Television really doesn't come much better than this. Criminally ignored by far, far too many people, The Wire has proven itself to be that rarest of things: an intelligent, clever, character-driven show, that's lasted more than one season.This boxset brings together all the episodes from the maiden series of The Wire, spread across thirteen episodes. Yet those episodes, unlike ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dominic West, John Doman, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Deirdre LovejoyDirected By: Brad Anderson, Clark Johnson, Clément Virgo, Edward Bianchi, Gloria Muzio
Picking up after the dramatic events of its maiden season, the second series of The Wire achieves something really rather special: it even manages to outclass the first.For those fresh to the show, surely the best, most intelligent piece of scripted drama to emerge from America in the last decade, the actual premise is fairly simple. Across the thirteen episodes of its season, it charts ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dominic West, John Doman, Wendell Pierce, Lance Reddick, Deirdre LovejoyDirected By: Daniel Attias, Edward Bianchi, Elodie Keene, Ernest R. Dickerson, Rob Bailey
Even if you missed the first three seasons (the character guides and thorough episode recaps on HBO's website are recommended), and with only one season left, it's not too late to get in under The Wire. In fact, season 4 is an accessible introduction for those who know The Wire only by its street cred as arguably the very best show on television. For them especially, this season will ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dominic West, Michael K. Williams, Sonja Sohn
Corruption is rife throughout The Wire: The Complete Third Season, which picks up the further adventures of the Baltimore Major Crimes Unit as they continue to wage war on drugs. Only as this is The Wire, that's just the beginnings of their problems. Once again, the show that's rightly being acclaimed as one of America's finest and most intelligent dramas covers the story from all ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dominic West, Idris Elba, Michael K. Williams, Sonja Sohn
It's borderline tragic that one of American television's finest shows of recent times comes to an end with season five of The Wire. Long-praised for its astonishing mix of character, grit and outstandingly scripted drama, the upside is that the show sure goes out with some style. As with every season of The Wire, there's an underlying theme running alongside the exploration of ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dominic West
The Wire is one of those programmes where the increasing number of people who seem to passionately recommend it are simply not wrong. For buried underneath a mountain of praise, and talk of it being one of the finest television shows of all time, is a staggering piece of work, one that slowly but surely takes a look at the many facets of the drugs trade, centred in the city of Baltimore. ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Dominic West, Chita Rivera, Renee Zellweger, Richard GereDirected By: Rob Marshall
By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars--here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer--with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista FlockhartDirected By: Michael Hoffman
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 VideoStarring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent ReganDirected By: Zack Snyder
To appreciate 28 Days, it's best to be thankful that director Betty Thomas hasn't forced Sandra Bullock into a remake of Clean and Sober. Instead Thomas has balanced her comedic sensibility (evident in Dr. Dolittle and Private Parts) with the seriousness of alcoholism and substance abuse, and she succeeds without compromising the gravity of the subject matter. Some ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Azura SkyeDirected By: Betty Thomas
