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Review Universal Pictures UK / Barbie of Swan Lake [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Hildreth
  • Kelly Sheridan
  • Owen Hurley
  • Kelsey Grammer
  • Venus Terzo
  • Maggie Wheeler
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Elana Lesser
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.98

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Review Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd / The Princess Bride.
Release date: 2007-09-17
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.50

Review The Princess Bride. / Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd:

Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his sceptical grandson (Fred Savage) into the absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story. And what a story: a lowly stable boy, Westley (Cary Elwes), pledges his love to the beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright), only to be abducted and reportedly killed by pirates while Buttercup is betrothed to the evil Prince Humperdinck. Even as Buttercup herself is kidnapped by a giant, a scheming criminal mastermind, and a master Spanish swordsman, a mysterious masked pirate (could it be Westley?) follows in pursuit. As they sail toward the Cliffs of Insanity. The wild and woolly arcs of the story, the sudden twists of fate, and, above all, the cartoon-scaled characters all work because of Goldman's very funny script, Reiner's confident direction, and a terrific cast. Elwes and Wright, both sporting their best English accents, juggle romantic fervor and physical slapstick effortlessly, while supporting roles boast Mandy Patinkin (the swordsman Inigo Montoya), Wallace Shawn (the incredulous schemer Vizzini), and Christopher Guest (evil Count Rugen) with brief but funny cameos from Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, and Peter Cook. [+]
-Sam Sutherland.

Review Momentum Pictures / Racing Stripes [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Mandy Moore
  • Frederik Du Chau
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Frankie Muniz
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.36

Review Racing Stripes [2005] / Momentum Pictures:

When you start watching Racing Stripes, you may not be prepared for how unbelievably cute a young zebra is. A travelling circus accidently abandons an adorably helpless zebra in the middle of Kentucky on a stormy night. Fortunately, the wee zebra is found by Nolan Walsh, a brilliant horse trainer who's given up his calling after a riding accident that killed his wife. His daughter Channing names the zebra Stripes and, before you know it, Stripes has grown to young adulthood and is aching to race at a nearby track. Thus begins a fairly formulaic triumph-over-adversity tale combined with talking animals-but Racing Stripes understands its formula and executes it without any pretensions. It doesn't hit the bullseye struck by Babe (an earlier triumph-over-adversity tale combined with talking animals), and there are bad puns and gags aplenty, but Greenwood's solid presence gives the movie an unexpected emotional fullness. Featuring a bizarre assortment of voices for the animals, including Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Joe Pantoliano (as a Mafioso pelican), Steve Harvey, David Spade, and Snoop Dogg. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Barbie As The Princess And The Pauper
Actors & Directors
  • Barbie
  • William Lau
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £4.48

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Review / Shrek [DVD] (2006)
Price: £4.64

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Open Season [Blu-ray] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Allers
  • Jill Culton
Release date: 2007-02-12
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £8.62

Review Open Season [Blu-ray] [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Debra Messing, Gary Sinise

Review Hit Entertainment / Brambly Hedge - The Classic Collection
Actors & Directors
  • Neil Morrissey
  • Jim Broadbent
  • June Whitfield
  • Robert Lindsay
Release date: 2004-01-12
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.13

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / High School Musical 3: Senior Year [Blu-ray] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Zac Efron
  • Chris Warren Jr.
  • Bart Johnson
  • Monique Coleman
  • Corbin Bleu
  • Kenny Ortega
Release date: 2009-02-16
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £15.99

Review High School Musical 3: Senior Year [Blu-ray] [2008] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Hit Entertainment / Barney - Marvellous Manners
Actors & Directors
  • Barney The Dinosaur
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.89

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Review Mr Bump Presents / The Mr Men Show - Mr. Bump Presents: Trains, Planes and Dillymobiles! [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Risley
  • Simon Callow
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.82

Review The Mr Men Show - Mr. Bump Presents: Trains, Planes and Dillymobiles! [2008] / Mr Bump Presents:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / All Dogs Go To Heaven [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Loni Anderson
  • Burt Reynolds
  • Dom DeLuise
  • Gary Goldman
  • Don Bluth
  • Melba Moore
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.70

Review All Dogs Go To Heaven [1989] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Home On The Range [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • John Sanford
  • Randy Quaid
  • Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Judi Dench
  • Will Finn
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Donnie Long
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.66

