Simply Media laughs with Spike Milligan's Q VOLUME 1 SERIES 1-3 (review)

Spike Milligan's revolutionary sketch comedy series comes to DVD from Simply Media, compiling the surviving episodes of series 1 an the complete series 2 and 3 in a three-disc set.

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

Q VOLUME 1 SERIES 1-3 DVD specs:

• The surviving episodes of series 1 and complete series 2 and 3 on three dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English HoH subtitles

Simply Media feasts on TANDOORI NIGHTS (review)

Saeed Jaffrey stars in this sitcom look at British and Indian race relations in the eighties as an upscale restaurant owner tugged between tradition and capitalist success.

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

TANDOORI NIGHTS Series 1 and 2 DVD specs:

• Twelve episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media invites you to MEET THE WIFE (review)

Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton star in this early BBC domestic sitcom as a plumber and his nagging wife who always have something to fight about but always make up in the end.  Through a pilot and five series, they deal with an out-of-control modern bed, vacation woes, entertaining clients, and dealing with their empty nest.

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

MEET THE WIFE DVD specs:

• Pilot plus six series one episodes and the surviving episodes from seasons two, four, and five on three discs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English HoH subtitles

Simply Media awakens SLEEPERS (review)

Warren Clarke and Nigel Havers play Soviet spies sent to Britain as sleeper agents in the sixties and forgotten about until their operation is discovered and the KGB, the CIA, and MI-5 are soon in pursuit of two men who have become thoroughly British and have no plans to return home, even if that means leaving behind everything they have built up in the last twenty years and all they have come to care for.

REVIEW LINK: Simply Media (UK) Region 2 PAL (DVDBeaver)

SLEEPERS: THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD specs:

• Four episodes on one dual-layer disc
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles 

Simply Media plays THE JUSTICE GAME (review)

Denis Lawson (NEW TRICKS) stars as a high-priced lawyer who has returned to Glasgow from America and finds himself in the middle of a case that involves the future of the city's economic progress.

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

THE JUSTICE GAME SERIES 1 AND 2 DVD specs:

• Seven episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles 

Simply Media presents JOINT ACCOUNT: SERIES 1 AND 2 (review)

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

JOINT ACCOUNT: SERIES 1 & 2 DVD specs:

• Two complete series on three dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English HoH subtitles

Simply Media's Terry and June are HAPPY EVER AFTER (Review)

HUGH AND I's Terry Scott and ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS' June Whitfield are alone for the first time in twenty years with all three children having left home.  They barely have time to experience Empty Nest Syndrome when June's dotty seventy-year old Aunt Lucy and her chatty Myna bird Gunga Din move in.  As the couple try to adopt each others' interests, they find themselves growing apart, and attempts to share new interests usually wind up with Terry getting in way over his head in this five season series.

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

HAPPY EVER AFTER DVD specs:

• Pilot Episode, all five series, and two Christmas special on seven dual-layered DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English HoH subtitles

Simply Media plots with EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE (review)

Intrigue in the Forbidden City's imperial harem abounds in eighteenth century China in this lavish but juicy soap opera as a reluctant new courtesan learns to maneuver her way through the various levels of society within the kingdom and survive backstabbing plots, attempted murders, and the machinations of others for advancement.  Seventy-six forty-five minute episodes have been edited down to six ninety-minute episodes for English audiences.

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

EMPRESSES IN THE PALACE DVD specs:

• Six ninety-minute episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles

Simply Media reunites MELVIN AND HOWARD (review)

Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, and Mary Steenburgen star in this comic drama from Jonathan Demme.  Melvin Dummar goes from factory worker to milkman to media punchline when he is named as one of the benefactors of a mysterious will attributed to the late Howard Hughes who he claims to have once encountered in the middle of the Nevada desert.  Steenburgen won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film and Bo Goldman won for Best Screenplay.

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

MELVIN AND HOWARD DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media promises NEVER SAY GOODBYE (review)

Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Shelly Fabares, and an uncredited Clint Eastwood appear in this "women's picture" directed by Jerry Hopper with additional work by an uncredited Douglas Sirk.  When a doctor discovers that the wife and mother of his child that he believes was dead is in fact alive, he not only must seek her forgiveness for the event that tore them apart but also must reunite her with the daughter who has grown up without her and become jealously possessive of her father.

