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Review Revelation Films / David The Gnome [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • José María Cordero
  • Ramón Langa
  • Ernest Reid
  • Matilde Conesa
  • Paco Hernández
  • Ángel Egido
Release date: 2006-08-21
Run time: 676 min.
Creator: Wil Huygen
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.97

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Lost World - Jurassic Park 2 [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Jeff Goldblum
  • Pete Postlethwaite
  • Julianne Moore
  • Arliss Howard
Release date: 2001-01-08
Run time: 123 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.39

Review The Lost World - Jurassic Park 2 [1997] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / Something Wicked This Way Comes [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Clayton
  • Jonathan Pryce
  • Jason Robards
  • Diane Ladd
  • Vidal Peterson
  • Royal Dano
Release date: 2004-08-03
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Dan Kolsrud
Price: £8.10

Review Something Wicked This Way Comes [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review ITV DVD / 3 Gerry Anderson Classics - Supermarionation - Joe 90 / Captain Scarlet / Stingray [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Lois Maxwell
  • Don Mason
  • David Graham
  • Ray Barrett
  • Robert Easton
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 475 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.93

Review 3 Gerry Anderson Classics - Supermarionation - Joe 90 / Captain Scarlet / Stingray [1964] / ITV DVD:


Review Hot Wheels Acceleracers / Hot Wheels AcceleRacers: Ignition
Release date: 2005-05-30
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.50

Review Hot Wheels AcceleRacers: Ignition / Hot Wheels Acceleracers:


Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Little Lord Fauntleroy
Actors & Directors
  • John Cromwell
  • Freddie Bartholomew
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.26

Review Little Lord Fauntleroy / Elstree Hill Entertainment:


Review Hit Entertainment / Angelina Ballerina - The Show Must Go On
Actors & Directors
  • Finty Williams
  • Judi Dench
  • Kitty Taylor
  • Jo Wyatt
  • Roger McIntosh
  • Keith Wickham
Release date: 2003-10-13
Creator: Paul Larson
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.53

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Review MGM Entertainment / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Benny Hill
  • Sally Ann Howes
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Gert Fröbe
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • Ken Hughes
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Roald Dahl
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.59

Review Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed, but nevertheless a solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs-including the title tune-are quite hummable. A huge plus is Dick Van Dyke, who is extremely appealing as an eccentric inventor around the turn of the century. With nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, he invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. Or does he? The special effects are tame by today's standards and the film is about 20 minutes too long-but its enthusiasm is charming. The script was cowritten by Roald Dahl and based on the novel by Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond adventures. -Rochelle O'Gorman Chitty Chitty Bang Bang entranced and thrilled children and their parents when it puttered into the cinema in 1968. More than three decades later, and despite the eventual arrival of a stage version that throws the full weight of blockbuster effects at the story, the original remains the real thing for fans of all ages. The flying car is the star and it's impossible not to feel a surge of thrilling relief as the wings kick in when she plunges over the cliff and soars off on her great adventure. The songs might not be the greatest in musical history, but they are delivered with great charm by Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts (a toned-down version of his infamous Bert in Mary Poppins), Sally Ann Howes (Truly Scrumptious) and the children. [+]
And then there is Robert Helpmann's child catcher, a terrifyingly sinister figure who exudes a pungent whiff of undiluted evil unmatched by any character since Dorothy squared up to the witch in The Wizard of Oz. Cameos from British character actors abound: Benny Hill, Lionel Jeffries, Anna Quayle, James Robertson Justice and Max Wall all put in appearances that add some fibre to the overall sweetness of the story. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the ultimate nostalgic confection for family viewing. On the DVD: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Special Edition comes to DVD in widescreen format with a Dolby soundtrack to recreate the authentic cinematic experience for everyone who remembers it from the first time round. The picture quality is robust, revealing some rather homespun aspects to the special effects. Extras are dominated by Dick Van Dyke remembering his time on the film, plus a short item on the origins of the car itself and various trailers. -Piers Ford.

Review 20th Century Fox / The Bernie Mac Show: Season 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Larry Wilmore
  • Camille Winbush
  • John Fortenberry
  • Ken Whittingham
  • Ken Kwapis
  • Dee Dee Davis
  • Kellita Smith
  • Bernie Mac
  • Jeremy Suarez
  • David Grossman
Release date: 2004-05-04
Run time: 506 min.
Price: £10.20

Review The Bernie Mac Show: Season 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review MGM / Hansel and Gretel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cloris Leachman
  • Len Talan
  • Emily Richard
  • Nicola Stapleton
  • Hugh Pollard
  • David Warner
Release date: 2005-08-09
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Wilhelm Grimm
Price: £4.11

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


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Actors & Directors
  • Tad Stones
  • Robin Williams
Release date: 2004-12-27
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.75

Review Aladdin and the King of Thieves / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Universal Pictures Video / The Thunderbirds (Box Set with Five Toy Rockets) [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Brady Corbet
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Sophia Myles
  • Bill Paxton
Release date: 2004-11-15
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £11.98

Review The Thunderbirds (Box Set with Five Toy Rockets) [2004] / Universal Pictures Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Getting Even With Dad [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Danson
  • Glenne Headly
  • Macaulay Culkin
  • Howard Deutch
  • Gailard Sartain
  • Saul Rubinek
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Tom S. Parker
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.69

