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Review 20th Century Fox / Home Alone Triple (Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Home Alone 3)
Actors & Directors
  • John Heard
  • Raja Gosnell
  • Joe Pesci
  • Chris Columbus
  • Haviland Morris
  • Olek Krupa
  • Macaulay Culkin
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 311 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.27

Review Home Alone Triple (Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Home Alone 3) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Jumanji Special Edition [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Johnston
  • Robin Williams
  • David Alan Grier
  • Kirsten Dunst
  • Jonathan Hyde
  • Bonnie Hunt
Release date: 2006-01-23
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.74

Review Jumanji Special Edition [1995] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Night At The Museum [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • Ricky Gervais
  • Owen Wilson
  • Ben Stiller
  • Shawn Levy
  • Jake Cherry
Release date: 2007-08-20
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.00

Review Night At The Museum [2006] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

An irresistible concept meets computer-generated wonders in Night at the Museum, inspired by a 1993 children's book by Milan Trenc. Ben Stiller stars as Larry Daley, an underachieving inventor waiting for his ship to come in while getting evicted from one apartment after another for lack of funds. Larry's son needs some stability, so the well-meaning ne'er-do-well takes a job as night watchman at New York City's Museum of Natural History. What the soon-to-retire guards (Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs) don't tell him is that an ancient pharaoh's tablet in the museum causes everything on display to come to life at night. Thus, Larry meets representations of Teddy Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, fire-worshipping cavemen, and Roman Empire soldiers, and learns to cope with an excitable T-Rex and man-eating, ancient animals. The film might have left things at that, but an added story element gives Night at the Museum some extra urgency and excitement, especially for kids: Larry becomes responsible for keeping this nightly miracle going and preventing anything in the museum from dying due to exposure to sunrise. Computer effects, as well as wildly imaginative costumes and makeup, help make the film appeal to the 8-year-old in everyone. Director Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther) works with a hugely talented cast, including Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Carla Gugino, and Steve Coogan. -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner Home Video / Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 3
Actors & Directors
  • Daws Butler
  • Red Coffee
  • William Hanna
  • Tex Avery
  • Tex Avery
  • Michael Lah
  • Billy Bletcher
  • Joseph Barbera
  • Joseph Barbera
Release date: 2004-06-28
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.98

Review Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 3 / Warner Home Video:


Review David Bowie / Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Henson
  • David Bowie
  • Jennifer Connelly
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.45

Review Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) [1986] / David Bowie:


Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / The Wild [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Williams
Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.70

Review The Wild [2006] / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Prehistoric Park [2006]
Release date: 2006-08-28
Run time: 313 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.93

Review Prehistoric Park [2006] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Three Men And A Baby / Three Men And A Little Lady [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Danson
  • Steve Guttenberg
  • Tom Selleck
  • Leonard Nimoy
Release date: 2005-10-10
Run time: 197 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.19

Review Three Men And A Baby / Three Men And A Little Lady [1987] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review MGM Entertainment / Sleepover [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Mika Boorem
  • Jane Lynch
  • Sara Paxton
  • Joe Nussbaum
  • Alexa Vega
  • Brie Larson
Release date: 2005-05-30
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.95

Review Sleepover [2004] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Cat Returns
Actors & Directors
  • Hiroyuki Morita
Release date: 2005-09-26
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.07

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 2 Entertain Video / Wallace And Gromit - A Matter Of Loaf And Death
Release date: 2009-03-30
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.76

Review Wallace And Gromit - A Matter Of Loaf And Death / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Return To Oz [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Fairuza Balk
  • Matt Clark
  • Jean Marsh
  • Walter Murch
  • Piper Laurie
Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.07

