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Entertainment in Video The Nightmare On Elm Street 1-6 Collection (Six Disc Box Set)
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Granada Ventures Ltd Inspector Morse - The Complete Series (33 Disc Box Set) [1987]
When <I>Inspector Morse</I> first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and proper beer, he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. <p> At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whately's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter said he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --<I>Piers Ford</I>
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BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING The Michael Palin Collection - Complete 16 Disc Box Set
Release Date: 2004-11-29, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Planet of the Apes Collection (six disc box set) [1968]
The five films in the <I>Planet of the Apes</I> series are enjoyable as pure entertainment and yet substantial enough to have inspired academic studies about the film's broader political themes. Loosely adapted from the novel by French author Pierre Boulle, <I>Planet of the Apes</I> was released at the height of racial and political unrest in America, adding resonance to its story of a NASA astronaut (Charlton Heston) stranded on a planet where superior apes dominate inferior human slaves. The film's final image--in which a horrified Heston realises the fate of humankind--remains one of the most indelible in all of science-fiction cinema. <p> <I>Beneath the Planet of the Apes</I> (1970) continues the original's distant future scenario, pitting militant apes against mutant humans dwelling in the subterranean ruins of New York City. Its phenomenal success spawned <I>Escape from the Planet of the Apes</I> (1971), in which simian scientists Cornelius and Zira (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter, reprising their roles from <I>Planet</I>) travel backward in time, setting the stage for the ape supremacy of the first two films. McDowall returned in <I>Conquest of the Planet of the Apes</I> (1972) as Caesar, the son of Cornelius, leading an ape revolution that bridges the historical gap of the previous films. <I>Battle for the Planet of the Apes</I> (1973) ended the five-film cycle with McDowall again playing the chimpanzee leader Caesar, defeating gorillas and human mutants to establish the hierarchy introduced in the original film. <p> The <I>Apes</I> films present a classic what-if scenario that hasn't lost a bit of its potency. As if to prove its cultural endurance, the cycle returned to its origins with director Tim Burton's remake of <I>Planet of the Apes</I> in 2001. --<I>Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com</I> <p><b>On the DVD:</b> A glorious indulgence for diehard fans of the series, this handsomely packaged six-disc set contains all five original Apes movies, from the wonderful 1967 original to 1973's low-budget <i>Battle</i>. It all look as good as possible in widescreen anamorphic transfers, the first movie's starkly wonderful cinematography in particular is a treat to see on DVD. <i>Planet</i> has been remixed in vivid Dolby 5.1, highlighting the bold sound design and JerryGoldsmith's masterful avant-garde score. The others are good Dolby stereo, with the odd exception of <i>Escape</i>, which is mono. There are trailers on each disc, but no commentaries sadly. The sixth bonus disc consists of a relatively new two-hour documentary hosted by Roddy McDowall which takes us through the entire saga in detail, pointing out the series' daring social commentary and the increasing difficulties of working with progressively smaller budgets. Sensibly, the documentary spends about an hour on the first movie and then an hour discussing all the rest. Overall, this is a very attractive package. --<i>Mark Walker</i>
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Granada Ventures Ltd Sharpe - The Complete Series (15 Disc Box Set)
Release Date: 2005-09-19, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Harry Potter: Years 1-3 (Six Disc Box Set)
"The filmed version of <I>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</I>
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PATHE DISTRIBUTION LTD The Magic Roundabout - Two Disc Box Set [2004]
<i>The Magic Roundabout</i> is another in a long list of 1960's and 1970's television shows updated and adapted for the big screen. The original show has since become a cult favourite due to its hallucinatory double-entendres, and the powers that be realised that the fans of the television series now had children of their own. Therefore, the film version of <i>The Magic Roundabout</i> attempts to strike a balance between appealing to both children and their parents. To that end, they've recruited a whole host of celebrities to provide voices: Robbie Williams as Dougal the dog, Kylie Minogue as Florence, Tom Baker as the evil Zeebad and Ian McKellen as Zebedee, amongst others. The story involves Dougal accidentally releasing Zeebad from prison, then joining up with his friends to save the day--ideal good-versus-bad kid's entertainment.<p> The DVD release has two different versions. The single disc version includes character profiles, a quiz and a look at the UK premiere of the film. The two-disc version, meanwhile, also has behind the scenes documentaries and, best of all, some classic black & white episodes of the original series--the perfect piece of nostalgia to entertain the parents. <i>--Ted Kord</i>
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Granada Ventures Ltd Sharpe - The Complete Series (14 Disc Box Set) [1993]
