Review, buy Family Favourites: Sooty - Sooty's Magic Club [2001], Jungle Book, A Little Princess [1996], Back To The Future Trilogy [1985], Blue Peter Makes...A Thunderbirds Tracy Island, The First Christmas And Other Stories, Spot's First Video [1986], Racing Stripes [2005], Clangers - The Complete Clangers - Series 1 [1969], Storybook Favourites - The Prince And The Pauper / The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Disney), Tales Of Aesop: Volume One, Albert The 5th Musketeer 2 - The King's Complex, Noddy 2 - Noddy And The Kite [1993], Children's Video Favourites, Sooty's Amazing Adventures - Things That Go McSqueak In The Night [1996], Noddy Vol.4 - Noddy And The Missing Hats, My First Activity Video, Winnie The Pooh Original Tales - Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too [1974], The Halloween Tree [1994], The Mouse House Stories

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Sooty - Sooty's Magic Club [2001]

Sooty - Sooty's Magic Club [2001] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Debby Cumming
Richard Coombs
Vicki Lee Taylor
Richard Cadell
Francis Wright
David Coyle

Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 47 min.
Creator: Paul Rose
RRP: ~~£6.99~~
Price: £12.99

Review Sooty - Sooty's Magic Club [2001] / 2 Entertain Video:

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Jungle Book (Channel 5)

Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 48 min.
Price: £2.99

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Review Warner Home Video / A Little Princess [1996]

A Little Princess [1996] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Rusty Schwimmer
Liam Cunningham
Eleanor Bron
Liesel Matthews
Alfonso Cuarón
Arthur Malet

Release date: 1998-02-09
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £2.74

Review A Little Princess [1996] / Warner Home Video:

After the critical success of 1993's The Secret Garden, Warner Bros returned to the novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett to create this 1995 adaptation of A Little Princess, which instantly ranked with The Secret Garden as one of the finest children's films of the 1990s. Neither film was a huge box-office success, but their quality speaks for itself, and A Little Princess has all the ingredients of a timeless classic. A marvel of production design, the film features lavish sets built almost entirely on a studio backlot in Burbank, California. The story opens in New York just before the outbreak of World War I, when young Sara (Liesel Matthews) is enrolled in private boarding school while her father goes off to war. Under the domineering scrutiny of the school's wicked headmistress, Miss Minchen (Eleanor Bron), Sara quickly becomes popular with her schoolmates, but fate intervenes and she soon faces a stern reversal of fortune, resorting to wild flights of fancy to cope with an unexpectedly harsh reality. Rather than label her fanciful tales as escapist fantasy, A Little Princess actively encourages a child's power of imagination-a power that can be used to learn, grow, and adapt to a world that is often cruel and difficult. It's also one of the most visually beautiful films of the 90s and creates a fully detailed world within the boarding school-a place where imagination is vital to survival. A first-class production in every respect, this is one family film that should (if it's not too stuffy to say it) be considered required viewing for parents and kids alike. -Jeff Shannon.

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Back To The Future Trilogy [1985]

Back To The Future Trilogy [1985] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Crispin Glover
Thomas F. Wilson
Lea Thompson
Christopher Lloyd
Michael J. Fox
Robert Zemeckis

Release date: 2002-12-02
Run time: 328 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £3.00

Review Back To The Future Trilogy [1985] / Universal Pictures UK:

Before he grew up and started to become a serious filmmaker, Robert Zemeckis created arguably the most unashamedly entertaining film trilogy ever with his Back to the Future series. It's here that Zemeckis came closest to emulating his mentor Steven Spielberg, and here, too, that he showed his own talent for combining flashy visual effects and knock-about comedy. The vivacious screenplays, cowritten with Bob Gale, are chock full of forwards and backwards-looking jokes, 1950s nostalgia and wry nods to other movies. Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, both alumni of successful small-screen sitcoms (Family Ties and Taxi respectively), bring a frenetic energy to their roles, but also the warmth and likability needed to carry the audience with them through time. Don't try and unravel the time-travel thread running throughout, as that way lie paradoxes: just accept its inherent absurdity and enjoy the ride. Marty McFly travels from 1985 to 1955 in a souped-up DeLorean sports car (Back to the Future), then forward in time to 2015 and back to 1955 again (Back to the Future II), before going all the way back to the Old West of 1885 (Back to the Future III). Matters become progressively more complicated as actions in the past have repercussions for the future, and vice versa. Marty learns life-lessons and Doc finds love at last; the joyful, helter-skelter pace never slackens for an instant. -Mark Walker On the DVD: Back to the Future travels through time to the DVD era with a three-disc set charting the much-loved trilogy in full, along with an abundance of special features. The real joy in this box set is the "Making of the Trilogy" featurette, which spans the three discs and offers a wealth of information on the films. [+]

The deleted scenes have not faired well with age, with the visuals and sound suffering immensely. On Disc One the anecdotes can be played along with the film as subtitles, which is more than can be said for the commentary with Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale recorded at the California University, which is simply a Q & A session-not played along with the movie-and would have been stronger as a filmed special feature. But all in all as three-disc sets go it doesn't get much better than this-and you won't need 1. 21 gigawatts of electricity to enjoy it. -Nikki Disney.

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