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  • Barry Letts
  • Jon Pertwee
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - Terror Of The Autons - 30th Anniversary - 1963-93 - Full Reconstructed Colour Version [1971] / 2 Entertain Video:


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

Review Doctor Who - Battlefield [1989] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (Director's Cut) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Flemyng
  • Jason Statham
  • Guy Ritchie
  • Nick Moran
  • Dexter Fletcher
  • Steven Mackintosh
Release date: 1999-11-15
Run time: 126 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.49

Review Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (Director's Cut) [1998] / Universal Pictures UK:

Cockney boys Tom, Soap, Eddie and Bacon are in a bind; they owe seedy criminal and porn king "Hatchet" Harry a sizeable amount of cash after Eddie loses half a million in a rigged game of poker. Hot on their tails is a thug named Big Chris who intends to send them all to the hospital if they don't come up with the cash in the allotted time. Add into the mix an incompetent set of ganja cultivators, two dimwitted robbers, a "madman" with an afro, and a ruthless band of drug dealers and you have an astonishing movie called Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Before the boys can blink, they are caught up in a labyrinth of double-crosses that lead to a multitude of dead bodies, copious amounts of drugs, and two antique rifles. Written and directed by talented newcomer Guy Ritchie, this is one of those movies that was destined to become an instant cult classic à la Reservoir Dogs. Although some comparisons were drawn between Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, it would be unfair to discount the brilliant wit of the story and the innovative camerawork that the director brings to his debut feature. Not since The Krays has there been such an accurate depiction of the East End and its more colourful characters. Indicative of the social stratosphere in London, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a hilarious and at times touching account of friendships and loyalty. The director and his mates (who make up most of the cast) clearly are enjoying themselves here. This comes across in some shining performances, in particular from ex-footballer Vinnie Jones (Big Chris) and an over-the-top Vas Blackwood (as Rory Breaker), who very nearly steals the show. [+]
Full of quirky vernacular and clever tension-packed action sequences, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a triumph-a perfect blend of intelligence, humour and suspense. -Jeremy Storey.

Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • David Maloney
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.84

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


Review Odyssey Video / Small Sacrifices [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Ryan O'Neal
  • David Greene
  • Farrah Fawcett
  • Emily Perkins
  • John Shea
  • Gordon Clapp
Release date: 1993-06-07
Run time: 186 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.75

Review Small Sacrifices [1988] / Odyssey Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The War Games
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
Run time: 240 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.95

Review Doctor Who - The War Games / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Eraserhead [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Allen Joseph
  • Judith Anna Roberts
  • Jack Nance
  • Jeanne Bates
  • David Lynch
  • Charlotte Stewart
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.95

Review Eraserhead [1976] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 1998-11-09
RRP: £24.99
Price: £32.99

Review Doctor Who - Ice Warriors / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who Terror of the Zygons [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Marter
  • John Gorrie
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Richard Martin (IV)
  • Tom Baker
  • Nicholas Courtney
Release date: 1999-08-02
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49

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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • James A. Contner
  • David Greenwalt
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • James Whitmore Jr.
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Michael Lange
  • Joss Whedon
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • David Boreanaz
Release date: 2000-06-12
Run time: 475 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £2.97

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 (Box Set 1) [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.

Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Christopher Barry
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.99

Review Doctor Who - The Brain Of Morbius [1976] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Touchstone Home Video / Leon [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Natalie Portman
  • Peter Appel
  • Gary Oldman
  • Luc Besson
  • Danny Aiello
  • Jean Reno
Release date: 1996-02-05
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.99

Review Leon [1995] / Touchstone Home Video:

Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) made his American directorial debut with Leon, a stylised thriller about a French hit man (Jean Reno) who takes in an American girl (Natalie Portman) being pursued by a corrupt killer cop (Gary Oldman). Oldman is a little more unhinged than he should be, but there is something genuinely irresistible about the story line and the relationship between Reno and Portman. Rather than cave in to the cookie-cutter look and feel of American action pictures, Besson brings a bit of his glossy style from French hits La Femme Nikita and Subway to the production of The Professional, and the results are refreshing even if the bullets and explosions are awfully familiar. -Tom Keogh.

Actors & Directors
  • ELizabeth Sladen
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Alan Bromly
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - The Time Warrior [1973] / 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: £7.66

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 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 6 Collection - Part 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2002-08-19
RRP: £34.99
Price: £4.00

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.

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: £7.99

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.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael E. Bryant
  • Tom Baker
  • Elisabeth Sladen
  • Ian Marter
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £16.99

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


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Planet Of The Spiders [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
Release date: 1991-04-02
Run time: 148 min.
Price: £19.99

Review Doctor Who - Planet Of The Spiders [1974] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Monster of Peladon [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Lennie Mayne
  • Elisabeth Sladen
Release date: 1995-12-27
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £19.99

Review Doctor Who The Monster of Peladon [1974] / 2 Entertain Video:


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