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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Lennie Manyne
  • Barry Letts
  • Jon Pertwee
  • David Troughton
  • Katy Manning
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 - The Ark [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Purves
  • Michael Imison
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 1998-10-05
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £14.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Face of Evil [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Pamela Salem
  • Tom Baker
  • David Garfield
  • Louise Jameson
  • Leslie Schofield
  • Pennant Roberts
Release date: 1999-05-04
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £14.98

Review Doctor Who The Face of Evil [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

"The Face of Evil" (1976) was the fourth story in the 14th season of Dr Who. Tom Baker was well and truly established in the role of the heroic Time Lord, but the Doctor's popular assistant, Sarah Jane Smith played by Elizabeth Sladen had departed at the end of "The Hand of Fear". This story was inspired by HG Wells' The Time Machine (filmed in 1960) with its future society split in two: one group descended into primitive superstition the other surviving as a technological elite. Adding a crashed spaceship, a computer with multiple personalities and a mysterious carving of the Doctor, this would have been a routine adventure but for one thing; the first appearance of a new assistant played by Louise Jameson. An instant hit with the audience, Leela was a different kind of Dr Who companion. Confident, not adverse to violent self-defence, scantily-clad and unselfconsciously sexy, Leela was part-way between Tarzan's Jane and The Avengers' Emma Peel. Writer Chris Boucher acknowledged The Avengers influence, also noting that he named the character after Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled! Leela stayed with the Doctor until the end of "The Invasion of Time" (1978). -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • T.P. McKenna
  • Alan Wareing
  • Chris Jury
  • Ricco Ross
  • Peggy Mount
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

Review Doctor Who The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

Doctor Who isn't really known for its villains having a high level of creepiness for anyone over the age of 10 but if you have any sort of clown phobia, this adventure is sure to confirm your worst fears about them. The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and his companion Ace land on a barren planet that is hosting the Psychic Circus, which has fallen on hard times. Now, any soul unfortunate enough to stumble into the big top is forced to entertain in the centre ring with typically fatal results. The Doctor tries to find out who or what is behind it all and the resulting story comes off like an allegory for the series itself. After a creative slump in the mid-1980s, Doctor Who was finding its footing again, although the story is burdened by throwing as many disparate elements as possible (including an animated corpse, a wolf girl and even the Gods of Ragnarok) into the mix. The Gods, not unlike the audience, demand to be kept entertained, but for the most part the best the Doctor can do is some cheap conjuring tricks while waiting for the inevitable climax. The most effective element throughout is the menace provided by Ian Reddingon (a regular on EastEnders) as the Chief Clown, sending victims to their doom with wave of his hand and a perpetual smile painted on his face. -Ryan K. Johnson.

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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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 - Planet Of Giants [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 2002-01-14
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.99

Review Doctor Who - Planet Of Giants [1964] / 2 Entertain Video:

"Planet of the Giants" opened the second season of Doctor Who with William Hartnell's Doctor and companions Susan, Barbara and Ian finding themselves in a mysterious labyrinth filled with dead giant ants. A TARDIS malfunction has left the travellers an inch high and they have landed in the cracks in a garden path, part of a testing ground for an insecticide which could trigger a biological apocalypse. The plot combines the urgent warning of Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental landmark Silent Spring, with the basic scenario of Richard Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), the characters facing similar hazards including being menaced by a domestic cat. The low budget means the huge props necessary to realise the story are limited, but what there are prove surprisingly good. Even the over-size ants and a big fly look fairly impressive. The story maintains an unsettling mood, with an effective cliff-hanger involving the laboratory sink. Continuity problems stem from the original four-episode story being re-edited into three parts prior to transmission, but this is still a superior example of early Doctor Who, predating the popular American TV series Land of the Giants (1968) by four years. Lindsay Gutteridge's once popular 1973 novel Cold War in a Country Garden owed much to the story. -Gary S Dalkin.

Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Katy Manning
  • Paul Bernard
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 / Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) [Gold Box Set]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Guinness
  • Mark Hamill
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Harrison Ford
  • George Lucas
Release date: 1997-10-06
RRP: £34.99
Price: £7.98

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • George Lucas
  • Ewan McGregor|Natalie Portman|Hayden Christensen|Ian McDiarmid
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 137 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.89

Review Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones [2002] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The most densely plotted instalment of the saga so far, Attack of the Clones is a tale of both Machiavellian political drama and doomed romance; it's epic war film and silly comic-book fantasy combined, as teenage Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) chafes at the restrictions imposed by his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and falls in love with Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman). Renegade Jedi Count Dooku (Christopher Lee) is leading a breakaway federation of disgruntled systems; while the insidious influence of Darth Sidious is felt rather than seen as his invisible hand guides apparently unrelated events, from Jar Jar's unwitting instigation of a disastrous Senate decision to bounty hunter Jango Fett's revelatory role at the centre of the conspiracy. Along the way the story has fun with the conventions of Chandleresque detective fiction as Obi-Wan explores the seedier side of Coruscant, and incorporates the noble warrior ethos of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in its portrayal of the Jedi order. The portentous tone is lightened by tongue-in-cheek self-referential dialogue and the antics of robotic clowns R2D2 and C3PO. (One niggle for music fans, though, is the cavalier cut-and-paste approach to John Williams's music score. ) Like the Empire Strikes Back, Clones is the bridging film of the trilogy and thus ends on an equivocally bittersweet note. On the DVD: Attack of the Clones is an all-digital film, and so looks suitably superb in this anamorphic widescreen transfer, accompanied by a THX encoded Dolby 5. 1 soundtrack. Anyone who owns The Phantom Menace two-disc set will know what to expect from the special features: here's another group commentary led by George Lucas, two lengthy documentaries on the digital effects ("From Puppets to Pixels" and "The Previsualisation of Episode II") plus several other featurettes and Web documentaries, notably "Films Are Not Released, They Escape", a look at the sound design. There's also a fun trailer for the R2-D2 mockumentary "Beneath the Dome", trailers, photo galleries and more to satisfy any Star Wars fan. [+]
-Mark Walker.

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

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Review Warner Home Video / The Never Ending Story & The Never Ending Story 2 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Drum Garrett
  • Barret Oliver
  • Nicholas Gilbert
  • Gerald McRaney
  • Wolfgang Petersen
  • Darryl Cooksey
Release date: 1992-10-19
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.99

Review The Never Ending Story & The Never Ending Story 2 [1985] / Warner Home Video:

Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) made his first English-language film with this 1984 fantasy about a boy (Barret Oliver) visualising the stories of a book he's reading. The imagined tale involves another boy, a warrior (Noah Hathaway), and his efforts to save the empire of Fantasia from a nemesis called the Nothing. Whether or not the scenario sticks in the memory, what does linger are the unique effects, which are not quite like anything else. Plenty of good fairy-tale characters and memorable scenes, and the film even encourages kids to read. -Tom Keogh.

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 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Death To The Daleks [1974] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • John Pertwee
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £7.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Creature From The Pit [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2002-07-15
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.99

Review Doctor Who - The Creature From The Pit [1979] / 2 Entertain Video:

The 1979 Doctor Who adventure "The Creature from the Pit" finds Tom Baker's fourth Doctor in decidedly tongue-in-cheek mode on the planet Cloris, a world where metal is in such short supply its possession means power, and where a very large green alien is annoyed at being kept prisoner in a pit. As so often the Doctor gets caught between two feuding parties, here the power-crazed Lady Adrasta (Myra Frances) and her court, and a bunch of Pythonesque bandits led by John Bryans. This motley crew reveal the influence of script editor Douglas Adams, while more fun is to had from Baker's interaction with the astrologer Organon, played by Geoffrey "Catweazle" Bayldon in a role which recalls Adams' Slartibartfast from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. At four episodes a thin story is over-stretched, the finale seems tacked on, and the shoddy creature effects are more remarkably phallic than anything in the same year's cinema release, Alien. On the plus side, Lalla Ward in her third story grows nicely into her role as Romana, David Brierley takes over from John Leeson as the voice of robot dog K-9 and the set design and costumes are well up to the show's late-70s high standards. Not a patch on the immediately preceding "City of Death", but an entertaining Whovian pantomime nonetheless. -Gary S Dalkin.

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:


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

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Dragonfire [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • Chris Clough
Release date: 1993-12-29
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who Terror of the Zygons [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Courtney
  • Ian Marter
  • Tom Baker
  • Richard Martin (IV)
  • John Gorrie
  • Elizabeth Sladen
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.

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