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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Adventures Of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Peter Gallagher
  • Michael Chiklis
  • Glenn Chaika
  • Alexandra Boyd
  • Elijah Wood
Release date: 2003-08-18
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.97

Review The Adventures Of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina [2002] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Beverly Hills Family Robinson [1998] [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Dyan Cannon
  • Martin Mull
  • Josh Picker
  • Ryan O'Donohue
  • Troy Miller
Release date: 2006-08-07
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.68

Review Beverly Hills Family Robinson [1998] [1977] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Gargoyles - The Movie (Disney)
Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 78 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Gargoyles - The Movie (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Twitches Too [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Karen Holness
  • Stuart Gillard
  • Arnold Pinnock
  • Patrick Fabian
  • Leslie Seiler
  • David Ndaba
Release date: 2008-01-29
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £9.48

Review Twitches Too [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Friends & Enemies, No.5. [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Elphin Lloyd-Jones
  • Maria Warburg
Release date: 1994-10-03
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Friends & Enemies, No.5. [1993] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Disney / Pluto (Disney)
Run time: 50 min.

Review Pluto (Disney) / Disney:

Contains the following cartoon shorts: ''Pluto Junior'' ''Canine Casanova'' ''Pluto at the zoo'' "Pluto's Housewarming'' "Pluto's Heart Throb'' ''Cat Nap Pluto'' ''Wonder Dog''

Review Higglytown Heroes / Higglytown Heroes - To The Rescue [2005]
Release date: 2007-02-12
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.32

Review Higglytown Heroes - To The Rescue [2005] / Higglytown Heroes:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / 101 Dalmatians - Live Action [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Daniels
  • Joan Plowright
  • Hugh Laurie
  • Glenn Close
  • Stephen Herek
  • Joely Richardson
Release date: 2001-01-22
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.71

Review 101 Dalmatians - Live Action [1996] / Walt Disney Home Video:

It's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic. The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney Übervillainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the same, focusing on Cruella's plot to kidnap the puppies of a young married couple (Jeff Daniels and Jolie Richardson) and make them into a coat. But the dreaded John Hughes, who wrote this script, fills it with sadistic slapstick and far too few genuine laughs. The human actors work hard, but to little avail; thankfully, there's a posse of puppies to regularly steal scenes when the going gets dreary-although there are only so many laughs to be had from inappropriate dog puddles. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review Recess / Recess - Taking The 5th Grade [2003]
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.97

Review Recess - Taking The 5th Grade [2003] / Recess:


Review Walt Disney Video / Signs [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mel Gibson
  • Patricia Kalember
  • M. Night Shyamalan
  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cherry Jones
Release date: 2003-01-07
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: James Newton Howard
Price: £3.68

Review Signs [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Director-writer M Night Shyamalan brings his distinctive, oblique approach to aliens in Signs after tackling ghosts (The Sixth Sense) and superheroes (Unbreakable). With Mel Gibson replacing Bruce Willis as the traditional Shyamalan hero-a family man traumatised by loss-and leaving urban Philadelphia for the Pennsylvania sticks, the film starts with crop circles showing up on the property Gibson shares with his ex-ballplayer brother (Joaquin Phoenix) and his two troubled pre-teen kids (pay attention-all these character quirks turn out to be important). Though the world outside is undergoing a crisis of Independence Day-sized proportions, Shyamalan limits the focus to this family, who retreat into their cellar when "intruders" arrive from lights in the sky and set out to "harvest" them. Just as Unbreakable slowly revealed itself to be Superman re-thought as an intense personal drama, this is The Birds redone as a religious drama of faith lost and perhaps regained. The tone is less certain than the earlier films-some of the laughs seem unintentional and Gibson's performance isn't quite on a level with Willis's commitment-but Shyamalan still directs the suspense and shock dramas better than anyone else. On the DVD: Signs has THX-certified Dolby Digital Surround Sound which reproduces in the home exactly as the scary sounds that creeped you out in the cinema. A selection of deleted scenes are mostly tiny, but there's a self-reflexive joke (wisely dropped but worth preserving) as Gibson wishes his dead wife were here in the crisis because she was so smart: "She always knew how movies would end. " A six-part making-of goes deeper than the usual puff-piece, including an interesting alternative to a commentary track as Shyamalan talks through a précis of clips and on-set snippets. A tradition continued from the Sixth Sense and Unbreakable DVDs is an extract from Pictures, "Night's first alien film". It's a teenage camcorder effort in which the future A-list Hollywoodian is menaced by a tiny Halloween-masked robot. [+]
Also included are a "multi-angle storyboards" feature, subtitles in a clutch of languages and eerie menu screens. -Kim Newman.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Disney Learning Adventures - Mickey And The Beanstalk
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Goofy
  • Donald Duck
Release date: 2005-08-15
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.32