This <I>Sharpe</I> box set contains all 14 of the full-length television films based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell. Originally broadcast between 1993 and 97, they follow the adventures of the titular soldier during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, through Wellington's Peninsular campaign up to and including Waterloo. The programmes represent an outstanding achievement for the small screen, dominated by Sean Bean's central performance as the heroic, troubled outsider who turns out to be a resourceful and loyal leader. Bolstered by a strong supporting cast, particularly Daragh O'Malley as Harper and (in later episodes) Abigail Cruttenden as Jane, <I>Sharpe</I> is often visually striking, the action tense and gripping. Consistency is maintained by all episodes being directed by Tom Clegg. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Sharpe</I> the complete series is a 14-disc set of all 14 episodes. The sound is full-bodied stereo while the very sharp picture has been transferred slightly letterboxed at 14:9. Though looking much better than the original TV transmissions the occasionally cropped framing makes it apparent the films were shot in 16:9 widescreen, so it is regrettable they have not been transferred to DVD in that format. Otherwise these are first-rate releases. --<I>Gary S Dalkin</I>
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ICHI 3 DISC BOX SET
18 author: THRILLER; publisher: MEDU
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TRUE STORIES (3 DISC BOX SET)
author: DOCUMENTARY; publisher: QLLO
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MARTIAL ARTS (3 DISC BOX SET)
18 author: ; publisher: QLLO
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LAUREL AND HARDY 5 DISC BOX SET
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HORROR (3 DISC BOX SET)
18 author: HORROR; publisher: QLLO
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Dd Video The Ashes 3 Disc Box Set - England V Australia 2005
The 2005 Ashes Series turned out to be the most compelling, exciting and unpredictable cricket contest since Ian Botham almost single-handedly snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in 1981. Twenty-four years on, and we have a new all-rounder to take the lion's share of the glory: Andrew Freddie Flintoff, whose fast-bowling undid the tourists throughout the series. Needless to say, however, it was not entirely a solo performance, with the series seeing sterling contributions from bowlers Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison, and some absolutely top notch batting from Andrew Strauss and a rampant Kevin Pietersen, who sealed Australia's fate in the final contest at The Oval with a masterful century.<p> The series started less well for the England team at Lord's as they faced a sound thumping at Australia's hands, and particularly the bowling arm of legendary Aussie fast-bowler Glenn McGrath. But as the series progressed England found their feet, and this confident young team started playing their best cricket, particularly impressing with the quality of their bowling. At the start of the final test at The Oval, the series hung in the balance with England 2-1 ahead, despite some of the best bowling of Shane Warne's long test career. A mixture of bad light, Pietersen's batting and Flintoff's impressive display of character and determination managed to wrest the Ashes from Australia's grasp for the first time in sixteen years and the atmosphere at the ground -- and indeed nationwide -- was euphoric. The 2005 Ashes Series will be remembered not just as a series in which a young England team came of age, but also as the the point at which the game of cricket returned to the nation's conciousness after some years in the wilderness. <i>--Duncan Thomson</i>
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SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK Spider-Man 1 and 2 (Four Disc Box Set)
Release Date: 2004-11-26, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Mission: Impossible - 2 Disc Box Set [1996]
<I>Mission: Impossible</I> was one of the best action blockbusters of the 1990s, deriving a quality unique among its peers from the tension between Brian De Palma's directorial stylisation and the overriding presence of its star and producer, Tom Cruise. The original 1960s television series provides not only the wonderful musical motif, but also the layered complexity of false realities and masked identities, which are revealed with the playful conjuring of a Russian doll. De Palma's trademark set pieces include a giant exploding fishtank in Prague, a helicopter chase through the Channel Tunnel, and, most notably, a break-in to steal a vital disc from CIA headquarters in Langley. The moment in the latter when, in almost complete silence, Cruise dangles precariously from a cable is as sublimely exhilarating as any in American movies of recent years. --<I>Steve Napleton</I><p>Vis ually stunning, and a likely must for John Woo aficionados, the second <I>Mission: Impossible</I> outing from megastar Tom Cruise suffers from an inconsistent tone and tired plot devices--not only recycled from other films, but also repeated throughout the film. Despite remarkable cinematography and awe-inspiring, trademark Woo photography, the movie offers a tepid story from legendary screenwriter-director Robert Towne (<I>Chinatown</I>) and a host of other writers, most uncredited. Woo's famed mythic film-making is far from subtle, with heroic Hunt frequently slow-motion walking through fire, smoke or other similar devices, replete with a white dove among pigeons to signal his presence. The emphasis on romance is an attempt to develop character and a more human side to superspy Hunt, but still the story proves a distraction from the exciting action sequences. --<I>NF Mendoza, Amazon.com</I>
