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Review 2 Entertain Video / Watch With Mother
Actors & Directors
  • Woodentops
  • The Flowerpot Men
  • Picture Book
  • Tag And Bobtail Rag
  • Andy Pandy
Release date: 1997-07-02
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £19.77

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Anastasia - Princess Edition
Actors & Directors
  • Don Bluth
  • Gary Goldman
Release date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Tracy Beaker - The Boxset Of Me
Actors & Directors
  • Danielle Harmer
Release date: 2008-02-11
RRP: £29.99
Price: £20.67

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Escape To Witch Mountain [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Pleasence
  • John Hough
  • Eddie Albert
  • Kim Richards
  • Ike Eisenmann
  • Ray Milland
Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.58

Review Escape To Witch Mountain [1975] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

The effects are low-tech and no longer special, but Escape to Witch Mountain still has plenty of Disney live-action charm. It's rather quaint by later standards, coming just two years before Star Wars upped the ante on movie magic, but the story's got timeless appeal as a precursor to Harry Potter's more lavish brand of kid-wizardry. Here you've got Tony (Ike Eisenmann) and sister Tia (Kim Richards), orphans unaware of their mysterious past, who are taken in by a nefarious liar (Ray Milland) seeking to exploit their supernatural powers. Populated by '70s stalwarts like Donald Pleasance and Eddie Albert (the latter playing the kids' grown-up accomplice, unwittingly rescuing them from Milland), this lightweight Disney fare is perfect for kids under 10, with such enticements as a clever cat mascot named Winky (because he winks a lot), Tony's magical harmonica. and a Winnebago that flies! With a sci-fi climax, this popular hocus-pocus spawned a 1978 sequel (Return from Witch Mountain) that proved similarly popular with kids. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Warner Home Video / The Polar Express [Blu-ray] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Zemeckis
Release date: 2007-11-26
RRP: £24.99
Price: £16.49

Review The Polar Express [Blu-ray] [2004] / Warner Home Video:


Review Anchor Bay / Mad Monster Party [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gale Garnett
  • Jules Bass
  • Boris Karloff
  • Ethel Ennis
  • Allen Swift
  • Phyllis Diller
Release date: 2005-08-23
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £4.88

Review Mad Monster Party [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Sandlot Kids 2 [2005]
Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.19

Review The Sandlot Kids 2 [2005] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Francis Capra
  • Neal Matarazzo
  • Dwight H. Little
  • Mary Kate Schellhardt
  • August Schellenberg
  • Jason James Richter
Release date: 2003-01-28
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £5.26

Review Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Psst: don't tell anybody, but in Free Willy 2 the whale and all of his whale pals and relatives, are either computer-generated images or old-fashioned miniatures (models). The humans in this film are reasonably real, however, including Jason James Richter, returning to his role as the former delinquent whose advocacy for an imprisoned Orca whale turned his life around in Free Willy. You may recall that Willy jumped the aquarium fence, so to speak, at the end of that 1993 family film, and regrouped in open seas with the pod from which he had been cruelly snatched. This 1995 sequel again finds Willy in trouble at the hands of the civilised world, this time due to an oil slick and explosion that may very well kill him or cause him to be locked away again. Meanwhile, Richter's growing character has other problems, including a troublesome half-brother and the rumblings of puppy love. One way in which this film is superior to its predecessor is a greater range of visual opportunities, namely shooting out on the ocean instead of in the whale hero's old tank. Of course, it helps that master cinematographer László Kovács (Five Easy Pieces) is behind the camera. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Skippy The Bush Kangaroo - Vol.2
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Barry
  • Ed Devereaux
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.91

Review Skippy The Bush Kangaroo - Vol.2 / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / BraveStarr: The Movie [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Tataranowicz
  • Susan Blu
  • Patrick Fraley
  • Charlie Adler
Release date: 2008-05-06
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Ludmilla Saskova
Price: £3.07

Review BraveStarr: The Movie [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Bernard / Bernard Vol.1 - The Desert Island And Other Adventures
Release date: 2008-03-03
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.86

Review Bernard Vol.1 - The Desert Island And Other Adventures / Bernard:


Review Network / The Secret Service - The Complete Series
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Files
  • Stanley Unwin
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 325 min.
RRP: £25.99
Price: £11.43

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Review Universal Pictures UK / An American Tail 3/An American Tail 4 - The Mystery Of The Night Monster
Actors & Directors
  • Larry Latham
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 152 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.30

Review An American Tail 3/An American Tail 4 - The Mystery Of The Night Monster / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Walt Disney Video / Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Veanne Cox
  • Robert Iscove
  • Natalie Desselle
  • Brandy Norwood
  • Paolo Montalban
  • Bernadette Peters
Release date: 2003-02-04
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £5.10

Review Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Shoebox Zoo / Shoebox Zoo - Series 2
Release date: 2005-10-31
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.66

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Review Facets / Three Wishes for Cinderella [1973] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Libuse Safrankova
  • Vaclav Vorlicek
  • Pavel Travnicek
  • Rolf Hoppe
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £7.27

