![Review 2 Entertain Video / I Claudius - Complete BBC Series (5 Disc Box Set) [1976]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41J341PT2PL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Siân Phillips
- John Hurt
- Derek Jacobi
- George Baker
- Brian Blessed
Run time: 648 min.
RRP: £44.99
Price: £24.75
Review I Claudius - Complete BBC Series (5 Disc Box Set) [1976] / 2 Entertain Video:A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, it is now available as two double video packs. After chronicling the foundations of the British Empire in Elizabeth R (1971), the BBC chose to dramatise the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert Graves in his two enormously complex novels, I Claudius and Claudius The God. Derek Jacobi gives one of the greatest television performances ever as Claudius, the appalled chronicler of the decadence, corruption, intrigue and carnage which comes with absolute power of his ruling family. Augustus (Brian Blessed) is Emperor and Sian Phillips, Livia, his scheming, ambitious wife, Claudius' aunt. By virtue of his stammer and uncontrollable twitches, Claudius passes for a fool, thus escaping the poisonous machinations of Livia, all the while recording the comings and goings of the Imperial household. Inevitably lacking the visual scale of cinematic features Ben-Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960), and today looking more studio-bound than ever, I Claudius remains a television masterpiece of intelligently written and rivetingly intense character drama. The saga ends with I Claudius - Part 2. -Gary S. Dalkin A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. [+]Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, the series dramatises the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert Graves in his two enormously complex novels, I, Claudius and Claudius The God. Derek Jacobi gives one of the greatest television performances ever as Claudius, the appalled chronicler of the decadence, corruption, intrigue and carnage which comes with the absolute power of his ruling family. Augustus (Brian Blessed) is Emperor and Livia (Sian Phillips) his scheming, ambitious wife, Claudius's aunt. By virtue of his stammer and uncontrollable twitches, Claudius passes for a fool, thus escaping the poisonous machinations of Livia, all the while recording the comings and goings of the Imperial household. Events become increasingly frenzied as Caligula (John Hurt playing the tyrant with psychotic fury) bloodily slaughters his way to power, making a senator of his favourite horse along the way. Claudius eventually becomes Emperor himself, and Jacobi is simply magnificent in the intensely moving finale, which is not to overlook the rest of a fine cast, including: George Baker; Ian Ogilvy; Christopher Guard; Stratford Johns; John Rhys-Davies; Bernard Hepton and Patrick Stewart as the murderous Praetorian Guard Captain Sejanus. Inevitably lacking the visual scale of cinematic features such as Ben-Hur, and today looking more studio-bound than ever, I, Claudius remains a television masterpiece of intelligently written and rivetingly intense character drama. -Gary S Dalkin.
Actors & Directors
- Sorrell Booke
- John Schneider
- James Best
- Catherine Bach
- Thomas Wopat
Run time: 789 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.08
Review The Dukes Of Hazzard - Series 7 / Warner Home Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / My Family - Series 4 - Complete [2003]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W4HGJJCHL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Lindsay
- Zoe Wanamaker
- Kris Marshall
- Dewi Humphreys
- Daniela Denby-Ashe
- Gabriel Thomson
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.99
Review My Family - Series 4 - Complete [2003] / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 325 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98
Review Follyfoot - Series 3 - Complete / Follyfoot:
Release date: 2008-02-04
Run time: 183 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.98
Review Ross Kemp on Gangs: El Salvador - Cape Town - St. Louis - Moscow / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Footballers Wives - Series 5 [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IRxsy2LlL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Zoe Lucker
- Ben Richards
- Helen Latham
- Laila Rouass
- Sarah Barrand
Run time: 402 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £22.96
Review Footballers Wives - Series 5 [2005] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Alison Steadman
- Lisa Riley
- John Deery
- John Anderson
- Gaynor Faye
- Josie Lawrence
Run time: 308 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £1.20
Review Fat Friends - Series 3 / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 425 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £16.75
Review Spitting Image - Series 3 / Network:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / My Family : Complete BBC Series 7 [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DlHR-AO3L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Zoe Wanamaker
- Robert Lindsay
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.97
Review My Family : Complete BBC Series 7 [2006] / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2008-09-01
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.39
Review Midsomer Murders - Left for Dead / Midsomer Murders:
![Review The F Word / The F Word Series 4 Gordon Ramsay [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51l0qArFTLL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 635 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.98
Review The F Word Series 4 Gordon Ramsay [2008] / The F Word:
Actors & Directors
- Andy Ackerman
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Michael Richards
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Jason Alexander
- Tom Cherones
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £79.99
Price: £14.50
Review Seinfeld - 5 & 6 (Gift Set) / Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK:
![Review Cinema Club / The Smoking Room - Series 2 [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515E%2B4GPxrL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Webb
- Nadine Marshall
- Leslie Schofield
- Debbie Chazen
- Gareth Carrivick
Run time: 225 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.96
Review The Smoking Room - Series 2 [2005] / Cinema Club:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / JAG Season 4 [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pzF%2BE4fWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Labyorteaux
- Catherine Bell
- David James Elliott
- Chuck Carrington
- John M. Jackson
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.98
Review JAG Season 4 [1998] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gnhGtJPAL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Oliver Ford Davies
- Samuel West
- Andrea Riseborough
- Rory Kinnear
- Geoffrey Palmer
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.91
Review Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley [2008] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Rob Morrow
- Bill Eagles
- J. Miller Tobin
- Peter MacNicol
- Alex Zakrzewski
- Judd Hirsch
- David Krumholtz
Run time: 522 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £15.75
Review Numb3rs Season 2 / Paramount Home Entertainment (UK):
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.98
Review Family Guy - Peter Griffin - Best Bits Exposed / Family Guy:
![Review Warner Home Video / Conspiracy [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414K25HSNBL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Frank Pierson
- Clare Bullus
- Kenneth Branagh
- David Glover
- Stanley Tucci
- Simon Markey
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Loring Mandel
RRP: £13.99
Price: £17.99
Review Conspiracy [2001] / Warner Home Video:Based on the only surviving record of the infamous 1942 Wannsee Conference, the BBC/HBO produced Conspiracy reconstructs the two-hour meeting during which leading members of the SS and the Nazi government made definitive plans for the genocide of Europe's Jews. Sixteen men sit around a table and politely discuss the mechanics and ramifications of murdering millions. As SS General Reinhard Heydrich, overall architect of the Final Solution, Kenneth Branagh is brilliant, charming, manipulative and threatening, a cultured man seemingly without a soul. As his aid, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, Stanley Tucci is the incarnation of the banality of evil, an efficient and self-effacing bureaucrat in a fine performance marred only by a hint of the actor's American accent. Colin Firth is a powerful foil for Branagh as Dr Wilhelm Stuckart, author of Nazi Germany's race laws and a stickler for the rule of law, no matter how insane the law may have become; while David Threlfall makes a striking impression as the one man who comes closest to taking a moral stand, Dr Wilhelm Kritzinger. Directed in an elegantly controlled style by Frank Pierson, Conspiracy is the Janus face of the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men and a chilling companion to the BBC/HBO Churchill drama The Gathering Storm (2002). On the DVD: Conspiracy comes to DVD with text profiles of the four leading actors and the director and two featurettes, one running two minutes, the other four, neither of which is any more than an electronic press-kit. Sound is clear, perfectly good Dolby Surround, while the picture, though anamorphically enhanced at 16:9, is no more than adequate. -Gary S Dalkin.
![Review 2 Entertain Video / The Very Best of Dad's Army - Volume Two [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513QNJPKT5L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Arthur Lowe
- Clive Dunn
- John Le Mesurier
- Ian Lavender
- James Beck
Run time: 149 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.84
Review The Very Best of Dad's Army - Volume Two [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:The Very Best of Dad's Army, Vol 2 is a further helping of episodes from the BBC's most durable comedy, well chosen to illustrate the variety of situations and predicaments in which Warmington-on-Sea's home guard find themselves. "Menace from the Deep" sees them marooned on the town pier, having to contend with a rogue mine and an inebriated Hodges. "Mum's Army" has Captain Mainwaring set up a women's division and promptly fall for the charming Miss Gray, in a cunning take on Brief Encounter. "No Spring for Frazer" charts Frazer's beleaguered attempts to locate a missing gun part with predictably disastrous results. "When Did You Last See Your Money?" similarly puts Corporal Jones through the mill after he switches a package containing £500 with one containing a half-pound of sausages. Finally, "The Honourable Man" brings the enmity of Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson to a head when the latter inherits an honorary title. The performances have that spontaneity and gently self-mocking humour so familiar, yet so enjoyable, however many times around. On the DVD: The Very Best of Dad's Army, Vol 2 on disc has an accompanying documentary (partially reprised from that on Volume 1) containing interviews with surviving cast members, present-day comedians and Messrs Croft and Perry, whose inspired scriptwriting continues to amuse and entertain. The early-70s prints have come up well, with subtitles and six chapter headings per episode to make locating favourite scenes easier than ever. -Richard Whitehouse.
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 2 - Vol. 4 [2005]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gC-9YgvTL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Billie Piper
- Peter Kay
- David Tennant
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.49
Review Doctor Who - The New Series - Series 2 - Vol. 4 [2005] / 2 Entertain Video:This latest collection of episodes from the 'second' series of Doctor Who again features a couple of cracking instalments, although this time there's one that's attracted a heavy amount of criticism too. So let's start with the good. Stretching a tight budget to its limits and in the process delivering a cracking piece of science fiction, the two-parter that kicks off with "The Impossible Planet" and concludes with "The Satan Pit" takes place in the far reaches of the Universe, on board a craft that's been sucked into a black hole. Only it isn't. It's mysteriously defying the pull of the black hole, and there are other sinister goings on too. There are no spoilers here, but rest assured that this is tense, gripping television, with a surprising number of behind-the-sofa moments. And if the second part doesn't quite match up to the strengths of the first, it still rounds off a satisfying, enjoying story. As for "Love & Monsters", there's a hard core that believe it to be an innovative, interesting experiment for Doctor Who. This reviewer, however, sides with the majority. By leaving the Doctor and Rose pretty much entirely on the sidelines, and giving centre stage to primarily irritating and clumsy characters (epitomised by Peter Kay's desperately unconvincing baddie), it becomes easily the weakest episode since the Who revival, and leaves you hoping that it's an experiment not to be repeated. [+]Still, this disc is still very much worth it for two of the episodes, so buy it with those in mind, and treat the third very much as an anomaly, no matter what your thoughts on it. And brace yourself for the next disc too-it's a corker… -Simon Brew.
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