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Review Jigsaw Entertainment / The Last Leprechaun [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Scalia
  • Big Mick
  • Veronica Hamel
  • David Lister
  • Brittney Bomann
  • David Warner
Release date: 2002-07-29
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Veronica Russell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.60

Review The Last Leprechaun [1998] / Jigsaw Entertainment:


Review Firefly Entertainment / Peanuts - It's Magic, Charlie Brown
Actors & Directors
  • Phil Roman
  • Michael Mandy
  • Brent Hauer
  • Earl 'Rocky' Reilly
  • Bill Melendez
  • Cindi Reilly
  • Sam Jaimes
  • Sydney Penny
Release date: 2006-07-10
Run time: 50 min.
Creator: Charles M. Schulz
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99

Review Peanuts - It's Magic, Charlie Brown / Firefly Entertainment:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / Scrooge [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathleen Harrison
  • Jack Warner
  • Mervyn Johns
  • Brian Desmond Hurst
  • Alastair Sim
  • Hermione Baddeley
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Noel Langley
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.98

Review Scrooge [1951] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Ultimate Beginners / Ultimate Beginner Series Junior - Learn to Play Drums [2003]
Release date: 2003-09-04
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.09

Review Ultimate Beginner Series Junior - Learn to Play Drums [2003] / Ultimate Beginners:


Review Abbey Home Media / Little Red Riding Hood
Actors & Directors
  • Toshiyuki Hiruma
  • Chera Bailey
  • Lillian Carlson
  • Kathleen Barr
  • Nathan Aswell
  • Takashi Masunaga
  • Tony Ail
Release date: 2003-09-15
Run time: 46 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.40

Review Little Red Riding Hood / Abbey Home Media:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Shoebox Zoo - Series 1 [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Mullan
  • Justin Molotnikov
  • Jason Connery
  • Grant Harvey
  • David McKay
  • James Henry
  • Simon Callow
  • Tony Donaldson
Release date: 2004-11-15
Run time: 315 min.
Creator: Jordy Randall
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.11

Review Shoebox Zoo - Series 1 [2004] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The King And I [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Saunders
  • Martin Benson
  • Rita Moreno
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Yul Brynner
  • Walter Lang
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 128 min.
Creator: Oscar Hammerstein II
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99

Review The King And I [1956] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In 1955 this lavish production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway hit The King and I, starring Yul Brynner as the King of Siam and Deborah Kerr as the governess sent to look after his children, was the most expensive film ever mounted by 20th Century Fox. The 40 sets in ripe decors by Walter M Scott and Paul S Fox included a ballroom of black marble with jade and silk tapestries and a banqueting scene with a table that gives the impression of stretching to infinity. The costumes by Irene Sharaff, notably the hoop ballroom gown for Deborah Kerr and those for the ballet "The Small House of Uncle Thomas", dazzle the eye in their delineation of Western manners and Oriental splendour. Brynner remains impressive as the King but his pidgin dialogue, inherited from Hammerstein's book, with the dropping of the definite article takes some adjustment. Alfred Newman put his unique stamp on the music: the Overture offers an example of his luminous divided string sound, the climactic ballroom scene a full bodied orchestral reprise of "Shall We Dance?" as the camera pulls away to a high angle producing an exultant visual finish to this celebrated polka. On the DVD: To view The King and I in its original format (thanks to this DVD release) is a revelation. Over the years the production values of the film have been compromised through inadequate presentation on television and video. Now the eye can appreciate once more the novelty of the wide-screen process CinemaScope 55 which offers in-depth vision, breathtaking employment of Eastman colour and an enhanced sound system that ensures a well-upholstered backdrop for the sumptuous musical arrangements under conductor Alfred Newman. DVD supplements here include the original theatrical trailer, a Movietone news of the Oscar ceremony of 56-57 and three songs lifted from the movie itself. Marni Nixon overdubbed Deborah Kerr's vocals on screen-those moments where one voice takes over from another are more clearly delineated on the DVD with the result that there is some discrepancy between Kerr's spirited playing and Nixon's over careful (rather) twee enunciation of the lyrics. [+]
-Adrian Edwards.

