Green For Danger
DVD Review
A darkly humorous British murder mystery, in which going to hospital could mean a worse fate than not.
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Bailey On
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A collection of three documentaries, commissioned for television and directed by photographer David Bailey.
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Jericho
DVD Review
Detective series, set in Fifties London, with Robert Lindsay as the gumshoe.
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Good Morning
DVD Review
The humanity of small things in a Tokyo suburb in the Fifties as Western consumerism encroaches.
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Equinox Flower
DVD Review
Cultural changes in post war Japan come close to home when the concept of arranged marriage is questioned.
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The Dead
DVD Review
Superior adaptation of James Joyce short story, about guests at an Epiphany party.
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Mission: Impossible
DVD Review
Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt, Special Agent, in the first of his TV spin off action extravaganzas.
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The Saint: The Complete Colour Series
DVD Review
An early freelance James Bond in lightweight, adventurous, TV-sized chunks.
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Airwolf: Season 1
DVD Review
The adventures of a big, black, heavily armed chopper.
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Monsieur Hire
DVD Review
A middle-aged outsider becomes obssessed with a woman.
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