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Deanna Durbin [19 Disc Box Set]
Release Date: 2004-11-15, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) Shogun [5 Disc Box Set] [1981]
From the golden age of the miniseries comes <I>Shogun</I>, the 10-hour, Golden Globe-winning saga based on James Clavell's bestselling epic novel. In his award-winning performance, Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, the 17th-century English navigator on a Dutch trading ship. A storm runs the ship aground off the coast of Japan, a torn and cruelly divided country locked in a power struggle between Toranaga (the venerable Toshiro Mifune) and Ishido, two warlords who would be Shogun. Blackthorne gets over his initial culture shock (I piss on you and your country, he defiantly proclaims to his samurai captors, which to his humiliation turns out to be an unfortunate choice of words) to become a trusted ally of Toranaga and the lover of the beautiful interpreter Lady Mariko (Yoko Shimada). Their forbidden, ill-fated romance--and Blackthorne's total assimilation into Japanese culture--is set against political intrigue as Toranaga prepares for the inevitable showdown with Ishido, and Blackthorne's growing influence threatens the local Jesuits who had built up a lucrative trade monopoly. <I>Shogun</I> was a production blessed with good karma, and it remains an awesome achievement from a bygone era when the miniseries was king. --<I>Donald Liebenson</I>
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Band Of Brothers - Complete Series (6 Disc Box Set) [2001]
A genuinely epic achievement, the 10-part World War II drama <I>Band of Brothers</I> is a television series that makes big-screen Hollywood war movies look small in comparison. Based on the book by historian Stephen Ambrose, the series follows the US 101st Airborne Division's Easy E-Company from initial training through D-Day and across Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria until the end of the war. Coproduced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the series take its initial inspiration from <I>Saving Private Ryan</I> and borrows that film's visceral visual approach to combat scenes using hand-held camerawork and de-saturated photography. But where <I>Band of Brothers</I> excels is in its scrupulous attention to the realities of military life (retired US Marine Captain Dale Dye, who also co-stars, is the man to credit). <p> After the high drama of the parachute drop on D-Day, Easy's greatest trial comes during the Battle of the Bulge, when they are besieged at Bastogne in the depths of winter. In one of the most harrowing and credible depictions of war ever committed to film we see the men enduring the repeated artillery attacks of the German forces and experience, if only vicariously, some of the sheer terror of the assault, while being humbled by the soldiers' courage and determination. Such feelings are enhanced by the series' masterstroke--bookend interviews with the surviving members of Easy Company, who talk with barely suppressed emotion of the experiences we see recreated. The endorsement of these veterans elevates <I>Band of Brothers</I> beyond any mere war film--its extraordinary achievement is that it shows the horror and savagery of war without gloss or jingoism, and yet celebrates the fraternal bonds and dogged heroism of the men who fought. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Band of Brothers</I> arrives handsomely packaged in a six-disc box set with two episodes on each of the first five discs. Sound (Dolby 5.1) and picture (1.78:1 widescreen) only enhance the series' epic credentials. Disc 6 contains all the extras, the meatiest of which is the marvellous 80-minute documentary We Stand Alone Together about the real men of Easy Company. There's also a first-rate, genuinely interesting 30-minute making of feature about actor boot camp, visual effects and blowing up fake trees among many other things. This is complemented by actor Ron Livingston's revealing Video Diaries of boot camp. Additionally there's a Who's Who section and footage of the HBO premiere at Utah Beach, plus a TV spot for car company Jeep. --<I>Mark Walker</I>
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MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENT Rambo Trilogy (Three Disc Box Set)
Sylvester Stallone never courted as much controversy as he did with the screen violence of the <I>Rambo</I> trilogy. From 1982 to 1988, they kept his name above Schwarzenegger's in the muscle hero league, with Rambo becoming a descriptive phrase in the language to describe gung-ho aggression (in Japanese, rambo means violence). The strangest part of the character's success is that originally he had none. Both David Morrell's novel and the original incarnation of <I>First Blood</I> had the Vietnam vet committing suicide after his rampage through small town America. The un-Hollywood ending was changed when Stallone and the producers recognised here was a character with possibilities. <p> <I>First Blood: Part II</I> was co-written by James (<I>Titanic</I>) Cameron, a man who has always recognised box office possibilities. Stallone took a very relevant (to 1985) issue of surviving POWs and created an alternative end to the Vietnam War. This was achieved courtesy of the Cold War animosity that still existed towards the Russians, embodied in a suitably vile cameo from Steven Berkoff. A little love interest helped ground the movie and prevent it from completely turning into a video game, as did the best of Jerry Goldsmith's stirring scores for the trilogy. <p> After saving himself and then his Country, <I>Rambo III</I> was simply about saving his friend Richard Crenna. The code of honour was by this point watered down into a song lyric, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother. Nevertheless the final instalment continues to say something about the indomitable American spirit that will not accept defeat lightly. Patriotism may never have been portrayed quite so bloodily before Rambo's arrival, but at least a generation learned to question attitudes to war veterans, as well as the benefits of carrying a compass in your hunting knife. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> The <I>Rambo</I> trilogy on disc brings together all three movies in crisp 2.35:1 widescreen transfers. Sadly the extras are a little thin considering how much more was on the old Laser Discs. The first film has but a trailer; the third has a few minutes of behind the scenes material; the second has quite a few mini-documentaries that could really have done with being edited together, and having repeated interviews cut out. But there's still fun to be had hearing how deep and meaningful the movies were in conception.--<I>Paul Tonks</I>
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LEE VAN CLEEF (3 DISC BOX SET)
18 author: WESTERN; publisher: QLLO
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Revelation Films Ltd David Carradine - Mind & Body Workouts - 3 Disc Box Set (Kung Fu & Tai Chi Chi Energy Workout Shaolin Cardio Kick Box)
Release Date: 2005-11-21, Rating Exempt,
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Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) The Godfather Trilogy (5 Disc Box Set)
Despite making many other distinguished films in his long, wandering career, Francis Ford Coppola will always be known as the man who directed <I>The Godfather</I> trilogy, a series that has dominated and defined their creator in a way perhaps no other director can understand. Coppola has never been able to leave them alone, whether returning after 15 years to make a trilogy of the diptych, or re-editing the first two films into chronological order for a separate video release as <I>The Godfather Saga</I>. The films are an Italian-American Shakespearian cycle: they tell a tale of a vicious mobster and his extended personal and professional families (once the stuff of righteous moral comeuppance), and they dared to present themselves with an epic sweep and an unapologetically tragic tone. Murder, it turned out, was a serious business. <p> The first film remains a towering achievement, brilliantly cast and conceived. The entry of Michael Corleone into the family business, the transition of power from his father, the ruthless dispatch of his enemies--all this is told with an assurance that is breathtaking to behold. And it turned out to be merely prologue; two years later <I>The Godfather, Part II</I> balanced Michael's ever-greater acquisition of power and influence during the fall of Cuba with the story of his father's own youthful rise from immigrant slums. The stakes were higher, the story's construction more elaborate and the isolated despair at the end wholly earned. (Has there ever been a cinematic performance greater than Al Pacino's Michael, so smart and ambitious, marching through the years into what he knows is his own doom with eyes open and hungry?) <I>The Godfather, Part III</I> was mostly written off as an attempted cash-in but it is a wholly worthy conclusion, less slow than autumnally patient and almost merciless in the way it brings Michael's past sins crashing down around him even as he tries to redeem himself. --<I>Bruce Reid, Amazon.com</I> <p><b>On the DVD:</b> Contained in a tasteful slipcase, the three movies come individually packaged, with the second instalment spread across two discs. The anamorphic transfers are acceptable without being spectacular, with Part 3 looking best of all. Francis Ford Coppola--obviously a DVD fan--provides an exhaustive and enthusiastic commentary for all three movies, although awkwardly these have to be accessed from the Set Up menu. The fifth bonus disc is a real goldmine: the major feature is a 70-minute documentary covering all three productions, which includes fascinating early screen-test footage. There's also a 1971 making-of featurette about the first instalment, plus several shorter pieces with Coppola, Mario Puzo and others talking about specific aspects of the series, including a treasurable recording of composer Nino Rota performing the famous theme. Another section contains all the Oscar-acceptance speeches and Coppola's introduction to the TV edit, plus a whole raft of additional scenes that were inserted in the 1977 re-edited version. Text pieces include a chronology, a Corleone family tree and biographies of cast and crew. Overall, this is a handsome and valuable package that does justice to these wonderful movies. --<I>Mark Walker</I>
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2 Entertain Video Planet Earth (BBC TV Series) - 5 Disc Box Set
Release Date: 2006-11-27, Rating Exempt,
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The 'Is Born' Series (8 Disc Box Set)
More than 20 hours of instruction as Mark Evans shows how to restore classic vehicles and build kits from scratch. A Car is Born - Pilgrim Sumo A Car is Born follows the intrepid Mark Evans as he builds a Pilgrim Sumo 5.7 Litre V8 Super-Car. Inspired by the classic 1960’s AC Cobra, this kit car is based on a Ford Sierra. Mark follows the whole process from finding the donor vehicle to taking the finished car through the SVA test. While Mark is not a trained mechanic (he is actually
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