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Review Disney / My Friends Tigger and Pooh: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • David Hartman
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.45

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Review Odyssey Video / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • John Shepphird
  • Corbin Bernsen
  • Connie Sellecca
  • Dylan Sprouse
  • Cole Sprouse
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.32

Review I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus [2001] / Odyssey Video:


Review Universal Pictures Video / Field of Dreams [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Liotta
  • Amy Madigan
  • James Earl Jones
  • Kevin Costner
  • Gaby Hoffmann
  • Phil Alden Robinson
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: W.P. Kinsella
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.00

Review Field of Dreams [1989] / Universal Pictures Video:

Field of Dreams is, in the words of its makers, a baseball film that "isn't about baseball". Rather, it's a magical film that works its spell on all but the most hard-boiled of viewers, an altogether superior slice of apple-pie sentimentality. Kevin Costner plays a young Iowa farmer who finds himself pestered by a whispering voice urging him, "If you build it, he will come". With the consent of an uncharacteristically supportive Hollywood wife (Amy Madigan) he sets about building a baseball diamond in the middle of his land. This action invites the prospect of bankruptcy-however, it also invites the spirit of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, a baseball superstar disgraced following his role in the 1919 World Series scandal. The supernatural voices continue to urge Costner to "go the distance"-and he seeks out reclusive writer Thomas Mann (James Earl Jones) and "Doc" Graham (Burt Lancaster), impelled by purposes he is as yet unable to divine. Field of Dreams works because it touches so endearingly on themes of redemption, inner peace and the possibility of second chances-the "dreams" which elude most of us. It also cites baseball as an idyllic metaphor for all that is decent and constant about America. Costner gives immense plausibility to an utterly, deliberately implausible scenario. On the DVD: Presented in anamorphic 1. [+]
78:1, the vivid, almost unnaturally natural Iowa colours are depicted to vivid effect (much of the diamond grass had to be painted green when it died). Generous extras include a making-of feature, an interview with WP Kinsella, author of the novel on which the book is based, and Costner. Director/writer Phil Alden Robinson also provides a director's commentary in which he describes the logistical difficulties of assembling 1500 automobiles for the memorable final scene. -David Stubbs.

Review Backyardigans / Backyardigans - Surf's Up
Release date: 2007-07-02
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.65

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Balamory - Dancing Party [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Kasia Haddad
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: Claire Walters
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.93

Review Balamory - Dancing Party [2002] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Melendez
Release date: 2005-11-07
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.95

Review The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone [HD DVD] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Columbus
  • Emma Watson
  • Maggie Smith
  • Rupert Grint
  • Daniel Radcliffe
  • Richard Harris
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £4.49

Review Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone [HD DVD] [2001] / Warner Home Video:


Review Bratz / Bratz Pariz [2008]
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.45

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Review Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd. / Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Leitch
  • Kim Darby
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Jason Bateman
  • Rod Daniel
  • James Hampton
  • Susan Ursitti
Release date: 2004-09-06
Run time: 186 min.
Creator: Tim Kring
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.75

Review Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too [1985] / Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 5
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Daws Butler
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Tex Avery
  • William Hanna
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Michael Lah
  • Tex Avery
  • Red Coffee
Release date: 2004-08-23
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98

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Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [HD DVD] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Radcliffe
  • Rupert Grint
  • Emma Watson
  • Ralph Fiennes
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £27.99
Price: £6.99

Review Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [HD DVD] [2007] / Warner Home Video:

