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 Danger Man DVD Boxset Complete Series One
01/08/2005. DVD: Carlton Visual Entertainment 37115 05913. 975 minutes - 39 25 minute episodes. Price varies from: £60.00 to £38.00 (UK) so shop around for the best deal). stars: Patrick McGoohan and a host of superb 1960s actors.
Daredevil (Frank's Take)
01/03/2003. There were elements of grandeur thrust upon writer-director Mark Steven Johnson's dark superhero flick Daredevil. Despite the anticipation of the famed stoic blind crime-fighter's arrival on the big screen, Johnson's sensationalistic fantasy is, surprisingly, another arbitrary stunt-infested movie that has plenty of kinetic movement yet never really goes anywhere with its energizing format.
Daredevil (Geoff's Take)
01/08/2003. pub: video: Regency 23789S. 99 minutes plus 30 minute Making Of. Price: £ 9.99 (UK) - prices really do vary so look around) stars: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan and Colin Farell.
 Dark Angel
01/11/2007. DVD Region 2. pub: MGM 10005001. 78 minutes with no extras. Price: £ 2.50 (UK) if you know where to look) - stars: Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben and Betsy Brantley.
 Dark Angel Season One Collection
01/06/2005. DVD: 20th Century Fox 1-0GB 23045DVD. 21 episodes. 919 minutes. Price varies from £60-£20 (UK) so shop around for the best deal. Stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherley, John Savage and many others.
 Dark Angel Season Two Collection
01/08/2005. DVD: 20th Century Fox 1-0GB 24712DVD. 21 episodes. 905 minutes. Price varies from £60-£20 (UK) so shop around for the best deal.. stars: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherley, Jensen Eccles, Kevin Durand and many others.
Darkness Falls
01/03/2003. Darkness Falls is the latest slight and extraneous scarefest to hit the big screen in dull, meaningless fashion. Director Jonathan Liebesman helms a ridiculously familiar and arbitrary cheesy horror tale that doesn't effectively challenge the simple conventions of the fright genre.
Dawn of the Dead
01/05/2004. Frank sits down to watch Zack Snyder's surprisingly winning remake of the flesh-eating fable Dawn of the Dead.
Dead Birds: Mark's Take
06/12/2004. About the only thing that is original and unfamiliar about this house of horrors horror film is that it is set during the Civil War.
 Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season DVD Boxset
01/08/2005. DVD: MGM Home Entertainment 10006827. 10 hrs - 14 episodes with extras. Price: £29.95 (UK). stars: Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Jasmine Guy, Rebecca Gayheart, Cynthia Stevenson, Britt McKillip and Mandy Patinkin not to mention a host of guest stars.
 Dead Like Me:The Complete Second Series
01/12/2007. DVD region 2. pub: MGM F1-ORG 3470601000. 4 DVDs 672 minutes 15 episodes plus extras. Price: £15.00 (UK - if you know where to look) stars: Ellen Muth, Laura Harris, Callum Blue, Jasmine Guy and Mandy Patinkin.
 Dead Of Night (The Ealing Studios Collection - 1946)
01/05/2007. region 2 DVD. pub: Canal Image/Optimum OPTD0610. 99 minute film with no extras. Price: £12.99 although it can be got for just under £ 5.00 if you know where to look (UK). stars: Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Basil Radford, Nouton Wayne, Sally Ann Howes, Rowland Culver and Frederick Valk.
 Disturbia: Frank's take
01/06/2007. We'll just have to face certain facts that a majority of contemporary films today will always have that reminiscence factor when "borrowing" the stimulating theme from other previously proven flicks, finds Frank. For filmmaker D.J. Caruso's horror/suspense piece Disturbia, this cinematic sentiment is certainly true. Suitably giddy with its horror movie platitudes aimed at mocking the facade of suburban hysteria, Caruso's Disturbia percolates effectively within its defined raucous rhythms.
 Doctor Who: Genesis Of The Daleks
01/04/2007. DVD Region 2. Pub: BBC DVD 1813. 2 DVD 6 episodes 142 minutes plus extras. Price: £19.99 although can be got for less than £ 8.00 if you know where to look (UK). stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter and assorted guests.
 Doctor Who: Inferno
01/02/2007. DVD Region 2. Pub: BBC BBCDVD 1802. 1 DVD 7 episodes 167 minutes plus extras. Price: £19.99 although can be got for less than £10.97 if you know where to look (UK))stars: Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene and assorted guests.
 Doctor Who: New Beginnings
01/11/2007. Region 2 DVD. pub: BBC BBCDVD 1331. 3 DVDs 292 minutes plus loads of extras. Price: about £ 12.00 (UK) if you know where to look) - stars: Tom Baker, Peter Davidson, Sarah Sutton, Anthony Ainley and Matthew Waterhouse -
 Doctor Who: Pyramids Of Mars
01/12/2006. DVD Region 2. Pub: BBC BBCDVD 1350. 1 DVD 4 episodes 97 minutes plus extras. Price: £19.99 although can be got for less than £10.97 if you know where to look (UK). stars: Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen.
 Doctor Who: The Beginning DVD Box Set
01/10/2006. DVD Region 2: pub: BBC BBCDVD 1882. 346 minutes. 3 stories spread over 12 episodes with loads of extras. Price: £ 29.99 (UK))stars: William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford and assorted guest stars.
 Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion Of Earth
01/04/2005. DVD Region 2. BBC WHSDVD 04. 149 minutes. Price: £15.99 (UK) but this varies so shop around for the best deal.
 Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
01/09/2007. Region 2 DVD. pub: BBC BBCDVD 1006. 1 DVD 102 minutes. Price: £ 7.20 (UK) if you know where to look) stars: Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Richard Hurndall and Tom Baker.
 Doctor Who: The Green Death
01/05/2005. DVD Region 2. BBCDVD 1142. 153 minutes. Price: £15.99 (UK) but this varies so shop around for the best deal). Stars: Jon Pertween, Katy Manning and Nicholas Courtney.
 Doctor Who: The Seeds Of Death
01/10/2006. DVD Region 2: pub: BBC BBCDVD 1151. 145 minutes. 6 episodes with loads of extras. Price: £19.99 (UK)) stars: Patrick Troughton, Fraser Hines, Wendy Padbury and assorted guest stars.
 Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
01/05/2005. DVD Region 2. BBCDVD 1144. 97 minutes. Price: £ 9.99 (UK) but this varies so shop around for the best deal). stars: Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, William Hartnell, Katy Manning and Nicholas Courtney.
 Doctor Who: The Tomb Of The Cybermen
01/11/2006. DVD Region 2. Pub: BBC BBCDVD 1032. 1 DVD 4 episodes 95 minutes plus extras. Price: £19.99 although can be got for less than £ 7.00 if you know where to look (UK). stars: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling.
Dog Soldiers
01/03/2003. Video: Pathe P9052S. 101 minutes. Price: £ 9.99 (UK) although that can vary.) stars: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd & Liam Cunningham.
Donnie Darko
01/07/2003. video: Metrodome MTS8061. 108 minutes. Price: varies starting from £ 9.99 so shop around. stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary MacDonnell, Katherine Ross, Patrick Swayze and Noah Wyle.
 Doom (Frank's Take)
01/12/2005. The movie's obvious title says it all, says Frank, because some audiences will feel doomed when enduring this tedious ultra-synthetic rush ride that dares to emulate the frightening frivolity of the 1986 blockbuster Aliens.
 Dr. Phibes Rises Again - composed and conducted by John Gale
01/05/2005. CD: Perseverance PRD 002. 45 minutes. Price: $21.95 or $17.00 off their website.
 Dracula (2006): Mark's take
01/03/2007. This may well be the least faithful and poorest adaptation of a novel ever to appear on America's Masterpiece Theater, says Mark. There is very little of the novel in this production and what is there is twisted. Victorians who thought there was little that could be done to make this story less subtle than it already was would be amazed to find how crudely it could be adapted. Nevertheless, I realized watching it that there was a way for the viewer to make it a much more pleasurable experience.
Dragonfly won't Fly
01/10/2002. There's a sound reason for swatting away the preposterous "Dragonfly", Kevin Costner's latest sappy supernatural romantic thriller. Frank's just the man to tell you what it is.
 Drakula Istanbul'da (Dracula in Istanbul): Mark's take
01/03/2007. This has been a very rare film, muses Mark, but it seems to be becoming more readily available. This is not a sequel to, but a simplification of Bram Stoker's novel. It just replaces the London backdrop with Istanbul and sets the story in the year of its production, 1953. The film has some nice bits on a tight budget, but turning the Mina character into an alluring stage dancer somehow cheapens the story. Atif Kaptan makes what seems a lacklustre Dracula, but perhaps if I knew Turkish it might have been more impressive.
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