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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 (Box Set 2) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • Michael E. Gershman
  • Joss Whedon
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • David Boreanaz
  • Michael Lange
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • James A. Contner
  • David Greenwalt
Release date: 2000-04-24
Run time: 474 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £7.99

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 (Box Set 2) [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

If Season One hooked viewers by promising unpredictable story lines and a willingness to experiment outside the boundaries of genre formatting, nothing prepared us for the latter half of Season Two. Softening the blow-much like the way Box Set 1 ends-is the start here with the kooky Thing-like invasion of "Bad Eggs". Then with the extraordinary double act of "Surprise" and "Innocence", every aspect of the show grows up in a big hurry: the result of Buffy sleeping with Angel is a series of tragedies everyone is powerless to predict or prevent. These two episodes deservedly won an Emmy for make-up, but that says nothing of the powerful story-telling conveyed by pared-down dialogue and remarkable performances from the young cast. As Angel's character is inverted and explored, it's an acting slugfest between David Boreanaz and Sarah Michelle Gellar through to their bitter end (she later won a Saturn Award in recognition). As the pair dance between seeking out and avoiding one another, each of the secondary characters undergoes a talent-stretching transformation. For Giles it's the end to his relationship with Jenny ("Passion"), an event poisoning the motivations of everyone it affects. Willow distances herself considerably from the timid teddy bear image, taking on teaching responsibilities, witchcraft, and her lycanthropic boyfriend Oz (coincidentally, Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green were also together in My Stepmother Is An Alien). All of these threads are tied together then torn apart by the two-part finale "Becoming". So much happens in these two hours of television, but thankfully nothing seems rushed. [+]
With a cliffhanger ending to rival The Empire Strikes Back the second chapter of Buffy The Vampire Slayer closes in tantalising style leaving everything at stake. -Paul Tonks.

Review 4 Front Video / Cat People [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Kent Smith
  • Jane Randolph
  • Simone Simon
  • Jacques Tourneur
  • Tom Conway
Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £34.99

Review Cat People [1942] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Colin Baker
  • Peter Moffatt
Release date: 1993-02-08
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99

Review Doctor Who - The Twin Dilemma / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Series 5 Part 1 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephanie Romanov
  • Eliza Dushku
  • David Boreanaz
  • Andy Hallett
  • Alexis Denisof
Release date: 2004-08-23
Price: £34.99

Review Angel - Series 5 Part 1 [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis (The Extended Version) [1988] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Fiona Walker
  • Sopjie Aldred
  • Chris Clough
  • Courtney Pine
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Anton Diffring
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £15.98

Review Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis (The Extended Version) [1988] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


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: £4.47

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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • James Marsters
  • James A. Contner
  • David Solomon
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Anthony Stewart Head
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Joss Whedon
  • Tucker Gates
  • David Grossman
Release date: 2000-10-30
Run time: 468 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £16.95

