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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 35-36 - The Doomsday Machine / Wolf In The Fold
Actors & Directors
  • DeForest Kelley
  • William Shatner
  • Marc Daniels
  • John Fiedler
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • William Windom
  • Joseph Pevney
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.99

Review Star Trek : Episodes 35-36 - The Doomsday Machine / Wolf In The Fold / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 47-48 - Obsession / The Immunity Syndrome [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Pevney
  • William Shatner
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Stephen Brooks
  • Ralph Senensky
  • DeForest Kelley
Release date: 1990-05-07
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.44

Review Star Trek : Episodes 47-48 - Obsession / The Immunity Syndrome [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Lawnmower Man 2 - Beyond Cyberspace [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ely Pouget
  • Farhad Mann
  • Matt Frewer
  • Austin O'Brien
  • Camille Cooper
  • Patrick Bergin
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Michael Miner
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review Lawnmower Man 2 - Beyond Cyberspace [1996] / 4 Front Video:

With computer effects improving on a daily basis, a more visually dazzling Lawnmower Man sequel was inevitable. Ten minutes into Beyond Cyberspace and you know the CGI is vastly better, even if composite shots and model work aren't! The focus of the effects is still former simpleton Jobe, who's been rescued from the fireball explosions at the first film's end. He's had both legs amputated, his head shaved and is now played by Matt Frewer. In a Los Angeles of "the future" where it's always night time and raining, we find Peter has grown into a teenage tearaway. The reunion between the two original characters occurs through the introduction of disgraced scientist Dr Trace (Patrick Bergin). The Virtual Light Institute has Jobe building a chip Trace once designed. It's all being perverted for powerful gain of course, and as a result cyberspace is dying. This is the cue for Frewer to play up the cartoon insanity he does so well. Virtual Reality seems to necessitate increasingly ugly headwear, nevertheless Pete's friends all help to try stopping the Virtual Interface scam threatening world privacy. Like the first, this sequel is a great snapshot of the special effects industry of its day. [+]
In 1996, the cyber city and bike ride (a homage to Tron) was as good as you got. -Paul Tonks.

Review First Independent Video / Mortal Kombat - The Animated Video - The Journey Begins [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Bridgette Wilson
  • Robin Shou
  • Christopher Lambert
  • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Linden Ashby
  • Paul W.S. Anderson
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 53 min.
Creator: Kevin Droney
Price: £9.99

Review Mortal Kombat - The Animated Video - The Journey Begins [1995] / First Independent Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Red Heat [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Laurence Fishburne
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Ed O'Ross
  • James Belushi
  • Peter Boyle
  • Walter Hill
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Troy Kennedy-Martin
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.83

Review Red Heat [1989] / 4 Front Video:

After scoring a hit with the Eddie Murphy-Nick Nolte cop thriller 48 Hours, director Walter Hill returned to the buddy formula with this half-ridiculous, half-invigorating action flick about humourless Russian cop Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He follows a drug dealer from Moscow to Chicago, where he's matched up with city cop Art Ridzik (James Belushi), whose work ethic is considerably more relaxed. Most of the humour revolves around Danko's grumpy reaction to good ol' American capitalism, while Ridzik urges him to chill out. Red Heat is not bad as action comedies go, but only if you get into the absurd spirit of this predictable fare, in which the unlikely buddies get to wisecrack and act casually while mayhem erupts everywhere they go. Incidentally, Red Heat was the first American film allowed to shoot in Moscow's Red Square. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Falling Down [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Rachel Ticotin
  • Tuesday Weld
  • Michael Douglas
  • Robert Duvall
Release date: 1994-06-06
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: John J. Tomko
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.80

Review Falling Down [1992] / Warner Home Video:

Falling Down, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories in the USA about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, complete with pocket protector, nerd glasses, crewcut and short-sleeved white shirt, gets stuck in traffic one day near downtown LA and proceeds to just walk away from his car-and then lose it emotionally. Everyone he encounters rubs him the wrong way-and a fine lot of stereotypes they are, from threatening ghetto punks to rude convenience store owners to a creepy white supremacist-and he reacts violently in every case. As he walks across LA (now there's a concept), cutting a bloody swath, he's being tracked by a cop on the verge of retirement (Robert Duvall). He also spends time on the phone with his frightened ex-wife (Barbara Hershey). Though Douglas and Duvall give stellar performances, they can't disguise the fact that, as usual, this is another film from director Joel Schumacher that is about surface and sensation, rather than actual substance. -Marshall Fine This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, complete with pocket protector, nerd glasses, crewcut and short-sleeved white shirt, gets stuck in traffic one day near downtown LA and proceeds to just walk away from his car-and then lose it emotionally. [+]
Everyone he encounters rubs him the wrong way-and a fine lot of stereotypes they are, from threatening ghetto punks to rude convenience store owners to a creepy white supremacist-and he reacts violently in every case. As he walks across LA (now there's a concept), cutting a bloody swath, he's being tracked by a cop on the verge of retirement (Robert Duvall). He also spends time on the phone with his frightened ex-wife (Barbara Hershey). Though Douglas and Duvall give stellar performances, they can't disguise the fact that, as usual, this is another film from director Joel Schumacher that is about surface and sensation, rather than actual substance. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com -This text refers to the VHS edition of this video.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.7 - Crossfire / Return To Grace [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Colm Meaney
  • Avery Brooks
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Alexander Siddig
Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.49