Review Three Wishes for Cinderella [1973] (NTSC) / Facets:


Review Prism Leisure / Ring Of Bright Water [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Jameson Clark
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Peter Jeffrey
  • Helena Gloag
  • Jack Couffer
  • Bill Travers
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.00

Review Ring Of Bright Water [1969] / Prism Leisure:

Coincidence throws Mij the otter and Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) the computer worker together on a busy London street in Ring of Bright Water. What transpires from this chance meeting is an epiphany that leads to the complete upheaval of Graham's life. Evicted from his city flat thanks to the antics of his newly acquired, mischievous otter, Graham embarks on a train journey to the Scottish Highlands. Suffice it to say that trying to smuggle Mij onboard as a "diving terrier" is not successful. When the pair finally arrives in Scotland, they fall in love with the countryside and a dilapidated cottage by the sea. Fate introduces Graham to the town's animal-loving doctor (Virginia McKenna), and an enduring friendship and romance are forged. The photography of both the Scottish Highlands and the antics of Mij the otter in this 1969 movie are truly wonderful-it might just make you reconsider your current digs and friendships. The story (based on Gavin Maxwell's book of the same name) is somewhat formulaic and dated by its romanticism, but enjoyable nonetheless. Slip into an ideal world of simple happiness and celebrate the cyclical nature of life, if only for 106 minutes. -Tami Horiuchi, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition - Deluxe Book Pack [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Cate Bauer
  • Ben Wright
  • Lisa Daniels
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Rod Taylor
  • Betty Lou Gerson
Release date: 2008-03-03
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £28.99
Price: £17.98

Review 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition - Deluxe Book Pack [1961] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely Dalmatians who meet in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney-she is flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it is the Dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of Disney's 1996 live-action remake. -Bill Desowitz Disney may throw around the word 'classic' with a little too much abandon when it comes to some of its animated releases, but its take on 101 Dalmatians is very much the real deal. With lively songs, a terrifically-realised story and one of its very best villains, it remains a towering achievement, over four decades since it first appeared. The story of 101 Dalmatians starts with the two heroes of the tale, Pongo and Perdita. [+]
But when their litter of dalamatian puppies is dognapped by the evil Cruella De Vil's cronies, the pair must spring into action to save their offspring before Cruella gets herself the new coat that she desires. But while Pongo and Perdita may be the pair you end up rooting for, the undoubted star of 101 Dalmatians is Cruella De Vil. A wonderfully twisted, genuinely nasty villainess, she's an astounding creation and adds a real menace to the film. That said, it's not a downbeat or scary tale: toe-tapping musical numbers, plenty of imagination and a good few chuckles make up the rest of the ingredients, and rarely have they all come together quite so well as they do here. Retold by Disney in live action form in 1996, it's nonetheless its animated take on 101 Dalmatians that remains the definitive filmed version. And now packed into a special collectors' DVD set, there's never been a better reason to treat your family to a copy. Unmissable, and a reminder of why Disney's reputation in this field is quite so towering. -Simon Brew.

Review Pinnacle Vision / The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • John Brahm
  • Gilbert Roland
  • Frank Silvera
  • Angela Clarke
Release date: 2006-12-04
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.57

Review The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima [1952] / Pinnacle Vision:


Review Walt Disney Video / Holes [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Davis
  • Shia LaBeouf
  • Tim Blake Nelson
  • Khleo Thomas
  • Jon Voight
  • Sigourney Weaver
Release date: 2003-09-23
Run time: 117 min.
Price: £3.71

Review Holes [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Holes is a scrupulously faithful adaptation of Louis Sachar's book Holes and should delight the book's fans. After being wrongly found guilty of stealing a pair of sneakers, Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) gets sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility in the bed of a long-gone dry Texas lake. There-under the watchful eye of overseer Mr Sir (a zesty Jon Voight), sneakily mean therapist Dr Pendanski (Tim Blake Nelson), and the cool and cruel Warden (Sigourney Weaver)-Stanley and dozens of other delinquents are forced to dig an endless series of holes that the warden hopes will lead her to a precious secret left behind by a long-dead female outlaw (Patricia Arquette). Sachar's book is beloved for its vivid characters and suspenseful plot; by sticking close to its source, Holes has become a dynamic, exciting and surprisingly touching movie. -Bret Fetzer.

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Watch With Mother, Anastasia - Princess Edition, Tracy Beaker - The Boxset Of Me, Escape To Witch Mountain [1975], The Polar Express [Blu-ray] [2004], Mad Monster Party [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Sandlot Kids 2 [2005], Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Skippy The Bush Kangaroo - Vol.2, BraveStarr: The Movie [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bernard Vol.1 - The Desert Island And Other Adventures, The Secret Service - The Complete Series, An American Tail 3/An American Tail 4 - The Mystery Of The Night Monster, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shoebox Zoo - Series 2, Three Wishes for Cinderella [1973] (NTSC), Ring Of Bright Water [1969], 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition - Deluxe Book Pack [1961], The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima [1952], Holes [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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