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Life’s too short to be scared off a few drinks

12.06.09
We should ban all talk of alcohol units — drink is a drug and therefore not terribly susceptible to packaging of this kind... more

DVDs of the week

27.11.07
Marion Cotillard is the star turn in La Vie En Rose, dandyesque comic Russell Brand plays Hackney and a documentary on T.Rex's Marc Bolan.... more

DVDs of the week

13.11.07
Escapism of the highest order in the fifth Harry Potter film, Jimmy Carr chruns out some more gags and fun with Little Britain Abroad.... more

DVDs of the week

23.10.07
Indian film Water, REM's new live album release and horror sequel Hostel Part II are among the week's DVDs.... more

DVDs of the week

18.09.07
Oscar winner The Lives Of Others, Magicians, and fluffy teen fun in Lovewrecked.... more

DVDs of the week

14.08.07
Mark Wahlberg plays a traumatised war veteran in Shooter and I Want Candy sees Carmen Electra become a famous porn star.... more

DVDs of the week

31.07.07
The tale of an Indian family's move to the United States in The Namesake, dancing in Stomp The Yard and war drama The Fallen are among the DVDs released this week.... more

DVDs of the week

24.07.07
Peter O'Toole's Oscar-nominated role in Venus, a strong take on terrorism in Catch A Fire and a compilation from Roxy Music are among the DVDs of the week.... more

DVDs of the week

17.07.07
Jude Law in Breaking And Entering, screen icon James Mason and the inside story on The Smiths all feature in this week's top DVDs.... more

DVDs of the week

03.07.07
Magic from The Illusionist, Nicholas Cage is Ghost Rider, and a French horror are among the week's top DVD releases... more

DVDs of the week

29.05.07
French release Cousin Cousine sparkles next to some overhyped razzle (Dreamgirls) and pretentious twaddle about the meaning of life (The Fountain).... more

DVDs of the week

01.05.07
Oscar nominated Little Children, Basic Instinct director's Black Book, DA Pennebaker's 1965 profile of Bob Dylan and the first series of The Two Ronnies are all out on DVD this week.... more

DVDs of the week

24.04.07
Renče Zellweger playing Beatrix Potter, the John Sayles Collection, American black comedy Big Nothing and Gabrielle feature among the DVDs released this week.... more

DVDs of the week

17.04.07
Brit rom-com Starter For 10, The Best Of Saturday Live, Ghosts, and the true story of an English eccentric's quest to sail round the world, are all released on DVD this week.... more

DVDs of the week

03.04.07
The dinosaurs at the New York National History Museum come to life, Eddie Murphy travels back 24 years in time, and Dame Edna's 1987 talk shows are revived on DVD this week.... more

DVDs of the week

13.03.07
Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece Pan's Labyrinth, Helen Mirren's Oscar-winning performance as the Queen and magical thriller The Prestige all come to DVD this week.... more

DVDs of the week

06.03.07
Borat, The History Boys, cult classic Performance and a mutant monster movie set in Korea are among this week's DVD releases.... more

DVDs of the week

28.02.07
This week's top releases include Oscar winner Andrea Arnold's first feature, a French and Saunders series, and a bonkers Japanese exploitation flick.... more

Ecological with the truth

02.01.07
Al Gore uses his skills and clout to try to stop global warming in An Inconvenient Truth, Adrift proves to be one of 2006's finest psychological nail-biters and Crank is Speed without the bus.... more

DVDs of the week

05.12.06
Uma Thurman's comic turn in My Super Ex-Girlfriend beats the worthy soul-searching of Superman Returns, while Nacho Libre doesn't have enough laughs.... more

DVD reviews: Growing up with alco pop

17.10.06
Richard E Grant makes his directorial debut with Wah-Wah, Paul Greengrass explores the horror of 9/11 in United 93 and coming out drama Imagine Me & You is just plain silly. ... more

DVD reviews: Just clowning around

03.10.06
This week's DVD releases see dancers clowning around LA, Jennifer Aniston as a singleton slacker, some lust-in-the-dust schlock and creepy Italian horror.... more

This week's DVD reviews

26.09.06
Unknown White Male tells the bizarre story about a man struck with a rare case of amnesia while Tony Curtis stars in the complete series of The Persuaders! Catch up with the latest DVD releases here.... more

DVD reviews: Entertaining oddballs

19.09.06
It's a first-time-on-DVD release for peculiar thriller The Fantasist, there are four pearls in The Max Ophuls Collection and a young Charlotte Rampling gets her claw out in The Night Porter.... more

DVD reviews: From bubble to bust

12.09.06
Enron's execs go from bubble to bust in Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Chow Yun-Fat stars in John Woo's all-action flick Another Tomorrow II, and Tristan & Isolde drips its way onto DVD.... more

DVD reviews: Racing the block

29.08.06
In this week's DVD releases Bruce Willis is back in action and a Palestinian film about a pair of would-be suicide bombers offers chilling insights about life in the West Bank.... more

DVD reviews: Relative strangers

22.08.06
DVDs released this week include the superb Junebug - a study in family tensions that isn't played for laughs - and James Whale's surprisingly meaty follow up to 1931's Frankenstein, The Old Dark House.... more

DVD reviews: Squids in

15.08.06
In this week's DVD releases, Noah Baumbach plays the traumatic subject of divorce for laughs, and the Dardenne brothers offer another riveting slice of realism in Palme d'Or winning film, The Child.... more

DVD reviews: Tommy's quest for justice

08.08.06
Tommy Lee Jones makes his directorial debut with The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada while Clive Owen thinks he's planned the perfect bank robbery in Inside Man.... more

V is for verbose

01.08.06
Natalie Portman shaved off her Star Wars locks for V for Vendetta, but doubts remain about whether it was worth it. Also released is Shooting Dogs and a couple of classics revisited.... more

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