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.7 - Crossfire / Return To Grace [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

From the outset, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was about conflict. Producers Rick Berman and Michael Piller challenged the utopian ideals of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek universe to create something totally different from its predecessors. That meant no familial camaraderie, squeaky-clean Federation diplomacy, or beige décor. Instead they wanted interpersonal friction, ruthless enemies (Gamma Quadrant Imperialists-The Dominion) and rebellion at every turn. The DS9 concept was originally facilitated by introducing the Cardassian/Bajoran war during The Next Generation's final days. After a muted first reception fans gradually came to accept the new look, but no one liked Star Trek without a starship and eventually the producers capitulated to viewers' wishes by introducing the USS Defiant (an apt name) in Season 3. Relying far less on technobabble than TNG, DS9 was unafraid to focus on matters of the spirit instead, demonstrating a ballsy independence from its parent shows. Taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Babylon 5, improved CGI space battles also became a fan favourite. Throughout the increasingly serialised story arc there were rebellious factions within the different establishments: Kira had belonged to the Shakaar resistance cell; the Maquis was Starfleet vs Cardassians; section 31 was a secret Starfleet group; the True Way was a Bajoran group opposed to peace; the Cardassians had their Obsidian Order and the Romulans their Gestapo-like Tal Shiar. Yet for all its constant bickering and espionage (even Bashir got to be James Bond), there was always some contemporary social commentary lurking: the Ferengi were used as a comedic foil to frown on materialistic greed; drugs were looked at via the Jem'Hadar foot soldiers' addiction to Ketracel White. [+]
Perhaps Sisko summed up the real heart of things: "Bajor doesn't need a man, it needs a legend". A future vision that retains a place for religion and spirituality turned out to be Deep Space Nine's first best destiny. -Paul Tonks.

Review / Sapphire (1959)
Actors & Directors
  • Yvonne Mitchell
  • Michael Craig
  • Bernard Miles
  • Basil Deardon
  • Nigel Patrick
Run time: 92 min.

Review Sapphire (1959):

First rate British thriller telling the story of the dogged search by two C. I. D men to find the killer of a young girl of West Indian blood. Made at the time of hightened racial tension following race riots in London, the screenplay seems a little heavy handed at times getting its message over butl an excellent crime drama all the same.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Shock Treatment [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Gray
  • Richard O'Brien
  • Jim Sharman
  • Jessica Harper
  • Cliff De Young
  • Patricia Quinn
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Michael White
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

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Review Starz Home Entertainment / The Crazies [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Lane Carroll
  • Harold Wayne Jones
  • Will MacMillan
  • Lloyd Hollar
  • Lynn Lowry
  • George A. Romero
Release date: 2003-07-28
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Paul McCollough
Price: £10.99

Review The Crazies [1973] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Final Cut [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Martin Smith
  • Lloyd Berry
  • Anne Ramsay
  • Roger Christian
  • Sam Elliott
  • Kelly Benson
Release date: 1997-05-06
Run time: 206 min.
Creator: Raul Inglis
RRP: £19.99
Price: £29.99

Review The Final Cut [1995] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Various Artists / Swing Piano Bar 1926-1942
Release date: 2000-01-17
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.94

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Review Cinema Club / Deep Cover
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Duke|Jeff Goldblum|Laurence Fishburne|Clarence Williams
Release date: 1999-05-17
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.58

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Reservoir Dogs [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Roth
  • Steve Buscemi
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Michael Madsen
  • Chris Penn
  • Harvey Keitel
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Roger Avary
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.75

Review Reservoir Dogs [1993] / Universal Pictures UK:

Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (ie, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them colour-coded aliases (Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco-and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival). Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. [+]
Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even-in the end-unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either. ) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. -Jim Emerson.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Survival [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Ainley
  • Sophie Aldred
  • Alan Wareing
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Julian Holloway
  • Lisa Bowerman
Release date: 1995-10-02
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £11.99