Review Return To Oz [1985] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Return to Oz is a 1985 live-action sequel that split critics and audiences alike: you don't fool with Mother Nature, spit into the wind, remake Casablanca, or trash the land of Oz. The 1939 classic musical is so beloved that it's almost impossible to imagine seeing Dorothy in shock therapy, a crumbled yellow brick road, the ruins of Emerald City, and the Tin Man turned into stone. But L Frank Baum, the author of the original Oz books, portrayed just that with his continuing stories of Dorothy. When you get by these tough facts, the film version is solid entertainment for the over-seven set. Dorothy (a 10-year-old Fairuza Balk in her debut) is back in Kansas, where Aunt Em (Piper Laurie) is at the end of her rope: her niece is not sleeping and going on about a place called Oz. Therapy may be the answer, but luckily the scary clinic goes dark before Dorothy can be, er, cured (but the lead-up will scare the munchkins out of most kids). She wakes up in the land of Oz, now in tatters, and searches for its king, the Scarecrow. A new set of friends, including a tin soldier, a talking chicken, and a pumpkin man, help her against new villains, including Princess Mombi (Jean Marsh)-complete with a set of detachable heads-and the evil Nome King (Nicol Williamson with a great assist from Will Vinton's Claymation). The sole directorial effort of Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch is stuffed with marvellous effects that foreshadow later works by Tim Burton and the Henson non-Muppet films. -Doug Thomas.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Eight Below [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Wendy Crewson
  • Jason Biggs
  • Gerard Plunkett
  • Bruce Hendricks
  • Frank Marshall
  • Bruce Greenwood
  • Paul Walker
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.89

Review Eight Below [2006] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Despite a likable cast of humans, it's the canine stars who steal the show in Eight Below, a terrific live-action adventure in the time-honored Disney tradition. Based on a true story that was previously filmed (much differently) as the 1983 Japanese hit Antarctica, this above-average family film takes place in 1993 and focuses on a dog-sled guide at an Antarctic research station (Paul Walker) who is forced by a severe storm to abandon eight beloved sled dogs for the duration of a harsh Antarctic winter. Left to fend for themselves, the rugged and resourceful dogs encounter danger at every turn, surviving for nearly six months while Walker and his closest colleagues (engagingly played by Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, and American Pie's Jason Biggs) join forces to mount a daring rescue mission. Having endured similarly extreme conditions on his 1993 film Alive, director Frank Marshall brings an abundance of natural splendor (and minimum use of digital wizardry) to spectacularly arctic locations in Norway, Greenland and Canada, and Walker (star of The Fast and the Furious) lends an amiable sincerity to his compassionate role. For most viewers, however, it's the remarkable dogs (six Siberian huskies and two malamutes) who make Eight Below so thoroughly entertaining. It's not quite an instant family classic, but it comes pretty doggone close. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Home Alone [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • John Heard
  • Roberts Blossom
  • Macaulay Culkin
  • Chris Columbus
  • Daniel Stern
  • Joe Pesci
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Tarquin Gotch
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.50

Review Home Alone [1990] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

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 realises 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 Home Alone. 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 Fox / Home Alone Collection
Release date: 2006-11-06
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.99

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Ulysses 31 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Anick Faris
  • Kyosuke Mikuriya
  • Tadao Nagahama
  • Matt Berman
  • Kazuo Terada
  • Thierry Bourdon
  • Adrian Knight
  • Jackie Berger
  • Bernard Deyriès
Release date: 2004-10-11
Creator: Homer
RRP: £24.99
Price: £7.98

Review Ulysses 31 - Complete / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Batman - The Movie [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Cesar Romero
  • Adam West
  • Leslie H. Martinson
  • Lee Meriwether
  • Burgess Meredith
  • Burt Ward
Release date: 2003-10-06
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Lorenzo Semple Jr.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.83

