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Review Playback / All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Part 1 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Hignett
  • Peter Grimwade
  • Lynda Bellingham
  • Peter Davison
  • Robert Hardy
  • Christopher Timothy
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 306 min.
Price: £19.99

Review All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Part 1 [1978] / Playback:


Review BBC / Forsyte Saga - Box Set [1967] [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Nyree Dawn Porter
  • Kenneth More
  • Eric Porter
  • Susan Hampshire
  • Martin Jarvis
Release date: 2002-03-04
Run time: 1300 min.
Price: £69.99

Review Forsyte Saga - Box Set [1967] [2002] / BBC:

The Forsyte Saga is often cited as the first television miniseries; it wasn't, but there is no question that it was a singular, powerful cultural phenomenon that deservedly got under the skin of viewers in 1967. Today the 26-episode production, based on several novels and short stories by John Galsworthy, seems like a more timeless enterprise than many of the protracted TV dramas that have followed. While it would be wrong to consider The Forsyte Saga high art, it is certainly a mesmerising and inspired mix of theatre, sprawling Victorian narrative, thinking man's soap opera and some finely tuned, 1960s black-and-white production values that (especially when shot outdoors) are strikingly handsome. Above all, Forsyte is driven by its characters-perhaps to an extreme, though the two-generation story line makes no apologies for creating compelling people whose capacity for short-sighted blundering, bursts of grace and slow-brewing redemption make them recognisably human. Eric Porter towers over everything as Soames Forsyte, a humourless attorney whose guiding principles of measurable value cause great heartache but slowly evolve, leaving him a greying, good father, arts patron and sympathetic repository of memory. From the cast of 150 or so, other standouts include Susan Hampshire as Soames's troubled daughter, Nyree Dawn Porter as the wife of two very different Forsyte men and Kenneth More as the family's artistic black sheep. -Tom Keogh.

Review Artificial Eye / Loulou [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Bernard Tronczak
  • Humbert Balsan
  • Maurice Pialat
  • Guy Marchand
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Isabelle Huppert
Release date: 2002-07-29
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Arlette Langmann
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.84

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Review Warner Home Video / The Hill [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Bannen
  • Harry Andrews
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Alfred Lynch
  • Ossie Davis
  • Sean Connery
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Ray Rigby
RRP: £9.99
Price: £20.00

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Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / Soldier Soldier - Series 1 [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Lucy Cohu
  • Duncan Bell
  • Mark Aiken
  • James Cosmo
  • Fiona Bell
Release date: 2000-01-26
Run time: 350 min.
Creator: Lucy Gannon
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.95

Review Soldier Soldier - Series 1 [1991] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:


Review Entertainment in Video / Tom And Viv [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Miranda Richardson
  • Nickolas Grace
  • Brian Gilbert
  • Rosemary Harris
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Tim Dutton
Release date: 1995-03-14
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Michael Hastings
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.99

Review Tom And Viv [1994] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Granada Media TTE 1020 / The Round Tower [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Grint
  • Robert Cole
  • Isabelle Amyes
  • Christopher Connel
  • Jane Dixon
  • Keith Barron
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 146 min.
Creator: T.R. Bowen
Price: £10.99

Review The Round Tower [1998] / Granada Media TTE 1020:


Review Connoisseur Video / The Charge Of The Light Brigade [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Andrews
  • Jill Bennett
  • Tony Richardson
  • John Gielgud
  • Trevor Howard
  • Vanessa Redgrave
Release date: 1994-09-12
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: John Osborne
RRP: £12.99
Price: £18.98

Review The Charge Of The Light Brigade [1968] / Connoisseur Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Anne Shirley
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • John Boles
  • Alan Hale
  • Barbara O'Neil
  • King Vidor
Release date: 1996-12-30
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Victor Heerman
Price: £4.99

Review Stella Dallas [1937] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos [1971] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Ferguson
  • Roger Delgado
  • Jon Pertwee
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.20

Review Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos [1971] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review MGM / UA HOME VIDEO / David Copperfield [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Edna May Oliver
  • George Cukor
  • W.C. Fields
  • Lionel Barrymore
  • Madge Evans
  • Maureen O'Sullivan
Release date: 1991-10-07
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.84

Review David Copperfield [1934] / MGM / UA HOME VIDEO:


Review Warner Home Video / 42nd Street [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Warner Baxter
  • Guy Kibbee
  • George Brent
  • Ruby Keeler
  • Lloyd Bacon
  • Bebe Daniels
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Whitney Bolton
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.98