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


Actors & Directors
  • Lauren Bacall
  • John Huston
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Peter Lorre
  • Martha Vickers
  • Howard Hawks
  • Mary Astor
Run time: 209 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.00

Review The Maltese Falcon / The Big Sleep [1941/1946] / MGM/UA:


Review Warner Home Video / Blood From The Mummy's Tomb [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Keir
  • Valerie Leon
  • George Coulouris
  • Seth Holt
  • James Villiers
  • Hugh Burden
  • Michael Carreras
Release date: 1999-05-17
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Christopher Wicking
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.60

Review Blood From The Mummy's Tomb [1971] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Outbreak [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Dustin Hoffman
  • Morgan Freeman
  • Wolfgang Petersen
  • Rene Russo
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
Release date: 1996-05-20
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Robert Roy Pool
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.09

Review Outbreak [1995] / Warner Home Video:

When Warner Brothers was unable to secure the rights to Richard Preston's terrifying non-fiction book The Hot Zone (purchased by a rival studio), they took the basic idea of a fatal virus on the loose in the US, added Dustin Hoffman and director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) and produced an unusual thriller-a surprise hit-called Outbreak. The other picture, slated to star Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, fell through. The premise of Outbreak, which owes something to Elia Kazan's 1950 plague-scare movie, Panic in the Streets, is as terrifying as it is timely. As developers slash their way deeper into the previously unexplored tropical rainforests, they are exposed to radically new forms of life, including diseases, that in these days of commonplace international travel could turn into deadly epidemics almost before we know it. Hoffman's character and his estranged wife (Rene Russo) are disease experts called in to identify the unknown killer, which was carried into the country by an illegally smuggled monkey. The best sequence shows the disease spreading-through recycled air on a passenger jet or a sneeze in a crowded cinema. The final chase is pretty conventional but the cast is terrific, including Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Cuba Gooding Jr. , J. T. Walsh and Zakes Mokae. [+]
-Jim Emerson.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Pilot [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Mira Furlan
  • Michael O'Hare
  • Richard Compton
  • Tamlyn Tomita
  • Blaire Baron
  • Jerry Doyle
Release date: 1995-07-17
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.70

Review Babylon 5 - Pilot [1993] / Warner Home Video:

"The Gathering", the feature-length pilot episode for Babylon 5, still ranks amongst the best of introductions to any TV science fiction show. In 1993 there was just nothing else to compare with its wall-to-wall CGI effects backed up by eye-popping architectural and interior production design, costumes, alien make-up and hairstyles. A couple of flat performances let down an otherwise intriguingly cast ensemble, but these problems would vanish in the series. Here, character introduction and development was refreshingly left to fend for itself within an elaborate narrative structure that kicked-off several plot threads at once. Creator Michael Straczynski ambitiously starts proceedings with a multi-layered mystery concerned with the nature and destiny of the soul. Political shenanigans, trigger-happy action stereotypes and wavering physics linger in the viewer's memory, but the tantalising tale told by smooth Commander Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) about the "hole in his mind" makes the strongest impression. Considering how convoluted the show's mysteries would become, "The Gathering" remains an essential starting point. On the DVD: Babylon 5: The Gathering is presented here in its 1998 Special Edition version. However, nowhere on the packaging is this stated. In fact, the back-cover credits are incorrect: apart from anything else, this version features a new score by Christopher Franke and not Stewart Copeland's original. [+]
Special effects and sound quality are also superior to the original version, even if still only presented in 1. 33:1 ratio and two-channel Dolby. -Paul Tonks.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Enemy Below [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • David Hedison
  • Russell Collins
  • Dick Powell
  • Curd Jürgens
  • Theodore Bikel
  • Robert Mitchum
Release date: 1998-05-04
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Wendell Mayes
Price: £5.99

Review The Enemy Below [1957] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


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Star Trek : Episodes 35-36 - The Doomsday Machine / Wolf In The Fold, Star Trek : Episodes 47-48 - Obsession / The Immunity Syndrome [1967], Lawnmower Man 2 - Beyond Cyberspace [1996], Mortal Kombat - The Animated Video - The Journey Begins [1995], Red Heat [1989], Falling Down [1992], Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.7 - Crossfire / Return To Grace [1995], Sapphire (1959), Shock Treatment [1981], The Crazies [1973], The Final Cut [1995], Swing Piano Bar 1926-1942, Deep Cover, Reservoir Dogs [1993], Doctor Who - Survival [1989], The Maltese Falcon / The Big Sleep [1941/1946], Blood From The Mummy's Tomb [1971], Outbreak [1995], Babylon 5 - Pilot [1993], The Enemy Below [1957]

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