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Review Universal Pictures UK / Barney-Waiting for Santa [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Régine
Release date: 1998-11-09
Run time: 32 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video BBCV5787 / Fireman Sam - 2 On 1 - The Hero Next Door / Lost Cat
Actors & Directors
  • Fireman Sam
  • John Alderton
Release date: 1996-02-05
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.35

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Sesame Street - Learn To Read [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Big Bird
Release date: 1994-02-07
Run time: 30 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £14.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Oscar Homolka
  • Otto Kruger
  • Walter Slezak
  • Henry Levin
  • Laurence Harvey
  • Buddy Hackett
Release date: 1996-03-04
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm [1962] / MGM Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Jon Stone
  • John Ferraro
Release date: 1997-10-20
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.84

Review Sesame Street - Do The Alphabet / Getting Ready To Read [1997] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Stanley's Magic Garden [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Dom DeLuise
  • Hayley Mills
  • Charles Nelson Reilly
  • Cloris Leachman
Release date: 1996-08-12
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Stanley's Magic Garden [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Abbey Home Media / Rupert Bear - A Merry Christmas With Rupert Bear And Other Stories
Actors & Directors
  • Rupert Bear
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.11

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Review Fun Song Factory / Fun Song Factory 6 - Fun And Games
Release date: 1997-09-29
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £9.99

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Finding Neverland [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Marc Forster
  • Julie Christie
  • Kate Winslet
  • Johnny Depp
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.00

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Sesame Street - Sing Along / Sing, Hoot And Howl (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Ted May
  • Kevin Clash
  • Jim Henson
  • Caroll Spinney
  • Fran Brill
  • Jerry Nelson
Release date: 1998-01-19
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Sesame Street - Sing Along / Sing, Hoot And Howl (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:


Release date: 2001-07-16
Price: £9.99

Review Pokemon TV Series - Vol. 10 / Pokémon TV Series:


Review Warner Home Video / The Wizard Of Oz (1939)
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Bolger
  • Frank Morgan
  • Victor Fleming
  • King Vidor
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Bert Lahr
  • Richard Thorpe
  • Jack Haley
  • Judy Garland
Release date: 2001-11-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.90

Review The Wizard Of Oz (1939) / Warner Home Video:

Like the Tin Man's heart, the true test of a real classic is how much it is loved by others. The enduring charms of The Wizard of Oz have easily weathered the vicissitudes of changing fashions making the film one of the world's best-loved, most-quoted and frequently imitated movies. It's now as ubiquitous an American pop-cultural icon as McDonald's, making judging the movie purely on its own merits an almost impossible task. Judy Garland's tragic later life, for example, makes her naïve and utterly beguiling Dorothy seem all the more poignant in retrospect. But this at least is clear: much of this movie's success depends on the winning appeal of Garland's "Everygirl" figure, who creates the vital identification and empathy necessary to carry the audience with her into the land of Oz. We always care deeply about Dorothy, her quest for home and the strength of her friendship with her companions. Garland's assured dancing and singing routines with her ideally cast Broadway comedy co-stars Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley are still endlessly delightful, of course, and the songs and score (by Arlen, Harburg and Stothart) are as good as anything in the Hollywood musical canon. It is Garland's deeply felt rendition of "Over the Rainbow" that is both the film's emotional core and the reason why adults as much as children the world over still respond so strongly to this movie. So long as people long for home and the love of their friends and family, the nostalgic appeal of Oz will never fade. On the DVD: another splendid digital restoration from the MGM vaults keeps this wonderful classic as vivid and alive as it was back in 1939, if not more so. [+]
The 1. 33:1 picture is clear and defined, bursting with the vibrant colours of Oz (you can even see the wires holding up the Lion's tail). Even more remarkably, because the original microphone tapes have been preserved the soundtrack has been remastered in 5. 1 stereo, thereby accentuating the lush tones of the MGM orchestra and Garland's famous singing. The disc is also chock full of extras, including outtakes, audio sequences, composer Harold Arlen's backstage movies, extracts from earlier silent Oz films, clips from the Academy Awards and interviews with the stars among many other fascinating nuggets. The new 50-minute documentary hosted by Angela Lansbury, and irritatingly narrated in the present tense, is oddly the weakest part, with too little hard information and too much padding about how everyone loves the movie. The only gripe is Warners' trademark cardboard slipcase, which is awkward and easily damaged. But this is still an essential disc for the young at heart everywhere. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / The Railway Children [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Iain Cuthbertson
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Dinah Sheridan
  • Jenny Agutter
  • William Mervyn
Release date: 1995-08-07
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.99

Review The Railway Children [1970] / Warner Home Video:

The Railway Children (1970) and Swallows and Amazons (1974) are perfect bedfellows: two classic children's novels, simply and faithfully adapted for the big screen. Together they evoke a poignant nostalgia for the periods in which they are set-Edwardian and 1920s England, respectively-and for the childhood of anyone who has grown up watching them. Sentimentality reigns, of course, but it's never cloying. The truthfulness of the juvenile performances, balanced with restrained sympathy from the adults, sees to that. Flourishing under Lionel Jeffries' delicate direction, Jenny Agutter dominates The Railway Children as the oldest daughter of a family thrown on hard times when their father is wrongly sent to prison. They avert a train disaster, save an imperilled steeple chaser and reunite an exiled Russian with his wife, all with equal enterprise. Happy endings prevail after every crisis. And no number of repeat viewings can ever diminish the impact of father's return. One of the most expert tear-duct work-outs in film history, it hits the spot every time. Perhaps the lack of such a pivotal scene has kept Swallows and Amazons in the relative shade. [+]
But its gentle appeal survives with equal charm, not least in the resourcefulness of the eponymous children and the period detail. Together this pairing makes a double bill to treasure, and a piquant reminder that Disney doesn't have a complete monopoly on the rich heritage of children's cinema. On the DVD: The Railway Children and Swallows and Amazons is presented in standard 4:3 picture format, from so-so prints, and with acceptable mono soundtracks. Both films envelope the viewer in a comforting Sunday-afternoon haze. There are no extras, apart from scene indexes. -Piers Ford.

Review Warner Home Video / Swallows And Amazons [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Sophie Neville
  • Suzanna Hamilton
  • Ronald Fraser
  • Claude Whatham
  • Virginia McKenna
  • Simon West (III)
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £13.99

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Fun Song Factory 3 - Party Time At The Fun Song Factory [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Dave Benson Phillips
  • Sarah Davison
  • Iain Lauchlan
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.99

Review Fun Song Factory 3 - Party Time At The Fun Song Factory [1996] / Universal Pictures UK:


Release date: 2001-06-18
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.91

Review Pokemon TV Series - Vol. 7 / Pokémon TV Series:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / George Of The Jungle (Disney) [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • John Cleese
  • Sam Weisman
  • Leslie Mann
  • Thomas Haden Church
  • Richard Roundtree
  • Brendan Fraser
Release date: 1998-11-30
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.64

Review George Of The Jungle (Disney) [1997] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Disney scored an unexpected hit with this goofy live-action remake of Jay Ward's Saturday-morning cartoon, a zippy Tarzan parody with topical references and absurd gags. Disney's big-screen version, George of the Jungle starring Brendan Fraser as the sweet, hopelessly inept jungle hero, puts the emphasis on slapstick and silly fun. The klutzy hero, still swinging into trees and stray boulders, saves a lost Los Angeles socialite (Leslie Mann) on safari and, completely smitten, leaves behind his tree-house home and simian best friend (an Oxford-accented ape voiced by John Cleese) to accompany the socialite back to the concrete jungle of LA, much to the frustration of her conniving fiancé (Thomas Haden Church). Fraser's enthusiastic performance enriches our hunky hero with endearing innocence and energetic pluck. The humour is spotty and consistently more juvenile than the original cartoon, but the unending parade of visual gags (including George's pet elephant Shep, transformed into an overexcited six-tonne puppy by inventive digital effects) keeps the tone light, frothy and winningly fun. -Sean Axmaker.

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

Review Watch With Mother / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Fireman Sam
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £8.99

Review Fireman Sam 3 - Sam's Day Off / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • George C.Scott
  • Mark Lester
  • Ernest Borgnine
  • Raquel Welch
  • Oliver Reed
Release date: 1998-01-01
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Prince And The Pauper [1977] [1979] / Arrow Films:


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Barney-Waiting for Santa [1990], Fireman Sam - 2 On 1 - The Hero Next Door / Lost Cat, Sesame Street - Learn To Read [1993], Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm [1962], Sesame Street - Do The Alphabet / Getting Ready To Read [1997], Stanley's Magic Garden [1994], Rupert Bear - A Merry Christmas With Rupert Bear And Other Stories, Fun Song Factory 6 - Fun And Games, Finding Neverland [2004], Sesame Street - Sing Along / Sing, Hoot And Howl (Disney), Pokemon TV Series - Vol. 10, The Wizard Of Oz (1939), The Railway Children [1970], Swallows And Amazons [1974], Fun Song Factory 3 - Party Time At The Fun Song Factory [1996], Pokemon TV Series - Vol. 7, George Of The Jungle (Disney) [1997], Watch With Mother, Fireman Sam 3 - Sam's Day Off, The Prince And The Pauper [1977] [1979]

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