Release date: 2005-08-29
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.00
Review Catweazle - Series 2 / Network:
![Review ITV DVD / Stingray - Complete Series [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J4E87SFHL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Easton
- Lois Maxwell
- David Graham (II)
- Ray Barrett
- Don Mason
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £59.99
Price: £21.89
Review Stingray - Complete Series [1964] / ITV DVD:Drums pound, building excitement; the music bursts into life with a cry of "Stingray! Stingray!" Who can resist? Especially when a dramatic voice announces, "Anything can happen in the next half hour!". Stingray (1964) was the show Gerry Anderson made just before he really hit the big time with Thunderbirds (1965), producing 39 episodes of the 21st-century adventures of Troy Tempest-tall, dark and handsome (his voice was based on James Garner) captain of the titular submarine. His mission: to protect the seas on behalf of WASP (World Aquanaut Security Patrol). With complex underwater model and puppet effects, this was ground-breaking television, especially as it was the first UK series to be made in colour, though for years it was only seen in black and white. Special effects director Derek Meddings later graduated to the James Bond movies, while Moneypenny herself (actress Lois Maxwell) voiced Atlanta Shore. Here, just as in the Bond movies, she played second fiddle in our hero's affections, the mute Marina becoming Stingray's sex-goddess. The end-credits even featured a song in her honour, "Aqua Maria", which became an international hit. As for the bad guys: half-man, half-fish Titan and his Terror Fish wage dastardly war against humanity and the peaceful underwater citizens of Pacifica. Four decades on the model and underwater sequences still impress, and surely much of the inspiration for the underwater city in The Phantom Menace came from locations in Stingray. Whether as bizarre 60s nostalgia, or winning a new generation of fans, Stingray remains eccentric cult family entertainment. [+]-Gary S Dalkin.
![Review Warner Home Video / Scooby Doo And The Witch's Ghost [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F2ZB5FC8L._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.51
Review Scooby Doo And The Witch's Ghost [1999] / Warner Home Video:
![Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / My Father The Hero [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511RPHA10JL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Dalton James
- Lauren Hutton
- Katherine Heigl
- Faith Prince
- Steve Miner
- Gérard Depardieu
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.82
Review My Father The Hero [1994] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:
Release date: 2005-03-07
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.18
Review Moving 'N' Grooving (Dance, Fun and Fit for Kids) / Imc Vision:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Cocoon / Cocoon The Return [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q11Q0WBBL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ron Howard
- Hume Cronyn
- Jack Gilford
- Don Ameche
- Brian Dennehy
- Wilford Brimley
- Daniel Petrie
Run time: 222 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.67
Review Cocoon / Cocoon The Return [1985] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.91
Review The Little Red Tractor - Let's Go / Uca:
Release date: 2006-07-10
Run time: 53 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.59
Review Maisy - Fun In The Sun / 4 Front Video:
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Release date: 2008-02-11
Run time: 158 min.
RRP: £28.99
Price: £17.98
Review Ratatouille/Pixar Shorts [2007] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:As good a film as Pixar has ever put out, Ratatouille is a frantic, innovative movie, boasting some of the finest quality animation ever put on the screen. Ratatouille tells the story of wannabe-chef Remy The Rat, who becomes drawn into the mantra of legendary cook Gusteau, that anyone can cook. The deceased Gusteau's ghostly image appears to Remy, and guides him to his restaurant, whose standards have been slipping since his death. Remy, through the manipulation of a lowly restaurant worker called Linguini, soon starts secretly cooking the food, and this unusual set up proves to be a trove of treasures that Pixar carefully picks through. Ratatouille's trick is to tie its cutting edge animation techniques to old-school essentials. At times harking back to the frenetic style you'd expect of Chuck Jones, it threads an original narrative through its story, which itself is packed with memorable characters (none more so than Peter O'Toole's superbly-voiced restaurant critic). It perhaps runs a little too long, but it's so well-written and so lavishly entertaining that it's a churlish complaint to have. For in an era of cynically-produced family movies, Ratatouille is really something special. With an appeal that spreads across generations, and a quality that puts it right up there with Pixar's finest, it's an outstanding piece of cinema, and one set to be enjoyed for many, many years. Unmissable. [+]-Simon Brew.
Release date: 2007-09-03
Run time: 650 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.66
Review Black Beauty - Series 1 - Complete / The Adventures of Black Beauty:
Release date: 2008-07-21
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98
Review Jane And The Dragon Vol.2 Dragon Diva / Jane and the Dragon:
Release date: 2006-10-16
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.45
Review Pocoyo & Friends: Series 1 - Episodes 14-26 / Pocoyo:
![Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry And The Magic Ring [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510Q7XS7YWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jim Cummings
- James T. Walker
- Charlie Schlatter
- Frank Welker
- Jeff Bennett
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.14
Review Tom And Jerry And The Magic Ring [2001] / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.51
Review The Complete Jamie and the Magic Torch : Series 1 / Jamie and the Magic Torch:
Release date: 2008-07-21
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.84
Review Dragonlance - Dragons Of Autumn Twilight / Paramount Home Entertainment:Based on the first in a series of countless fantasy books by bestselling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is the first animated feature-length film spun from the venerable Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. The 90-minute feature hews as closely to the 400-plus-page source material as possible-in a nutshell, a group of adventurers seek to head off the evil plans of a multi-headed dragon goddess and her army with the help of a crystal staff-and there is plentiful swordplay and spellcasting to keep younger viewers entranced. And the voice talent, which includes Kiefer Sutherland, Xena's Lucy Lawless, and Michael Rosenbaum of Smallville, does a respectable job of making the heavy-handed dialogue sound believable. However, the animation (a mix of 2D and CGI) is truly dreadful, and brings the epic scope of the story down to the level of Saturday morning cartoons. Supplemental material might've helped make this middling DVD more palatable, but sadly, there's only a few clips of original test animation (which looks slightly better than the finished product) and a gallery of early character designs. -Paul Gaita.
Release date: 2006-04-24
Run time: 31 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.97
Review The Very Hungry Caterpillar / Vdi Entertainment:
![Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Popeye [1980]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nqjCAdkRL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Paul Dooley
- Linda Hunt
- Robin Williams
- Shelley Duvall
- Ray Walston
- Robert Altman
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.22
Review Popeye [1980] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H and Nashville). So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, and Paul L. Smith makes an impression as the oversized bully, Bluto. But this strange, disastrous film never becomes more than an expensive workshop airing out Altmanesque themes. - Tom Keogh.
Release date: 2007-05-21
Run time: 221 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98
Review The Mighty Thor - The Complete Series / Jetix Films:
Actors & Directors
- James Nesbitt
- Liza Tarbuck
- Jimmy Wheeler
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.63
Review Tractor Tom - Buzz To The Rescue / Contender Entertainment Group:
![Review Hit Entertainment / Barney - Beach Party [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515PDAS47WL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 57 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.08
Review Barney - Beach Party [2002] / Hit Entertainment:
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