While many movie franchises slide as they reach their later instalments, the Harry Potter films just keep getting better. The latest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is easily the darkest of the series to date, and it's also one of the best. For while it could easily have been little more than a holding film to set up the big encounters to come in the last two instalments of the series, it's to the credit of British director David Yates that the end result is really very good. It finds Harry coming under suspicion from his wizarding colleagues, who don't believe his claims that the evil Lord Voldermort has returned. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix thus finds its title character on the backfoot for much of its running time, with a select band who firmly believe his story, and very powerful figures who don't. Where the movie of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix excels though is in its three trump cards. Number one is a far tighter script than we're used to with Potter films, which, combined with trump card number two-the aforementioned David Yates behind the camera-cuts much of the slavish loyalty to the text away in favour of a film with real momentum. The third, and best, card though is the casting of Imelda Staunton as Professor Dolores Umbridge, who simply flies away with every scene she's in. It's a superb performance, and the film is poorer whenever she's not on screen. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is not a film without a few problems, certainly: it's a fair criticism that not too much actually happens, and one or two bits feel superfluous. [+]
But it overrides its problems with ease, to emerge as a compelling, highly enjoyable family film, which will leave you salivating for the Christmas 2008 release of movie number six in the series. -Simon Brew.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours
Release date: 2003-04-28
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.97

Review Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Baby Van Gogh is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company Baby Einstein, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main Theatre section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Unlike the simpler earlier releases, this is focused on the works of Vincent Van Gogh, who is here represented by a blue sock puppet! To begin with the video seems like something of a nature documentary with flowers in bloom and animals on the move, before we're taken through the colours of the rainbow with sections devoted to the individual colours. For example in Yellow, there are toy chicks, sunflowers, lemons and children playing in yellow paper shavings. All the while, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra play us music from Van Gogh's era such as The Blue Danube Waltz, The William Tell Overture, Swan Lake and Flight of the Bumble Bee. This is a slight advancement in expectation of your child from the more basic initial releases but has a Video Tutorial to help the parent understand how it all works. On the DVD: Baby Van Gogh is the name of the feature itself, but from the Main Menu you can enter a Concert Hall to replay the musical cues from the main show. There's also an Art Exhibit of each of the featured Van Gogh paintings, a Resources section with the aforementioned Video Tutorial and a Toy Chest crediting all the toys used, just in case a certain someone wants one of their own. -Paul Tonks.

Review Walt Disney Home Video /
Actors & Directors
  • Edgar Bergen
  • Steve Martin
  • The Muppets
  • Milton Berle
  • Mel Brooks
Release date: 2006-07-03
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.98

Review "Muppet Movie, The (50th Anniversary Special Edition) (DVD) " [1979] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Thomas the Tank Engine / Carry Me - The Very Best Of Thomas
Release date: 2008-09-08
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.63

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Review Walt Disney Pictures / Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition)
Actors & Directors
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Mel Blanc
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Christian Rub
  • Dickie Jones
  • Ben Sharpsteen
  • Evelyn Venable
Release date: 2009-03-09
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.99

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Review Hit Entertainment / Angelina Ballerina - Rose Fairy Princess
Actors & Directors
  • Keith Wickham
  • Jo Wyatt
  • Roger McIntosh
  • Finty Williams
  • Judi Dench
  • Kitty Taylor
Release date: 2004-01-12
Run time: 64 min.
Creator: Paul Larson
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.85

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Peter Pan (2003)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Sumpter
  • Olivia Williams
  • Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Jason Isaacs
  • P.J. Hogan
  • Lynn Redgrave
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Michael Goldenberg
RRP: £19.99
Price: £17.79

Review Peter Pan (2003) / Universal Pictures UK:

Fine casting, genuinely special effects and a keen combination of whimsy and danger make this Peter Pan the one to beat among all previous adaptations of JM Barrie's classic children's fantasy. The technical advances of CGI make the magic of Barrie's tale come alive and the spectacular effects combined with luminous live action create an action-packed Neverland that's both believable and breathtakingly artificial, like a Maxfield Parrish landscape springing vividly to life before your eyes. More importantly, however, is the fact that director PJ Hogan (whose films include Muriel's Wedding and My Best Friend's Wedding) has taken care to develop a substantial, pre-adolescent affection between the boyish sprite Peter (Jeremy Sumpter) and resourceful London girl Wendy, played by Rachel Hurd-Wood in a marvellous screen debut. This emotional bond-and the mixed blessing of Peter's eternal childhood-is what gives Hogan's Peter Pan it's rich emotional subtext, added to an already bountiful adventure that's equal parts delightful and menacing, especially when the villainous pirate Captain Hook (Jason Isaacs, doubling as Wendy's father) threatens to spoil the fun. With a mischievously dazzling Tinker Bell (played by Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) and no expense spared on its lavish Australian production, this Peter Pan gets it entirely right by presenting childhood as fun and frightening, in all its wondrous joys and sorrows. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Turner Home / Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Paulsen
  • Scooter Tidwell
  • Marieke Oeffinger
  • Dwight Schultz
  • Sebastian Montes
  • Paul Eiding
  • Claudia Schmidt
Release date: 2008-08-05
Run time: 220 min.
Creator: Joe Casey
Price: £9.27

