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Review Andy Pandy / Carry Me - Andy Pandy - The Birthday Cake
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.77

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Review Starz Home Entertainment / The Adventures Of Tintin - 75th Anniversary [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Susan Roman
  • David Fox
  • Wayne Robson
  • Vernon Chapman
  • John Stocker
Release date: 2004-05-31
Run time: 900 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £12.39

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Review Princess Stories / Princess Stories Vol.1-3
Release date: 2008-03-10
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £7.98

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Review Max and Ruby / Max And Ruby Vol.2 - Summer Time With Max And Ruby
Release date: 2008-08-04
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Bear in the Big Blue House / Bear In The Big Blue House - Dance Party
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.58

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Stig Of The Dump : Complete BBC Series [2002]
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 173 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.48

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Review Cinema Club / Flight Of The Navigator [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Joey Cramer
  • Paul Reubens
  • Cliff De Young
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Veronica Cartwright
  • Randal Kleiser
Release date: 2003-09-15
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.92

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Review The Wombles / The Wombles - The Complete Collection [1973]
Release date: 2008-05-12
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.03

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Family Stone, The [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Schneider
  • Bezucha Thomas
  • Rachel McAdams
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Diane Keaton
  • Claire Danes
Release date: 2006-04-17
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.69

Review Family Stone, The [2005] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

For anyone who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, The Family Stone offers plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha's slapstick premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiancé Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It's an instant disaster when parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) agree with their gay, deaf son Thad (Ty Giordano, who is actually hearing impaired), pot-smoking son Ben (Luke Wilson) and daughters Amy (Rachel McAdams) and Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser) that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Meredith recruits her sister Julie (Claire Danes) to help her thaw the Stone family cold front, and after building a solid emotional foundation for his holiday comedy, Bezucha starts to stack the deck with plot developments that, while heartwarming, border on the absurd. You either go with the movie's flow or you don't, and with this appealing cast (featuring some really nice work by Keaton, Nelson, Parker and Danes) it's easy to forgive Bezucha's unlikely blend of yuletide cheer, petty animosities, and romantic tables turned in the blink of an eye. Toss in a case of terminal illness and you've got a sad-happy tearjerker that works in spite of itself. If you don't recognize at least part of your own holiday clan in The Family Stone, you probably haven't been paying attention. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Sesame Street / Sesame Street - Old School - Box Set
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 440 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

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Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Two Disc Widescreen Edition) [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Radcliffe|Rupert Grint|Emma Watson|Kenneth Branagh
  • Chris Columbus
Release date: 2003-04-11
Run time: 154 min.
RRP: £25.99
Price: £4.25

Review Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Two Disc Widescreen Edition) [2002] / Warner Home Video:

The world's most famous boy wizard dives straight into a darker and more thrilling magical adventure in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It's practically the same set-up-something evil's afoot at Hogwarts; Harry and his pals must put it right-but fans of the books won't be disappointed. Director Chris Columbus, whose artistic licence is necessarily limited by the demands of adapting JK Rowling's phenomenally popular novel, does a spectacular job rendering Rowling's imaginary world: the production design and costumes are fascinating in their own right; such is the impressive attention to detail. Daniel Radcliffe gives a more assured performance here as Harry, though he's not quite strong enough to carry the film without the aid of an excellent ensemble cast of experienced adults, notably a twinkly-eyed Kenneth Branagh. Of course, most viewers will already know what's going to happen as far as the story is concerned, so for them the pleasure in watching The Chamber of Secrets lies in the visualisation of Rowling's magical creations and the verve brought to the action sequences. It's fantastic fun for kids and a good excuse to regress back to childhood for the rest of us. -Laura BushellOn the DVD: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets's first disc offers the film in all its fine widescreen (2. 35:1) and surround-sound glory-it's a shame they didn't think of adding a commentary. The second disc's special features are sparse compared to last year's release, most notably the games, which are simpler and dull in comparison to The Philosopher's Stone. Gilderoy Lockhart's classroom offers nothing magical, and the interviews with teachers and students offer only snippets of the actors' thoughts on their characters. [+]
Don't get over excited about the "Build a Scene" feature as, unfortunately, this is not a miracle of modern DVD technology, but a simple featurette. The real gem on the disc is a 16-minute interview with JK Rowling and Steve Kloves about the transfer from book to screen. -Nikki Disney.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Cat Returns
Actors & Directors
  • Hiroyuki Morita
Release date: 2005-09-26
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.47

Review The Cat Returns / Optimum Home Entertainment:

The Cat Returns brings back Muta, the cranky fat cat, and Baron von Gikkingen, the elegant statue, from the feature Whisper of the Heart. On her way home from school, Haru, a confused 17-year-old, prevents an elegant gray cat from being hit by a truck. She's inadvertently saved the life of Lune, Prince of the Cat Kingdom, and his royal father decides to thank her. He fills her locker with gift-wrapped mice and decides she should come to his kingdom and marry Lune. Haru seeks help from the Cat Bureau, and eventually returns to relatively normal life, with the assistance of Muta and the Baron. The Cat Returns recalls Whisper of the Heart and Takashi Nakamura's Catnapped, but it offers neither the wistful charm of the former nor the bold visual imagination of the latter. Hayao Miyazaki has been seeking young directors for Studio Ghibli for several years. After preparing the script and storyboards for Whisper, he turned the film over to Yoshifumi Kondo, who died tragically shortly after the film's release. The Cat Returns was directed by Hiroyuki Morita, who shows promise, but lacks Kondo's elegant sensibility. The DVD extras include a fulsome making-of documentary, Morita's voluminous storyboards, and mini-interviews with the vocal cast that includes Tim Curry, Cary Elwes, Peter Boyle and Elliott Gould. [+]
-Charles Solomon, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The Iron Giant [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Aniston (Voice)
  • Vin Diesel (Voice)
  • Brad Bird
  • Harry Connick Jr. (Voice)
  • Christopher McDonald (Voice)
  • Eli Marienthal (Voice)
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £2.57

Review The Iron Giant [1999] / Warner Home Video:

This gentle reworking of Ted Hughes's 1968 novella was the unseen gem of 1999. Hogarth, a young boy who lives in the Maine woods during the cold war, befriends a giant robot. As with ET, the iron giant is a misunderstood outsider who becomes a child's best friend and Hogarth does his best to hide the massive figure from his mom (voiced by Jennifer Aniston) and the local scrap-yard beatnik (Harry Connick Jr. ). Soon the suspicions of neighbours and a government agent (Christopher McDonald) spell trouble. With no songs, no sidekicks and no cheap ending, The Iron Giant is a refreshing change-like an off-Broadway production compared to the glitz of Disney's annual animated extravaganzas. Director Brad Bird may have Family Dog and The Simpsons to his credit but this film doesn't have that brand of scatological humour. As with the best family entertainment, there are gags that adults will howl at while the kids are watching something else (see Bird's interpretation of cold war propaganda). And the star is one cool piece of animated magic. Voiced by Vin Diesel (Saving Private Ryan's hulking Private Caparzo) and filled with more gadgets than a Swiss army knife, the giant is a grand thing to behold. [+]
And like another famous cinema tin man, our hero-and the movie-has heart. Superb entertainment for ages 5 and up. -Doug Thomas.

Review Stax Entertainment Ltd / Moomin - Volume Two [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Ryosuke Takahashi
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 301 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.10

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Review Little Princess / Little Princess: Vol 3 - Winter Special [2007]
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.94

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Review Bob the Builder / Bob The Builder (Triple Pack)
Release date: 2008-01-14
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.11

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Ice Age [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Wedge
  • Denis Leary|Kirsten Johnson|Jack Black|Andrea Bowen
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.74

Review Ice Age [2002] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

It's 20,000 years ago and there's a bit of a nip in the air as the Ice Age kicks off. Manfred the well-meaning mammoth, Sid the fast-talking sloth and Diego the duplicitous sabre-tooth tiger form a reluctant and unlikely alliance when they come across a helpless human baby. As they try to return the tot to his migrating tribe, the trio must battle more than just the elements in this harsh world of predators and prey. There's plenty of light relief from the dramatic tension and superb action sequences, notably in the form of the brilliant comic invention Scrat, an apparently insane sabre-tooth squirrel who steals any scene in which he-and his acorn—appear (although a flock of keen but hapless dodos give him a close run for the film's comic laurels). Featuring the voice talents of Ray Romano, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo, Ice Age is a thrilling, chilling comedy adventure that's undeniably cool. On the DVD: Ice Age on DVD boasts a whole host of special features, including commentary by director Chris Wedge and co-director Carlos Saldhona, deleted scenes and trailers. The highlight of the bonus material is the exclusive short "Scrat's Missing Adventure" but for the real nitty-gritty go to "Under the Ice". This contains numerous featurettes of varying lengths, including "The Making of Ice Age", "Behind the Scenes", "Art of Effects" and "Sid's Voice Development". These tell you pretty well everything there is to know about the film and its creation. For additional humour check out the brief "Scrat Reveals" segment and Sid's commentary sequences. [+]
-Helen Baker.

Review Enchanted Tales / Enid Blyton's Enchanted Lands - The Magic Of The Faraway Tree
Release date: 2004-04-12
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.97

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Postman Pat - Great Big Party
Actors & Directors
  • Postman Pat
Release date: 2006-09-18
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Houseboat [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Cary Grant
  • Melville Shavelson
  • Eduardo Ciannelli
  • Sophia Loren
  • Harry Guardino
  • Martha Hyer
Release date: 2003-01-13
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.93

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Carry Me - Andy Pandy - The Birthday Cake, The Adventures Of Tintin - 75th Anniversary [1990], Princess Stories Vol.1-3, Max And Ruby Vol.2 - Summer Time With Max And Ruby, Bear In The Big Blue House - Dance Party, Stig Of The Dump : Complete BBC Series [2002], Flight Of The Navigator [1987], The Wombles - The Complete Collection [1973], Family Stone, The [2005], Sesame Street - Old School - Box Set, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Two Disc Widescreen Edition) [2002], The Cat Returns, The Iron Giant [1999], Moomin - Volume Two [1990], Little Princess: Vol 3 - Winter Special [2007], Bob The Builder (Triple Pack), Ice Age [2002], Enid Blyton's Enchanted Lands - The Magic Of The Faraway Tree, Postman Pat - Great Big Party, Houseboat [1958]

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