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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Britney Spears - Britney - For The Record [DVD] [2008]
Release date: 2009-06-01
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.94

Review Britney Spears - Britney - For The Record [DVD] [2008] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Francesco's Italy / Francesco's Italy - Top To Toe [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Francesco Da Mosto
Release date: 2008-08-18
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Francesco Da Mosto
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.91

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Rick Stein's Mediterranean Escapes [DVD]
Release date: 2009-05-25
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The Genius of Photography [DVD] [2007]
Release date: 2009-07-06
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf : Complete BBC Series 5 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Juliet May
  • Rob Grant
  • Doug Naylor
  • Chris Barrie
  • Hattie Hayridge
  • Danny John-Jules
  • Robert Llewelyn
  • Craig Charles
Release date: 2004-11-08
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Chris Barrie
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.98

Review Red Dwarf : Complete BBC Series 5 [DVD] / 2 Entertain Video:

It's brown alert time all over again for Red Dwarf fans with the fifth season of the much-loved sci-fi/comedy series. Episode-wise, it's business as usual for the crew of the Red Dwarf-that is, if one considers encountering an alien squid that squirts a despair-inducing hallucinogen ("Back to Reality", later voted the best episode of the series by viewers and Stephen Hawking!), evil (and not particularly bright) versions of the crew ("Demons and Angels"), a virus that causes insanity ("Quarantine"), and a trip to a moon created entirely from the mind of the insufferable hologram Rimmer ("Terrorform") business as usual. In short, it's six hilarious episodes, highlighted by the typically terrific writing of creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (who also direct two episodes). As with the previous deluxe DVD releases, Series V features a wealth of supplemental features, the most intriguing of which is a look at the failed attempt to recreate the show in America (with U. K. cast member Robert Llewellyn and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Terry Farrell as Cat). Also included are cast and fan commentaries, featurettes on the show's "science" and villains, special effects tests, blooper reels, and a sampling of Grant and Naylor's BBC 4 radio sketch "Dave Hollins, Space Cadet", which served as the inspiration for Red Dwarf. Dedicated DVD owners will also be rewarded by Easter eggs lurking throughout the menus. -Paul Gaita.

Review 2 Entertain / A Lion Called Christian [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • John Rendall
  • Ace Bourke
Release date: 2009-04-27
Creator: Ace Bourke
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf: Series 3 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Craig Charles
  • Ed Bye
  • Robert Llewellyn
  • Rob Grant
  • Chris Barrie
  • Danny John-Jules
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 161 min.
Creator: Chris Barrie
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.50

Review Red Dwarf: Series 3 [DVD] / 2 Entertain Video:

The third series of Red Dwarf introduced some radical changes-all of them for the better-but the scripts remained as sharp and character-focussed as ever, making this a firm candidate for the show's best year. Gone were the dull metallic grey sets and costumes, gone too was Norman Lovett's lugubrious Holly, replaced now by comedienne Hattie Hayridge, who had previously played Hilly in the Series 2 episode "Parallel Universe". New this year were custom-made costumes, more elaborate sets, the zippy pea-green Starbug, bigger special effects and the wholly admirable Robert Llewellyn as Kryten. The benefits of the show's changes are apparent from the outset, with the mind-bending hilarity of "Backwards", in which Kryten and Rimmer establish themselves as a forwards-talking double-act on a reverse Earth. After a modest two-hander that sees Rimmer and Lister "Marooned", comes one of the Dwarf's most beloved episodes, "Polymorph". Here is the ensemble working at its best, as each character unwittingly has their strongest emotion sucked out of them. Lister loses his fear; Cat his vanity; Kryten his reserve; and Rimmer his anger ("Chameleonic Life-Forms. No Thanks"). "Body Swap" sees Lister and Rimmer involved in a bizarre attempt to prevent the ship from self-destructing. "Timeslides" delves deep into Rimmer's psyche as the boys journey haphazardly through history. [+]
Finally, "The Last Day" shows how completely Kryten has been adopted as a crewmember, when his replacement Hudzen unexpectedly shows up. On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 3 two-disc set maintains the high standard of presentation and wealth of extra material established by its predecessors. Among other delights there are the usual "Smeg Ups" and deleted scenes, plus another fun commentary with the cast. There's a lengthy documentary, "All Change", specifically about Series 3, a tribute to costume designer Mel Bibby, Hattie Hayridge's convention video diary, and-most fascinating-the opportunity to watch "Backwards" played forwards, so you can finally understand what Arthur Smith's backwards-talking pub manager actually says to Rimmer and Kryten in the dressing room. -Mark Walker.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf : Complete BBC Series 7 [2005] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Ellard
  • Danny John-Jules
  • Craig Charles
  • Chloë Annett
  • Robert Llewellyn
  • Chris Barrie
Release date: 2005-11-07
Run time: 230 min.
Creator: John McKay
RRP: £22.99
Price: £3.84

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Anvil - The Story Of Anvil - CD and DVD Double [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Sacha Gervasi
Release date: 2009-06-15
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.59

