Acorn Media interrogates WITNESS NUMBER 3 (review)

A chance glance outside a shop window plunges a hair salon owner into a terror campaign when she becomes WITNESS NUMBER 3.  Nina Toussaint-White stars.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

WITNESS NUMBER 3 DVD specs:

• Four episodes on one dual-layer DVD
• 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes Cast and Crew Interviews
• Photo Gallery
  

IFC Midnight wants you to SEE FOR ME (review)

A visually-impaired former athlete house-sitting in the snowy mountains of upstate New York must depend on a remote visual helper who happens to be a former Army Ranger when thieves break into the house.

REVIEW LINK: IFC Midnight/RLJ Entertainment (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SEE FOR ME Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Descriptive Audio Track
• Optional English SDH and Spanish Subtitles
  

Acorn Media celebrates QUEENS OF MYSTERY (review)

A young detective sergeant starts her new job in the quaint British village of her birth, but her trio of crimewriting aunts cannot help getting involved in her cases in THE QUEENS OF MYSTERY.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

QUEENS OF MYSTERY: SERIES 1 DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH and French subtitles
• Behind the Scenes segments for each episode
• Easter Eggs
  

Acorn Media investigates DALGLIESH (review)

P.D. James' popular detective Adam Dalgliesh comes back to the small screen in three two-part cases.  In SHROUD FOR A NIGHTINGALE, Dalgliesh investigates the mysterious death of a trainee nurse in front of all of her colleagues.  In THE BLACK TOWER, Dalgliesh begins to suspect that three deaths of elderly people were most unnatural.  In A TASTE FOR DEATH, the bodies of a tramp and a disgraced politician are discovered in a church, and a latchkey child may hold the key to the mystery.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

DALGLIESH Series 1 DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer discs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• The Making of DALGLIESH
• Who is DALGLIESH?
• Picture Gallery
  

Acorn Media investigates THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES: SERIES 7 (review)

City transplant Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd and crew are back in series seven of THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES investigating brutal murders among the quirky citizens of a small New Zealand town with plenty of secrets and suspects.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES: SERIES 7 DVD specs:

• Six feature-length episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• Photo Gallery
  

Acorn Media and Shudder hunt MONSTRUM (review)

Reports of a beast murdering hunters and farmers on a remote mountain unsettle the kingdom, but is it a real monster or a court intrigue to undermind the king?

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MONSTRUM Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Korean DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
  

Acorn Media investigates THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES: SERIES 6 (review)

Brokenwood, New Zealand police detectives Mike Shepard, Kristen Sims, and Sam Breen investigate a number of murder cases that all hit close to home in different ways in the six series of the popular comic thriller show.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES: SERIES 6 DVD specs:

• Four feature-length episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes:
• Behind the Scenes
• "Logan the Corgi"
• Costume Design
• Production Design
• Themes
• Tim Balme
• "What Have You Learnt?"
• "What Would You Be?
• Picture Gallery

Acorn Media mixes up LOVE, LIES AND RECORDS (review)

When Kate Dickinson is promoted to senior registrar of the Leeds Office of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, she is on top of the world until jealous co-worker Judy starts blackmailing her over a dalliance with handsome Rick, her daughter starts acting out, her stepson and his girlfriend move into the house, and co-worker James starts wearing women's clothes and wants to be called Jamie.  Other intrigue arrises as her long-term boyfriend Rob investigates a case of human trafficking that could be trying to utilize the office for sham marriages and a woman's body is pulled out of the river in this soapy comedy from Kay Mellor.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

LOVE, LIES AND RECORDS DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• Quick Fire Q and A
• Behind the Scenes Still Gallery
• Still Gallery

Acorn Media investigates DETECTORISTS: SERIES 3 (Review)

Best friends Lance and Andy return to their metal detecting hunting grounds for a third series and face new challenges.  Not only does Andy hate his job, he is keeping secrets from his wife and mother-in-law while Lance is trying to sort out his personal life with his girlfriend, his daughter, and his ex.  Additionally, they discover that they stand to lose their allotted land to a solar energy farm just as they discover what seems to be a Roman burial site.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DETECTORISTS: SERIES 3 DVD specs:

• Six episodes on one dual-layer DVD
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• "Welcome to the Clubhouse" featurette
• "Mum's the Word" interview with actress Diana Rigg
• "Meeting Mackenzie Crook" interview
• "Meeting Sophie Thompson" interview
• Picture Gallery
• Behind the Scenes Galler

Acorn Media closes the case of INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY: SERIES EIGHT (Review)

The INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY series comes to a close with two final cases set in the socially turbulent 1970's.  In the first, Gently and Bacchus butt heads when the discovery of a body means revisiting a case Bacchus worked on years before in which the killer may have been wrongfully convicted.  In the second and last, Gently investigates the cold-case of a murdered scab worker while Bacchus and Coles investigate the more recent murder of a scab worker during a labor and union dispute, both of which are linked by a politician who could very well be running the new government.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY DVD specs:

• Two feature-length episodes on one dual-layer DVD
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Featurettes on both episodes
• Interviews with Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Lisa McGrillis, Richard Harrington, the writers, production designer, and costume designer
• Picture Gallery

Acorn Media seeks out DICTE - CRIME REPORTER: SERIES 2 (review)

Crime reporter Dicte returns in a second series investigating underground prostitution, diamond smuggling, sadomasochistic societies, a missing teenager, a murdered football goalie, and helps to clear detective John Wagner's name in a murder case.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DICTE - CRIME REPORTER: SERIES 2 DVD specs:

• Ten episodes (five cases) on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Danish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Picture Gallery

Acorn Media investigates DICTE - CRIME REPORTER: SERIES 1 (review)

Forced to give up her newborn at sixteen by her Jehovah's Witness parents, Dicte runs away to the Copenhagen and returns years later to Aarhus to cover the crime section of one of the local papers.  As she searches for the identity of the child she gave up for adoption, she also finds a number of cases hitting close to home as she becomes a thorn in the side of detective John Wagner in the search for truth.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DICTE - CRIME REPORTER: SERIES 1 DVD specs:

• Ten episodes (five cases) on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Danish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Picture Gallery

Acorn Media charts a DECLINE AND FALL (review)

Falling victim to a prank and wrongfully expelled from Oxford for indecent behavior, theology student Paul Pennyfeather winds up as the supremely unqualified junior schoolmaster at a Welsh boys school where he becomes entangled in the misdeeds of his colleagues and falls for a wealthy widow with a checkered past.  Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh.  Jack Whitehall, David Suchet, and Eva Longoria star.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DECLINE AND FALL DVD specs:

• Three episodes on one dual-layer DVD
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Behind the Scenes featurettes
• Photo Gallery

Acorn Media searches for THE MISSING: SERIES 2 (review)

In series two of THE MISSING, the reappearance of a British girl missing for eleven years in a German town becomes even more urgent when it appears that she may be the key to finding a girl that disappeared a year before her.  Julien Baptiste comes out of retirement again to solve the case but finds opposition from the girl's parents and brother who want to shield her from further trauma.  When tragedy strikes, the parents start to wonder whether the girl they have welcomed back into their house really is their daughter.  David Morrissey, Keeley Hawes, and Tcheky Karyo star.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE MISSING: SERIES 2 DVD specs:

• Eight episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Behind the Scenes (43 minutes)
• Still Gallery

Acorn Media hunts THE MISSING: SERIES 1 (review)

A British family's trip to the South of France becomes a nightmare when five year old Oliver Hughes goes missing.  Eight years later, his mother Emily is trying to move on but his father Tony has never stopped searching at the cost of everything else in his life.  When he stumbles upon a clue, French inspector Julien Baptiste comes out of retirement to reopen the investigation, unearthing buried secrets and more hidden crimes.  James Nesbitt, Frances O'Connor, and Tcheky Karyo star.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE MISSING: SERIES 1 DVD specs:

• Eight episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English/French Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Behind the Scenes Slideshow
• Picture Slideshow

Acorn Media and RLJ learn NEW TRICKS: SERIES 12 (review)

The crew of the Unsolved and Open Case squad bid farewell after twelve years in the final ten episodes.  As new evidence is discovered and new tips are sent in, the squad re-opens cases from the past decades to solve a series of murders while dealing with their troubled personal lives and police and government politics.  Larry Lamb, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Dennis Waterman star.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

NEW TRICKS: SERIES 12 DVD specs:

• Ten episodes on three dual-layer discs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Top Ten Series Moments
• Cast Filmographies
• Picture Gallery

Acorn Media meets MR. AND MRS. MURDER (Review)

Professional forensic cleaners and amateur detectives Charlie and Nicola Buchanan and their long-suffering niece Jess clean up crime scenes and solve murders while their detective pal Peter takes the credit.  Charlie uses his wits and his encyclopedic knowledge while impulsive Nicola uses her intuition to get under the skin of suspects but find themselves sifting through plenty of dirty laundry along the way.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

MR. AND MRS. MURDER DVD specs:

• Thirteen episodes on two dual-layer DVDs (9 1/2 hours)
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo 
• Optional English HoH subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• Cast Interviews
• Extended Footage
• Picture Gallery

Acorn Media/RLJ are Agatha Christie's PARTNERS IN CRIME (review)

Agatha Christie's "Young Adventurers" Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are back in this new take starring LITTLE BRITAIN's David Walliams and CALL THE MIDWIFE's Jessica Raine as the couple who become embroiled in mysteries that have wider political implications for the future of post-war Britain.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

PARTNERS IN CRIME: SERIES 1 DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer discs
• "The Secret Adversary" (3 episodes)
• "N or M?" (3 episodes)
• Behind the Scenes
• The Style of PARTNERS IN CRIME
• "Time Out" with Clarke Peters

Acorn Media and RLJ train the THE DELIVERY MAN (review)

Leaving the police force for a different way of helping people, Matthew Bunting is the hairiest midwife at East Park Lane Hospital.  Enduring the jokes of his incompetent cop roommate, the lust of his new supervisor, and the scorn of his co-workers, Matthew confronts various ethical dilemmas with patients and co-workers in this humorous ITV series.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media/RLJ Entertainment (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE DELIVERY MAN DVD specs:

• Six episodes on one dual layer disc
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Behind the Music
• Set Tour
• Question Time
• Outtakes
• Picture Gallery

Image Entertainment rises with the DAY OF THE MUMMY (review)

Danny Glover (LETHAL WEAPON) and William McNamara (COPYCAT) star in this Egyptian adventure.  A billionaire collector hires an unscrupulous archaeologist to join an expedition to find the crypt of a cursed king who was buried with a precious diamond.  The team discover that the diamond's owner has woken up on the wrong side of the bed and is hungry for sacrifices.

REVIEW LINK: Image Entertainment/RLJ Entertainment (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DAY OF THE MUMMY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Start-up Trailers