Review Batman - The Movie [1966] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Batman: The Movie carries the high camp absurdity of the 1960s TV show to gleeful new heights. Shark Repellent Batspray, costume-removing Batpoles, a contraption that dehydrates political figures into coloured powder, and endless childishly easy conundrums. Bringing the primary-coloured show to the big screen was a natural move, since sets, costume and casting were all in place. But what elevates the movie above the series? Is it the wonderful new toys-the Batcopter, Batboat and Batbike? Is it the OTT direction, taking the Dynamic Duo on location far more than usual? Or is it the electrifying one-upmanship between Burgess Meredith (Penguin), Cesar Romero (Joker), Frank Gorshin (Riddler) and Lee Meriwether (a new Catwoman since regular Julie Newmar was busy elsewhere)? As Commissioner Gordon says, "The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!" Really, the best of the movie's magic is to be found in the sheer glee Adam West and Burt Ward exhibit in playing for the big screen. This was the most exciting event in their careers. And it shows in their colourful, zestful performances. On the DVD: Batman: The Movie on disc includes an affectionate commentary from the two stars ("Oh lookee!" says West repeatedly), after which the duo are heavily involved in the wealth of additional material, even recording dialogue for the interactive animated menus. Seeing them on screen in the 16-minute featurette might be a shock, though. In the restored 1. 85:1 film print they look much better! Additionally there's a five-minute "Batmobile Revealed" featurette with designer George Barris, a trailer page with some very humorous inclusions and two large galleries of behind-the-scenes photos. [+]
-Paul Tonks.

Review Walt Disney Video / Lion King [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Irons
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Jonathan Taylor Thomas
  • James Earl Jones
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Roger Allers
  • Rob Minkoff
Release date: 2003-10-07
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Bob Tzudiker
Price: £40.95

Review Lion King [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Disney's 1994 animated feature, The Lion King, was a huge smash in cinemas and continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed stage production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is deposed by a jealous uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends and eventually comes back to reclaim his proper place. Characters are very strong, vocal performances by the likes of Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane and Whoopi Goldberg are terrific, the jokes are aimed as much (if not more) at adults than kids, the animation is sometimes breathtaking and the songs from Tim Rice and Elton John, accompanied by a colourful score, are more palatable than in many recent Disney features. -Tom Keogh On the DVD: The Lion King Special Edition is a superb restoration: take a look at the serviceable but dull film clips incorporated in the plethora of extras and compare them to the vivid gorgeousness of the film presentation. This special edition also adds a 90-second song ("Morning Report") that originated in the lavish stage musical. To Disney's credit, the original theatrical version is also included, both restored and featuring two 5. 1 soundtracks: Dolby Digital and a new Disney Enhanced Home Theater Mix, which does sound brighter. As with the Disney Platinum line, everything is thrown into the discs, except an outsider's voice (the rah-rahs of Disney grow tiresome at times). The excellent commentary from the directors and producer, originally on the laser disc, is hidden under the audio set-up menu. [+]
The second disc is organised by 20-minute-ish "journeys" tackling the elements of story, music and so on, including good background on the awkward Shakespearean origins at Disney where it was referred as "Bamlet". The most interesting journey follows the landmark stage production, and the kids should be transfixed by shots of the real African wildlife in the animal journey. Three deleted segments are real curios, including an opening lyric for "Hakuna Matata". Most set-top DVD games are usually pretty thin (DVD-ROM is where it's at), but the Safari game is an exception-the kids should love the roaring animals (in 5. 1 Surround, no less). One serious demerit is the needless and complicated second navigation system that is listed by continent but just shows the same features reordered. -Doug Thomas.

Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / Children Of The Stones [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Gareth Thomas
  • Veronica Strong
  • Ruth Dunning
  • Freddie Jones
  • Peter Demin
Release date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.98

Review Children Of The Stones [1977] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Uca / Chigley - The Complete Collection [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Cant
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Gordon Murray
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.50

Review Chigley - The Complete Collection [1969] / Uca:


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Home Alone Triple (Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Home Alone 3), Jumanji Special Edition [1995], Night At The Museum [2006], Tom And Jerry - Classic Collection - Vol. 3, Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) [1986], The Wild [2006], Prehistoric Park [2006], Three Men And A Baby / Three Men And A Little Lady [1987], Sleepover [2004], The Cat Returns, Wallace And Gromit - A Matter Of Loaf And Death, Return To Oz [1985], Eight Below [2006], Home Alone [1990], Home Alone Collection, Ulysses 31 - Complete, Batman - The Movie [1966], Lion King [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Children Of The Stones [1977], Chigley - The Complete Collection [1969]

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