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It's taken a long time for Kevin Whately to take centre stage in a detective drama, but Lewis proves it's been time well spent. Lewis, of course, was previously the sidekick to Inspector Morse, and that raised fair suspicions that this spin-off drama was a fairly unnecessary cash-in of sorts. But those suspicions have proven unfounded, and Lewis has emerged as one of ...

Manufacturer: itv DVD
Starring: Kevin Whately, Sophie Winkleman, Colin Starkey, Charlie Cox, Jemma Redgrave
Directed By: Bill Anderson (III)

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Amanda Redman, Danny Webb, Sean Pertwee, Matthew McNulty, Burt Kwouk

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Steven Seagal, Eva Pope, Estelle Harris, Garrick Hagon, David Kennedy
Directed By: Don E. Fauntleroy, Alexander Gruszynski, Michael Keusch, Roel Reine

At the heart of Henry VIII stands a towering performance by Ray Winstone, who literally grows into the role, impressively doubling in size and ageing 40 years over the course of two feature-length episodes. Focusing on Henry's relationships with his six wives, this lavish mini-series also makes a good job of explaining the complex court intrigues of the period, detailing Henry's split with ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Ray Winstone, Joss Ackland, Sid Mitchell, Charles Dance, Mark Strong
Directed By: Pete Travis

Manufacturer: Artificial Eye
Starring: Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Artur Barcis
Directed By: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Steven Seagal, David Kennedy, Danny Webb, Del Synnott, Michael Carter
Directed By: Michael Keusch

An epic saga stretching from 1964 to 1995, Our Friends in the North follows the lives of four young people in North-East England. Nicky Hutchinson (Christopher Eccleston) is initially courting Mary Soulsby (Gina McKee) but the relationship cools when it takes second place to his campaigning for Harold Wilson's Labour Party. She weds Tory Tosker Cox instead, but their marriage is a miserable ...

Manufacturer: Sony Bmg
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan
Directed By: Pedr James, Simon Cellan Jones

Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover
Directed By: David Fincher

DeVito and Schwarzenegger as fraternal twin brothers? Hey, why not? This delightful 1988 comedy by Ivan Reitman--about genetically designed twin siblings who discover each other at the age of 35--works out just fine, thanks largely to great chemistry between the two stars. Despite a certain amount of rough action and tension, Twins really gets a lift from the palpable innocence Reitman ...

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett
Directed By: Ivan Reitman

Film buffs may remember the tangled tale of competing Robin Hood projects in 1991. Kevin Costner, riding high from his Oscar wins for Dances with Wolves, had his pick of projects at the time, and he juggled his interest in parallel Hood films that were under development at different studios. Costner chose Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, of course, directed by his friend Kevin ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Danny Webb, Conrad Asquith, Barry Stanton, Patrick Bergin, Owen Teale
Directed By: John Irvin