?Magical Treasures? is a Hi-5 compilation that was filmed back in 2002 but which is now available on DVD. It follows the successful format of all the other Hi-5 releases. There is plenty of music and movement and the DVD runs for just under one hour so is not too long that the target audience […]

?Let?s Celebrate? is another Hi-5 video that is now finally available on DVD. It was originally released back in 2002. We had a copy of the video but it is a little worse for wear due to repeated viewings so I happily took on the DVD so we can enjoy the songs on many more […]

Without a doubt this would have to be one of the best family movies I have ever seen! Walter (played by Haley Joel Osment) is a 14-year-old boy, his mother is a loser who goes from one failed relationship to another and Walter is usually caught in the fall out. Walter?s mother Mae (played by […]

Having really enjoyed the brilliantly original British series ?Absolutely Fabulous? (co-written by French and Saunders), ?Let Them Eat Cake? (the female ?answer? to ?Blackadder?), and ?The Vicar of Dibley? starring Dawn French, I will always look out for anything that involves either or both of these gifted comedians. The fact that they have created so […]

I?ve been going through another ?stage? of late ? I?m picking all sorts of British B-grade films from the early 70?s in the hope that I?m going to stumble across a real little gem. Sentimentality is definitely involved in these choices; if any of these films offered for review feature an actor that I remember […]

I had a lot higher hopes for this 1967 British film than I felt was delivered. Goes to show that I don?t automatically love EVERYTHING the Brits dish out! Having seen some RIPPER Dirk Bogarde films (Victim, I could Go On Singing, The Servant), I was disappointed in this effort. SLOW would possibly be an […]

Eddie plays Scott Roper a San Francisco Police Department negotiator. Roper is the best in the business and he gets the worst jobs when things look pretty hopeless. The film opens with him sorting out a bank siege where he skilfully negotiates the release of some hostages before having to shoot Earl, the drug crazed […]

It was a bit of a shock for me that the movie opened with very Chinese characters and subtitles and I was learning to cope with that when the action started. A young man returns to see his mentor who had saved him from a life of crime and encouraged him to join the police […]

The original supermarionation movies from 1966 and 1968.
Produced by Sylvia Anderson and Directed by David Lane.
Thunderbirds Are Go
Animation ? no even better - ?Supermarionation? at it?s best, brought to you by the brilliant team of Silvia and Gerry Anderson and their terrific team from 1966 who tirelessly put together ?The Thunderbirds?.
The Thunderbirds are a family […]

I?m hardly a devotee of this ABC series, but I had seen a couple of episodes here and there when I?d heard about an upcoming story that I really wanted to watch. I have to say that the ABC offer some really interesting documentaries and regular series that crap on anything ?mainstream? TV has on […]