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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Will and Grace: Complete Series 5
Actors & Directors
  • Sean Hayes
  • Megan Mullally
  • Debra Messing
  • Eric McCormack
Release date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £49.99
Price: £8.34

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The Office - The Complete Second Series [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Lucy Davis
  • Mackenzie Crook
  • Ewan MacIntosh
  • Martin Freeman
  • Ricky Gervais
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 220 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.67

Review The Office - The Complete Second Series [2001] / 2 Entertain Video:

The second series of the award-winning BBC2 mockudrama The Office exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais was once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, a subtly shaded modern English comic grotesque in the desperate and self-deluding tradition of Alan Partridge and Basil Fawlty. In this series, however, Brent's to-camera assertions concerning his man-management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil takes over as area manager. To compensate Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer/motivator/comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace. This culminates in a comically disastrous motivational session ending with a sing-along of Tina Turner's "Simply the Best", which is greeted, typically, with stunned, appalled silence. Meanwhile, Tim, who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish, puddingbowl-haired Gareth, continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn, a sympathetic character persisting with a relationship with a yobbish bloke about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity-an impromptu office dance, a mixture of "Flashdance and MC Hammer" as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself as a humiliated and broken man in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. [+]
All this and Keith too. -David Stubbs On the DVD: The Office, Series 2 is a single-disc release unlike the more generous Series 1. Extra features are enjoyable nonetheless. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant feature in a gleefully shambolic video diary-highlights of which include Gervais flicking elastic bands at his cowriter and taping their editor to his swivel chair. The ubiquitous Gervais also mockingly introduces some outtakes (mostly of him corpsing throughout dozens of takes) and a series of deleted scenes, notably of Gareth arriving in his horrendous cycle shorts. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Simpsons: Complete Season 3
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Cartwright
  • Doris Grau
  • Dan Castellaneta
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 576 min.
Creator: Matt Groening
RRP: £39.99
Price: £14.93

Review The Simpsons: Complete Season 3 / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

First broadcast in 1991 the third series of The Simpsons contains a clutch of candidates for "Best Simpsons Episode Ever". Homer is on such appallingly good form throughout this series that a reasonable case can be made for asserting that he has superseded the importance of his Greek namesake in the annals of culture and civilisation. The opening "Stark Raving Dad", for instance, features a guest appearance by an un-credited Michael Jackson, who plays an obese white inmate whom Homer meets while confined to a mental institution. Other standout episodes include "Like Father, Like Clown", in which Krusty reveals he is estranged from his Rabbi father; this is The Simpsons at the height of its powers, mature, ironic, erudite and touching while bristling with slapstick and Bart-inspired cheek. "Flaming Moe's" features Aerosmith and sees Homer invent a cocktail which desperate, sleazy bartender Moe steals from him. "Radio Bart" is another demonstration of the series' knack for cultural references, parodying the Billy Wilder movie Ace in the Hole. Finally, there's "Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes", in which Danny DeVito reprises his role as Homer's brother, regaining the fortune Homer lost him by inventing a Baby Translator. Immensely enjoyable at anything from a primary to a doctoral thesis level, this third year of the show demonstrates conclusively that The Simpsons is quite simply, and by a large margin, the greatest television programme ever made. -David Stubbs.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Bill Bailey Live - Part Troll [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Bailey
Release date: 2004-11-22
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: John Kaye Cooper
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.87

Review Bill Bailey Live - Part Troll [1997] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Royal Tenenbaums [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Gene Hackman
  • Wes Anderson
  • Ben Stiller
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
Release date: 2002-12-02
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.50

