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DVD And Blu-ray
This Time with Alan Partridge – Series 2
Like a fine wine, Steve Coogan’s iconic love-him-or-loathe-him presenter Alan Partridge just gets better with age. First appearing a staggering 30 years ago on BBC Radio 4’s On the Hour, the character has changed a lot over the...
DVD And Blu-ray
The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Collection
Before Mark Ruffalo; before Ed Norton; and before Eric Bana; it was Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno who brought the Hulk to life. Airing between 1978-1982, The Incredible Hulk TV Series ran for five seasons, with three TV movies co...
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Murder By Decree
In the history of fiction, few characters have proved to be as enduring or as malleable as Sherlock Holmes. In fact, with Nexflix’s The Irregulars and Dexter Fletcher’s Sherlock Holmes 3 due for release this Christmas, Conan Do...
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Shock Wave: Hong Kong Destruction
Reuniting star Andy Lau and director Herman Yau after 2017’s brilliant Shock Wave, this standalone sequel in-title-only refreshes the series with a new storyline and characters. The disappointingly bland and paint-by-numbers th...
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Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War
One of the most beautiful and captivating documentaries in recent memory, Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War – which aired on the BBC back in 2019 – is getting a much-deserved home release from beloved label Network. ...
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Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One, is the next entry in the hugely-popular series of DC Universe Animated Movies. Inspired by the iconic 13-issue comic-run, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, the tale takes place immediately after B...
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Encounter Of The Spooky Kind
A defining film in Hong Kong genre cinema, Encounter Of The Spooky Kind blended kung fu, special effects, and Chinese folklore to invent a whole new sub-genre of Asian cinema: Jiangshi. The result is a pitch-perfect film which ...
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In the Line of Fire 4K
In one of a very limited number of films the great Clint Eastwood starred in since 1990 that he didn’t also direct, Wolfgang Petersen’s In the Line of Fire is a rather basic and unsurprising 90s thriller that offers nothing par...
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Uncle Vanya
Shortly before the world changed forever with the Covid-19 pandemic, a dear friend and I had one of the last nights of normality I can remember witnessing Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Opening on the 14th of January...
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Who Dares Wins
The ‘70s were an era of gritty crime dramas in which gritty geezers, with implausible accents, carried out acts of random violence on even grittier geezers, with even more implausible accents. TV’s top shows were the like...