Review Anvil - The Story Of Anvil - CD and DVD Double [2008] / Universal Pictures UK:

Nearly three decades on, is Anvil! The Story Of Anvil finally the film that finally gives This Is Spinal Tap a run for its money? Quite possibly so. The recipient of far-reaching acclaim, and with a real run for being named film of the year, this is a superb documentary, that is all the more staggering for being true. Anvil! The Story Of Anvil follows the band of its title, a heavy metal group who enjoyed moderate success in the late 70s and early 80s, but kept going even when the light of fame and success shone elsewhere. Thus, we meet the band’s members-Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow and Robb Reiner-as they hold down day jobs, record an album and head off on a European tour that could have been taken straight out of the Spinal Tap playbook. As Anvil! The Story Of Anvil develops, though, there’s a drama at the heart of it that mixes in with the many frequent laughs. And, as it turns out, it’s a film that out of nowhere manages to move you, pretty much the last thing you expect of it. This is, and there’s no two ways about it, a quite brilliant film, and one of the very best documentaries in some time. It’s outrageously entertaining, very funny and yet human to the core. Anvil! The Story Of Anvil is going to take some beating, and don’t be surprised if it’s another three decades before anything else comes close to it and This Is Spinal Tap… -Jon Foster.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Lovers' Guide Interactive - The Ultimate Guide To Sex [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Page
Release date: 2008-01-28
Creator: Dr Chris Fariello
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.26

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Review E1 Entertainment / The Lost Railways [DVD]
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.97

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Top Gear - Box Set [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Hammond (II)
  • Brian Klein
  • Jeremy Clarkson
  • James May (II)
  • Chris Donovan
Release date: 2006-12-18
Run time: 330 min.
Creator: Richard Hammond (II)
RRP: £29.99
Price: £6.87

Review Top Gear - Box Set [DVD] / 2 Entertain Video:

Join Jeremy Clarkson and the rest of the Top Gear petrolheads in this three-programme box set, featuring Revved Up, Winter Olympics and The Best of Top Gear.

Review Bfi Video / Of Time And The City [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Terence Davies
Release date: 2009-03-30
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Sol Papadopoulos
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

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Review Revelation Films / Wire In The Blood VI - The Complete Sixth Series [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Hoar;Richard Curson-Smith;Declan O Dwyer;Philip John
  • Simone Lahbib
  • Robson Green
Release date: 2009-03-02
Run time: 362 min.
Creator: Simone Lahbib
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.97

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf: Series 2 [DVD] [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Grant
  • Chris Barrie
  • Craig Charles
  • Doug Naylor
  • Ed Bye
  • Danny John-Jules
Release date: 2003-02-10
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Rob Grant
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.98

Review Red Dwarf: Series 2 [DVD] [1988] / 2 Entertain Video:

The second series of Red Dwarf is, as Danny John-Jules says in the accompanying DVD commentary, "the one where it really went good". First broadcast in the autumn of 1988, these six episodes showcase Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's sardonic, sarcastic humour to perfection. The writing has matured, no longer focussing solely on SF in-jokes and gags about bodily functions, instead allowing the humour to develop from the characters and their sometimes surprisingly poignant interactions: Lister's timeless love for Kochanksi, for example, or Rimmer's brief memory-implanted love for one of Lister's ex-girlfriends. The cast had gelled, too, and there's even more colour this year as the drab sets are spiced up, a little more money has been assigned to models and special effects, and the crew even go on location once in a while. "Kryten" introduces us to the eponymous house robot (here played by David Ross), although after this first episode he was not to reappear until Series 3, when Robert Llewellyn made the role his own. Then in "Better Than Life" the show produced one of its all-time classic episodes, as the boys from the Dwarf take part in a virtual reality game that's ruined by Rimmer's tortured psyche. Other highlights include "Queeg", in which Holly is replaced by a domineering computer personality, the baffling time travel paradox of "Stasis Leak", the puzzling conundrum of "Thanks for the Memory", and the astonishingly feminine "Parallel Universe". On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 2 has another chaotic and undisciplined group commentary from the cast, all clearly enjoying the opportunity to reminisce. The second disc has a host of fun extras, including an "A-Z of Red Dwarf", outtakes, deleted scenes, a Doug Naylor interview, model shots, and the full, unexpurgated "Tongue Tied" music video. As with the first set, the animated menus are great fun and the "Play All" facility is the most useful little flashing button ever created. [+]
-Mark Walker.

