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There were a few moments in the third season of the revived Doctor Who when you begin to wonder if the bubble has burst. A couple of tepid Dalek episodes, and a handful of forgettable stories, make you begin--perhaps for the first time since the show's revival--whether it's already hits its peak. But never underestimate the new Doctor Who. For the back run of series three is as ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: David Tennant, John Simm, Freema Agyeman, Ardal O'Hanlon, Hugh Quarshie

Chances are there's barely a parent of a toddler in the country who hasn't encountered In The Night Garden in some form over the past few months. The latest BBC-hit from the CBeebies channel, and with a passing resemblance to Teletubbies, this debut DVD for the show brings together five episodes. And many parents already, we suspect, will have their credit cards ready. In true ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Derek Jacobi

Manufacturer: Squirrel Films Distribution Ltd
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Max Wall, Bill Fraser, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood

A big-budget summer epic with money to burn and a scale worthy of its golden Hollywood predecessors, Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a rousing, grisly, action-packed epic that takes moviemaking back to the Roman Empire via computer-generated visual effects. While not as fluid as the computer work done for, say, Titanic, it's an impressive achievement that will leave you marveling at the ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi
Directed By: Ridley Scott

Better action, a bit of sex, and gorier R-rated violence make Underworld: Evolution a reasonably satisfying sequel to 2003's surprise hit Underworld. Looking stunning as ever in her black leather battle gear, Kate Beckinsale is every goth guy's fantasy as Selene, the vampire "death dealer" who's now fighting to stop the release of the original "Lycan" werewolf, William (Brian Steele) ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy
Directed By: Len Wiseman

Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin, Brian Blessed
Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Steven Mackintosh, Danny McBride
Directed By: Len Wiseman

Manufacturer: Metrodome Distribution
Starring: Phillip Bond, Andrew Olcott, Elizabeth Babakhina, Dave Edwards, Yefim Gamburg

With hairy warts, a stern-looking unibrow and one extremely protruding buck-tooth, Nanny McPhee is a wonderfully comedic substitute for Mary Poppins in this entertaining family fantasy. By loosely adapting Christianna Brand's Nurse Matilda children's books of the 1960s, Oscar-winning screenwriter Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) has also given herself the plum role of ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, Derek Jacobi, Angela Lansbury
Directed By: Kirk Jones

A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, it is now available as two double video packs. After chronicling the foundations of the British Empire in Elizabeth R (1971), the BBC chose to dramatise the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert ...

Manufacturer: Movie Power
Starring: Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker