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Get a Life - The Complete Series: DVD Review

The Chris Elliott comedy that ran from 1990-1992 is wild, hare-brained, and somehow as lovable as ever on this Complete Series TV-on-DVD set....

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Brave New World: DVD Review

The new Stephen Hawking documentary series is no Brief History of Time, that's for sure....

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Vera - Set 2: DVD Review

Brenda Blethyn gives it the old college try, but Vera: Set 2 continues to miss the mark....

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Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas II - Great Thinkers: DVD Review

Another Bill Moyers TV-on-DVD set of interviews from the late 80s? Where do we sign....?!

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Midsomer Murders - Mayhem & Mystery Files: DVD Review

If you haven't already bought Midsomer Murders: Sets 13-16, this Mayhem & Mystery collection is for you....

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Paranormal State - The Ultimate Collection: DVD Review

This Ultimate Collection set will allow you access to things that go bump in the night for hours on end....

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Disc News Update 11.15

Nothing confirmed, but we have early gossip about Dredd's upcoming 3D Blu-ray edition....

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The Crimson Petal and the White: DVD Review

Not your ordinary British period piece miniseries, that's for sure....

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Kidnap & Ransom - Complete Series 1 and 2: DVD Review

This hostage crisis TV drama has moments of greatness, but doesn't completely make a case for itself....

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The World Series - History of the Fall Classic: DVD Review

This 4-DVD set is enough to make you wish it was opening day 2013 already....

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Psycho: BD Review

Alfred Hitchcock: Masterpiece Edition Vol. 9: A high-def disc that wouldn't hurt a fly....

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Vexed - Series 1: DVD Review

This cheeky crime drama (comedy?) import has its moments, but never quite gels....

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Happy Endings - The Complete Second Season: DVD Review

There's nothing of particular note on this Happy Endings DVD set, but at times this series can be pretty damned funny....

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Hazel - The Complete Fourth Season: DVD Review

Shirley Booth's iconic sitcom on DVD has innate appeal to her strident fans, but that's pretty much it....

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Ancient Aliens - Collector's Edition: DVD Review

This massive box set is space-geek catnip, but even the most stalwart extraterrestrial conspiracy theorists out there might want to wait for a high-def edition....

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The Story of Film - An Odyssey: DVD Review

Mark Cousins' epic 15-part series could very well be the best documentary of the year....

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Hope Springs: DVD Review

Meryl and Tommy Lee prove their Oscar cred in this thin but rewarding rom-com....

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Cornwall: DVD Review

This Caroline Quentin travelogue isn't perfect, but it sure is pretty....

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Incredibly Ever After: BD Review

It's just like a live-action Incredibles, only remade as an Chinese sitcom...

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Wolf Lake - The Complete Series: DVD Review

Yay! The Lou Diamond Phillips werewolf drama is finally available on DVD! Hello? Anybody....?

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The Incredible Mel Brooks: DVD Review

Six full discs of Mel, and somehow it's still not enough....

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Gunsmoke - The Seventh Season, Vol. 1: DVD Review

Miss Kitty and the Gunsmoke boys are back for more, but some of the thrill is gone....

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Shaka Zulu: DVD Review

The beloved miniseries gets yet another DVD re-release, but it still needs a full restoration....

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Midsomer Murders - Set 21: DVD Review

Another solid standard-def edition of one of TV's truly great long-running crime dramas....

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World Without End: DVD Review

This Ken Follett miniseries has all the bells and whistles of a major TV event, but never quite makes good on them....

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We Can Be Heroes: DVD Review

This Chris Lilley comedy show is likely to strain the patience of even its most passionate admirers....

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The Life and Times of Tim - The Complete Third Season: DVD Review

The oddball HBO animated series comes to a bizarre yet often hilarious end....

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Last of the Summer Wine - Vintage 1997: DVD Review

This retro British sitcom import continues to show flashes of lazy, dum-dum fun....

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Life's Too Short - The Complete First Season: DVD Review

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant turn their mockumentary reality-TV cameras to Willow vet Warwick Davis - and the results are pretty damned funny....

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Doctor Zhivago: DVD Review

I guess it was never destined to be as amazing as David Lean's 1965 adaptation, but still....

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Lillie: DVD Review

Francesca Annis is impressive as the title character here, but this standard-def re-release is a tough sell....

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Smash - Season One: DVD Review

If you're feeling "Gotta sing! Gotta dance!", we might just have the show for you....

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Whore's Glory: DVD Review

This brazen new documentary from Michael Glawogger is exotic, but ultimately surprisingly unnecessary....

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The Story of Math Collection: DVD Review

Its title makes it sound a little dull, but this documentary set will thrill its intended audience to no end....

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Agatha Christie's Poirot and Marple - Fan Favorites Collection: DVD Review

As a 'greatest hits' compilation, this set soars, but hardcore fans will hardly need to re-invest....

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Madly Madagascar: DVD Review

This short adventure will please the kiddies temporarily, but it doesn't hold up to the other films in the franchise....

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Bill Moyers - Becoming American: DVD Review

This new Bill Moyers release chronicles the journeys and challenges implicit in the Chinese-American experience....

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Above Suspicion - Set 2: DVD Review

There's nothing new about this new set of Above Suspicion episodes, but it will enthrall mystery fans all the same....

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Beauty Is Embarrassing: DVD Review

Neil Berkeley's documentary on the work of artist Wayne White is often ludicrously charming....

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Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime - The Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries: DVD Review

A re-release of some darned fine mysteries shows from the early 1980s - your grandma will love it....

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The Power of Myth - 25th Anniversary Edition: DVD Review

This standard-def set isn't notable in terms of A/V quality, but The Power of Myth is nevertheless a mesmerizing piece of scholarship....

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Matlock - The Eighth Season: DVD Review

Matlock's penultimate season lands on DVD, and we'd be lying if we said it wasn't retro-TV fun...

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Garrow's Law - The Complete Collection: DVD Review

Every episode of the Andrew Buchan/Lyndsey Marshal courtroom drama series - now available in one DVD megaset....

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Wodehouse Playhouse - The Complete Collection: DVD Review

Another early 2013 throwback British TV-on-DVD set from Acorn - this one's a strange bird, for sure....

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She-Wolves - England's Early Queens: DVD Review

The women chronicled on this TV-documentary set are seriously hardcore characters....

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Testimony of Two Men: DVD Review

The 1977 miniseries finally makes its way onto DVD, and on first impression, it feels - long...

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Foyle's War: The Home Front Files - Sets 1-6: DVD Review

This monstrous 22-DVD set is a mystery lover's dream come true....

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Southland - The Complete Second, Third, and Fourth Seasons: DVD Review

Southland's latest set of seasons comes to DVD with a set that feels at times like it's bursting at the seams....

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The Loretta Young Show - 100th Birthday Edition: DVD Review

This encyclopedic TV-on-DVD set comes pretty darned close to being a definitive chronicle of this iconic series....

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Gossip Girl: The Complete Sixth Season: DVD Review

R.I.P., Gossip Girl...

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