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Teletubbies - Again Again


Well I have to admit I am an unashamed fan of the Teletubbies and the BBC for bringing this one to DVD. My kids have outgrown the Teletubbies now, but I occasionally have smaller kids in the house and I am constantly amazed at how this show can hold the attention of a young child. […]

Sure Thing, The


Directed by Rob Reiner
Even nearly twenty years after it was first released ?The Sure Thing? is still entertaining and worth a watch, whether it is as an encore or if you are viewing it for the first time. It was directed by Rob Reiner and it is still a relevant film today and there […]

Carnal Knowledge


Directed By: Mike Nichols
This is a complex film about two shallow and unattractive men which follows the development of their sexuality from their college years to middle age. Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) share a room at College. Both have the usual heterosexual ambitions but seem to be quite green. Jonathan is initially […]

Grifters, The


Talk about ?all in the family?! Roy Dillon (Cusack) is a short-con artist who makes his money stooging unsuspecting victims with slight-of-hand tricks. His rather youthful mother, Lily (Huston) is also ?on the grift?, but on a grander scale, with a lot of contacts. Working for an unscrupulous bookie, she haunts horseracing tracks around the […]

Graduate, The


Produced and Directed by Richard Sylbert
This long-lauded and revered film opens with the homecoming of a feted new college graduate (Benjamin, played by Dustin Hoffman) to a celebration party. During these proceedings a family friend ? Mrs Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft ? who is much older than he is, seduces Benjamin. I […]

Thoroughly Modern Millie


Directed by George Roy Hill;
If I was required to describe, in 50 words or less, Thoroughly Modern Millie, it would be that it is an interesting parody on the social mores of 1920s New York combined with a white slavery sub-plot and all set within a ?musical? context containing a few bright and breezy […]

Borrowers, The - Complete First Series


This DVD is based on the novels written by Mary Norton and the story is about an entire race of ?little people?, who live under the floorboards in the homes of humans. Everything the little people need can be ?borrowed? from the human?s home. The little people have dispersed across the land and have very […]

I ll Be There


The story of Olivia (played by Charlotte Church), who has been brought up by her mother and Grandfather. Olivia?s mother has always told Olivia that her father was a Russian soldier and died in the cold war. But Olivia struggles to understand her mother?s motives, when she learns that her father is very much alive […]

Haunted Mansion


Mr and Mrs Jim and Sara Evers (played by Eddie Murphy and Marsha Thompson) are the dynamic duo of Real-estate. They live their lives constantly shuffling around personal engagements in order to be available when ?duty calls?. Always on the lookout for new selling opportunities, the Evers? believe they can do anything, but nothing can […]

Mystic River


The film, set and filmed entirely in Boston, commences innocently enough with a few kids (Jimmy, Sean and Dave) playing (ice) hockey on a neighbourhood street and being pulled up by cops for defacing a pavement. After the initial intimidation by these supposed police officers, one of the boys is taken away under highly […]