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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

Not the egregious foul it seemed to be in cinemas, Disney's Hercules (1997) stands up as an entertaining spritzer of an animated feature. The continual peppering of in-jokes and cultural references becomes less irksome on the small screen. That there is no majesty or awe invested in the beloved Greek legends also seems less of an error. Also on the plus side is the bounciest Alan Menken ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart
Directed By: John Musker, Ron Clements

Once Upon a Time in America has a chequered history, having been chopped from its original 229-minute director's cut to 139 minutes for its theatrical release. The longer edition presented here benefits from having the complete story (the short version has huge gaps) about turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants in America finding their way into lives of crime, as told in flashback by an ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams
Directed By: Sergio Leone

Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modelled on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Frank Vincent
Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Manufacturer: Revelation Films Ltd
Starring: Meryl Streep, James Woods, Tom Bell, Joseph Bottoms
Directed By: Marvin J Chomsky

Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday is a massive 150-minute American football drama which, for all its ferocity and cynicism, is as soft-centred and clichéd as any Rocky-style underdogs-make-good crowd-pleaser. The Miami Sharks have lost three games in a row and their coach, Al Pacino in an intense performance as the only half-decent major character in the film, faces crisis when ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, James Woods, Jamie Foxx
Directed By: Oliver Stone

Sophia Coppola's alternately dreamy and unsettling film about five suburban sisters who all mysteriously kill themselves (the voice-over tells you as much in the first five minutes) casts a witchy spell that lingers like drugstore perfume on a hot day. Beautifully adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' icily perfect novel (perhaps the best, if not only, work of fiction narrated exclusively in the ...

Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Michael Paré
Directed By: Sofia Coppola

In this crowd-pleasing 1983 comedy of high finance about a homeless con artist who becomes a Wall Street robber baron, Eddie Murphy consolidated the success of his startling debut in the previous year's 48 Hours and polished his slick-winner persona. The turnabout begins with an argument between super-rich siblings, played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche: are captains of industry, they ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Maurice Woods, Richard D. Fisher Jr.
Directed By: John Landis

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Geena Davis, Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Chazz Palminteri
Directed By: Rob Minkoff

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins
Directed By: Oliver Stone