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Review Universal Pictures UK / Quantum Leap - Series 5 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Melora Hardin
  • Bob Hulme
  • Wendy Robie
  • David Hemmings
  • Scott Bakula
  • Anita W. Addison
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Christopher Hibler
  • Mary Gordon Murray
  • Chris Ruppenthal
Release date: 2006-12-26
Run time: 987 min.
RRP: £27.99
Price: £15.87

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown [Blu-ray] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Carlos Saldanha
Release date: 2006-12-11
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £13.50

Review Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown [Blu-ray] [2006] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Queen Latifah, Jay Leno

Review Fireman Sam / Fireman Sam - the Big Freeze
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.22

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Review Warner Vision International / Gogs
Actors & Directors
  • Gillian Elisa
  • Michael Mort
  • Deiniol Morris
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Helen Nabarro
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.99

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Review Eureka Entertainment / The Buster Keaton Collection [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Buster Keaton
  • Frederick Vroom
  • Charles Reisner
  • Marion Mack
  • Clyde Bruckman
  • Buster Keaton
  • James W. Horne
  • Jim Farley
  • Glen Cavender
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 321 min.
Creator: Carl Harbaugh
RRP: £39.99
Price: £10.17

Review The Buster Keaton Collection [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's 1926 masterpiece The General shows the great stone-faced comedian at the height of his powers. Buster is a train driver from the South who's caught up in the American Civil War. The film is basically an extended chase, with trains pursuing each other up the track. The level of stuntwork (including a huge train wreck) has to be seen to be believed, but it's the deftness and elegance of Keaton's comedy that is ultimately most memorable. For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl so takes up sports. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Steamboat Bill Jr dates from 1928 and is the last great film Buster Keaton made before he gave up his independence. Buster is the rather fey son of an elderly steamboat owner who is being driven out of business by a wealthy competitor. [+]
More by accident than intention Buster turns things around and gets the girl as well. The last 15 minutes are truly astonishing: a storm sequence in which a whole town is blown apart, with Buster experiencing a series of amazing escapes as buildings fall down around his ears. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is a reasonable 4. 3. In addition there are five excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920), The Boat (1921) Cops (1922), The Blacksmith (1922) and The Balloonatic (1923). -Ed Buscombe.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Life Size [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Lindsay Lohan
  • Jere Burns
  • Tyra Banks
  • Mark Rosman
Release date: 2004-04-19
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.12

Review Life Size [2000] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Unhappy and lonely after her mother's death, Casey (Lindsay Lohan) attempts to resurrect her mother, but a minor mishap changes the results of her spell and brings an unwanted doll named Eve (Tyra Banks) to life instead. Eve is elated when she first encounters the smells and flavours of real life, but is shocked to realize that she's not the perfect role model she's always considered herself to be. Casey initially despises Eve-she never wanted this doll in the first place and now she's ruined her chances of bringing her mother back to life. But as Eve grows, she brings out the best in Casey, encouraging her to renew old friendships and spurring personal growth and healing. Even Casey's father (Jere Burns) rises above his grief and builds a better relationship with his daughter as a result of his interaction with Eve. This is an entertaining, 89-minute video that juxtaposes the stresses and disappointments of the real world, with their accompanying potential for personal growth, against what initially appears to be a stereotypically idyllic world. What makes the movie powerful is its suggestion that that ideal world is inherently flawed. Performances by Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap), supermodel Tyra Banks (Higher Learning), and Jere Burns (US television's Something So Right) are very good. The story, while based on a fairly unreal premise, successfully explores some very real issues facing kids today. -Tami Horiuchi.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole Sullivan
  • Neil Flynn
  • Larry Miller
  • Patrick Warburton
  • Stephen Furst
  • Nicholas Filippi
Release date: 2001-02-12
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Robert Askin
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.43

Review Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command [2000] / Walt Disney Home Video:

This direct-to-video feature, which serves as a lead-in to the Disney animated TV series, continues the adventures of Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story films-and introduces the new supporting cast. Buzz battles the evil Emperor Zurg, who steals the "Unimind", a device that enables three-eyed aliens to function as a single intellect. The aliens, referred to as "LGMs" (little green men), form the support crew that keep Star Command running, but as individual thinkers, they're inept. During the course of this tongue-in-cheek adventure, Buzz acquires the sidekicks who form Team Lightyear: Booster, an oversized, overeager alien; XR (short for "Experimental Ranger"), one of the aliens' less successful robot inventions; and the inevitable spunky girl, Princess Mira Nova of the planet Tangeah. The two-dimensional, hand-drawn figure of the three-dimensional, computer-generated Buzz recalls the animated versions of live performers who populated Saturday morning TV during the 1980s. This adventure is typical of current kidvid: it has more special effects and sight gags than the cartoons of 20 years ago did, but the violence-free battles feel very tame. Buzz Lightyear may engage kids who play with the toys, but it won't appeal to the adults who flocked to the brilliant Toy Story features. -Charles Solomon, Amazon. com.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / 100 Favourite Animal Songs And Rhymes
Release date: 2006-06-26
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.34

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Review Warner Home Video / Batman - The Animated Series - The Legend Begins
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Conroy
  • Jane Alan
  • Loren Lester
  • Bob Hastings
  • Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Release date: 2004-07-26
Creator: Robert Kanigher
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.29

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Review delta home entertainment / Worzel Gummidge - All Of Series Three [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: 2002-07-29
Run time: 205 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.96

Review Worzel Gummidge - All Of Series Three [2002] / delta home entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / 101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (Live Action) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Daniels
  • Joely Richardson
  • Hugh Laurie
  • Stephen Herek
  • Kevin Lima
  • Ben Crompton
  • Glenn Close
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 195 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.85

Review 101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (Live Action) [1996] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review 20th Century Fox / Robots [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Lowell Ganz
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Chris Wedge
  • Halle Berry
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Robin Williams
  • Carlos Saldanha
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.39

Review Robots [2005] / 20th Century Fox:

The delightful designs of William Joyce (writer/illustrator of such popular children's books as George Shrinks and Bently & Egg) make Robots a joy to behold. The round, bouncy, and ramshackle forms of hero Rodney Copperbottom and his computer-animated friends are part of an ornate and daffy Rube-Goldberg universe of elaborate contraptions and gleaming metallic surfaces. Rodney (voiced with a hint-of-Scottish lilt by Ewan McGregor) is a young inventor who sets off for Robot City to work for Big Weld (Mel Brooks), the supreme inventor of the mechanical world. But upon his arrival, Rodney discovers that Big Weld has disappeared, and the slick, shiny Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) is phasing out the spare parts that lumpen robots need to function and replacing them with "upgrades"-expensive and glistening new exoskeletons. Unfortunately, from this suitable beginning, the story degenerates into a series of action sequences that make very little sense, though some are kinetic and fun (though others are only there to serve the inevitable Robots video game). Most kids will enjoy the sheer visual pleasure of the movie, but compared to the narrative richness of Pixar movies like The Incredibles and Toy Story, that pleasure is pretty short-lived. Also featuring the voices of Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge, and many, many more. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review ITV DVD / Oliver Twist / Great Expectations [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Kay Walsh
  • Robert Newton
  • John Howard Davies
  • Alec Guinness
  • David Lean
  • Francis L. Sullivan
Release date: 2003-03-17
Run time: 229 min.
Creator: Stanley Haynes
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.68

Review Oliver Twist / Great Expectations [1948] / ITV DVD:

There have been many film and TV adaptations of Oliver Twist but this 1948 production from director David Lean remains the definitive screen interpretation of the Charles Dickens classic. From the ominous symbolism of its opening storm sequence (in which Oliver's pregnant, ill-fated mother struggles to reach shelter before childbirth) to the mob-scene climax that provokes Bill Sikes's dreadful comeuppance, this breathtaking black-and-white film remains loyal to Dickens while distilling the story into its purest cinematic essence. Every detail is perfect-Lean even includes a coffin-shaped snuffbox for the cruel Mr. Sowerberry-and as young Oliver, eight-year-old John Howard Davies (who would later produce Monty Python's Flying Circus for the BBC) perfectly expresses the orphan's boyish wonderment, stern determination and waifish vulnerability. Best of all is Alec Guinness as Fagin, so devious and yet so delightfully appealing under his beak-nosed (and, at the time, highly controversial) make-up. (Many complained that Fagin's huge nose and greedy demeanour presented an anti-Semitic stereotype, even though Lean never identifies Fagin as Jewish; for this reason, the film wasn't shown in the US until three years after its British release. ) Likewise, young Anthony Newley is artfully dodgy as Fagin's loyal accomplice, the Artful Dodger. Guinness's performance would later provide strong inspiration for Ron Moody's equally splendid portrayal of Fagin in the Oscar-winning Oliver! and while that 1968 musical remains wonderfully entertaining, it is Lean's film that hews closest to Dickens' vision. The authentic recreation of 19th-century London is marvellous to behold; Guy Green's cinematography is so shadowy and stylised that it almost qualifies as Dickensian film noir. Lean is surprisingly blunt in conveying Dickens's theme of cruelty but his film never loses sight of the warmth and humanity that Oliver embodies. [+]
-Jeff Shannon An astonishingly good David Lean double-bill featuring his two Dickensian adaptations, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), this is a reminder that cinema does not necessarily have to debase its literary sources, sometimes it can enhance them. Lean's painterly eye for evocative locations-be they windswept marshes or bustling London streets-provides the backdrop, but his focus on smaller details-the ominous tree in the graveyard with its almost human face, the reaction of Bill Sikes' dog to Nancy's murder-adds the vital ingredient that brings both place and character to life. Starring a youthful John Mills as Pip, Lean's Great Expectations is an unadulterated delight, a serendipitous gelling of screenplay, direction, cinematography and acting that produces an almost perfect film. The cast is exemplary, with Alec Guinness in his first (official) role as Pip's loyal pal Herbert Pocket; Martita Hunt is a cadaverous Miss Havisham; Finlay Currie transforms himself from truly threatening to entirely sympathetic as Magwitch; while the young Jean Simmons makes more of an impact as the girl Estella than Valerie Hobson does as the older incarnation. Perhaps best of all, though, is Francis Sullivan as the pragmatic but kindly attorney Jaggers. The cinematography alone (courtesy of Guy Green) would qualify Oliver Twist as a classic: the opening sequence of a lone woman struggling through the storm is an indelible cinematic image. Fortunately, Lean's film has many more aces up its sleeve thereafter, notably Alec Guinness' grotesque Fagin-a caricature certainly, but a three-dimensional one-and Robert Newton's utterly pitiless Bill Sikes. The skewed angles and unsettling chiaroscuro lighting transform London itself into another threatening character. -Mark Walker.

Review Macaulay Culkin / Home Alone - Family Fun Edition [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Columbus
  • John Heard
  • Catherine O'Hara
  • Macaulay Culkin
  • Joe Pesci
  • Daniel Stern
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.89

Review Home Alone - Family Fun Edition [1990] / Macaulay Culkin:

Now and forever a favourite among kids, this 1990 comedy written by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his large family. He's forced to grow a little after being accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him screaming for joy when he realizes he's unsupervised in his own house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries the film. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of his house is over-the-top. -Tom Keogh.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Spy Kids Trilogy [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Daryl Sabara
  • Carla Gugino
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Alexa Vega
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Steve Buscemi
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 264 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.78

Review Spy Kids Trilogy [2001] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Winnie the Pooh / My First Winnie the Pooh Boxset [1997]
Release date: 2008-09-01
Run time: 351 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £15.97

Review My First Winnie the Pooh Boxset [1997] / Winnie the Pooh:


Review Superted / The Complete Superted Series 1-3 [1982]
Release date: 2008-06-16
Run time: 336 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.44

Review The Complete Superted Series 1-3 [1982] / Superted:


Review delta home entertainment / Bananaman - The Ultimate Collection [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Ward (II)
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor;Graeme Garden;Bill Oddie;Jill Shilling
Release date: 2004-09-20
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.93

Review Bananaman - The Ultimate Collection [2004] / delta home entertainment:


Review Bratz / Bratz - Passion For Fashion Diamondz
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.01

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Ugly Dachshund [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Jones
  • Parley Baer
  • Norman Tokar
  • Charles Ruggles
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Kelly Thordsen
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.58

Review The Ugly Dachshund [1966] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

When a Great Dane puppy is raised with a litter of Dachshunds, it naturally thinks it's a Dachshund too-even when it grows to 10 times the size. Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star as the hapless couple who took in the galumphing dog, which wreaks havoc on their house and home. The Ugly Dachshund is mostly a series of spectacular disasters (the doggy demolition of Jones's art studio will delight kids and reduce adults to nervous wrecks), but it's held together by the convincing domestic banter of Jones and Pleshette (who was quite a dish in 1965); the pair went on to star in a couple of other Disney live-action flicks, Bluebeard's Ghost and The Shaggy D. A. Despite some racial and gender stereotypes, it's a good-natured and amusing movie in the Disney mold. Also featuring classic character actor Charlie Ruggles (Bringing Up Baby, The Parent Trap). -Bret Fetzer.

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Quantum Leap - Series 5 - Complete, Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown [Blu-ray] [2006], Fireman Sam - the Big Freeze, Gogs, The Buster Keaton Collection [1926], Life Size [2000], Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command [2000], 100 Favourite Animal Songs And Rhymes, Batman - The Animated Series - The Legend Begins, Worzel Gummidge - All Of Series Three [2002], 101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (Live Action) [1996], Robots [2005], Oliver Twist / Great Expectations [1948], Home Alone - Family Fun Edition [1990], Spy Kids Trilogy [2001], My First Winnie the Pooh Boxset [1997], The Complete Superted Series 1-3 [1982], Bananaman - The Ultimate Collection [2004], Bratz - Passion For Fashion Diamondz, The Ugly Dachshund [1966]

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