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Review Network / Thatcher - The Final Days
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvia Syms
  • John Wood
  • Trevor Bowen
  • Paul Daneman
Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.44

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Review Discovery / V.W. Camper Van Crisis
Release date: 2007-08-20
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.93

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Footballers' Wives - The Complete Series 2 [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Alison Newman
  • Zoe Lucker
  • Chad Shepherd
  • Gillian Taylforth
  • Gary Lucy
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 467 min.
Creator: Paul Marquess
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.17

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The Real Football Factories International - The Best Of
Release date: 2008-02-18
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.58

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Review 2 Entertain Video / League of Gentlemen Series 2 (2 disc set) [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Pemberton
  • Reece Shearsmith
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Tabitha Hanson-Obtulowicz
  • Corrie Greenop
  • Jeremy Dyson
Release date: 2001-10-15
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.07

Review League of Gentlemen Series 2 (2 disc set) [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:

The three young comedians known collectively as The League of Gentlemen develop their unique comic-grotesque creations still further in this second series. Helped by elaborate makeup, Mark Gattis, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith throw themselves into their many disguises with unbounded enthusiasm. What is even more impressive is that, together with co-writer Jeremy Dyson, the Gentlemen manage to locate these alarming characters within coherent story arcs that interlock over the course of a series as well as inside the individual six episodes. Here we have the apparently inexplicable plague of fatal nosebleeds that affects the remote Northern town of Royston Vasey, the attempts of the incestuous shopkeepers Edward and Tubbs to find a bride for their monstrous offspring, the misadventures of some lost plastics salesmen, and the hostage crisis at the local Restart centre. Achingly funny and entirely disturbing, this is comedy less dependent on brilliant one-liners than on recognisable yet distorted situations. One-off creations like Papa Lazarou's sinister circus or the patronising theatre group Legz Akimbo are as fine as the sustained characterisation of the anal toad-obsessed Denton family. -Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: the first disc contains Season 2's six episodes complete with commentary from the four Gentlemen themselves. It's equally as fun and fascinating as their commentary for the first season and reveals many of the hidden movie references and in-jokes that would otherwise be missed. The second disc has a 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary made for the BBC, plus a series of outtakes and alternative versions of certain scenes. Also included is Creme Brulee's "Vodoo Lady" in its glorious entirety, a singalong version of the Dentons' house-cleaning song and excerpts from Joby Talbot's comic-Gothic score. [+]
There are text features on the "Local People", a scrapbook of location photographs, and Royston Vasey's Territorial Army recruiting poster. Spreading it all across two discs seems a little on the stingy side, however. -Mark Walker.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Seven Of One
Actors & Directors
  • Ronnie Barker
  • David Jason
  • Roy Castle
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.80

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Review ITV DVD / A Rather English Marriage [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Joanna Scanlan
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Paul Seed
  • Albert Finney
  • John Light
Release date: 2004-09-27
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Angela Lambert
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.00

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 1 [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
  • Tony Hancock
  • Johnny Vyvyan
  • Hugh Lloyd
  • Alan Tarrant
  • Alec Bregonzi
Release date: 2004-09-13
Run time: 193 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.88

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Review Jimmy Carr / Jimmy Carr - Live Collection
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 155 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £55.24

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Outer Limits - Series 1 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Kelly Rowan
  • Martin Kemp
  • Thora Birch
  • Josh Brolin
  • Ryan Reynolds
  • Brad Turner
Release date: 2007-04-30
Run time: 970 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £17.97

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Review Cinema Club / Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion / A Dark Adapted Eye / Gallowglass [1992-1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Northam
  • Douglas Hodge
  • Tim Fywell
  • Michael Sheen
  • Paul Rhys
  • Helena Bonham Carter
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 495 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £21.92

Review Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion / A Dark Adapted Eye / Gallowglass [1992-1994] / Cinema Club:


Review Acorn Media / The Victorian Garden Series
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 786 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £28.56

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Review Eureka Entertainment / Two Thousand Acres Of Sky - Complete - Series One To Three
Actors & Directors
  • Renny Rye
  • Michelle Collins
  • Paul Kaye
  • Roger Gartland
  • Dermot Boyd
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £58.99
Price: £33.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Bottom - Series 1 [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Spiers
  • Adrian Edmondson
  • Rik Mayall
Release date: 2003-08-18
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.72

Review Bottom - Series 1 [1991] / 2 Entertain Video:

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson give the flat-share sitcom a much needed kick up the Bottom in the show which, alongside Men Behaving Badly (1992-8) injected new life into a legendarily dire genre. With glorious comic gusto they play Richie Rich and Eddie Hitler, a pair of misfits barely surviving unemployment in a Hammersmith hovel. They spend their life in frustration, minus female company or money, in facile schemes to entertain or better themselves, their best intentions always proving the catalyst for hilariously OTT cartoon-style violence. The humour benefits from being rude, crude and surreal, and though happily bereft of subtlety or sense the situations and set-pieces are always superbly constructed, delivered and directed. But that's only to be expected from a show that essentially presents two of The Young Ones a decade down the line. Mayall and Edmondson had earlier perfected their surreal double act as The Dangerous Brothers and these first episodes of Bottom find them in side-splitting form. From a misadventure with pheromone spray and the wrong sort of dogs down the pub in "Smells" to a birthday "Accident", which introduces The Young Ones' Christopher Ryan as a regular guest character, this is BBC comedy at its best. Brace yourself, 'cos this is going to hurt. On the DVD Bottom, Series 1 contains all six episodes presented in the original TV 4:3 ratio with mono sound. The transfer is flawless, if anything rather revealing the limitations of the source material. [+]
The only extra beyond optional English subtitles and a Danish dub is "Bottom Fluff" a 15-minute blooper reel that offers a masterclass in the art of swearing. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / NYPD Blue - Series One [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Clark Johnson
  • Farrel Levy
  • Alan Rosenberg
  • David Caruso
  • Sherry Stringfield
  • Dick Lowry
  • Nelson McCormick (II)
  • Dennis Franz
Release date: 2003-05-19
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £44.99
Price: £21.03

Review NYPD Blue - Series One [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

First broadcast in 1993, NYPD Blue was created by Steven Bochco and David Milch, the team responsible for the magnificent, mould-breaking Hill Street Blues, which had featured both of NYPD's principal stars, David Caruso (Detective John Kelly) and Dennis Franz (Detective Andy Sipowicz). Here, their partnership takes up most of the screen time, a break from the ensemble feel of the earlier show (though he's the boss, James McDaniel's Lieutenant Fancy, for instance, is a peripheral figure). But there are familiar Bochco themes. Tough-but-put-upon cops struggle with their own problems as well as the criminal element: Kelly is going through a divorce, while Sipowicz is fighting alcoholism, though these are as nothing compared with officer Janice Licalsi's dramatic means of escaping her involvement with the Mob. Although fast-cut and street-sharp, NYPD Blue arguably betrays a right-wing bias: the villains are invariably irredeemable scum, too often let off the hook by a slack and excessively liberal judiciary, with victims of crime often forced to take desperate measures of their own. The fate of one 4B (a young David Schwimmer), however, acts as a warning against vigilantism. Unleavened by much of Hill Street's humour and with plots more designed to keep the pulse racing than reflect social realism, NYPD Blue is simmering, downbeat, compelling viewing that edged mainstream American TV nearer to the knuckle than it had previously dared to venture. On the DVD: NYPD Blue, Series 1 has a number of special features, including a making-of documentary in which creator Steven Bochco explains the lengthy negotiations he had to undertake with the network in order to get the show aired in anything like its original form. "Cast Blotters" is a feature about the characters and players. There's also a short piece on the love interest in NYPD Blue and biographies of the cast and programme makers. [+]
-David Stubbs.

Review Wag TV / Brian Sewell's Grand Tour
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Bruce
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 390 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £24.48

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Planet Earth : Complete BBC Series [HD DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • David Attenborough
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 420 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £58.02

Review Planet Earth : Complete BBC Series [HD DVD] / 2 Entertain Video:

Not only is Planet Earth one of the most jaw-dropping, ambitious, nature documentaries the BBC has ever produced, it's now taken on another role: as a superb demonstration disc for the potential of HD DVD and Blu-ray. Spread over a good ten hours, the series charts life and nature in dozens upon dozens of differing locations around the earth. Diligently and warmly narrated by Sir David Attenborough, Planet Earth calmly goes close in on its subject matter when required, and then pulls out some stunning perspective shots that are simply breathtaking. It's hard to come up with the right superlatives to do the photography on the programme any kind of justice, and that it's married to such fascinating subject matter is all the better. And if you think the original broadcast of Planet Earth was something special, or you were gobsmacked by the picture quality on DVD, just wait until you see it in 1080p HD glory. Particularly some of the broader shots here are all but without parallel, and it's a real reward for those who have invested ahead of the crowd in high definition technology. Presented over five discs, and matching wonderful content to spot-on visual presentation, Planet Earth is now not just a landmark in nature documentary film making. It's also a chartermark of quality for just what HD DVD and Blu-ray can offer. A stunning release, in more than one sense. -Jon Foster.

Review Channel 4 DVD / Britz [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Kosminsky
  • Riz Ahmed
  • Manjinder Virk
  • Mary Stockley
  • Preeya Kalidas
  • Jeff Peterson
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 235 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.53

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Review Pegasus / The Battle Of The Somme
Release date: 2003-03-03
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.42

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Review Warner Home Video / Salem's Lot - The Mini Series [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Mikael Salomon
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Rob Lowe
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 174 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.47

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Thatcher - The Final Days, V.W. Camper Van Crisis, Footballers' Wives - The Complete Series 2 [2002], The Real Football Factories International - The Best Of, League of Gentlemen Series 2 (2 disc set) [1999], Seven Of One, A Rather English Marriage [1998], Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 1 [1961], Jimmy Carr - Live Collection, Outer Limits - Series 1 [1995], Barbara Vine - A Fatal Inversion / A Dark Adapted Eye / Gallowglass [1992-1994], The Victorian Garden Series, Two Thousand Acres Of Sky - Complete - Series One To Three, Bottom - Series 1 [1991], NYPD Blue - Series One [1994], Brian Sewell's Grand Tour, Planet Earth : Complete BBC Series [HD DVD], Britz [2007], The Battle Of The Somme, Salem's Lot - The Mini Series [2004]

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