Review The Royal Tenenbaums [2002] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Wes Anderson's satirical yet tender tragicomedy The Royal Tenenbaums is a defiantly offbeat movie, but its sheer originality makes it a winner. As Philip Larkin famously said, "They fuck you up, your mum and dad". Well, it's Dad, the opulently named Royal Tenenbaum himself (Gene Hackman in twinkly mode), who gets all the blame here. The precocious achievements of the Tenenbaum offspring are amusingly documented: teen tycoon Chas (a perpetually snarly Ben Stiller), tennis star Richie (Luke Wilson, alienation personified in his Björn Borg get-up) and Margot-adopted and never allowed to forget it-a prize-winning playwright by ninth grade (Gwyneth Paltrow lurking under a ton of eyeliner and a sulky pout). Then there's Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), the kid from over the road who always wanted to be a Tenenbaum and nowadays makes his living writing trashy but successful Westerns. After two decades of going their own way, to unfailingly disastrous effect, the Tenenbaums find themselves reunited in their old house, as idiosyncratic and illogical a place as the family itself, with Etheline Tenenbaum (touchingly played by Anjelica Huston) about to marry her accountant, Henry Sherman (Danny Glover). The action loops forward and backward, with the background detail on each character beautifully rounded out by narrator Alec Baldwin. This, and the device of dividing the film into chapters, gives it the feel of a fairy story, and like the best in the genre, it has a satisfying, if not entirely happy, resolution. On the DVD: The Royal Tenenbaums comes with extra features that really do add to the enjoyment of the film. These range from the whimsical (a gallery of all the fictitious book and magazine covers that involve the Tenenbaum family and a slide show of behind-the-scenes photos by set-photographer James Hamilton) to the enlightening (a 26-minute film about writer/director Wes Anderson, his ideas behind the movie and an insight into his way of working, which is illuminating particularly for the sheer detail of his vision-if he's a control freak, he comes across as a nice control freak). [+]
There are also brief interviews with the main players, excerpts from Anderson's annotated script pages and background details on the artwork that appears in the film by Miguel Calderon and Eric Chase Anderson (brother of Wes). Less than two minutes of deleted scenes is hardly exciting, though the offbeat humour of the "Peter Bradley Show" is a distinct plus. -Harriet Smith.

Review Warner Home Video / Curb Your Enthusiasm: Complete HBO Season 2
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Garlin
  • Larry David
  • Susie Essman
  • Cheryl Hines
  • Richard Lewis
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 300 min.
Creator: Grady Cooper
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.00

Review Curb Your Enthusiasm: Complete HBO Season 2 / Warner Home Video:

It's more of the same for Larry David's sitcom from HBO, and for fans, that's a good thing. The show-largely extemporized-follows suit of David's former series, Seinfeld: it's a show about nothing, just the everyday life of the star going about his pseudo-real world. But David's show has far more edge (thanks, in part, to airing on cable TV) with all the bad luck, embarrassing situations, and dreadful behavior as its premiere season. The closest thing to an arc is David's season-long pitch to the networks for a new show starring former Seinfeld stars Jason Alexander and Julia-Louis Dreyfus. Each network is lampooned, especially HBO, which David has a bad history with in this alternate world. Sure to repel those with soft funny bones, Curb's acerbic comedy allows jokes where David is accidentally framed-if ever so briefly-as a child molester, wife abuser, or murderer. But for those who do love his shtick, there are big laughs, especially when we bump into characters as unbridled as David, like a fellow writer who is quite protective of his dad's invention, the Cobb salad. Many comic actors pop up, some as "themselves" (Richard Lewis, Rob Reiner) and others as characters (Rita Wilson, Ed Asner) along with the delights of co-stars Cheryl Hines as David's wife and his affable manger, Jeff Garlin. There are several touchstone bits: what a thong brief can do to a relationship, a run-in with pro wrestler, Larry's first baptism, and one very collectible doll. To pick one episode to capture this second season-and its grandstanding nature-it would be "Shaq," in which the NBA star is accidentally tripped, changing David's usual bad luck with gut-busting results. [+]
-Doug Thomas.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • James Fox
  • Stuart Whitman
  • Robert Morley
  • Sarah Miles
  • Ken Annakin
  • Alberto Sordi
Release date: 2006-09-01
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.70

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Review Pathe / The Cottage [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Reece Shearsmith
  • Paul Andrew Williams
  • Jennifer Ellison
  • Steve O'Donnell
  • Andy Serkis
Release date: 2008-07-14
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.83

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Review ITV DVD / The Royle Family - Christmas Special - The New Sofa [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Sue Johnston
  • Caroline Aherne
  • Ricky Tomlinson
  • Craig Cash
Release date: 2009-01-26
RRP: £17.99
Price: £13.49

Review The Royle Family - Christmas Special - The New Sofa [2008] / ITV DVD:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Pretty In Pink [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Annie Potts
  • Molly Ringwald
  • Jon Cryer
  • James Spader
  • Howard Deutch
  • Harry Dean Stanton
Release date: 2003-10-14
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Michael Chinich
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.70

Review Pretty In Pink [1986] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The era of Molly Ringwald's profitable collaboration with writer-producer-director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) was at its peak with this 1986 film (directed by Howard Deutch but in every sense part of the developing Hughes empire). Ringwald plays a high-school girl on the budget side of the tracks, living with her warm and loving father (Harry Dean Stanton) and usually accompanied by her insecure best friend (Jon Cryer). When a wealthy but well-meaning boy (Andrew McCarthy) asks her out, her perspective is overturned and Cryer's character is threatened. As was the case in the mid-'80s, Hughes (who wrote the script and produced the film) brought his special feel for the cross-currents of adolescent life to this story. In its very commercial way, it is an honest, entertaining piece about growing pains. The attractive supporting cast (many of whom are much better known now) does a terrific job, and Ringwald and Cryer have excellent chemistry. -Tom Keogh.

Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / The Golden Girls - The Complete First Season
Actors & Directors
  • Estelle Getty
  • Beatrice Arthur
  • Betty White
  • Rue McClanahan
Release date: 2005-06-27
Run time: 617 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £9.87

Review The Golden Girls - The Complete First Season / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:

Launched during the neon-lit 1980s, The Golden Girls shed light on a side of Miami ignored by Miami Vice. In other words, no drugs, no murder-just four women of "a certain age," spending their golden years in the sun. Like the theme, "Thank You for Being a Friend," the long-running sitcom was about friendship (not crime). As for the "girls," they were tart-tongued Dorothy, former farm girl Rose, Southern belle Blanche, and Dorothy's salty Sicilian mother Sophia. All were widows, with the exception of the divorced Dorothy. Created by Emmy-winning producer Susan Harris, The Golden Girls re-ignited the careers of 1970s TV veterans Arthur and White. At the same time, it made stars of McClanahan, by playing a comic version of A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche Dubois, and the scene-stealing Getty, made to look older than her actual age (she and Arthur were born the same year). The Golden Girls ran for seven seasons and spawned spin-off The Golden Palace (without Arthur) and a British version called The Brighton Belles. By the end of its run in 1992, it had garnered numerous awards, including two Emmys for best comedy series. In addition, each of the four actresses received a well-deserved Emmy for her efforts. [+]
-Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon. com.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Blott On The Landscape [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Cadell
  • David Suchet
  • George Cole
  • Roger Bamford
  • Geraldine James
  • Julia McKenzie
Release date: 2005-06-06
Run time: 311 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.68

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Review Entertainment in Video / The Family Man [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Brett Ratner
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Jeremy Piven
  • Don Cheadle
  • Téa Leoni
  • Saul Rubinek
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: David Weissman
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.89

Review The Family Man [2000] / Entertainment in Video:

Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is a quintessential Wall Street shark, scoring killer deals by day and shallow escort sex by night in The Family Man. Carp all you want about this derivative premise, with its marginal stereotypes and biased embrace of domestic bliss and dirty nappies. The simple fact is, The Family Man works like a charm. Under the assured direction of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), this holiday crowd-pleaser offers comedy and chemistry in equal measure, making the hilarity of Jack's predicament a smooth catalyst for that rarest of film romances: the marital love story. Leoni is Cage's perfect match as Jack's idealised but imperfect wife and the films's appeal largely derives from its awareness that any life has its pleasures and pains. While it only flirts with the dark desperation that makes It's a Wonderful Life a classic predecessor, The Family Man is an irresistible what-if fantasy and even its debatable ending rides on a wave of genuine warmth and sentiment. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review 4dvd / Star Stories - Series 1 And 2 [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Bishop
  • Matt King
  • Laura Patch
  • Rhys Thomas
  • Dolly Wells
Release date: 2008-11-17
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £17.97

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Simpsons: Complete Season 5 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Castellaneta
  • Julie Kavner
  • Nancy Cartwright
  • Harry Shearer
  • Yeardley Smith
Release date: 2005-03-21
Run time: 506 min.
Creator: Matt Groening
RRP: £39.99
Price: £14.95