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Review Entertainment in Video / The Piano [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Kerry Walker
  • Sam Neill
  • Jane Campion
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Holly Hunter
  • Anna Paquin
Release date: 1994-11-01
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Mark Turnbull
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.98

Review The Piano [1993] / Entertainment in Video:

Jane Campion's The Piano struck a deep chord (if you'll excuse the expression) with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerised by the film's rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano to a remote spot on the coast of New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a farmer (Sam Neill). She gives piano lessons to a gruff neighbor (Harvey Keitel) who has Maori tattoos on his face, and, well, things develop from there. The picture takes on a powerful dream logic that simply defies synopsis. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and original achievement from Campion, a unique stylist. The Piano won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscars for Hunt, Paquin and Campion's screenplay. -Jim Emerson Jane Campion's The Piano struck a deep chord (if you'll excuse the expression) with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerised by the film's rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano to a remote spot on the coast of New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a farmer (Sam Neill). [+]
She gives piano lessons to a gruff neighbor (Harvey Keitel) who has Maori tattoos on his face and, well, things develop from there. The picture takes on a powerful dream logic that simply defies synopsis. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and original achievement from Campion, a unique stylist. The Piano won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscars for Hunt, Paquin and Campion's screenplay. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.

Review Odyssey Video / Escape From Terror - The Teresa Stamper Story
Actors & Directors
  • Adam Storke
  • Maria Pitillo
  • Michael Scott (XVIII)
  • Tony Becker
  • Brad Dourif
  • Luce Rains
Release date: 1996-06-24
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.99

Review Escape From Terror - The Teresa Stamper Story / Odyssey Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Series 5 Part 1 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • David Boreanaz
Release date: 2004-08-23
Creator: Joss Whedon
Price: £34.99

Review Angel - Series 5 Part 1 [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Miss Marple - Murder Ahoy [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • William Mervyn
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Joan Benham
  • Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • George Pollock
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Jack Seddon
Price: £5.99

Review Miss Marple - Murder Ahoy [1964] / Warner Home Video:


Review Granada Media / The Fifteen Streets [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • David Wheatley
  • Sean Bean
  • Faye Dannell
  • Anny Tobin
  • Owen Teale
  • Leslie Schofield
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Rob Bettinson
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.94

Review The Fifteen Streets [1989] / Granada Media:


Review Playback / Columbo - Vol. 2 - Murder By The Book / Lady In Waiting [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Cassidy
  • Martin Milner
  • Rosemary Forsyth
  • Peter Falk
  • Norman Lloyd
  • Barbara Colby
  • Steven Spielberg
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: William Link
Price: £9.99

Review Columbo - Vol. 2 - Murder By The Book / Lady In Waiting [1971] / Playback:


Review 4 Front Video / Parenthood [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Martin
  • Paul Linke
  • Dennis Dugan
  • Mary Steenburgen
  • Ron Howard
  • Dianne Wiest
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Lowell Ganz
Price: £5.99

Review Parenthood [1990] / 4 Front Video:

Ron Howard's 1989 hit, written by fellow family men Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Splash, A League of Their Own), is an original comedy about contemporary life and the eternal responsibilities of raising children. Steve Martin has never been better than as a dedicated husband and father trying (and inevitably failing, as do most of us) to balance the demands of his kids and his job. The actor, like his character, throws himself into the part quite touchingly, particularly in a scene where a hired clown fails to show up at a children's party and Martin's character unabashedly provides the entertainment. Good as Martin is, this is actually an ensemble piece with numerous actors playing members of the same family, with cross-generational joys and disappointments in the air-and parents in conflict, children in love and so on. Jason Robards is very good as a patriarch who finally accepts the reality that the son he adores (Tom Hulce) is a major screw-up. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Death In Venice [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Burns
  • Dirk Bogarde
  • Silvana Mangano
  • Marisa Berenson
  • Bjorn Andresen
Release date: 1996-06-17
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.95

Review Death In Venice [1971] / Warner Home Video:


Models & Brands:
All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Part 1 [1978], Forsyte Saga - Box Set [1967] [2002], Loulou [1980], The Hill [1965], Soldier Soldier - Series 1 [1991], Tom And Viv [1994], The Round Tower [1998], The Charge Of The Light Brigade [1968], Stella Dallas [1937], Doctor Who - The Claws of Axos [1971] [1963], David Copperfield [1934], 42nd Street [1933], The Piano [1993], Escape From Terror - The Teresa Stamper Story, Angel - Series 5 Part 1 [2000], Miss Marple - Murder Ahoy [1964], The Fifteen Streets [1989], Columbo - Vol. 2 - Murder By The Book / Lady In Waiting [1971], Parenthood [1990], Death In Venice [1971]

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