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Blu-ray Review — The Cat Returns
The Cat Returns is a Japanese animated film from the famed Studio Ghibli. It’s not as well known as other Ghibli films, such as Princess Mononoke (see review) and My Neighbour Totoro (see review), and...
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Blu-ray Giveaway — Atlantis
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all those who entered. Thanks to Roadshow Entertainment, I’ve got three Blu-ray copies of the first season of Atlantis, to give away. Want to win one? Read on...
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Blu-ray Review — Atlantis
Atlantis is the new series created to fill the gap left by The Adventures of Merlin. And fill the gap is does… by recreating the style, feel, story structure, character types and themes of the earlier...
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DVD Review — The Ghost & Mrs Muir: Season 2
The Ghost & Mrs Muir is a 1960s US sitcom about a widow and her family, who move into a house that is haunted by the ghost of a sea captain. I reviewed Season 1 a couple of months ago (see review)...
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DVD Review — Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
The Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition is a set of four DVDs bringing together episodes and specials of significance to the programme’s anniversary, along with a bunch of extras. It’s an...
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DVD Review — Doctor Who: Deep Breath
Deep Breath. The first episode of Doctor Who: Series 8. An extra-long ep. New Doctor. New direction. Very exciting! A much-anticipated episode, it even got a cinema release, so it’s no surprise that...
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DVD Giveaway — Doctor Who: Deep Breath
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all those who entered. Thanks to Roadshow Entertainment, I’ve got four DVD copies of Doctor Who: Deep Breath to give away. Want to win one? Of course you do!...
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DVD Review — Wizards vs Aliens: Series 2
There are wizards on Earth, living secretly amongst the ordinary human beings. And there are aliens from the planet Nekross, who eat magic. These aliens have come to Earth, determined to extract the...
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DVD Giveaway — Wizards vs Aliens: Series 2
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all those who entered. Thanks to Roadshow Entertainment, I’ve got four DVD copies of Wizards vs Aliens: Series 2 to give away. Want to win one? Read on to...
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DVD Review — The Hound of the Baskervilles
Made in 1982, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a four-part BBC serial, adapting the Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A ghostly hound, an old family curse and cold-blooded murder form...
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DVD Giveaway — Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: The Complete Series 1 & 2
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all those who entered. With the third season of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries just around the corner, and thanks to the generosity of Roadshow Entertainment,...
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DVD Review — Land of the Giants: The Complete First Season
Madman are releasing a string of old Irwin Allen television productions in Australia, and among them is the first season of Land of the Giants. I remember watching this series as a kid, along with...
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DVD Review — HAL
HAL is an amazing Japanese animated film. It’s a science fiction story about love, grief and redemption. It’s a difficult film to classify and it’s hard to review it without spoilers, but here goes… A...
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DVD Review — The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery is a new BBC mini-series about the biggest train robbery in British history. The names most often associated with the infamous robbery are Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards, but...
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Blu-ray Review — Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series
The eighth series of the revived Doctor Who burst onto our screens with renewed vigour earlier this year. A new Doctor and a new direction catapults this set of 12 episodes to new heights. And now...
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Blu-ray Review — The Wind Rises
The Wind Rises is the new animated feature from Japan’s Studio Ghibli, and the last film from legendary director Hayao Miyazaki. It is everything you would expect it to be… and yet it manages to...
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DVD Review — Doctor Who: Last Christmas
The 2014 Doctor Who Christmas Special takes things in a different direction from the whimsy that had become the staple of the Matt Smith specials. “Last Christmas” has all the trappings of a festive...
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DVD Review — Nowhere Boys: Series 1
Nowhere Boys is a Melbourne-made teen fantasy/adventure series from ABC3. This first 13-ep season was released on DVD in 2014, with the second coming out this year. It’s a series I heard lots of good...
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DVD Review — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Complete First Season
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a well-produced, exciting near future (for its time), action/adventure series about the crew of an advanced submarine called Seaview. This first season of 32...
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DVD Review — Broadchurch: Series 2
The second season of the British murder/mystery series, Broadchurch, is as riveting as the first. Stunning locations, beautiful cinematography and direction, intelligent writing and a superb cast,...
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