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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Murder One - Season 1 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Hayden
  • John Fleck
  • Joe Napolitano
  • Adam Nimoy
  • James Hayman
  • J.C. MacKenzie
  • Mary McCormack
  • Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Barbara Bosson
  • Elodie Keene
Release date: 2004-09-06
Run time: 999 min.
Creator: Alfonso H. Moreno
RRP: £39.99
Price: £13.44

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Review 4dvd / The Genius of Charles Darwin
Release date: 2008-09-01
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

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Review Acorn Media / Aristocrats
Actors & Directors
  • Geraldine Somerville
  • Serena Gordon
  • Jodhi May
  • David Caffrey
  • Anne-Marie Duff
Release date: 2009-01-30
Run time: 292 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

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Review Acorn Media / Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Lindsay
Release date: 2004-12-27
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £17.18

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Only Fools and Horses - Sleepless in Peckham [2003] [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • David Jason
  • Nicholas Lyndhurst
  • Gwyneth Strong
  • Tessa Peake-Jones
  • Roger Lloyd-Pack
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.97

Review Only Fools and Horses - Sleepless in Peckham [2003] [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:

Del, Rodney and Boycie are in jail in France for kidnapping. The stowaway in their van whom they assumed was an illegal immigrant turned out to be an important businessman who had been trapped in the back. To add to the Trotters' problems, they about to be kicked out of Nelson Mandela House, as they still owe Inland Revenue and have no hope of paying their debt in time. Then Cassandra goes into labour, and Rodney discovers that his father is not who he thought he was.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Mork & Mindy - The Second Season [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • Ralph James
  • Pam Dawber
  • Jay Thomas
  • Gina Hecht
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 623 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.86

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Review ITV DVD / The Red Shoes - Plus Documentary [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Marius Goring
  • Emeric Pressburger
  • Moira Shearer
  • Jean Short
  • Gordon Littmann
  • Anton Walbrook
  • Michael Powell
Release date: 2001-05-21
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Keith Winter
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.22

Review The Red Shoes - Plus Documentary [1948] / ITV DVD:

Overall, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 tale of the tragic ballerina Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is not in the top drawer of their achievements. The backstage wranglings offer insufficient scope for their usual cinematic vision (though the Monte Carlo scenes are prettily sumptuous). Page's central dilemma, meanwhile, is a bit on the trite side-she must choose between love for a young composer and her career under stern taskmaster Boris Lertomov (Anton Walbrook), the ballet company impresario. The climax is also risibly melodramatic, a rare fumble for Powell and Pressburger. That said, The Red Shoes is worth purchasing alone for its middle sequence, a fantasy cinematic setting of the ballet of The Red Shoes, based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale of a girl who dances herself to death. A superb score by Brian Easdale is matched by an impossibly elaborate, shifting backdrop in which all of Powell and Pressburger's sense of drama, colour, invention and the super-real is encapsulated in one small but intensely concentrated dose. While the rest of the film is relatively dispensable, the ballet scene bears up to repeated rewindings. -David Stubbs Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's most celebrated Technicolor fairy-tale, The Red Shoes is both metaphor and melodrama of unparalleled boldness. So extravagantly theatrical a movie was regarded as simply unreleasable by the Rank Organisation back in 1948, but in spite of their attempted suppression it has long since been acknowledged as one of British cinema's landmark achievements. Not only were Powell and Pressburger unorthodox enough to populate the cast with real ballet dancers (including the radiant Moira Shearer in the pivotal role), they built the whole film around an extraordinarily daring 17-minute ballet sequence in which the camera moves from outside the proscenium arch into a subjective whirl of impressionistic images inspired and informed by Brian Easdale's marvellous score. [+]
Only after seeing this, so the story goes, was Gene Kelly able to see how he could make An American in Paris. The melodramatic plot, metaphorically acted out in the "Red Shoes Ballet" then re-enacted for real by the main characters, presents Great Art as something worth dying for, and, in the person of Anton Walbrook's Lermontov, gives us a portrait of the artist as a man for whom anything and everything is worth sacrificing in its pursuit. Loosely based on Diaghilev, impresario of the Ballets Russes, Walbrook's magnetic central performance is of sufficient stature to conceal the rather trite predicament of his ballerina protégée, and the film's contrived, over-the-top tragic ending. On the DVD: Sadly for a film in which music is such a central element, the advertised digital remastering doesn't seem to have extended to the mono soundtrack, which shows its age quite badly. The colour print, however, looks very vibrant. This special edition also includes a new 25-minute "making-of" feature with a few comments from crew members (or their relatives) and admirers of the film, including ballerina Darcey Bussell. "The Ballet of the Red Shoes" can be seen on its own in a separate featurette, and there are text biographies and a trailer. -Mark Walker.