Review Disney Learning Adventures - Mickey And The Beanstalk / Walt Disney Home Video:


Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.74

Review Bob The Builder - Race To The Finish / Bob the Builder:


Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds: Volume 6 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 197 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.77

Review Thunderbirds: Volume 6 [1965] / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in VIDECOLOR-[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]-and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "The Duchess Assignment", "Brink of Disaster", "Attack of the Alligators!" and "Martian Invasion". Amazon. com.

Review Anchor Bay / Thomas the Tank Engine: Thomas and the Treasure [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Brandon
  • George Carlin
  • Alec Baldwin
Release date: 2008-01-29
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £3.08

Review Thomas the Tank Engine: Thomas and the Treasure [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Postman Pat - Postman Pat And The Giant Snowball
Actors & Directors
  • Postman Pat
Release date: 2005-11-14
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.33

Review Postman Pat - Postman Pat And The Giant Snowball / Universal Pictures UK:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Postman Pat - 2 On 1 - Postman Pat 1 / Postman Pat 2 [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Ken Barrie
  • Chris Taylor (VI)
  • Archie Panjabi
Release date: 1996-04-01
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Postman Pat - 2 On 1 - Postman Pat 1 / Postman Pat 2 [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 3 - On To White Deer Park [1992]
Release date: 1993-11-01
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.21

Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 3 - On To White Deer Park [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Jo Jo's Circus - Take A Bow
Actors & Directors
  • Madeleine Martin
Release date: 2006-05-08
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.00

Review Jo Jo's Circus - Take A Bow / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Run time: 27 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Sing Along Songs - Heigh Ho / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Hit Entertainment / Barney's Sing And Dance
Actors & Directors
  • Barney The Dinosaur
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.74

Review Barney's Sing And Dance / Hit Entertainment:

For those who can't get enough of those Barney songs, here's a made-for-video show packed full of song and dance. The story line is oh-so thin as Barney and his friends sing 27 songs in only 56 minutes, so Barney is usually singing or introducing a new song. For anyone with the American series, most of the songs are Barney standards: "Mr Sun", "The Airplane Song", "Baby Bop Hop", and "I Love You". They are mixed in with all-time favourites such as "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "A Camping We Will Go" and the like. Many of Barney's original kid friends return looking much older and wiser. No big landmark production here, just a "greatest hits" of Barney tunes that should have fans singing and dancing around the tube for nearly an hour. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

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The Adventures Of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina [2002], Beverly Hills Family Robinson [1998] [1977], Gargoyles - The Movie (Disney), Twitches Too [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Friends & Enemies, No.5. [1993], Pluto (Disney), Higglytown Heroes - To The Rescue [2005], 101 Dalmatians - Live Action [1996], Recess - Taking The 5th Grade [2003], Signs [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Disney Learning Adventures - Mickey And The Beanstalk, Bob The Builder - Race To The Finish, Thunderbirds: Volume 6 [1965], Thomas the Tank Engine: Thomas and the Treasure [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Postman Pat - Postman Pat And The Giant Snowball, Postman Pat - 2 On 1 - Postman Pat 1 / Postman Pat 2 [1981], The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 3 - On To White Deer Park [1992], Jo Jo's Circus - Take A Bow, Sing Along Songs - Heigh Ho, Barney's Sing And Dance

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