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Review 2 Entertain Video / The Borrowers
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Callard
  • Ian Holm
  • Penelope Wilton
  • John Henderson
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 343 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £23.46

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Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire [Blu-ray] [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Timothy Spall
  • Emma Watson
  • Mike Newell
  • Daniel Radcliffe
  • Maggie Smith
  • Rupert Grint
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £12.20

Review Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire [Blu-ray] [2005] / Warner Home Video:

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall

Review Shaun the Sheep / Shaun The Sheep - Off The Baa
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.74

Review Shaun The Sheep - Off The Baa / Shaun the Sheep:


Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone [Blu-ray] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Maggie Smith
  • Emma Watson
  • Daniel Radcliffe
  • Richard Harris
  • Rupert Grint
  • Chris Columbus
Release date: 2007-11-12
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £11.75

Review Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone [Blu-ray] [2001] / Warner Home Video:

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Mary Poppins (1964) (Disney) [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • David Tomlinson
  • Glynis Johns
  • Julie Andrews
  • Robert Stevenson
  • Hermione Baddeley
Release date: 1991-09-16
Run time: 134 min.
Creator: P.L. Travers
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.50

Review Mary Poppins (1964) (Disney) [1965] / Walt Disney Home Video:

There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P. L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim-Chim Cheree") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). Many consider Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's career-and it was the only one of his features to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award until Beauty and the Beast in 1991. -Jim Emerson A pioneering film within Animation, Musicals and Fantasy, Walt Disney's Mary Poppins is possibly one of the warmest and dearest films ever made. Based on a story by PL Travers we find Julie Andrews on fine form in her debut lead role (for which she would win the "Best Actress" Oscar). She is practically perfectly teamed with Dick Van Dyke as the lovable chimney sweep Burt, whose cockney accent is endearingly inaccurate. Along with a fine supporting cast, where even the child actors hold their own without appearing like stage school wannabes, Poppins and her crew take you on a magical ride through chalk pictures, the roof tops of London and show you that laughter is not always the best medicine (even with a spoon full of sugar) when you can't get down. [+]
In total Mary Poppins clocked up five Academy Awards including Best Song and Best Visual Effects and has made it into the staple diet of family viewing across the world. On the DVD: Mary Poppins has certainly cleaned up a treat, restoring her to 1. 85:1 widescreen glory and 5. 1 Dolby digital sound-which is guaranteed to be music to your ears. The special features are "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" with the "Sing Along with the Movie" subtitles for all your favourite songs when they appear in the movie and the "I Love to Laugh" game offering Uncle Albert flying high in his parlour once more. "The Movie Magic of Mary Poppins" lets you look behind the scenes at how the magic was done and is fun, informative and easily understandable-pity the same cannot be said about the narrator. "Hollywood goes to a World Premiere" is a warm and amusing reminder about how premieres and stars used to be in 1964. The only disappointment is the lack of commentary-Dick Van Dyke would surely have offered a gem of a cockney voice-over! -Nikki Disney.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Noddy - A Bike For Big Ears [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Lauren Collins
  • Shadia Simmons
  • Daniel Magder
  • Michelle Melanson
  • Gina Sorell
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Rick Siggelkow
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.97

Review Noddy - A Bike For Big Ears [2002] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Borrowers - Series 1 [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Callard
  • Penelope Wilton
  • Ian Holm
  • John Henderson
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.98

Review The Borrowers - Series 1 [1993] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Alvin and the Chipmunks / Alvin And The Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
Release date: 2008-07-14
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.98

Review Alvin And The Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein / Alvin and the Chipmunks:


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Barbie of Swan Lake [2003], The Princess Bride., Racing Stripes [2005], Barbie As The Princess And The Pauper, Shrek [DVD] (2006), Open Season [Blu-ray] [2006], Brambly Hedge - The Classic Collection, High School Musical 3: Senior Year [Blu-ray] [2008], Barney - Marvellous Manners, The Mr Men Show - Mr. Bump Presents: Trains, Planes and Dillymobiles! [2008], All Dogs Go To Heaven [1989], Home On The Range [2004], The Borrowers, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire [Blu-ray] [2005], Shaun The Sheep - Off The Baa, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone [Blu-ray] [2001], Mary Poppins (1964) (Disney) [1965], Noddy - A Bike For Big Ears [2002], The Borrowers - Series 1 [1993], Alvin And The Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein

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