Review Vital / Ross Noble - Randomist [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Cal Barton
  • Ross Noble
  • Ross Noble
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 540 min.
Creator: Colin Dench
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.84

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Seinfeld: Seasons 1 and 2 [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • Jason Alexander
  • Tom Cherones
  • Michael Richards
  • Jerry Seinfeld
  • Wayne Knight
Release date: 2004-11-01
Run time: 879 min.
Creator: Sam Henry Kass
RRP: £34.99
Price: £6.99

Review Seinfeld: Seasons 1 and 2 [1993] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Seinfeld is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of American sitcoms, and this long-delayed box set goes a long way in demonstrating why. From the first episode of the first season, it hit the ground running with its collection of oddball New Yorkers: There's stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who plays himself; Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), his pushy ex-girlfriend; his neurotic loser of a best friend George (Jason Alexander); and Jerry's wacky neighbour Kramer (Michael Richards). Co-written and co-created by Seinfeld and Larry David (who later went on to plumb greater depths of misanthropy with Curb Your Enthusiasm), it revolutionised American sitcoms with its cynical and mature comedy, and its ability to find comic gems in the most mundane situations (one classic episode is set entirely in a mall car-park). Seinfeld was, as all involved frequently admitted, a show about nothing. But this extras-laden collection-which features extensive cast and creator commentaries, deleted scenes, trivia tracks, outtakes, interviews and more-is most definitely something. -Ted Kord.

Review Cinema Club / Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Wood
Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 400 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.08

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf - Just The Shows : Complete BBC Series 5-8 (6 Disc Box Set)
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Lovett
  • Craig Charles
  • Hattie Hayridge
  • Chris Barrie
  • Danny John-Jules
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 795 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £33.58

Review Red Dwarf - Just The Shows : Complete BBC Series 5-8 (6 Disc Box Set) / 2 Entertain Video:

Series V: The fifth series of this much-loved sci fi comedy programme finds business as usual for the crew of the Red Dwarf. If one considers encountering an alien squid that squirts a despair-inducing hallucinogen ("Back to Reality", voted best episode of the series by viewers and Stephen Hawking), evil versions of the crew ("Demons and Angels"), an insanity virus ("Quarantine"), and a trip to a moon created from the mind of the insufferable hologram Rimmer ("Terrorform") business as usual! In short, six hilarious episodes, highlighted by the typically terrific writing of creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (who also direct two episodes). -Paul Gaita Series VI: Series 6 includes the highly acclaimed third episode, "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", which won the programme an International Emmy Award in 1994. The crux of series 6 is that the Red Dwarf has been stolen (no thanks to Lister, who can't remember where he left it), and the crew must recover it. In their pursuit they come in contact with brain-consuming aliens ("Psirens", with guest star, Jenny Agutter), a polymorph that turns Rimmer and Cat into their alternate identities from Series V ("Emohawk-Polymorph II"), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tricked out as gunslingers ("Gunmen of the Apocalypse"), an army of Rimmer clones ("Rimmerworld"), and finally, their own future selves, who turn out to be particularly awful, and cause a cliffhanger ending that just might spell the end for the Red Dwarf crew. Series 6 more than earns its popular status among Red Dwarf's fan base, thanks to its sharp writing (the last series to feature scripts by co-creator Rob Grant) and energetic performances. -Paul Gaita Series VII: In the seventh series you'll witness the truth behind the assassination of John F. [+]
Kennedy, the return of Ace Rimmer (or a reasonable facsimile); an emotional rollercoaster created from real emotions, a very seductive virus; and numerous mishaps involving dimensional accidents, wormholes, nanobots, and male-female relationships. Highlights include the opener, "Tikka to Ride", which turns a trip for curry into a visit to Dallas circa '63; "Blue", the departure of Rimmer and the uncomfortable relationship between Kochanski, Lister (Craig Charles), and Kryten (Robert Llewellyn); and "Nanarchy," in which the aforementioned microscopic robots create more havoc than actual repair. Series 7 has been the subject of much controversy since its original airing in 1997-98, due mainly to the departure of co-creator Rob Grant, the departure of Chris Barrie's Arnold Rimmer, and the arrival of new castmate Chloe Annett as Dave Lister's ex-girlfriend, Christine Kochanski (who had been played by another actress, Clare Grogan, in earlier episodes). -Paul Gaita Series VIII: In their final adventures, the Dwarfers have all been re-created - even Arnold Rimmer (unfortunately) - by the nanobots, but Lister, Kochanski, Cat, and Kryten are almost immediately in hot water for allegedly stealing the Starbug. From there things get stranger (or back to normal by Red Dwarf standards). It seems that everything the crew is experiencing is an artificial-reality creation programmed by the Red Dwarf''s captain, Hollister ("Back in the Red, Part 2"); Rimmer discovers that despite his recent revival, he's doomed to die soon ("Cassandra"), seriously thwarting his plan to finally make officer; the rewired Kryten turns a pet sparrow into a rampaging dinosaur ("Pete, Part 1") and makes a tidy profit by secretly filming women in the shower ("Krytie TV"); and finally, the Grim Reaper comes to call in the series finale, "Only the Good Die Young", which reveals the fate of the entire crew. More bizarre than bittersweet, series 8 is classic Red Dwarf lunacy and an inspired send-off for this unique and clever UK cult TV series. -Paul Gaita.