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

NEVER SAY GOODBYE DVD specs: 

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.00:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• NOTE: The current disc is incomplete due to an authoring error.  Inquire with Simply Media as to when/if they will recall or replace the title.

Simply Media makes THE PROPOSITION (Review)

Kenneth Branagh plays a priest assigned to a rich New England parish who tries to avoid involvement with its biggest benefactors but inadvertently becomes entangled in a secret that leads to lust, betrayal, and murder in THE PROPOSITION.  Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt, Blythe Danner, and Neil Patrick Harris also star.

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

THE PROPOSITION DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo

Simply Media attends a MASQUERADE IN MEXICO (review)

Dorothy Lamour stars in this remake of the Claudette Colbert vehicle MIDNIGHT as a showgirl who gets stranded in Mexico after her fiance tricks her into transporting a stolen diamond across the border.  She soon finds herself impersonating a countess in the scheme of an American who wants to lure an amorous bullfighter away from his wife.  Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak, Natalie Schafer, George Rigaud, and Arturo de Córdova also star.

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

MASQUERADE IN MEXICO DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media has only ONE DESIRE (review)

Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter star as a casino dealer Clint and showgirl Tracey who move to a booming Colorado town in search of respectability.  When spoiled rich girl Judith (Julie Adams) spots Clint, she yearns to possess him and turns the town against Tracey when she learns of her background.  When Tracey eventually discovers Judith was responsible for running her out of town, she defiantly returns for revenge.  Natalie Wood and William Hopper co-star.

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

ONE DESIRE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.00:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media enlists with HERE COME THE WAVES (review)

Bing Crosby stars in this musical as a singer who enlists in the military to get away from his mob of female fans only to be respectively stalked by and fall for twin sisters (Betty Hutton) who have joined the Women's Reserve.  Sonny Tufts co-stars.

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

HERE COME THE WAVES DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media and THE LADY TAKES A FLYER (review)

Lana Turner and Jeff Chandler star in this Jack Arnold romantic comedy as commercial flyers who fall in love and find their love for the skies and each other tested by family life.  Richard Denning and Chuck Connors co-star.

REVIEW LINK: Simply Media (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE LADY TAKES A FLYER DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media deals with JOE BUTTERFLY (review)

Audie Murphy, George Nader, Keenan Wynn, and Burgess Meredith star in JOE BUTTERFLY where a quintet of war correspondents race against a deadline and a rival to publish the first issue of their magazine in Tokyo after surrender and are forced to rely on the resources of a houseboy turned black market smuggler.

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

JOE BUTTERFLY DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 2.23:1 letterbox
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media has a HIRED WIFE (review)

Rosalind Russell stars as Kendal, a secretary in love with her boss who is in love with a social climbing model.  When his company's finances are threatened, he needs a spouse to put all of his interests in her name and Kendal will scheme to be the one tossing the bouquet with the help of a South American gigolo and a bewildered attorney.

REVIEW LINK: Simply Media (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

HIRED WIFE DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media is GOING BERSERK (Review)

SCTV's John Candy, Joe Flaherty, and Eugene Levy reunite in this bizarre early eighties Canadian/American comedy.  John runs a limo service with his buddy Chick and is about to marry into the family of a wealthy senator and presidential candidate.  When the senator goes after a scam religion, its maniacal head brainwashes John in order to kill him at the wedding.  Ernie Hudson and Dixie Carter also star.

REVIEW LINK: Simply Media (US) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

GOING BERSERK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo

Simply Media bets on THE LADY GAMBLES (review)

Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Edith Barrett, and Stephen McNally star in this obscure film noir.  On honeymoon in Las Vegas while her husband works on a news story, Joan Booth becomes addicted to gambling and enters a downward spiral into illegal activities and heartbreak.  A young Tony Curtis makes one of his first appearances here as a bell boy.

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

THE LADY GAMBLES DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono

Simply Media tends THE GINGER TREE (review)

Samantha Bond (007's Moneypenny) plays Scottish girl Mary who goes to Manchuria to marry a dashing but cold-blooded English soldier only to have an affair with a Japanese military attache.  When her husband throws her out, she travels to Japan only to discover more hardships as an outcast considered no better than a concubine.

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

THE GINGER TREE DVD specs:

• Four episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo