Take a trip back in time with BBC's The Hour, as the 1950's era news drama has now arrived on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Starring Romola Garai, Dominic West (The Wire) and Ben Wishaw (Brideshead Revisited), The Hour is a period drama following the establishment of a new current affairs program at the venerable broadcaster. A second series has already been ordered.

I must admit that I was not sold on The Hour as were many other critics. Though I had high hopes from the critical buzz, I found the first hour to be slow and muddled, and there was nothing in it that made me want to come back for more....

"The Hour" plays out as a riveting thriller set against the backdrop of the Cold War. Set behind the scenes of the BBC newsroom, just as an investigative news program is launched, the drama plots the personal lives, professional interplay and jealous ambition between aspiring but renegade journalist Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw), the beautiful ambitious young producer Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) with whom he is in love, and his handsome rival Hector Madden (Dominic West), the face and lead anchorman of this rising television news team.

Viewers witness the decade on the threshold of change – fr...

Fresh and funny, this new adaptation of the Jane Austen classic features a stellar cast including Romola Garai (Atonement, Vanity Fair), Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) and Michael Gambon (Harry Potter).

21-year-old Emma Woodhouse has very little to worry about. She is beautiful, clever, rich, with a comfortable home and some of the best blessings of existence. More than anything, she loves playing matchmaker to her friends and family, so when young, pretty, naive and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion.

She persuades Harriet to reject an advant...

In the latter part of the 19th century, Japan opened up for trade with the West. Merchant adventurers arrived from all over the world, many of them English. Some traded in silk and rice and lived in enclaves around the "treaty ports." They brought their families and their followers and created private mini-empires where they tried to embrace this extraordinary culture, its beauties and its dangers... A dream of Japan... Love and nature in disguise... All the world's a stage...

HBO Films presents director Kenneth Branagh's imaginative adaptation of Shakespeare's classic As You Like I...

Upcoming slave trade abolition movie Amazing Grace has been criticized for reducing the suffering of Africans to "a mere bit part".

The British movie, directed by Michael Apted, focuses on the life of abolitionist William Wilberforce.

However, black church and community leaders in the UK have attacked the film for undermining the slaves' own part in liberating themselves.

Lee Jasper, secretary of the Assembly Against Racism and equalities adviser to London Mayor Ken Livingstone, says, "The film prettifies the tragedy, the horror and the brutality of the slave trade. It see...