“I work alone” is the macho mantra of Indiana Jones lookalike Clutch Powers, so when he meets up with his sidekick helpers – including a blonde Australian with painted cleavage and curves and a stubbled fireman who looks a bit like George Michael – he’s not impressed. They set of...

Skylanders: Giants Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii £54.99, 7+Remember the game Dungeons and Dragons? Well, meet the 21st century version that's all the rage for boys of a certain age. This hugely popular immersive game allows young adventurers to collect action figures –  lots of them ...

Beauty And The Beast, Diamond EditionWalt Disney £23.99, running time: 97 minsThere’s a touch of Les Mis musical theatre in the rousing crowd scenes of this 1992 reworking of the classic fairytale. Feisty and headstrong, Belle was one of the new breed of Disney Princesses who bel...

A RIOT OF colour, a cacophony of samba rhythms and a vibrant carnival atmosphere: that’s the natural habitat of an exotic bird named Blu. So he finds it something of a culture shock when he is captured by smugglers and transported to a cold and snowy Minnesota. As luck would have...

HE'S NOT THE first young man who's had reservations about following his father's footsteps to enter the family business, when your daddy is Chief Bunny – the Easter equivalent of Father Christmas, no less – responsible for the safe delivery of copious amounts of candy (and subseq...

THERE’S A RETURN to the multifarious charms of 1977 animated classic The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh – only these days, Christopher Robin has a pair of Hunter wellies strategically product-placed outside his bedroom door. But the rest of the gang are as ever they were: Poo...

WHAT JOLLY LARKS it always looks like Johnny Depp has when he dons the black eyeliner and dreadlocks that have become his trademark as Captain Jack Sparrow. On Stranger Tides, the fourth film of the pirate extravaganzas, opens all-guns-blazing, with Cap’n Jack swashbuckling his w...

With impressively broad shoulders, an oversized Panama hat, with shades of Orson Welles, and a neat line in jingly-jangly guitar riffs, you’d never guess that the eponymous monster in this Parisian tale is actually a giant, singing flea.The result of delivery man Raoul and his si...

IMAGINE IF DINOSAURS existed? Right here, right now? That's the premise of this fast-paced mockumentary movie that follows a crew of documentary makers, as they venture deep into the Congo in search of a mythical creature. Amid tales of mysterious sightings, savage attacks and un...

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