Review Channel 4 DVD / Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Gareth Carrivick
  • Dave Gorman
Release date: 2006-06-19
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Carla McGilchrist
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.45

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Futurama - Series 1-4 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Phil LaMarr
  • Billy West
  • Susie Dietter
  • John DiMaggio
  • Rich Moore
  • Lauren Tom
  • Katey Sagal
  • Wesley Archer
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £89.99
Price: £60.00

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Review Balls of Steel / Balls Of Steel - Complete Season 1
Release date: 2007-02-05
Run time: 245 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.77

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Absolutely Fabulous - Series 5 - Complete [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Jane Horrocks
  • June Whitfield
  • Jennifer Saunders
  • Julia Sawalha
Release date: 2004-09-27
Run time: 240 min.
Creator: Andy Hollis
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.48

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Review 2 Entertain Video / It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Complete Series One to Four
Actors & Directors
  • Melvyn Hayes
  • Michael Knowles
  • Don Estelle
  • Windsor Davies
  • Donald Hewlett
Release date: 2006-07-17
RRP: £49.99
Price: £25.69

Review It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Complete Series One to Four / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Network / On the Buses - The Complete Series [Repackaged] [11dvd]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Grant
  • Reg Varney
  • Stephen Lewis
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 1925 min.
RRP: £99.99
Price: £66.50

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Still Game - Series 1 [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Riley
  • Greg Hemphill
  • Jane McCarry
  • Ford Kiernan
  • Sanjeev Kohli
  • Michael Hines
Release date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.63

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Review Anthea Turner / The Perfect Housewife Series 2 Including Christmas Special [2007]
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 468 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.41

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Elephant Diaries : Complete BBC Series 1
Actors & Directors
  • Michaela Strachan
  • Jonathan Scott
Release date: 2008-01-14
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.92

Review Elephant Diaries : Complete BBC Series 1 / 2 Entertain Video:


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Murder One - Season 1 [1996], The Genius of Charles Darwin, Aristocrats, Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World, Only Fools and Horses - Sleepless in Peckham [2003] [1981], Mork & Mindy - The Second Season [1979], The Red Shoes - Plus Documentary [1948], Ross Noble - Randomist [2006], Seinfeld: Seasons 1 and 2 [1993], Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV [1985], Red Dwarf - Just The Shows : Complete BBC Series 5-8 (6 Disc Box Set), Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure [2004], Futurama - Series 1-4 - Complete, Balls Of Steel - Complete Season 1, Absolutely Fabulous - Series 5 - Complete [1992], It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Complete Series One to Four, On the Buses - The Complete Series [Repackaged] [11dvd], Still Game - Series 1 [2002], The Perfect Housewife Series 2 Including Christmas Special [2007], Elephant Diaries : Complete BBC Series 1

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