It’s a very welcome return for The Tudors in this terrific second season of the show, which picks up once more on the earlier years in the reign of King Henry VIII. And once again, it pulls few punches, by turns violent, passionate and dramatic. It’s absolutely not family viewing, but it does grab you by the collar and simply not let up. What’s more, The Tudors ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natalie Dormer, Jeremy Northam, Henry Cavill, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Directed By: Michael Hirst

Pulling few punches and garnering its fair share of headlines as a result, The Tudors is a controversial, yet compelling period piece, that dramatically tells the story of the early years of King Henry VIII. Not for nothing though has it attracted its fair share of awards attention. For The Tudors is a complex drama, and not one to simplify its storylines. The young Henry, for ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill, Natalie Dormer, Gabrielle Anwar

Season 1 Pulling few punches and garnering its fair share of headlines as a result, The Tudors is a controversial, yet compelling period piece, that dramatically tells the story of the early years of King Henry VIII. Not for nothing, though, has it attracted its fair share of awards attention. For The Tudors is a complex drama, and not one to simplify its storylines. The young ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Henry Czerny, Gabrielle Anwar
Directed By: Steve Shill, Alison Maclean

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Odnyam Odsuren, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun
Directed By: Sergei Bodrov

Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career." Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Ben Kingsley
Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Not for nothing did Stefan Ruzowitzky's powerful film The Counterfeiters walk away with the Best Foreign Picture Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards. And like the previous year's winner of the prize--the equally superb The Lives Of Others--there are some tough decisions for certain German citizens at the heart of it. The Counterfeiters, though, is set in West Germany in ...

Manufacturer: Metrodome Distribution
Starring: August Diehl, Dolores Chapli, Devid Strieso, Karl Markovic, Martin Brambach
Directed By: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Unlike another certain celebrated HBO series, Rome's end will satisfy those swept up in its lavishly mounted spectacle and invested in the human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Series 2 begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, and charts the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Tobias Menzies
Directed By: Michael Apted

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Stanley Baker, James Booth
Directed By: Cy Endfield

Manufacturer: Revolver Entertainment
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Deborah Francois, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillian, Maya Sansa
Directed By: Jean-Paul Salome

Like Sin City before it, 300 brings Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel vividly to life. Gerard Butler (Beowulf and Grendel, The Phantom of the Opera) radiates pure power and charisma as Leonidas, the Grecian king who leads 300 of his fellow Spartans (including David Wenham of The Lord of the Rings, Michael Fassbender, and Andrew Pleavin) into a battle ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan
Directed By: Zack Snyder