Review Second Sight / Baraka: Remastered (Blu Ray) [Blu-ray] [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Fricke
Release date: 2008-11-10
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.74

Review Baraka: Remastered (Blu Ray) [Blu-ray] [1992] / Second Sight:

Ron Fricke, the cinematographer on the trippy Koyaanisqatsi, made this similarly impressionistic, dialogue-free photo exhibition come to life. Shot in 24 countries and at all sorts of locations (ancient temples, Auschwitz, a chicken-processing plant), the film attempts to make a subconscious or poetic point about the relationship between living creatures (particularly humans) and their environments. It's a breathtaking Herculean effort, but it is also opaque in meaning and probably best appreciated by viewers already in an incoherent state. Worse, the film loses much of its intended magic on video. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Acorn Media / Victorian Farm [DVD] [2008]
Release date: 2009-03-02
Run time: 360 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.95

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf: Complete BBC Series 1 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Danny John-Jules
  • Ed Bye
  • Doug Naylor
  • Norman Lovett
  • Chris Barrie
  • Craig Charles
Release date: 2002-11-04
Run time: 175 min.
Creator: Craig Charles
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.00

Review Red Dwarf: Complete BBC Series 1 [DVD] / 2 Entertain Video:

Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy SF series Red Dwarf was sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on our television screens in 1988 the show had clearly stayed true to its roots, mixing jokes about excessive curry consumption with affectionate parodies of classic SF. Indeed, one of the show's most endearing and enduring features is its obvious respect for the conventions of SF, even as it gleefully subverts them. The scenario owes something to Douglas Adams's satirical Hitch-Hiker's Guide, something to The Odd Couple and a lot more to the slacker SF of John Carpenter's Dark Star. Behind the crew's constant bickering there lurks an impending sense that life, the universe and everything are all someone's idea of a terrible joke. Later series broadened the show's horizons until at last its premise was so diluted as to be unrecognisable, but in the six episodes of the first series the comedy is witty and intimate, focusing on characters and not special effects. Slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is the last human alive after a radiation leak wipes out the crew of the vast mining vessel Red Dwarf (episode 1, "The End"). He bums around the spaceship with the perpetually uptight and annoyed hologram of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie, the show's greatest comedy asset) and a creature evolved from a cat (dapper Danny John Jules). They are guided rather haphazardly by Holly, the worryingly thick ship's computer (lugubrious Norman Lovett). On the DVD: Red Dwarf I arrives in a two-disc set, with all six episodes on the first disc accompanied by an excellent group commentary from Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules and Norman Lovett. [+]
(There's also a bonus commentary on "The End" with the two writers and director Ed Bye. ) The 4:3 picture is unimpressive, but sound is decent stereo. The second disc has an entertaining 25-minute documentary on the genesis of the series with contributions from the cast, writer Doug Naylor and producer Paul Jackson. Navigate the animated menus to find a gallery of extra features, including isolated music cues, deleted scenes, outtakes ("Smeg Ups"), a fun "Drunk" music montage, model effects shots, Web links, audiobook clips, the original BBC trailer and even the entire first episode in Japanese. -Mark Walker.

Review 4dvd / Touching The Void [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Hawkins
  • Nicholas Aaron
  • Joe Simpson
  • Brendan Mackey
  • Simon Yates
  • Kevin Macdonald
Release date: 2007-09-17
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Nicholas Aaron
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.65

Review Touching The Void [DVD] [2003] / 4dvd:

A gripping, harrowing true-life story told with real skill, Touching The Void is one of the finest documentaries of recent years. It mixes in recreations of real life events with interviews, building up a head of tension that makes it hard to turn your eyes away from. The story itself centres on two British mountain climbers by the name of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates. They head off to the Andes to climb Siula Grande, yet some way into the expedition, Joe Simpson falls and breaks his leg. At this stage he’s still attached to the support rope of Simon Yates, who struggles to bear his weight, and faces an impossible choice between continuing to hang on and face certain death, or cutting the rope and sending his friend plummeting down the side of the mountain. Not only is this an extraordinary story, but it’s one that Touching The Void tells exceptionally well, with a focus and skill that rightly attracted the interest of award-givers. That those involved in the real-life adventure are telling you the story adds a real weight to the film, and director Kevin Macdonald-he who was behind the Oscar-winning One Day In September-weaves it all together quite brilliantly. An unforgettable piece of cinema for many reasons, Touching The Void is an extraordinary telling of an extraordinary tale, and one that simply demands to be seen. Do make sure you see it. -Simon Brew.

Review Revolver Entertainment / What The Bleep Do We Know!? [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Elaine Hendrix
  • Marc Vicente
  • Marlee Matlin
  • William Arntz
  • John Ross Bowie
  • Betsy Chasse
Release date: 2005-09-26
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Elaine Hendrix
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.98

Review What The Bleep Do We Know!? [DVD] / Revolver Entertainment:

What the Bleep Do We Know? is a lecture on mysticism and science mixed into a sort-of narrative. Marlee Matlin stars in the dramatic thread, about a sourpuss photographer who begins to question her perceptions. Interviews with quantum physics experts and New Age authors are cut into this story, offering a vaguely convincing (and certainly mind-provoking) theory about. well, actually, it sounds a lot like the Power of Positive Thinking, when you get down to it. Talking heads (not identified until film's end) include JZ Knight, who appears in the movie channeling Ramtha, the ancient sage she claims communicates through her (other speakers are also associated with Knight's organization). What she says actually makes pretty good common sense-Ramtha's wiggier notions are not included-and would be easy to accept were it not being credited to a 35,000-year-old mystic from Atlantis. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

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