Review The Simpsons: Complete Season 5 [1990] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Sixteen seasons (and counting) of pop culture-rocking brilliance, the first four of which have already been gloriously archived on DVD. But in the words of Krusty the Clown: "What has The Simpsons done for me lately?" Well, how about all 22 episodes of season 5, each accompanied by commentary, deleted scenes, and other encyclopedic extras that hopelessly devoted Simpsons fans crave, no, demand? Season 5 is perhaps not as classics-packed as the third or fourth seasons, but no self-respecting Simpsons fan should be without the episodes "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", featuring George Harrison, "Cape Feare", one of Sideshow Bob's (and guest voice Kelsey Grammer's) finest half-hours, "Rosebud", "Springfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" and "Bart Gets Famous", with the Springfield-sweeping catchphrase "I didn't do it". Plus, the star power this season is impressive: Michelle Pfeiffer as Homer's comely, donut-loving co-worker in "The Last Temptation of Homer", Albert Brooks as a self-help guru who unleashes "Bart's Inner Child", Kathleen Turner as the creator of Malibu Stacy in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", and, as themselves, the Ramones ("Rosebud"), James Woods ("Homer and Apu"), Buzz Aldren ("Deep Space Homer"), and even Robert Goulet ("Springfield"). But it is the writers and the core ensemble cast who exhibit, to quote "Deep Space Homer", "the right. What's that stuff?" Series milestones include the first appearance of yokel Cletus in "Bart Gets an Elephant" and Maggie's infant nemesis, The Baby with One Eyebrow in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badasssss Song" which also happens to be The Simpsons' 100th episode. Add in a very good "Treehouse of Horror" episode, (which outs Ned Flanders as the Devil and Marge as the head vampire), and one Emmy-nominated musical extravaganza ("Who Needs the Quick-E-Mart" from "Homer and Apu"), and you have a Simpsons season that's not just great, it's DVD-box-set great. -Donald Liebenson.

Review Dreamworks Home Entertainment / Terminal, The [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Tom Hanks
Release date: 2005-01-31
Run time: 129 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.35

Review Terminal, The [2004] / Dreamworks Home Entertainment:

Like an airport running at peak efficiency, The Terminal glides on the consummate skills of its director and star. Having refined their collaborative chemistry on Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me if You Can, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks mesh like the precision gears of a Rolex, turning a delicate, not-very-plausible scenario into a lovely modern-age fable (partly based on fact) that's both technically impressive and subtly moving. It's Spielberg in Capra mode, spinning the featherweight tale of Victor Navorski (Hanks, giving a finely tuned performance), an Eastern European who arrives at New York's Kennedy Airport just as his (fictional) homeland has fallen to a coup, forcing him, with no valid citizenship, to take indefinite residence in the airport's expansive International Arrivals Terminal (an astonishing full-scale set that inspires Spielberg's most elegant visual strategies). Spielberg said he made this film in part to alleviate the anguish of wartime America, and his master's touch works wonders on the occasionally mushy material; even Stanley Tucci's officious terminal director and Catherine Zeta-Jones's mixed-up flight attendant come off (respectively) as forgivable and effortlessly charming. With this much talent involved, The Terminal transcends its minor shortcomings to achieve a rare degree of cinematic grace. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Absolutely Fabulous - Series 2 - Complete [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Julia Sawalha
  • June Whitfield
  • Jennifer Saunders
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Jane Horrocks
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 176 min.
Creator: Andy Hollis
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.90

Review Absolutely Fabulous - Series 2 - Complete [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:

Absolutely Fabulous was first broadcast in 1992 and became an instant hit. Originally a sketch on the French and Saunders Show, Jennifer Saunders saw its potential and created one of the most ground-breaking and debauched comedies on British TV. Centred around the hip London fashion scene the series follows Edina (Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley), two women who refuse to grow up and are constantly on a mission to lose weight, gorging themselves with cocaine and/or champagne, endlessly throwing parties (or throwing up at parties), and sporting outrageous outfits which were the height of fashion at the time-honestly sweetie! The superb comic performances offered star status to Julia Sawalha as Edina's straight-laced daughter and Jane Horrocks as the sublimely dippy Bubble, and re-invented the careers of Joanna Lumley and June Whitfield. Saunders meanwhile secured her status as one of the top female comedians Britain has ever produced. Although its consciously chic clothing looks a little dated now, its mad characterisations endure and the jokes remain as hilariously slick and apt as ever. Ab Fab remains a landmark in TV since it was the first time that female comedians and writers had had the freedom and exposure to satirise problems close to their own heart, from their own perspective. With Feminist writers claiming that the ideals of feminism were dead in the 1990s and that female concerns were moving in the wrong direction-towards the "Laddette Culture"-and reports claiming that careers were taking a central role, forcing motherhood onto the back-burner, the series sought to embody and satirise these new supposedly "female" characteristics. As the show continued to grow in popularity both in Britain and the States, plans were made to transfer the formula to America. However, as with many other great British series, the content was considered too risky for American audiences due to the amount of sex and drug references. Thus domestic audiences breathed a sigh of release that their beloved Ab Fab would forever stay British to the core. [+]
-Nikki Disney.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Father Ted - The Complete 3rd Series [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Pauline McLynn
  • Dermot Morgan
  • Tony Guilfoyle
  • Ardal O'Hanlon
  • Frank Kelly
Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 193 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.56

Review Father Ted - The Complete 3rd Series [1995] / 2 Entertain Video:

This set contains the final series of Father Ted, which ended abruptly in 1998 with the death of its talented comic star, Dermot Morgan. The eight episodes here are a little uneven, but the best stuff is classic, laugh-out-loud satire, including "Are You Right There, Father Ted", in which Morgan's titular Catholic priest is re-banished to Ireland's Craggy Island, a green rock replete with paranoid sheep, randy milkmen, Nazi memorabilia collectors and an inexplicably large community of Chinese immigrants. Outstanding, too, is "Speed 3", in which Ted discovers that a number of babies recently born on Craggy all look like a self-made swinger named Pat Mustard. "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse" speaks for itself, and "The Mainland" gives supporting actor Ardal O'Hanlon (as idiotic fellow cleric Dougal) a great showcase. -Tom Keogh.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Juno [Blu-ray] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Ellen Page
  • J.K. Simmons
  • Jason Bateman
  • Jennifer Garner
  • Jason Reitman
  • Michael Cera
Release date: 2008-06-09
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.50

Review Juno [Blu-ray] [2007] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Somewhere between the sharp satire of Election and the rich human comedy of You Can Count On Me lies Juno, a sardonic but ultimately compassionate story of a pregnant teenage girl who wants to give her baby up for adoption. Social misfit Juno (Ellen Page, Hard Candy, X-Men: The Last Stand) protects herself with a caustic wit, but when she gets pregnant by her friend Paulie (Michael Cera, Superbad), Juno finds herself unwilling to terminate the pregnancy. When she chooses a couple who place a classified ad looking to adopt, Juno gets drawn further into their lives than she anticipated. But Juno is much more than its plot; the stylised dialogue (by screenwriter Diablo Cody) seems forced at first, but soon creates a richly textured world, greatly aided by superb performances by Page, Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the prospective parents, and J. K. Simmons (Spider-Man) and Allison Janney as Juno's father and stepmother. Director Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) deftly keeps the movie from slipping into easy, shallow sarcasm or foundering in sentimentality. The result is smarter and funnier than you might expect from the subject matter, and warmer and more touching than you might expect from the cocky attitude. Page's performance is deceptively simple; she never asks the audience to love her, yet she effortlessly carries a movie in which she's in almost every scene. That's star power. [+]
- Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Kenny [2007] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Davis
  • Alf Scerri
  • Shane Jacobson
  • Clayton Jacobson
  • Travis Golland
  • Hayley Preusker
Release date: 2008-01-21
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.97

Review Kenny [2007] [2006] / Contender Entertainment Group:

It's been a while since the dependable Australian movie industry served up another of the quirky, enjoyable comedies it became famed for in the 1990s. But Kenny proves that there's no shortage of talent down under, with a well put together marriage of comedy and drama that pays off handsomely. The film is a spoof documentary surrounding plumber Kenny Smyth, played by Shane Jacobson. Building its character up carefully and diligently, Kenny then takes us through the lows (unpleasant father, equally unpleasant ex-wife, not altogether pleasant job), and then better days. These come when Kenny heads off to the International Pumper & Cleaner Expo in America, and while we won't spoil what happens here, it's a well-told, rounded story that emerges. There are plenty of reasons to like Kenny, and its lead actor is one of the main ones. Shane Jacobson's performance is strong and engaging, capturing the optimistic outlook of the central character very well. The film is then directed by Shane's brother, Clayton, and his work too is full of promise. Mock documentaries haven't been scarce in recent times, yet the two Jacobsons nonetheless carve out a warm and engaging story within the confines of the genre. Kenny isn't a film without a couple of problems, and there are a couple of lulls that come with the journey. [+]
But it's a film with a rounded central character who you'll laugh at, care about, and ultimately, enjoy spending time with. An easy recommendation. -Jon Foster.

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Will and Grace: Complete Series 5, The Office - The Complete Second Series [2001], The Simpsons: Complete Season 3, Bill Bailey Live - Part Troll [1997], The Royal Tenenbaums [2002], Curb Your Enthusiasm: Complete HBO Season 2, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines [1965], The Cottage [2008], The Royle Family - Christmas Special - The New Sofa [2008], Pretty In Pink [1986], The Golden Girls - The Complete First Season, Blott On The Landscape [1985], The Family Man [2000], Star Stories - Series 1 And 2 [2006], The Simpsons: Complete Season 5 [1990], Terminal, The [2004], Absolutely Fabulous - Series 2 - Complete [1992], Father Ted - The Complete 3rd Series [1995], Juno [Blu-ray] [2007], Kenny [2007] [2006]

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