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Review Sony Pictures / Open Season [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Allers
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • Jill Culton
  • Anthony Stacchi
  • Gary Sinise
  • Debra Messing
  • Billy Connolly
  • Martin Lawrence
Release date: 2007-01-30
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £5.54

Review Open Season [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006] / Sony Pictures:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: White Thunder
Actors & Directors
  • Emma Lahana
  • James Napier
  • Kevin Duhaney
  • Jason David Frank
  • Jeffrey Parazzo
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.58

Review Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: White Thunder / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Asterix - 12 Tasks Of Asterix (DVD) [1975]
Release date: 2008-04-07
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.50

Review Asterix - 12 Tasks Of Asterix (DVD) [1975] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Bernard
  • David R. Ellis
  • Don Alder
  • Kevin Chevalia
  • Anne Christianson
  • Duwayne Dunham
  • Ted D'Arms
Release date: 2008-02-10
Run time: 173 min.
Price: £8.05

Review Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review / Beethoven's 3rd
Release date: 2006-05-22
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.86

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Review MGM / Hansel and Gretel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Pollard
  • Emily Richard
  • Cloris Leachman
  • David Warner
  • Len Talan
  • Nicola Stapleton
Release date: 2005-08-09
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £3.08

Review Hansel and Gretel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Mulan (Disney) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Cook
  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Tony Bancroft
  • Freda Foh Shen
  • Miguel Ferrer
  • James Hong
  • June Foray
Release date: 2004-11-15
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.18

Review Mulan (Disney) [1998] / Walt Disney Home Video:

1998's Mulan is solid entertainment from a new group of Disney animators. The story source is a Chinese fab\ le about a young girl who disguises herself as a man to help her family and her country. When the Huns attack China, a cal\ l to arms goes out to every village, and Mulan's father, being the only man in the family, accepts the call. Mulan (voiced\ by Ming-Na Wen, sung by Lea Salonga) has just made a disastrous appearance at the Matchmaker and decides to challenge soc\ iety's expectations (that she should be a bride). She steals her father's conscription notice, cuts her hair and impersona\ tes a man to join the army. She goes to boot camp, learning to fit in with the other soldiers with some help from her side\ kick, Mushu, a wise-cracking dragon (voiced by Eddie Murphy). She trains, and soon faces the Huns eye to eye to protect he\ r Emperor. The film is gorgeous to look at, with a superior blend of classic and computer-generated animation. Directors\ Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook make the best of it: a battle in the snowy mountains is as thrilling as the best Hollywood a\ ction films. The menacing Huns are not cute but simple and bad. [+]
The wickedness is subtle, not disturbing. The film is not \ a fully fledged musical, as it has only five songs (the best, "Be a Man", is sung during boot camp). Eddie Murphy is an in\ spired choice for the comic-relief dragon, but his lines are not as clever as Robin Williams's in Aladdin (1992). T\ hese are minor quibbles, though. The story is strong, and Mulan goes right to the top of Disney animated heroines; she has\ the right stuff. -Doug Thomas Solid entertainment from a new group of Disney animators. The story source is a Chinese fable about a young girl who disguises herself as a man to help her family and her country. When the Huns attack China, a call to arms goes out to every village, and Mulan's father, being the only man in the family, accepts the call. Mulan (voiced by Ming-Na Wen, sung by Lea Salonga) has just made a disastrous appearance at the Matchmaker and decides to challenge society's expectations (being a bride). She steals her father's conscription notice, cuts her hair and impersonates a man to join the army. She goes to boot camp, learning to fit in with the other soldiers with some help from her sidekick, Mushu, a wise-cracking dragon (voiced by Eddie Murphy). She trains, and soon faces the Huns eye to eye to protect her Emperor. The film is gorgeous to look at, with a superior blend of classic and computer-generated animation. Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook make the best of it: a battle in the snowy mountains is as thrilling as the best Hollywood action films. The menacing Huns are not cute but simple and bad. The wickedness is subtle, not disturbing. The film is not a fully fledged musical, as it has only five songs (the best, "Be a Man", is sung during boot camp). Eddie Murphy is an inspired choice for the comic-relief dragon, but his lines are not as clever as Robin Williams' in Aladdin. These are minor quibbles, though. The story is strong, and Mulan goes right to the top of Disney animated heroines; she has the right stuff. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Rene Russo / Buddy
Release date: 2005-07-04
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.65

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Secret Of The Ooze [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Ernie Reyes Jr.
  • Paige Turco
  • David Warner
  • Michael Pressman
  • Francois Chau
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.46

Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Secret Of The Ooze [1991] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox / Love's Abiding Joy [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Landon Jr.
  • Drew Tyler Bell
  • Logan Bartholomew
  • William Morgan Sheppard
  • Frank McRae
  • Erin Cottrell
Release date: 2007-01-02
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £6.33

Review Love's Abiding Joy [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Starz/Anchor Bay / Alice Upside Down [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ann Dowd
  • Penny Marshall
  • Lucas Grabeel
  • Alyson Stoner
  • Sandy Tung
  • Luke Perry
Release date: 2008-07-29
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £7.19

Review Alice Upside Down [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Starz/Anchor Bay:


Review Image Entertainment / Unlikely Angel [1996] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Switzer
  • Roddy McDowall
  • Dolly Parton
  • Brian Kerwin
  • Eli Marienthal
  • Allison Mack
Release date: 1999-06-29
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Unlikely Angel [1996] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Bedknobs And Broomsticks - Special Edition (1971) (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Stevenson
  • John Ericson
  • Roddy McDowall
  • Sam Jaffe
  • Angela Lansbury
  • David Tomlinson
Release date: 1995-05-23
Run time: 112 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.99

Review Bedknobs And Broomsticks - Special Edition (1971) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:

Angela Lansbury plays a good witch who uses her powers against the Nazis in World War II and is aided by three children in the effort. This 1971 movie directed by Disney stalwart Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins) was never up to the studio's best efforts-the music isn't all that good and the idea just doesn't quite catch on. But Lansbury, David Tomlinson and the late Roddy McDowall are good and there are some clever sequences blending animation and live action, most memorably a soccer game between the kids and some cartoon animals. -Tom Keogh.

Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds: Volume 8 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 197 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.97

Review Thunderbirds: Volume 8 [1965] / ITV DVD:

"Filmed in VIDECOLOR-[explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax]-and SUPERMARIONATION"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a)the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audience's affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is nail-bitingly choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. On this DVD: The four episodes are: "Alias Mr. Hackenbacker", "Lord Parker's 'Oliday", "Ricochet" and "Give or Take a Million". Amazon. com.

Review MGM / The Mouse on the Moon [1963] (REGION 1)
Actors & Directors
  • David Kossoff
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Ron Moody
  • Richard Lester
  • Terry-Thomas
Release date: 2000-12-19
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £4.95

Review The Mouse on the Moon [1963] (REGION 1) / MGM:


Review Warner Home Video / The Yearling [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chill Wills
  • Claude Jarman Jr.
  • Gregory Peck
  • Jane Wyman
  • Clarence Brown
  • Clem Bevans
Release date: 2002-09-03
Run time: 128 min.
Price: £2.69

Review The Yearling [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Pinnacle Vision / Beauty And The Beast [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Chinami Namba
  • Masakazu Higuchi
  • Irene Cara
Release date: 2008-06-02
Run time: 46 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.69

Review Beauty And The Beast [1993] / Pinnacle Vision:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Brave Little Toaster [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Lovitz
  • Thurl Ravenscroft
  • Timothy Stack
  • Deanna Oliver
  • Jerry Rees
  • Timothy E. Day
Release date: 2003-09-02
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £7.58

Review The Brave Little Toaster [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: Collision Course
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Parazzo
  • Emma Lahana
  • Jason David Frank
  • James Napier
  • Kevin Duhaney
Release date: 2005-07-18
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.63

Review Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: Collision Course / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Cinderella / Cinderella 2 - Dreams Come True [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Eleanor Audley
  • John Kafka
  • Ilene Woods
  • Jennifer Hale
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Verna Felton
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Corey Burton
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Darrell Rooney
Release date: 2005-10-24
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £21.99

Review Cinderella / Cinderella 2 - Dreams Come True [1950] / Walt Disney Home Video:


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Open Season [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006], Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: White Thunder, Asterix - 12 Tasks Of Asterix (DVD) [1975], Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey/Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beethoven's 3rd, Hansel and Gretel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mulan (Disney) [1998], Buddy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Secret Of The Ooze [1991], Love's Abiding Joy [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Alice Upside Down [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Unlikely Angel [1996] (NTSC), Bedknobs And Broomsticks - Special Edition (1971) (Disney), Thunderbirds: Volume 8 [1965], The Mouse on the Moon [1963] (REGION 1), The Yearling [1946] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beauty And The Beast [1993], The Brave Little Toaster [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: Collision Course, Cinderella / Cinderella 2 - Dreams Come True [1950]

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