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While occasionally clumsy in the way it goes about things, the first season of Torchwood ultimately makes good on its promise to be a science fiction programme for an older market. So while it's spun out from the more family-friendly Doctor Who, it does carve out an edgy, entertaining niche for itself. The programme follows the adventures of the Torchwood agency (who we ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori, Gareth David-Lloyd
Directed By: Alice Troughton, Andy Goddard, Ashley Way, Brian Kelly, Colin Teague

Almost obliged to be huge, Gangs of New York marks the return to work of three much-admired creatives missing-in-action for the past few years: director Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis. Vast, impressive and challenging, it's unlike anything Scorsese has done in look and manner even as it is exactly the material he has obsessively turned over since his first films. A ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Directed By: Martin Scorsese

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is both adored and detested for its combination of sumptuous beauty and revolting decadence. Few directors polarise audiences in the same way as Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker as influenced by Jacobean revenge tragedy and 17th-century painting as by the French New Wave. A vile, gluttonous thief (Michael Gambon) spews hate and abuse at a restaurant ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth
Directed By: Peter Greenaway

Fairy tales come vividly to life in The Brothers Grimm, a long-delayed fantasy/horror comedy that greatly benefits from the ingenuity of director Terry Gilliam. In lesser hands, the ambitious screenplay by prolific horror specialist Ehren Kruger (who wrote the American versions of The Ring and The Ring 2) might have turned into an erratic monster mash like Van Helsing. ...

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Matt Damon, Julian Bleach, Bruce McEwan, Heath Ledger, Peter Stormare
Directed By: Terry Gilliam

Import from The Netherlands, which plays in English. Greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy drive another rollicking story from Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit features two Martin Chuzzlewits: An elderly and extremely wealthy one (the magnificent Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), who loathes the sleazy, grasping relatives that hope to profit from his death; and his grandson (Ben Walden), a ...

Starring: Keith Allen, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Paul Bailey, Lynda Bellingham, David Bradley
Directed By: Pedr James

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Directed By: Barry Levinson

Fairy tales come vividly to life in The Brothers Grimm, a long-delayed fantasy/horror comedy that greatly benefits from the ingenuity of director Terry Gilliam. In lesser hands, the ambitious screenplay by prolific horror specialist Ehren Kruger (who wrote the American versions of The Ring and The Ring 2) might have turned into an erratic monster mash like Van Helsing. ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Starring: Matt Damon, Julian Bleach, Bruce McEwan, Heath Ledger, Peter Stormare
Directed By: Terry Gilliam

Manufacturer: Starz Home Entertainment
Starring: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins, Ken Bones
Directed By: David Wickes

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Hannah Cresswell, David Barrass, Malcolm McDowell, Keira Knightley, Del Synnott
Directed By: Peter Hewitt

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Directed By: Barry Levinson