Review Warner Home Video / That's Entertainment! The Complete Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Rooney
  • David Engel
  • Michael J. Shapiro
  • Gene Kelly
  • Gene Kelly
  • Jack Haley Jr.
  • Bud Friedgen
  • Ann Miller
  • Fred Astaire
  • Debbie Reynolds
Release date: 2004-10-12
Run time: 374 min.
Creator: D.W. Gilbert
Price: £25.95

Review That's Entertainment! The Complete Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow - The Dirty Norris Files [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard McCourt
  • Dominic Wood
  • Simon Hepworth
  • David Schneider
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Steve Ryde
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.91

Review Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow - The Dirty Norris Files [2002] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Acorn Media / My Uncle Silas, Series 2 [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Albert Finney
  • Sandy McDade
  • Joe Prospero
  • Harriet Walter
  • Tom Clegg
  • Philip Saville
  • Sue Johnston
Release date: 2003-01-28
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Robert Banks Stewart
Price: £6.99

Review My Uncle Silas, Series 2 [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / Swallows And Amazons [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon West
  • Ronald Fraser
  • Sophie Neville
  • Claude Whatham
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Suzanna Hamilton
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: David Wood
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.03

Review Swallows And Amazons [1974] / Warner Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Cummings
  • Demi Moore
  • Kirk Wise
  • Mary Kay Bergman
  • Gary Trousdale
  • Corey Burton
  • Jason Alexander
Release date: 2000-05-22
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Ed Gombert
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.98

Review The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1996] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds: Volume 3 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 195 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.00

Review Thunderbirds: Volume 3 [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 audiences' 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" catch phrase 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: "End of the Road", "The Uninvited", "Sun Probe" and "Operation Crash Dive".

Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Thomas, Percy And The Coal
Run time: 45 min.
Creator: Lindsey Dillion-Massey
Price: £7.99

Review Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Thomas, Percy And The Coal / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:


Review Vanguard Cinema / Santa and Pete [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Flex Alexander
  • Hume Cronyn
  • Tempestt Bledsoe
  • Emily Mae Young
  • James Earl Jones
  • Duwayne Dunham
Release date: 2008-11-25
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £8.24

Review Santa and Pete [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Review Uca Catalogue / Baby Geniuses
Actors & Directors
  • Kathleen Turner
  • Bob Clark
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Christopher Lloyd
  • Peter MacNicol
  • Dom DeLuise
Release date: 2003-10-13
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Steven Paul
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.38

Review Baby Geniuses / Uca Catalogue:

When babies babble or draw, adults jokingly say they know what the baby is trying to communicate. What if a clinic found that these babblings and doodles were actually very intelligent responses or scribbling of an ancient form of communication? Well, it seems that all it would create is this tepid comedy. Kathleen Turner runs the clinic that believes babies have "universal knowledge" before they learn to speak (and dumb down). What she plans to do with this knowledge is never really understood, but know this: the plans are evil. The secret lives of babies have been pretty adorably filmed previously with Look Who's Talking, but here the babies talk and move via visual effects like the animals in Babe. They also karate chop adults and talk about such adorable things as "diaper gravy". By the time the story (a variation of The Parent Trap) heats up (relatively speaking), there is not much left to engage us except some cute babies that just look odd as effects take over their mouths and movements. -Doug Thomas.

Review First Independent Video / Hair Bear Bunch - Bumper Edition
Actors & Directors
  • Hair Bear Bunch
Release date: 1996-06-10
Run time: 153 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Hair Bear Bunch - Bumper Edition / First Independent Video:


Review Paramount / Touched by an Angel: The Complete Third Season, Vol. 1 and 2 Gift Set [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bethany Rooney
  • Chuck Bowman
  • Della Reese
  • Frank E. Johnson
  • Bruce Bilson
  • Burt Brinckerhoff
  • Roma Downey
Release date: 2006-11-28
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £26.95

Review Touched by an Angel: The Complete Third Season, Vol. 1 and 2 Gift Set [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / A Christmas Miracle, Mickey's Christmas Carol (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Mouse
Release date: 1997-11-24
Run time: 51 min.
Price: £9.99

Review A Christmas Miracle, Mickey's Christmas Carol (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Cinema Club / The Forgotten Toys [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Clement Freud
  • Andrew Sachs
  • Bob Hoskins
  • Kate Sachs
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Graham Ralph
Release date: 2002-07-22
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: James Stevenson
Price: £5.99

Review The Forgotten Toys [1995] / Cinema Club:


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The Last Leprechaun [1998], Peanuts - It's Magic, Charlie Brown, Scrooge [1951], Ultimate Beginner Series Junior - Learn to Play Drums [2003], Little Red Riding Hood, Shoebox Zoo - Series 1 [2004], The King And I [1956], That's Entertainment! The Complete Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dick And Dom In Da Bungalow - The Dirty Norris Files [2002], My Uncle Silas, Series 2 [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Swallows And Amazons [1974], The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1996], Thunderbirds: Volume 3 [1965], Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Thomas, Percy And The Coal, Santa and Pete [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Baby Geniuses, Hair Bear Bunch - Bumper Edition, Touched by an Angel: The Complete Third Season, Vol. 1 and 2 Gift Set [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Christmas Miracle, Mickey's Christmas Carol (Disney), The Forgotten Toys [1995]

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