liverpool dockers who helped develop the script in extensive writing workshops, lending the film an authenticity it might have otherwise lacked. While the narrative hangs around the moving central story of one family in which both father and son are caught up in the strike, dramatic conflicts develop on multiple levels: between father and son; between the families of the sacked workers (this is particularly well realised as one long-time friend, played by The Royle Family's Ricky Tomlinson, turns scab); and between the workers and the union that betrays them. Ken Stott and Crissy Rock (Ladybird, Ladybird) are outstanding as the central working-class couple, old before their time at 47, and if nothing else, the film reveals one further reason why Liverpool loved Robbie Fowler quite so ferociously: during post-goal celebrations, Fowler lifts his jersey to reveal a T-shirt emblazoned with a message of support for the wronged dockers, ensuring national attention for the action at a time when all hope seemed lost. -Tricia Tuttle.

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