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Review E1 Entertainment / Cardcaptors - The Movie [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Carly McKillip
  • Tony Sampson
  • Matt Hill
  • Rhys Huber
  • Maggie Blue O'Hara
Release date: 2002-03-11
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Jennifer Pertsch
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.90

Review Cardcaptors - The Movie [VHS] / E1 Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Postman Pat - 2 On 1 - Postman Pat 1 / Postman Pat 2 [VHS] [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Archie Panjabi
  • Ken Barrie
Release date: 1996-04-01
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Archie Panjabi
Price: £9.99

Review Postman Pat - 2 On 1 - Postman Pat 1 / Postman Pat 2 [VHS] [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / Rosie & Jim-Flying [VHS] [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Rosie And Jim
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Rosie And Jim
Price: £9.99

Review Rosie & Jim-Flying [VHS] [1992] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:


Review Warner Home Video / Alaska [VHS] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Thora Birch
  • Fraser Clarke Heston
  • Vincent Kartheiser
  • Duncan Fraser
  • Charlton Heston
  • Dirk Benedict
Release date: 2001-02-05
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Scott Myers
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.75

Review Alaska [VHS] [1996] / Warner Home Video:

Director Fraser Heston captures the danger and beauty of Alaska in this adventurous family film about two kids who embark on a very personal rescue mission. Former 747 pilot Jake Barnes (Dirk Benedict) moved away from a fast-paced Chicago lifestyle with his two children, Jessie and Sean, after the death of his wife. While daughter Jessie thoroughly enjoys and excels in her new surroundings, son Sean's moodiness and homesickness escalates. One stormy night Jake's small plane crashes during an emergency flight, leaving him stuck on a treacherous cliff with a broken leg and no radio. The local search and rescue team soon gives up, prompting Sean and Jessie to kayak, hike, canoe, and rappel their way over many lush and snowy miles to save their dad. Younger kids will enjoy the antics of Cubby, the baby polar bear who befriends the youthful trekkers and eventually leads them to their father. They'll also enjoy the good-natured sibling rivalry between the tough but tender-hearted Jessie (Thora Birch of Now and Then) and Sean (Vincent Kartheiser of The Indian in the Cupboard) and a chance to hiss at the two evil poachers (including the director's father, Charlton Heston). Parents, on the other hand, may feel compelled to explain etiquette around wild animals, the dangers of hypothermia, and how to pack for a long hike. But the scenic Cook's tour of Alaska and British Columbia makes some of these otherwise corny elements tolerable to grown-ups. -Liane Thomas.

Review Warner Home Video / Marx Brothers - At The Circus [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Harpo Marx
  • Florence Rice
  • Edward Buzzell
  • Chico Marx
  • Groucho Marx
  • Kenny Baker
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Irving Brecher
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.39

Review Marx Brothers - At The Circus [VHS] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Fun Song Factory - Out And About [VHS] [1998]
Release date: 2000-03-13
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Fun Song Factory - Out And About [VHS] [1998] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Castlevision / Casper The Friendly Ghost - Boos And Arrows [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Izzy Sparber
  • Frank Gallop
Release date: 1995-08-07
Run time: 45 min.
Creator: Seymour Reit
RRP: £2.99
Price: £4.40

Review Casper The Friendly Ghost - Boos And Arrows [VHS] / Castlevision:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Mighty Ducks Are The Champions (VHS) (1993) (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Emilio Estevez
  • Stephen Herek
  • Lane Smith
  • Josef Sommer
  • Joss Ackland
  • Heidi Kling
Release date: 2000-09-01
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Steven Brill
RRP: £10.99
Price: £29.99

Review The Mighty Ducks Are The Champions (VHS) (1993) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Children / CITV Telly Tots [VHS]
Release date: 2001-05-14
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.95

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Review 4 Front Video / October Sky [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Laura Dern
  • Chris Owen
  • Joe Johnston
  • Chris Cooper
  • William Lee Scott
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
Release date: 2001-12-27
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Lewis Colick
Price: £5.99

Review October Sky [VHS] [1999] / 4 Front Video:

Based on the memoir Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam Jr, October Sky emerged as one of the most delightful sleepers of 1999-a small miracle of good ole fashioned movie-making in the cynical, often numbingly trendy Hollywood of the late 20th century. Hickam's true story begins in 1957 with Russia's historic launch of the Sputnik satellite, and while Homer (played with smart idealism by Jake Gyllenhaal) sees Sputnik as his cue to pursue a fascination with rocketry, his father (Chris Cooper) epitomises the admirable yet sternly stubborn working-man's ethic of the West Virginia coal miner, casting fear and disdain on Homer's pursuit of science while urging his "errant" son to carry on the family business-a spirit-killing profession that Homer has no intention of joining. As directed by Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer), this wonderful movie is occasionally guilty of overstating its case and sacrificing subtlety for predictable melodrama. But more often the film's tone is just right, and the spirit of adventure and invention is infectiously conveyed through Gyllenhaal and his well-cast fellow rocketeers, whose many failures gradually lead to triumph on their makeshift backwoods launching pad. Capturing time and place with impeccable detail and superbly developed characters (including Laura Dern as an inspiring schoolteacher), October Sky is a family film for the ages, encouraging the highest potential of the human spirit while giving viewers a clear view of a bygone era when "the final frontier" beckoned to the explorer in all of us. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Castlevision / Casper The Friendly Ghost - Ghost Writers [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Izzy Sparber
  • Frank Gallop
Release date: 1995-08-07
Run time: 45 min.
Creator: Seymour Reit
RRP: £2.99
Price: £4.99

Review Casper The Friendly Ghost - Ghost Writers [VHS] / Castlevision:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Bumper Special - Thomas Gets Bumped And 17 Other Stories [VHS] [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Brandon
  • Michael Angelis
  • Ringo Starr
  • Alec Baldwin
  • George Carlin
Release date: 1994-03-07
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Lindsey Dillion-Massey
Price: £10.99

Review Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Bumper Special - Thomas Gets Bumped And 17 Other Stories [VHS] [1984] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Network / The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - Episodes 1 - 3 [VHS] [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Lucas Andrieux
  • Robert Hoffmann
  • Jean Sacha
  • Paul Chevalier
  • Claudia Berg
  • Erich Bludau
Release date: 1997-09-15
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Pierre Raynal
Price: £10.99

Review The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - Episodes 1 - 3 [VHS] [1964] / Network:


Release date: 1990-10-01
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.99

Review Jungle Book [VHS] / ITV DVD:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Playdays - Lizzie Singalong [VHS] [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Frances Dodge
  • Robin Fritz
  • Iain Lauchlan
  • Liz Watts (II)
  • Helen Sheppard
  • Will Brenton
  • Philip Hawthorn
Run time: 44 min.
Creator: Philip Hawthorn
Price: £8.99

Review Playdays - Lizzie Singalong [VHS] [1988] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Sesame Street - Elmo's Sing- A-Long - Guessing Game / Elmocize [VHS] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Stone
  • Lisa Simon
Release date: 1997-10-20
Run time: 61 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Sesame Street - Elmo's Sing- A-Long - Guessing Game / Elmocize [VHS] [1997] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Curzon Video / The Long Day Closes [VHS] [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Lamont
  • Leigh McCormack
  • Terence Davies
  • Ayse Owens
  • Marjorie Yates
  • Anthony Watson
Release date: 1993-10-11
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Olivia Stewart
Price: £12.99

Review The Long Day Closes [VHS] [1992] / Curzon Video:

An informal sequel to his breakthrough feature Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence Davies' film revisits the same vivid autobiographical sources as its predecessor. Set in working-class Liverpool in the mid-50s, it's less a linear story than an impressionistic tapestry of sights, sounds, colours and above all music woven together in the head of the 11-year-old protagonist (called Bud, but very clearly meant for Davies himself). Brought up in a mainly female household-widowed mother and four older sisters-Bud undergoes ordeals of bullying and stern punishment at his new Catholic school. But he spends most of his time lapped by the warm fringes of the adult world, of which he's a fascinated observer, often delighted, sometimes obscurely troubled. A nostalgic mix of film clips and popular songs-on the radio or in family sing-songs-contribute to Bud's rich inner life, but sentimentality is held at bay by the poignancy for the boy's situation, alienated from children of his own age and nervously aware of his emergent gay sexuality. Davies' stylised lighting heightens the sense of captured memory, while his stately, elegant camera traces patterns and connections, eliding the borders between reality and fantasy. -Philip Kemp.