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sunnydale high school is left behind in smoking ruins and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) becomes a college freshman at the (fictitious) University of California Sunnydale campus. The major arc of the season involves a semi-sinister Man from U. N. C. L. E. -type government agency known as The Initiative which has its Bond-style HQ under the campus. Their nefarious plans involve capturing vampires and demons, including the now-regular character Spike (James Marsters), and hacking them to pieces for assembly into a Frankensteinian supermonster or fitting them with chips that mute their killing urges. Buffy's plank-like new boyfriend Riley (Mark Blucas) is deadweight, Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) is shoved into new corners of irrelevance (and turns folkie!), Willow (Alyson Hannigan) breaks up with the werewolf (Seth Green) and comes out, Xander (Nicholas Brendon) whines about not being a student but starts dating a former demon (the amusing Emma Caulfield), Angel (David Boreanaz) has his own series but drops in for crossovers (you'll need to buy the Angel box set to find out how some key plotlines pay off) and previously killed or comatose semi-regulars pop in for dreams or revivals. A run of shaky episodes starts off this season, with the show seemingly uncomfortable with the new setting as it treads water with the same old monsters. [+]
This set starts to pick up with a few well-above-average episodes, the stand-out being "hush"!. This is a rare attempt for the show at being truly scary, featuring Nosferatu-like demons who glide around robbing people of their voices and force all the characters who have been evading the truth to open up to each other through non-verbal communication. The big plot, spread over the bulk of the episodes, is less interesting than the major arcs of the last two seasons, perhaps because Buffy's new love interest and new nemesis both fail to make much of an impression. This also tends to leave Sarah Michelle Gellar in the shadows of the show she is supposed to be starring in-her best 42 minutes in this series ("Who Are You", not included in this set) comes when she is possessed by bad girl Faith and can cut loose a bit. Mildly wobbly after the last two years, Buffy is still hanging in there and making its absurd premise pay off. -Kim Newman.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexis Denisof
  • Stephanie Romanov
  • Eliza Dushku
  • David Boreanaz
  • Andy Hallett
Release date: 2003-09-08
RRP: £34.99
Price: £19.56

Review Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The second half of Angel's fourth year is a wild ride with no brakes and few stand-alone episodes. To recap, Los Angeles has fallen into perpetual night; Angel has mislaid his soul again; and something odd is going on with Cordelia, who is uncharacteristically aware of the effect of every word she utters. Wesley and Gunn are fighting over Fred; Lorne's ability to read souls is getting clouded, even when they sing karaoke; and the wounded Lilah is the only survivor of their former nemesis, the law firm of Wolfram and Hart, after a visit from the horned rock-like Beast. Things can only get worse-and, inventively and surprisingly, they do. Angel started off as an anthology show but in this season became so arc-heavy as to be almost impenetrable to the new viewer-but for the initiated it is as tense and suspenseful as 24 and even more prepared to put all of its characters in jeopardy. Things are so bad with the Beast, its hidden master and Angelus, that Faith (Eliza Dushku) breaks out of jail and back into the show to help out and Willow makes a surprise visit from Buffy. Particular praise is due to Gina Torres for her air of whimsical menace as the goddess Jasmine and to David Boreanaz for his silver-tongued devilry as Angelus and his brooding charm as Angel. -Roz Kaveney.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • David Boreanaz
Release date: 2002-06-17
RRP: £34.99
Price: £18.00

Review Angel - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In the third season of Angel the titular vampire with a soul was forced to stand alone thanks to the (temporary) death of his beloved Buffy and her show's move to a new network, with no crossover between the two allowed. He returns from seeking peace in a demon-haunted monastery to find the LA Angel Investigations team fighting supernatural crime in his absence. Fred is still haunted by the nightmare dimension from which they rescued her; Cordelia's visions get ever more painful and debilitating. The schemes of the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart become every more imaginative and dragon lady Lilah Morgan becomes even more of an enemy when lusting after Angel. Gunn's old gang becomes a menace; the 18th-century vampire hunter Holtz arrives in 21st-century LA; Wesley finds himself possessed by a primal misogyny that exploits his own dark side. Unbelievably Darla, Angel's vampire sire and lover, turns up, pregnant with his child and is tortured by inexplicable motherly feelings as well as a raging thirst for human blood. Angel's second season took us a long way into LA's supernatural heart of darkness and Angel's own bleak core; Season 3 demonstrates how much further things can go. All this, and glimpse into a world in which Cordelia is not a seer and sleuth, but a star with her own sitcom. -Roz Kaveney.

Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Douglas Camfield
Release date: 1993-06-07
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.70

Review Doctor Who - The Invasion [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel - Season 3 (Box Set 2) [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • David Boreanaz
Release date: 2002-08-19
RRP: £34.99
Price: £8.00

Review Angel - Season 3 (Box Set 2) [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The second half of Angel's third season demonstrates yet again that when the "vampire with a soul" and his human allies are closest to happiness they are more acutely in danger. The vampire Darla is dust again, leaving Angel with their son Connor to rear, and for a few episodes things go pretty well-but Angel's enemies, both those he has made in his quest for redemption and those he made when he was unadulterated evil, are still out there. Stephanie Romanov comes into her silky own in this season, making Lilah Morgan all the more seductively evil because she is clear about the choices she has made; the satanic law-firm of Wolfram and Hart are this show's most inspired creation. As the season moves to its climax, Wesley (Alexis Denisof) has hard choices to make and of the show's core cast it is Denisof who has the most interesting things to do; he has triumphantly turned the bumbling fop of Buffy's third season into a man nearly destroyed by good intentions and despair. The season's devastating climax is compulsive viewing and this box also contains one of the most impressive single episodes the show has yet come up with: in "Waiting in the Wings" writer, director and creator Joss Whedon comes up with a classic ghost story as Angel and his crew go to the ballet and find a performance that is literally timeless. -Roz Kaveney.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 Collection - Episodes 12 - 22 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • David Boreanaz
  • Michael Lange
  • Joss Whedon
  • James Whitmore Jr.
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Michael E. Gershman
  • James A. Contner
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • Nicholas Brendon
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 484 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £2.99

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 Collection - Episodes 12 - 22 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Action-packed Season Three develops major characters and plot lines brewing over the last couple of years (see below). The Mayor, this season's major baddie, wants to become an invincible demon by slaughtering everyone at Sunnydale High's graduation ceremony, but he's going to torture them all by giving his speech first. Bad-girl vampire-slayer Faith wants to best Buffy and gets ever more rotten. Angel comes back from hell but isn't sure what to do about his girlfriend. Willow meets her evil gay vampire duplicate from another dimension. Xander loses his virginity, but still has to contemplate his essential uselessness. Cordelia gets less whiny and has to work in a dress-shop when her father becomes bankrupt. Giles wears tweed and drinks tea, though it is revealed that he used to be a warlock and in a punk band. Besides the soap opera, there are monsters, curses, and vampires (inevitably). -Kim Newman.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Marter
  • Tom Baker
  • Michael E. Bryant
  • Elisabeth Sladen
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £16.50

Review Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Exorcist 3 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • William Peter Blatty|George C. Scott|Ed Flanders|Jason Miller
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £18.95

Review The Exorcist 3 [1990] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Mary Ridge
Release date: 1993-01-04
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - Terminus [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Paramount VHR 4473 / The Keep [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian McKellen
  • Michael Mann
  • Scott Glenn
  • Jurgen Prochnow
  • Gabriel Byrne
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £34.95

Review The Keep [1983] / Paramount VHR 4473:

Michael Mann's superb gothic thriller will grip you with it's combination of horror, romance and the supernatural.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Vampire Circus [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Higgins
  • Laurence Payne
  • Thorley Walters
  • Robert Young (III)
  • Adrienne Corri
  • John Moulder-Brown
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Vampire Circus [1972] / 2 Entertain Video:


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

Review Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation [1978] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Ian Marter
Release date: 1995-03-06
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £11.99

Review Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Uca Catalogue / Fright Night [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Sarandon
  • Amanda Bearse
  • Tom Holland
  • Stephen Geoffreys
  • William Ragsdale
  • Roddy McDowall
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.77

Review Fright Night [1985] / Uca Catalogue:


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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 (Box Set 2) [1998], Cat People [1942], Doctor Who - The Twin Dilemma, Angel - Series 5 Part 1 [2000], Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis (The Extended Version) [1988] [1963], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 6 (Box Set 1) [1998], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998], Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000], Angel - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [2000], Doctor Who - The Invasion [1968], Angel - Season 3 (Box Set 2) [2000], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 Collection - Episodes 12 - 22 [1998], Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [1963], The Exorcist 3 [1990], Doctor Who - Terminus [1983], The Keep [1983], Vampire Circus [1972], Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation [1978], Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963], Fright Night [1985]

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