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Sleeping Beauty
Beautiful Princess Aurora is being given her gifts of beauty, grace, and magnificent singing voice from the good fairies when Mouleficent the bad and un-invited fairy turns up to spread terror and pain on the small kingdom. She curses the young princess to die on her 16th birthday. The good fairies can only lesson the […]
Beautician and the Beast, The
This is a Sound of Music meets The Nanny type of comedy and it works well. Fran Drescher is perfect as Miss Joy Miller a beauty night school teacher who is mistaken as a science teacher and offered a lucrative job teaching Pechenko’s children, in the tiny province of Slovenia in Eastern Europe. Pechenko is […]
Little Robot - Robot’s Race Day.
This animation is a little slice of heaven for parents with children aged 2 to 7 as it just about guarantees 60 minutes of peace and quiet! I put this on to watch it on a Saturday morning and by Saturday night I had learnt the theme song by heart cause my kids kept wanting […]
Babylon 5 - Season 2 - Disc 1 and 2
Babylon 5 is one SHOW that stands out among the numerous science fiction series that have played on television over the last few decades. One thing that was truly incredible was the ability of the creators to bring out something that could be enjoyed by more than the average trekkie. One of the key elements […]
Man Who Fell To Earth, The
The story focuses on Thomas Newton (Bowie) who plummets to Earth - through means unknown from another planet. He touches down in a small town in New Mexico and proceeds to track down a patents lawyer, Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry), paying him a great wad of money to look over some (no doubt futuristic) […]
Brady Bunch in the Whitehouse, The
When Bobby Brady finds a winning lottery ticket and wins 67 million dollars, the Brady’s start an exhaustive search for the true owner of the ticket. In true Brady style this DVD sets out to bring old fashioned values (and clothes) back into fashion.
The search proves to be unsuccessful and they know what the […]
Shane
Set in Wyoming in the late 1800s after the American Civil War the film has long been regarded as the quintessential Western movie, a claim that has a great deal of merit and one that the ratings I give will clearly SHOW I agree with. The plot centres on the friction between the open range […]
Them!
This 1954 movie is a nostalgic trip back to the days of nuclear bomb-related sci-fi disaster tales with a morality twist that proliferated in the 1950s and 1960s. This one concerns the creation of 12-foot mutant ants as a result of desert testing in the 1940s and 1950s that threaten civilisation, and the need of […]
The Haunting - Warner Bros 1963
We are talking serious horror picture here clearly the best (read cleverest) I have EVER seen and likely ever will. Now dont get me wrong the shock value of films such as The Exorcist and Psycho are memorable and tremendous, but to me this film is clearly superior because of its implied (rather […]
House of Wax - 1953
A gentle and talented wax sculptor, Professor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is presumed dead, but actually horribly disfigured as a result of a fire at his wax museum, deliberately set by his money-hungry business partner. The loss of his dexterity and a lust for vengeance causes the good professor to re-establish his business using the […]
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