Review Warner Home Video / Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [VHS] [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Howard Keel
  • Stanley Donen
  • Tommy Rall
  • Jeff Richards
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Jane Powell
Release date: 2000-03-27
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Stephen Vincent Benet
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.23

Review Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [VHS] [1954] / Warner Home Video:

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring MGM soprano Jane Powell and handsome baritone Howard Keel, has retained a remarkably loyal following among fans of the musical film ever since its release in 1954. Although it was filmed in state-of-the-art CinemaScope, Stanley Donen was obliged to direct much of the film on Metro's sound stages, where the artificial sets and painted backdrops don't inevitably live up to the scenes shot on location in Oregon. Viewers coming fresh to the picture may find this visual discrepancy jarring and some too may find Miss Powell's singing a shade plummy. The screenplay, by husband and wife team Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich with Dorothy Kingsley, tells the story of seven brothers living in the Oregon hills and their adventures to find themselves wives. The casting of each brother with his rugged, masculine looks and ability to dance with grace and athleticism, presided over by an authoritative Howard Keel, gives the film a dynamic impetus second to none in an MGM musical. The lengthy barn-raising episode under choreographer Michael Kidd's intrepid direction, where the music and the incredibly agile and energetic male and female dance ensemble unite as one, produces a square dance without parallel. The music and lyrics by Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer-including the mating chorus, "Spring, Spring, Spring", the rollicking "Bless You're Beautiful Hide", the rousing "Sobbin' Women" and the visually enchanting "June Bride"-are both tuneful and mindful of the plot's exposition. Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin won the Academy Award in 1954 for their arrangements and conducting. On the DVD: The digital remastering has created a clearer picture of what had been a faintly muddy Ansco colour system on the original print while the polish and attack with which the MGM Studio Orchestra play the music on this full-bodied stereophonic soundtrack remains a thing of wonder. Howard Keel, standing tall and erect in his 80s, hosts the "making of" documentary. [+]
Director Donen, choreographer Kidd, Jane Powell and several of the dancers recall how the film was considered a "sleeper" during production and wasn't expected to do as well as Brigadoon, in production at the same time. The documentary also highlights the care taken over the casting of the brothers, two of whom including Keel were not dancers and their often brave and brilliant feats of acrobatic dancing executed on precarious planks and other props. When Howard Keel takes his farewell walk down the main street lot at MGM, breaking into a few brief dance steps, it's impossible not to feel a moment of regret that the curtain had to come down on MGM's most treasured possession. -Adrian Edwards.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Piglet's Big Movie [VHS] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Cummings
  • Francis Glebas
  • Andre Stojka
  • Ken Sansom
  • Peter Cullen
  • John Fiedler
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Brian Hohlfeld
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.49

Review Piglet's Big Movie [VHS] [2003] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Homeward Bound (1993) (Disney) [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Bernard
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Don Alder
  • Sally Field
  • Duwayne Dunham
  • Kevin Chevalia
Release date: 2000-09-01
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Sheila Burnford
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.80

Review Homeward Bound (1993) (Disney) [VHS] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Walt Disney studios had previously adapted Sheila Burnford's classic animal-adventure novel The Incredible Journey in 1963, and the story proves just as durable in this popular 1993 version, Homeward Bound, in which the heroic trio of animals are given voices provided by Don Ameche, Michael J Fox, and Sally Field. They don't actually speak (like the clever critters in Babe), but we hear their "voices" as the lost household pets-Shadow the golden retriever, Chance the bulldog, and Sassy the cat-survive a harrowing series of adventures as they struggle to find their way home. Perfect entertainment for kids, this frequently clever movie offers an abundance of wildlife and beautiful location scenery, and the vocal performances by Ameche, Fox and Field are surprisingly effective. A hit with parents and children alike, the film was followed by a sequel in 1996. -Jeff Shannon.

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Cardcaptors - The Movie [VHS], Postman Pat - 2 On 1 - Postman Pat 1 / Postman Pat 2 [VHS] [1981], Rosie & Jim-Flying [VHS] [1992], Alaska [VHS] [1996], Marx Brothers - At The Circus [VHS], Fun Song Factory - Out And About [VHS] [1998], Casper The Friendly Ghost - Boos And Arrows [VHS], The Mighty Ducks Are The Champions (VHS) (1993) (Disney), CITV Telly Tots [VHS], October Sky [VHS] [1999], Casper The Friendly Ghost - Ghost Writers [VHS], Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Bumper Special - Thomas Gets Bumped And 17 Other Stories [VHS] [1984], The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe - Episodes 1 - 3 [VHS] [1964], Jungle Book [VHS], Playdays - Lizzie Singalong [VHS] [1988], Sesame Street - Elmo's Sing- A-Long - Guessing Game / Elmocize [VHS] [1997], The Long Day Closes [VHS] [1992], Seven Brides For Seven Brothers [VHS] [1954], Piglet's Big Movie [VHS] [2003], Homeward Bound (1993) (Disney) [VHS]

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