“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...

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...

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...

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...

IT'S A UNDENIABLE truth that evil is so much more fun to watch than goody-two-shoes – even Milton discovered the fact in his epic 17th century poem Paradise Lost when he was depicting the Machiavellian evil of Satan versus God. And so it is with Gru, the dastardly protagonist of ...

THERE'S SOMETHING EERILY familiar about the enigmatic outsider, with dark mysterious eyes and a macho swagger. OK, so he's also a chameleon in a garish Hawaiian shirt, but Johnny Depp's incarnation as R-r-r-rango (say it with gusto) is a clear homage to The Man With No Name. Heck...

A HIGH-SPEED CAR chase (featuring Barbie's pink Corvette), plundering outlaws (in the shape of Potato Heads), orphans in jeopardy (in the guise of colourful trolls) and a Hiroshima-style cloud of Tumbling Monkeys – all put to rights with the intervention of a superhero who declar...

from Buckingham Palace, is likely to put a smile on their face, for a child, to be greeted by a bowler-hatted doorman and then to unearth a personalised welcome pack containing their favourite snacks and a toy box filled with games, books and DVDs