Review Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home:


Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Pokemon 4Ever
Actors & Directors
  • Ikue Ootani
  • Madeleine Blaustein
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
  • Rachael Lillis
  • Veronica Taylor
  • Jim Malone
  • Eric Stuart
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Hideki Sonoda
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.36

Review Pokemon 4Ever / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:

The fourth Pokémon feature follows the pattern set by the previous three-and falls into the same traps. The TV series depicts the modest adventures of Pokémon trainer Ash Ketcham and his friends Brock and Misty as they roam an imaginary world, fighting matches and making friends. The features add elaborate CG effects that don't mesh with the flat, drawn characters, and over-scaled threats that feel beyond Ash's abilities to resolve. Forty years ago, Sam, a young trainer, meets the 251st Pokémon, Celebi (it looks like Tinkerbell with a goldfish for a head). To escape a mean hunter, Celebi brings Sam to the present day, where they meet Ash & Company. They also meet the evil Iron Mask Marauder who's supposed to be a member of Team Rocket, but who's much nastier than the comically inept Jessie, James, and Meowth. The Marauder corrupts Celebi with a "dark ball" and forces it to create a monster out of trees, branches, etc. , that is blatantly copied from the Night Walkerin Princess Mononoke. Ash and his friends eventually save the day, the Pokémon, and the forest-but it all feels like we've been there/done that. -Charles Solomon.

Review delta home entertainment / Worzel Gummidge - Christmas Special [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • James Hill
  • Jon Pertwee;Jeremy Austin;Charlotte Coleman;Barbara Windsor;Joan Sims;Bill Maynard;Una Stubbs;Sarah Thomas;Denis Gilmore;Thorley Walters;Mike Berry;Lorraine Chase;Megs Jenkins;Geoffrey Bayldon;Norman Bird
Release date: 2002-10-14
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.08

Review Worzel Gummidge - Christmas Special [2002] / delta home entertainment:

Worzel is back, putting the "Wor" after W as well as he ever used to do. This time, he appears in a Christmas special, A Cup O' Tea An' a Slice O' Cake, where he puts on his party head and heads off to the Scarecrow ball. As always with Worzel, nothing goes to plan and chaos and confusion follow him wherever he goes. For those who remember John Pertwee as scatty Worzel, and Una Stubbs as the irrepressible Aunt Sally the first time around, buying this for their children is an easy excuse for a trip down memory lane. Guest appearances from a younger but equally distinctive Barbara Windsor, and a fresher but just as funny Billy Connolly add up to make almost an hour of first-class entertainment. -Lucie Naylor.

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My Friends Tigger and Pooh: Hundred Acre Wood Haunt [2008], I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus [2001], Field of Dreams [1989], Backyardigans - Surf's Up, Balamory - Dancing Party [2002], The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone [HD DVD] [2001], Bratz Pariz [2008], Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too [1985], Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [HD DVD] [2007], Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours, "Muppet Movie, The (50th Anniversary Special Edition) (DVD) " [1979], Carry Me - The Very Best Of Thomas, Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition), Angelina Ballerina - Rose Fairy Princess, Peter Pan (2003), Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pokemon 4Ever, Worzel Gummidge - Christmas Special [2002]

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