![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager Vol 5.7 [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418MN7DGSAL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kate Mulgrew
- Terry Windell
- Cliff Bole
- Robert Picardo
- Jeri Lynn Ryan
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.98
Review Star Trek Voyager Vol 5.7 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Timelash [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WWM5F2GVL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Colin Baker
- Pennant Roberts
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.69
Review Doctor Who - Timelash [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 26 : The Survivors / Who Watches The Watchers [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SC5VKSCQL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Stewart
- Jonathan Frakes
- Les Landau
- Marina Sirtis
- Brent Spiner
- Wil Wheaton
- Robert Wiemer
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.49
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 26 : The Survivors / Who Watches The Watchers [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 24 : Peak Performance / Shades Of Gray [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X04N7075L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Stewart
- Rob Bowman
- Jonathan Frakes
- Armin Shimerman
- Robert Scheerer
- Roy Brocksmith
- Colm Meaney
Price: £10.99
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 24 : Peak Performance / Shades Of Gray [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Masahiro Otani
- Naoto Hashimoto
Run time: 25 min.
Price: £5.99
Review The Guyver - Data 12 - Reactivation / Manga Entertainment:
Release date: 1992-06-29
Run time: 181 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99
Review Thunderbirds Are Go/Thunderbirds 6 / MGM Entertainment:
Release date: 1999-07-05
RRP: £79.99
Price: £4.99
Review The X Files : Season 5 - Box Set / The X Files:The fifth season of The X-Files is the one in which the ongoing alien conspiracy arc really takes over, building towards box-office glory for the inevitable cinematic leap in The X-Files Movie (1998). The series opener "Redux" begins with Mulder having been framed for everything going. Scully finally sees a UFO ("The Red and the Black") before being presented with a potential daughter (the two-part "Christmas Carol" and "Emily"). By "The End", there's an enormous tangle of threads for the big-screen adaptation to unravel (or not, as it turned out). Cigarette Smoking Man is being hunted, playing every side against the middle, as well as chasing after information on Mulder's sister. Krycek is back, too, as is an old flame for Mulder in the shape of Agent Diana Fowley. If that wasn't enough to goad viewers into the cinema, there was the Lone Gunmen's 1989-set back story ("Unusual Suspects", with Richard Belzer playing his Homicide: Life on the Streets character), a musical number in the black and white Frankenstein homage "Post Modern Prometheus", and scripts co-written by Stephen King ("Chinga"), William Gibson ("Kill Switch"), and even Darren McGavin (who had inspired the show as Kolchak: The Night Stalker) in "Travellers". On the DVD: The X-Files, Season 5 extras include Chris Carter's commentary over "Post Modern Prometheus", which reveals the decision making behind shooting in black and white as well as the problems it caused. A second commentary is from writer/coproducer John Shiban on "Pine Bluff Variant", where he openly admits the influence of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Across the six discs (only 20 episodes because of the movie of course) you get credits for every episode, their TV promo spots, deleted and international versions of several scenes (some with commentary from Carter), and a couple of TV featurettes. [+]The best of these is "The Truth About Season 5", talking to an excited Dean Haglund (Langly) amongst other crew members. -Paul Tonks.
