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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Cybermen (Limited Edition)
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Baker
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 280 min.
Price: £24.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Season 2 (Box Set 1) [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • David Semel
  • David Boreanaz
  • James A. Contner
  • Michael Lange
  • Alexis Denisof
  • J. August Richards
  • David Greenwalt
  • Joss Whedon
  • Charisma Carpenter
Release date: 2001-06-11
Run time: 528 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £5.86

Review Angel - Season 2 (Box Set 1) [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

It is with this second series that Angel, the darker Los Angeles mean streets spin-off from Buffy, comes entirely into its own. Angel, the vampire with a soul and rather too much hair gel, is driven partly by his need for atonement and partly by his anger at the manipulations of the satanic law firm Wolfram and Hart, especially the morally equivocal Lindsey (Christian Kane). At the end of the previous season, they set his emotional destruction in motion by bringing back from hell Darla, the vampire who turned him, whom he loved for centuries and then killed to save Buffy. Julie Benz's soft-voiced passion-"God doesn't want you, but I still do"-makes her a perfect tragic foil for David Boreanaz's "billowy coat King of Pain" hero. There is a nice balance of comedy, horror and the starkly tragic here-fake swamis, accursed shrouds, sexually abused telekinetic assassins all come into the mix along with Angel's gang of sidekicks-pedantic Wesley, abrasive Gunn, flighty clairvoyant Cordelia-and a new and wonderfully improbable character who starts as a running joke and becomes so much more-the Host (Andy Hallett), a green demon with red horns, eyes and hair, who sees into the souls of those who sing karaoke at his bar. -Roz Kaveney.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 (Box Set 1) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2002-06-17
RRP: £34.99
Price: £9.95

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 (Box Set 1) [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer-Season 6 begins with Buffy being raised from the dead by the friends who miss her, but who fail to understand that a sacrifice taken back is a sacrifice negated. Dragged out of what she believes to have been heavenly bliss, she finds herself "going through the motions" and entering into a relationship with the evil, besotted vampire Spike just to force her emotions. Willow becomes ever more caught up in the temptations of magic; Xander and Anya move towards marriage without ever discussing their reservations; Giles feels he is standing in the way of Buffy's adult independence; Dawn feels neglected. What none of them need is a menace that is, at this point, simply annoying-three high school contemporaries who have turned their hand to magical and high-tech villainy. Added to this is a hungry ghost, an invisibility ray, an amnesia spell and a song-and-dance demon (who acts as rationale for the incomparable musical episode "Once More With Feeling" presented here in its full extra-length version). The result is a Buffy season which fans may not entirely have loved, but could not ignore. -Roz Kaveney.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Trial Of A Timelord
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Baker
Release date: 1993-10-04
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £49.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 Collection - Part 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2002-08-19
RRP: £34.99
Price: £5.57

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 Collection - Part 2 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the one a lot of people hated-the show's writers followed the logic of plot and character development into some gloomy places, especially in this, the season's second half. The way that Willow's interest in magic had grown into an excessive fascination with her own power was plausible enough, but to move the interest of this over to a crudely explicit analogy with addiction and rehab was a point where the show seemed to be underlining its usual deft, angst-ridden metaphors. The complicated relationship between Buffy and the bleached blond vampire Spike was far more successfully handled. Sarah Michelle Gellar offers sexual self-disgust as well as any other emotion she has had to perform and James Marsters is as elegantly ruthless and obsessive as ever. This is a season in which chickens come home to roost: everything from the villainy of the three geeks to Xander's doubts about marriage come to a head, often-as in the case of the impressive wedding episode-through wildly dark humour. The estrangement of the characters from each other-a well-observed portrait of what happens to college pals in their early 20s-comes to a shocking head with the death of a major character and that death's apocalyptic consequences. The season ends on a consoling note which it has, by that point and in spite of imperfections, entirely earned. -Roz Kaveney.

Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
Release date: 1993-07-05
Run time: 167 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.50

Review Doctor Who - Doctor Who And The Silurians / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Series 7 Part 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2003-09-08
RRP: £34.99
Price: £21.75

Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Series 7 Part 2 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

So that's it. The second half of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's seventh and last series confirms what we'd always half-suspected-that the whole arc of the show would turn out to be Buffy's education to the point where she makes a momentous world-saving and world-changing decision. Buffy was always a show about female empowerment, but it was also a show about how quite ordinary people can decide to make a difference alongside people who are special. And it was also a show about people making up for past errors and crimes. So, for example, we have the excellent episodes "Storyteller"-in which the former geek/supervillain Andrew sorts out his redemption while making a video diary about life with Buffy-and "Lies My Parents Told Me"-in which we find out why a particular folk song sends Spike crazy. Redemption abounds as Faith returns to Sunnydale and the friends she once betrayed, and Willow finds herself turning into the man she flayed. Above all, this was always Buffy's show. Sarah Michelle Gellar does extraordinary work here both as Buffy and as her ultimate shadow, the First Evil, who takes her face to mock her. This last set is the fine ending to one of television's most remarkable shows. -Roz Kaveney.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Season 1 (Box Set 1) [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn Quinn
  • Joss Whedon
  • David Boreanaz
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • Scott McGinnis
  • James A. Contner
  • Vern Gillum
  • Bruce Seth Green
Release date: 2000-10-23
Run time: 502 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £5.99

