Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
Who on Earth doesn?t know the story of West Side Story? The tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet set in New York City in the 1950?s. The film was actually completed in 1961 and won a whopping 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, quite an honour for a musical. […]

In the documentary stakes no one compares to Sir David Attenborough, his incredible knowledge of the subjects he’s filming and his passion for sharing this knowledge are second to none. The private life of plants is just another shining example of the brilliant work he does. The camera work on this is the same usual […]

Kids DVD based on the best selling books by David Macaulay.
Any DVD that makes science easy to understand and interesting for children is more than welcome in our house and “The Way Things Work” is one of the best I have seen for a while. Set in Mammoth Island an imaginary pre historic place and […]

Well fans of Noddy (young and old) will be glad that another Noddy DVD has hit the stands. The theme song has changed and the brand new computer animation certainly enhances the DVD but “Noddy” with all the things that make him lovable remains. There are five short stories on this DVD, (I mean short […]

Pre James Bond, Roger more plays Mr Pelham a successful young executive with the perfect life including all the trimmings; a house in the suburbs, a beautiful young wife and two young sons. He is a creature of habit everything he does is without risk and very predictable. Everything changes when he is involved in […]

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the small island of Corsica, the son of poor but titled parents. The documentary follows his rise to Emperor of France and his eventual fall to disgrace and death on the even smaller island of St Helena. I found the series to be a thoroughly well done documentary of Napoleon […]

Archduke Rudolph Hapsburg (Sharif) and the beautiful ?nobody? Maria Vetsera (Deneuve) are in love. Having first met by chance in a park, they keep crossing paths at various functions on Vienna?s social calendar and start to see each other in private, secretly arranged by Rudolph?s cousin, Countess Larish (Vendell). Maria is a shy and proper […]

The sleepy hamlet of Orbiston Parva is home to the Holy Trinity vicarage - a quaint little church in the fine (and terribly English) protestant tradition. Not to mention all the other Christianity-based religions that vie for their share of the parishioners for Sunday Mass. There is no way you could call this town under-represented […]

Directed by Nick Giannopoulos
Young Danny (Nick Giannopoulos) has a very pushy stage mother Sally (Chantal Contouri) who is so eager to make him a star that he is reduced to singing ?You?re the one that I want? on a television talent quest. She has made him take lessons in just about everything including; dancing, acting, […]

A gorgeous little tale of young love and the pursuit of forever. Lauren is a 13-year-old American girl who lives in Paris with her mother and stepfather. Lauren is incredibly intelligent and finds it hard to relate to the other kids at her school, she is lonely and longs to have a friend she can […]