Jekyll

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 21, 2007 5:39 PM

HOT on the heels of the TV series, this is a most modern reinterpretation of the traditional Jekyll and Hyde story.

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Doctor in Charge - series one

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 21, 2007 5:37 PM

THIS hospital-based sitcom, the third part of the Doctor series, was originally released in 1972, the year I was born.

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The Tribe that Hides From Man

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 21, 2007 5:33 PM

AGAIN this takes us back, to 1970 to be precise, but this re-release is much more satisfying. In these days of global satellite positioning, the role of proper explorers is rather obsolete but this Bafta-winning documentary takes us back to a more golden age.

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The Great Bookie Robbery (15)

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 3, 2007 12:15 PM

THEY’RE not big and they’re not clever, but bank robberies just make for great drama.

The balaclavas, the shooters, the money, the escape, you can’t help get gripped on such stuff if it’s done well and it certainly is here.

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Sleeping Dogs (18)

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 3, 2007 8:32 AM

GOT any skeletons in your cupboard? I’d imagine most of us at one time or another have done something that we’re not exactly proud of.

The question here is whether you should reveal that previous indiscretion to the new love of your life in the interests of honesty?

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Homicide - Life on the Streets (Complete Season Two)

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 3, 2007 8:27 AM

I’M ABOUT to embark on the first couple of series of The Wire, which mates have long raved about.

Meanwhile, here comes the second series of another quality Baltimore-based police drama across 20 episodes and five discs.

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The Fruit Machine

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 1, 2007 3:23 PM

REGARDED as one of the best gay movies ever made, this is the story of Eddie and Michael, two 16-year-old boys in 1980s Liverpool, each battling their own demons.

Eddie has to deal with his disapproving father (Brookside’s Louis Emerick) who thinks he should be “more like a man� but is indulged by his mother, who watches old movies all day convinced she too could have been a star.

Michael is far more street wise, determined to do what he can to make life OK for him and Eddie, even if it involves selling his body on the streets.

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Murder She Wrote (Season 5)

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 1, 2007 3:19 PM

JUST how many murders can one pension age crime writer get involved with?

Angela Lansbury’s Jessica Fletcher somehow manages to find enough to stretch over six discs in this fifth series.

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Rockford Files season Four

Posted by Andy Kelly on August 1, 2007 3:16 PM

“THIS is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message and I’ll get back to you.� With those words started one of the great long-running series of American TV which will no doubt stir a wave of nostalgia for many of a certain age.
James Garner starred as Rockford, the former con turned private investigator who lived in a car park trailer near a Los Angeles beach, his trusty Golden Firebird parked outside.

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