Review Angel - Season 1 (Box Set 1) [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Spin-off shows rarely match the success of their parent programmes, especially in the superhero/fantasy genre (cf. The Girl From U. N. C. L. E. , The Bionic Woman, The Green Hornet. Characters who were perfectly useful as supporting figures dwindle when forced into the spotlight, and Angel takes a special risk by building an entire series around a character who is: a) supposed to be a mystery man; b) a vampire who once spent half a season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a dastardly villain who killed without remorse; and c) played by David Boreanaz, who is well up on handsome and broody but still can't do an Irish accent to save his life and is visibly learning this acting lark as the series progresses. The premise is that Angel, the vampire with a soul, has finally admitted he will never get it together with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), unless a reunion crossover episode or two are scheduled. He moves to Los Angeles, a city haunted not only by demons and vampires but lawyers and agents. [+]
Angel sets up as a private eye and solves cases with a supernatural aspect, and is partnered with Doyle (Glenn Quinn), a half-demon with a proper Irish accent and the useful psychic ability to know when someone is in trouble (thereby predicting any given week's plot), and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), another Buffy refugee here trying to reinvent herself as a struggling big-city single girl. Far less consistent than its parent show, but also not saddled with quite so much of a continuing story arc, Angel has a very different feel, cued by its effective semi-Goth violin theme tune and lots of film noir-ish LA street scenes, with a dose of cynical inside-the-entertainment-industry stuff. It has its share of familiar ideas (like a "fight club" episode) and simply daft premises (a demon-centred show which allegorises the debate about female circumcision, for example). Angel alienated a lot of initial fans by killing off its most appealing regular a third of the way into the run, dusting off hideous English comic stereotype Wesley the Watcher (Alex Denisof) as a replacement. However, it also comes up with some ingenious moments: in a two-parter guest starring sometime Buffy villainess Faith (Eliza Dushku), the show finally delivers something scary and emotionally powerful as Angel proves he can solve cases his ex-girlfriend can't. Meanwhile, the last couple of episodes-which beef up a Satanic law firm as regular foes and resurrect a long-dead character as a major troublemaker for the future-go from promising to delivering. -Kim Newman-This text refers to the whole of the series, not just this box set.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1 (Box Set) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Seth Green
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Anthony Stewart Head
  • Joss Whedon
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Stephen L. Posey
  • Nicholas Brendon
Release date: 1999-11-15
Run time: 520 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £5.88

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1 (Box Set) [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the "Hellmouth", a phenomenon which explains the local graveyard's overpopulation of vampires and other supernatural beings. Angel, a mysterious loiterer, starts flirting with Buffy and gives her helpful tips on how to cope with the local nasties. However, he turns out to be a vampire, which complicates the future of their relationship. Buffy makes friends with school outcasts Willow, a computer nerd, and geeky Xander. But she excites the enmity of high-school princess Cordelia. The season's prime villain is the Master, a Nosferatu-looking vampire lurking under the town. Giles, Buffy's mentor, looks things up in books and demonstrates the exact same look of puzzlement actor Anthony Head used to demonstrate in those horrifying instant coffee ads. -Kim Newman.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who Terror of the Zygons [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Marter
  • Tom Baker
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Richard Martin (IV)
  • Nicholas Courtney
  • John Gorrie
Release date: 1999-08-02
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who Terror of the Zygons [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

Loch Ness is the setting of this very traditional 1975 Doctor Who monster story, even though it was actually filmed in southern England with local atmosphere provided by Scottish character actor Angus Lennie (The Great Escape). The Doctor (Tom Baker) is called in to investigate a mystery involving the destruction of several oil rigs and it's not too long before the Loch Ness Monster is revealed as the culprit. But it's actually just a biomechanical weapon being manipulated by the evil Zygons who have been living at the bottom of the Loch plotting world domination. The organically designed sets and monsters are very striking, as are the visual effects with one notable exception: Really Big Creatures have always been a bane for the series with its limited budget to pull off and this story's reliance on an obvious puppet monster, especially during the climax, diminishes its impact. But there is still much to relish, particularly the dialogue of writer Robert Banks Stewart (who would go on to create the long-running BBC series Bergerac) that provides a number of gems including the Doctor admonishing the Zygons that if they succeed in their plans, "you'll have to come out on the balcony sometimes and wave a tentacle". With much derring-do, the Doctor saves the day as usual but not before four exciting episodes of fun and action. -Ryan K. Johnson.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Katy Manning
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Barry Letts
  • Lennie Manyne
  • David Troughton
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £17.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis (The Extended Version) [1988] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Courtney Pine
  • Anton Diffring
  • Chris Clough
  • Fiona Walker
  • Sopjie Aldred
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Series 7 Part 1 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2003-07-14
RRP: £34.99
Price: £14.96

Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Series 7 Part 1 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The seventh series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer begins with a mystery: someone is murdering teenage girls all over the world and something is trying hard to drive Spike mad. Buffy is considerably more cheerful in these episodes than we have seen her during the previous year as she trains Dawn and gets a job as student counsellor at the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High. Willow is recovering from the magical addiction which almost led her to destroy the world, but all is not yet well with her, or with Anya, who has returned to being a Vengeance demon in "Same Time, Same Place" and "Selfless", and both women are haunted by their decisions. Haunting of a different kind comes in the excellent "Conversations with Dead People" (one of the show's most terrifying episodes ever) where a mysterious song is making Spike kill again in spite of his soul and his chip. Giles turns up in "Bring on the Night" and Buffy has to fight one of the deadliest vampires of her career in "Showtime". In "Potential" Dawn faces a fundamental reassessment of her purpose in life. This is a spectacular start to Buffy's last year as the consequences of earlier actions unfold in a string of surprises and shocks punctuated as always by some of the funniest lines on television. -Roz Kaveney.

Actors & Directors
  • Paul Bernard
  • Katy Manning
  • Jon Pertwee
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - The Day Of The Daleks [1972] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Season 1 (Box Set 2) [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Seth Green
  • David Greenwalt
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • David Boreanaz
  • David Straiton
  • James A. Contner
  • Michael Lange
Release date: 2001-02-12
Run time: 456 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £12.99

Review Angel - Season 1 (Box Set 2) [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Spin-off shows rarely match the success of their parent programmes, especially in the superhero/fantasy genre (cf. The Girl From U. N. C. L. E. , The Bionic Woman, The Green Hornet). Characters who were perfectly useful as supporting figures dwindle when forced into the spotlight, and Angel takes a special risk by building an entire series around a character who is: a) supposed to be a mystery man; b) a vampire who once spent half a season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a dastardly villain who killed without remorse; and c) played by David Boreanaz, who is well up on handsome and broody but still can't do an Irish accent to save his life and is visibly learning this acting lark as the series progresses. The premise is that Angel, the vampire with a soul, has finally admitted he will never get it together with Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar), unless a reunion crossover episode or two are scheduled. He moves to Los Angeles, a city haunted not only by demons and vampires but lawyers and agents. [+]
Angel sets up as a private eye and solves cases with a supernatural aspect, and is partnered with Doyle (Glenn Quinn), a half-demon with a proper Irish accent and the useful psychic ability to know when someone is in trouble (thereby predicting any given week's plot), and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), another Buffy refugee here trying to reinvent herself as a struggling big-city single girl. Far less consistent than its parent show, but also not saddled with quite so much of a continuing story arc, Angel has a very different feel, cued by its effective semi-Goth violin theme tune and lots of film noir-ish LA street scenes, with a dose of cynical inside-the-entertainment-industry stuff. It has its share of familiar ideas (like a "fight club" episode) and simply daft premises (a demon-centred show which allegorises the debate about female circumcision, for example). Angel alienated a lot of initial fans by killing off its most appealing regular a third of the way into the run, dusting off hideous English comic stereotype Wesley the Watcher (Alex Denisof) as a replacement. However, it also comes up with some ingenious moments: in a two-parter guest starring sometime Buffy villainess Faith (Eliza Dushku), the show finally delivers something scary and emotionally powerful as Angel proves he can solve cases his ex-girlfriend can't. Meanwhile, the last couple of episodes-which beef up a Satanic law firm as regular foes and resurrect a long-dead character as a major troublemaker for the future-go from promising to delivering. -Kim Newman-This text refers to the whole of the series, not just this box set.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Battlefield [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Michael Kerrigan
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £24.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who Earthshock [1982] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Peter Grimwade
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.98

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) [Gold Box Set]
Actors & Directors
  • Harrison Ford
  • George Lucas
  • Alec Guinness
  • Mark Hamill
  • Carrie Fisher
Release date: 1997-10-06
RRP: £34.99
Price: £7.98

Review Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) [Gold Box Set] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • David Maloney
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.88

Review Doctor Who - The Deadly Assassin [1976] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • George Spenton-Foster
  • Mary Tamm
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.79

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