Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: dvd

  • Look What Ships Today

    All eighteen episodes, from Resurrection to Medea. Here’s the blurb: Acclaimed film and television producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean, CSI) is back again in the nick of time with… ELEVENTH HOUR. Starring Rufus Sewell as Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government, the series follows the enigmatic…

  • Eleventh Hour on DVD

    Danny Cannon dropped by my office this morning and mentioned that the Eleventh Hour DVD boxed set is now scheduled for October 2009 release. Danny’s had a hand in the presentation and the quality specs, so technically the set should be well up to snuff. I Googled to see if any public announcement had been…

  • On the set of Crusoe

    The Crusoe Region 1 boxed set is now officially out, with the first torrented rips preceding it online like pageboys scattering rose petals ahead of the bride. But really, save your bandwidth and your blank discs; at $19.99 from Amazon piracy really isn’t worth the trouble, even when you add international postage. It’s also available…

  • Gallic Noir (2)

    Back in June of last year I blogged about the excellent French cops’n’justice show Engrenages. Slick, stylish, seedy, complex, and wonderful to look at, it had been screened in eight subtitled parts on BBC4 and did much to convince me that in the midst of UKTV’s creative meltdown there’s still one channel where you don’t…

  • Crusoe on DVD

    Amazon.com have announced that Crusoe: The Complete Series is available for Region 1 pre-order ahead of its release date on May 5th, 2009. I haven’t been involved with the DVD in any way, so I can’t tell you anything about it other than what you’ll find there. I don’t know how accurate some of the…

  • Network DVD Sale

    Thanks to Ian Dickerson for the news that Network DVD have cut their stock prices for online sales by 40% until Sunday 25th January. I’m caving in and going for the Department S boxed set now it’s under thirty quid. Though for the moment I’m still working my way through forty-seven hours of Danger Man…

  • Three and Out

    I enjoyed this British black comedy far more than I expected to; for some reason the ad campaign had persuaded me that it was a story about a loser set on the London Underground, when in fact its structure more resembles that of My Favorite Year, with Mackenzie Crook being drawn along in the wake…

  • Carnival of Souls

    If there’s any movie that comes a close second to Jason and the Argonauts in terms of the money that I’ve shelled out to own copies of it, this low-budget hand-made horror from the ‘sixties must surely be the one. I saw Carnival of Souls as the lower half of a Sunday horror double-bill at…

  • The Saint on TV

    Ian Dickerson has drawn my attention to this DVD, the perfect stocking-filler for the certain-kind-of-TV-geek of which I am one. Available as a web-only exclusive and currently on pre-order offer at £9.99, The Saint Steps in… to Television is an expanded documentary based on the interviews and extras gathered for Network’s boxed-set releases of The…

  • Man in a Suitcase

    I just finished working my way through the boxed set of the 1967-68 ITC series Man in a Suitcase. It’s taken me longer than I expected it to, and it’s provoked some mixed feelings. It’s a show that I was enormously impressed by, the first time around. And I still am, but in a qualified…