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Review Scanbox Entertainment / Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Hawk
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.79

Review Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage [2006] / Scanbox Entertainment:


Review Momentum / The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Des McAnuff
  • Robert De Niro
  • Rene Russo
  • Jason Alexander
  • Randy Quaid
  • Piper Perabo
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Kenneth Lonergan
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.70

Review The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2001] / Momentum:

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle suffers from a problem common among live-action movies that are based on beloved cartoon characters-the humans are never as flexible, unpredictable, or just plain goofy as their animated counterparts. In this blend of animation and live action, Rocky and Bullwinkle remain animated characters (trapped in our reality), while Boris and Natasha (Jason Alexander and Rene Russo), along with their boss, Fearless Leader (Robert De Niro), are transformed from cartoons to human reproductions when they escape from rerun land. They've come to our world to take it over; the FBI springs Rocky and Bullwinkle from the second dimension to stop them. But the writing in Kenneth Lonergan's script lacks the throw-away flair of the jokes that characterised Jay Ward's much-beloved animated series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Part of the problem is that Russo, Alexander and De Niro are so obviously working at acting cartoonish, instead of simply being cartoons. And part is that the script rarely comes up with the kind of wonderful wordplay in which Ward specialised. The moose, as usual, gets all the best lines, but they're too few and far between to salvage this underachieving summer film. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Baby's Day Out / Dunston Checks In [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Read Johnson
  • Joe Pantoliano
  • Faye Dunaway
  • Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Joe Mantegna
  • Jason Alexander
  • Ken Kwapis
Release date: 2002-09-09
Run time: 178 min.
Creator: John Hopkins
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.18

Review Baby's Day Out / Dunston Checks In [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Uca / My Girl [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Chlumsky
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Richard Masur
  • Macaulay Culkin
  • Howard Zieff
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
Release date: 2004-05-10
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Laurice Elehwany
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.10

Review My Girl [1992] / Uca:

A doomed Macaulay Culkin becomes the object of affection for a little girl (Anna Chlumsky), estranged from her widowed father (Dan Aykroyd). This somewhat daring premise has various emotional buffers to keep young viewers from going into shock from Culkin's demise, but My Girl is also not shut off from real feelings. And while the story remains safely predictable, at the end of the day it is still a bittersweet experience. Culkin's performance is okay in that somewhat mannered way of his post-Home Alone career, but Anna Chlumsky is unusually sophisticated in her understanding of her character and situation. Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis are perfectly stable as the kids' single parents. This is directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin). -Tom Keogh.

Review Metrodome Distribution / Transformers - Season 2 - Vol. 2
Actors & Directors
  • Casey Kasem
  • Corey Burton
  • Frank Welker
  • Chris Latta
  • Peter Cullen
  • Peter Wallach
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 550 min.
Creator: Roger Slifer
RRP: £24.99
Price: £6.97

Review Transformers - Season 2 - Vol. 2 / Metrodome Distribution:

The Transformers series (Tatakae Cho Robot Seimetai Transformers, or Fight Super Living Robots Transformers) was written in America, but animated in Japan. Based on a line of robots from Takara that was licensed to Hasbro, Transformers sparked a craze for metamorphic toys in the mid-80s. Each robot-character could be reconfigured to form a car, a tank, a plane, and so on. The 24 episodes in this collection, which ran between 1985 and 1986, conclude the second season and lead up to Transformers 2006. Each episode forms a self-contained story, with little in the way of larger character arcs or plot developments tying them together. Although the cast has expanded, the Autobots remain the good guys who defeat the bad guy Decepticons, and no-one expects anything else. Although the character designs and animation are Japanese, the direction is pure American saturday morning: instead of creating effective transitions, the filmmakers just cut to a shot of the logo-a standard practice in Hanna-Barbera kidvid. Websites, role-playing games, fan fiction, and a brisk commerce in the original toys have kept Transformers alive in the hearts of their fans. But like Robotech, Transformers will appeal most strongly to nostalgic adults who watched the show as kids. -Charles Solomon.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Secret Of The Ooze [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Ernie Reyes Jr.
  • David Warner
  • Francois Chau
  • Paige Turco
  • Michael Pressman
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 Walt Disney Video / Halloweentown Double Feature (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joey Zimmerman
  • Duwayne Dunham
  • Mary Lambert
  • Debbie Reynolds
  • Phillip Van Dyke
  • Judith Hoag
  • Kimberly J. Brown
Release date: 2005-09-13
Run time: 165 min.
Creator: Paul Bernbaum
Price: £9.63

Review Halloweentown Double Feature (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


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David The Gnome [1989], The Lost World - Jurassic Park 2 [1997], Something Wicked This Way Comes [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 3 Gerry Anderson Classics - Supermarionation - Joe 90 / Captain Scarlet / Stingray [1964], Hot Wheels AcceleRacers: Ignition, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Angelina Ballerina - The Show Must Go On, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [1968], The Bernie Mac Show: Season 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hansel and Gretel [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Aladdin and the King of Thieves, The Thunderbirds (Box Set with Five Toy Rockets) [2004], Getting Even With Dad [1994], Tony Hawk in Boom Boom Sabotage [2006], The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle [2001], Baby's Day Out / Dunston Checks In [1996], My Girl [1992], Transformers - Season 2 - Vol. 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Secret Of The Ooze [1991], Halloweentown Double Feature (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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