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Review Revelation Films / Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Eiko Masuyama
  • Satomi Majima
  • Kaneto Shiozawa
  • Taku Sugiyama
  • Shigeo Koshi
  • Hidetaka Saitô
  • Dave Mallow
  • Luis Ballester Bustos
  • Akio Nojima
  • Tesshô Genda
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 145 min.
Creator: Claudio Biern Boyd
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.18

Review Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 [1991] / Revelation Films:


Actors & Directors
  • Emma Watson
  • Daniel Radcliffe
  • Rupert Grint
  • Chris Columbus
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • Maggie Smith
Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 153 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

Review Harry Potter And Chamber of Secrets [UMD Mini for PSP] [2002] / Boulevard Entertainment:


Review Urban Works / The Cosby Show: Season 5 [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chuck Vinson
  • Tempestt Bledsoe
  • Phylicia Rashad
  • Tony Singletary
  • Bill Cosby
  • Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • Joseph C. Phillips
  • Jay Sandrich
  • Carl Lauten
Release date: 2007-11-06
Run time: 550 min.
Creator: Gary Kott
Price: £11.71

Review The Cosby Show: Season 5 [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Urban Works:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Wind In The Willows [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Pearson
  • David Jason
  • Ian Carmichael
  • Chris Taylor
  • Michael Hordern
  • Peter Sallis
  • Mark Hall
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Kenneth Grahame
RRP: £7.99
Price: £13.99

Review Wind In The Willows [1983] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Urban Works / The Cosby Show: Season 7 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Cosby
  • Art Dielhenn
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Chuck Vinson
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Joseph C. Phillips
  • Carl Lauten
  • Keshia Knight Pulliam
  • Ellen Falcon
  • Phylicia Rashad
Release date: 2008-04-08
Run time: 572 min.
Price: £11.95

Review The Cosby Show: Season 7 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Urban Works:


Review MCA Home Video / Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, Vol. 2 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Virginia Madsen
  • Cesar Millan
  • Ilusion Millan
  • Andre Millan
  • Daddy
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £3.53

Review Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, Vol. 2 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MCA Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 6 - New Beginnings
Release date: 1994-10-31
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £32.25

Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 6 - New Beginnings / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Squanto: A Warrior's Tale [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sheldon Peters Wolfchild
  • Mandy Patinkin
  • Adam Beach
  • Eric Schweig
  • Irene Bedard
  • Xavier Koller
Release date: 2004-09-07
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Don Carmody
Price: £4.71

Review Squanto: A Warrior's Tale [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Liberation Entertainment / A Christmas Carol
Release date: 2007-09-03
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.44

Review A Christmas Carol / Liberation Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Summer Stock [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Bracken
  • Charles Walters
  • Gloria DeHaven
  • Marjorie Main
  • Gene Kelly
  • Tex Avery
  • Dave O'Brien
  • Judy Garland
Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Rich Hogan
Price: £8.74

Review Summer Stock [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Fun Song Factory - Double The Fun [1998]
Release date: 1999-03-22
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

Review Fun Song Factory - Double The Fun [1998] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Power Rangers S.P.D. / Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta: Joining Forces - Vol. 1
Release date: 2006-05-01
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.49

Review Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta: Joining Forces - Vol. 1 / Power Rangers S.P.D.:


Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter : Years 1-3 - The Special Editions Box Set (6 Discs)
Actors & Directors
  • Robbie Coltrane
  • Daniel Radcliffe
  • Rupert Grint
  • Maggie Smith
  • Emma Watson
Release date: 2004-11-19
Run time: 442 min.
RRP: £50.99
Price: £36.97

Review Harry Potter : Years 1-3 - The Special Editions Box Set (6 Discs) / Warner Home Video:

The filmed version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, adapted from the wildly popular book by J. K. Rowling, stunningly brings to life Harry Potter's world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The greatest strength of the film comes from its faithfulness to the novel, and this new cinematic world is filled with all the details of Rowling's imagination, thanks to exuberant sets, elaborate costumes, clever makeup and visual effects, and a crème de la crème cast, including Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, and more. Especially fine is the interplay between Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his schoolmates Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), as well as his protector, the looming Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). The second-half adventure-involving the titular stone-doesn't translate perfectly from page to screen, ultimately because of the film's fidelity to the novel; this is a case of making a movie for the book's fans, as opposed to a transcending film. Writer Steve Kloves and director Chris Columbus keep the spooks in check, making this a true family film, and with its resourceful hero wide-eyed and ready, one can't wait for Harry's return. First sequels are the true test of an enduring movie franchise, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets passes with flying colors. Harry's second year at Hogwarts involves a darker, more malevolent tale (parents with younger children beware), beginning with the petrified bodies of several Hogwarts students and magical clues leading Harry, Ron, and Hermione to a 50-year-old mystery in the monster-laden Chamber of Secrets. House elves, squealing mandrakes, giant spiders, and venomous serpents populate this loyal adaptation (by director Chris Columbus and screenwriter Steve Kloves), and Kenneth Branagh delightfully tops the supreme supporting cast as the vainglorious charlatan Gilderoy Lockhart. [+]
At 161 minutes, the film suffers from lack of depth and uneven pacing, and John Williams's score mostly reprises established themes. The young, fast-growing cast offers ample compensation, however, as does the late Richard Harris in his final screen appearance as Professor Albus Dumbledore. Brimming with cleverness, wonderment, and big-budget splendor, Chamber honours the legacy of J. K. Rowling's novels. Some movie-loving wizards must have cast a magic spell on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because it's another grand slam for the Harry Potter franchise. Demonstrating remarkable versatility after the arthouse success of Y Tu Mamá También, director Alfonso Cuarón proves a perfect choice to guide Harry, Hermione, and Ron into treacherous puberty as the now 13-year-old students at Hogwarts face a new and daunting challenge: Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban prison, and for reasons yet unknown (unless, of course, you've read J. K. Rowling's book, considered by many to be the best in the series), he's after Harry in a bid for revenge. This dark and dangerous mystery drives the action while Harry and his third-year classmates discover the flying hippogriff Buckbeak (a marvelous CGI creature), the benevolent but enigmatic Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), horrifying black-robed Dementors, sneaky Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall), and the wonderful advantage of having a Time-Turner just when you need one. The familiar Hogwarts staff returns in fine form (including the delightful Michael Gambon, replacing the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore, and Emma Thompson as the goggle-eyed Sybil Trelawney), and even Julie Christie joins this prestigious production for a brief but welcome cameo. Technically dazzling, fast-paced, and chock-full of Rowling's boundless imagination, The Prisoner of Azkaban is a Potter-movie classic.

Review Genius Products, Inc / The Hogfather [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Marcus
  • David Jason
  • Nigel Planer
  • Vadim Jean
  • Joss Ackland
  • Neil Pearson
Release date: 2008-03-04
Run time: 189 min.
Creator: David A. Hughes
Price: £6.12

Review The Hogfather [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Genius Products, Inc:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Care Bears - The Movie/All Dogs Go To Heaven 2/Tom's Midnight Garden
Actors & Directors
  • Arna Selznick
  • Paul Sabella
Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 257 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.78

Review Care Bears - The Movie/All Dogs Go To Heaven 2/Tom's Midnight Garden / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Free Willy 2 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Kate Schellhardt
  • August Schellenberg
  • Francis Capra
  • Jason James Richter
  • Dwight H. Little
  • Michael Madsen
Release date: 1996-05-20
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Keith Walker
Price: £5.99

Review Free Willy 2 [1995] / 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 Warner Home Video / Pokemon 3 the Movie: Spell of the Unknown [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Stuart
  • Ikue Ootani
  • Veronica Taylor
  • Michael Haigney
  • Rachael Lillis
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
  • Madeleine Blaustein
Release date: 2001-08-21
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Takeshi Shudo
Price: £5.94

Review Pokemon 3 the Movie: Spell of the Unknown [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

The most elaborate of the features to date, Pokémon 3: Spell of the Unown introduces new Pokémon that debuted in the fall of 2000 in the Gold and Silver-edition Game Boy games. En route to the Johto Tournament, Ash, Brock and Misty visit the mountain village of Greenfield, where they encounter an 8-year-old girl named Molly. Her father, Professor Spencer Hale, disappeared when he set off to study the Unown, a group of 26 Pokémon that resemble letters. The Unown build a baroque crystalline shell around Molly's palatial home, send the leonine Entei to watch over her and grant whatever she wishes-except the return of her father. What Molly really wants is a family: she refers to Entei as her father and has him kidnap Ash's mum to be her mother. Ash charges to the rescue with the help of Pikachu, Charizard and Cyndaquil. In the climactic battle, Ash is joined by Brock and Misty, as well as the usually villainous Team Rocket. ("We figure if we don't help you, we're outta showbiz," Meowth explains. ) Molly's father eventually reappears, but the viewer never sees the reunion with his daughter. Ash, Molly and the other two-dimensional characters simply don't fit into three-dimensional, computer-generated crystal settings, and large sections of Pokémon 3 look like two films unsuccessfully spliced together. [+]
-Charles Solomon, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Mrs Doubtfire [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • Sally Field
  • Chris Columbus
  • Polly Holliday
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Harvey Fierstein
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Randi Mayem Singer
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.89

Review Mrs Doubtfire [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

This huge 1993 hit for Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus (Home Alone), based on a novel called Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, stars Williams as a loving but flaky father estranged from his frustrated wife (Sally Field). Devastated by a court order limiting his time with the children, Williams's character disguises himself as a warm, old British nanny who becomes the kids' best friend. As with Dustin Hoffman's performance in Tootsie, Williams's drag act-buried under layers of latex and padding-is the show, and everything and everyone else on screen serves his sometimes frantic role. Since that's the case, it's fortunate that Williams is Williams, and his performance is terribly funny at times and exceptionally believable in those scenes where his character misses his children. Playing Williams's brother, a professional makeup artist, Harvey Fierstein has a good support role in a bright sequence where he tries a number of feminine looks on Williams before settling on Mrs Doubtfire's visage. -Tom Keogh.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Teletubbies: Dance With The Teletubbies / Here Come The Teletubbies [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Vic Finch
  • Teletubbies
  • David G. Hillier
Release date: 2000-12-04
Run time: 151 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £49.99

Review Teletubbies: Dance With The Teletubbies / Here Come The Teletubbies [2000] / 2 Entertain Video:

Dance With The Teletubbies The British countryside has seen few raves like this one-our favourite Teletubbies are shown dancing through Teletubby Land with a few of their friends and, of course, their many rabbits. The "Stepping and Standing Dance" leads things off, followed by the "Walking Dance", "Running Away Dance", "Splashing Dance", and so forth (thankfully, we're spared from "Riverdance"). Of course, all this dancing-and even some clips of real children performing a few jigs-can wear a little thin on the patience of any child or parent. While younger children may want to perform some of the moves themselves (the "Tip Toe Dance" looks semi-appealing), everyone else risks becoming bored. The Teletubbies work best when, just like the typical preschooler, they all act differently, performing unique tasks (check out the effective Here Come the Teletubbies). On this video, they're all line dancing. There is some genuine weirdness for more mature Tubby aficionados: a vacuum cleaner starts dancing and a computer-animated bear does a convincing Grateful Dead-inspired number. But, for almost everyone else, it can't beat the TV show. -Jason Verlinde, Amazon. com Here Come The Teletubbies Here come Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po! The colourful, chubby, futuristic foursome get up to lots of adventures in this early collection of Teletubbies stories, with plenty of the wonderfully intriguing sounds-from the giggles of the Sun Baby, to the slurping sounds of Noo-Noo, to the "tuning" noise of the loudspeakers-that are the trademark of this BBC show, expertly created to capture the attention of babies and pre-school toddlers. [+]
Here Come the Teletubbies is the perfect first video to introduce youngsters to the show, with lots of short stories containing some Teletubby favourites-the tubby toast machine goes berserk and throws toast everywhere, the magic rain cloud appears and makes puddles to splash in, a surreal, computer-generated animal parade marches across the valley, Po makes a trail of tubby custard all over Tubby land and then falls over all the time. There are, of course, two short films of real-life children, from the TV-tummy of the Tubbies, that make this such fun for older toddlers too. -Alison Jardine.

Run time: 29 min.
Price: £8.99

Review Sing Along Songs - Disneyland Fun / Walt Disney Home Video:


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Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds - Vol. 4 - Episodes 21 To 26 [1991], Harry Potter And Chamber of Secrets [UMD Mini for PSP] [2002], The Cosby Show: Season 5 [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wind In The Willows [1983], The Cosby Show: Season 7 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, Vol. 2 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 6 - New Beginnings, Squanto: A Warrior's Tale [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Christmas Carol, Summer Stock [1950] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fun Song Factory - Double The Fun [1998], Power Rangers Space Patrol Delta: Joining Forces - Vol. 1, Harry Potter : Years 1-3 - The Special Editions Box Set (6 Discs), The Hogfather [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Care Bears - The Movie/All Dogs Go To Heaven 2/Tom's Midnight Garden, Free Willy 2 [1995], Pokemon 3 the Movie: Spell of the Unknown [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mrs Doubtfire [1994], Teletubbies: Dance With The Teletubbies / Here Come The Teletubbies [2000], Sing Along Songs - Disneyland Fun

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