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Macnee
- Linda Thorson
- Anthony Bate
- Kenneth Cope
- Don Sharp
- William Lucas
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.95
Review The Avengers - Vol. 14 - The Curious Case Of The Countless Clues / Invasion Of The Earthmen [1969] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review ITV DVD / Stranger, The - Vol. 1 - Summoned By Shadows / More Than A Messiah [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518527G9MVL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Bill Baggs|Colin Baker|Nicola Bryant|Sophie Aldred
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99
Review Stranger, The - Vol. 1 - Summoned By Shadows / More Than A Messiah [1993] / ITV DVD:
Release date: 1998-12-28
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.89
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.13 - One / Hope And Fear / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review 4 Front Video / Men In Black [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CX507CW4L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rip Torn
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Linda Fiorentino
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Will Smith
- Vincent D'Onofrio
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.69
Review Men In Black [1997] / 4 Front Video:This imaginative comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty) is a lot of fun, largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extra-terrestrials. There's lots of comedy to spare in this bright film, some of the funniest stuff found in the margins of the major action (a scene with Smith's character being trounced in the distance by a huge alien while Jones questions a witness is a riot. ) The inventiveness never lets up, and the cast-including Vincent D'Onofrio doing frighteningly convincing work as an alien occupying a decaying human-hold up their end splendidly. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com On the DVD: This Collector's Edition disc contains a "Visual Commentary" that features director Barry Sonenfeld and actor Tommy Lee Jones in an anecdotal conversation, but with the unique twist that they are displayed as silhouettes on your TV screen (imagine you're sitting in the back row of the cinema and they are up front) using a pointer to highlight particular events on screen. If you have a widescreen TV, the menu prompts you to switch to 4:3 mode to see this. There is also a "Visual Effects Scene Deconstruction" in which the tunnel scene and the Edgar Bug fight scene are dissected into their constituent parts; an in-depth documentary, "Metamorphosis of MIB", which charts the progress of the concept from comic book to screen; five "Extended and Alternate" scenes; trailers, including a teaser for MIB II; and Will Smith's "Men in Black" music video. -Mark Walker.
![Review Connoisseur Video / Solaris [1972]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y26BGZRCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jüri Järvet
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
- Donatas Banionis
- Natalya Bondarchuk
- Nikolai Grinko
Run time: 159 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £16.94
Review Solaris [1972] / Connoisseur Video:Released in 1972, Solaris is Andrei Tarkovsky's third feature and his most far-reaching examination of human perceptions and failings. It's often compared to Kubrick's 2001, but although both bring a metaphysical dimension to bear on space exploration, Solaris has a claustrophobic intensity which grips the attention over spans of typically Tarkovskian stasis. Donatas Banionis is sympathetic as the cosmonaut sent to investigate disappearances on the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to be confronted by his past in the guise of his dead wife, magnetically portrayed by Natalya Bondarchuk. The ending is either a revelation or a conceit, depending on your viewpoint. On the DVD: Solaris reproduces impressively on DVD in widescreen-which is really essential here-and Eduard Artemiev's ambient score comes over with pristine clarity. There are over-dubs in English and French, plus subtitles in 12 languages. An extensive stills gallery, detailed filmographies for cast and crew, and comprehensive biographies of Tarkovsky and author Stanislaw Lem are valuable extras, as are the interviews with Bondarchuk and Tarkovsky's sister and an amusing 1970s promo-film for Banionis. It would have been better had the film been presented complete on one disc, instead of stretched over two. Even so, the overall package does justice to a powerful and disturbing masterpiece. -Richard Whitehouse.
Actors & Directors
- Ray Brootis
- T.P. McKenna
- Linda Thorson
- Nigel Green
- Patrick Macnee
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £10.99
Review The Avengers - Vol. 11 - Noon - Doomsday / Fog [1969] / Lumiere Pictures:
Release date: 2001-08-13
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.45
Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 29 And 30 [1965] / ITV DVD:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Dr Who - An Unearthly Child [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W70CG7TSL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Carole Ann Ford
- Waris Hussein
- William Hartnell
- Jacqueline Hill
- William Russell
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99
Review Dr Who - An Unearthly Child [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:The "unearthly" strains of Ron Grainer's soon-to-be-famous title music announced the arrival of Dr Who to British TV screens on Saturday 23rd November, 1963. It must have been quite a baffling experience for first-time viewers: the swirling abstract graphics, the weird electronic sound effects courtesy of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, the very oddity of the show's title. This really was groundbreaking TV. "I think you'll find there's a very simple explanation for all of this", says schoolteacher Ian Chesterton (William Russell) condescendingly, shortly before being taken on board the TARDIS and transported to an alien planet. For audiences, too, this was something entirely unfamiliar, yet obviously appealing: Dr Who ran for almost 30 years and even long after cancellation it remains one of the BBC's most popular shows. His later incarnations were all eccentric in their different ways, but William Hartnell's original Doctor is an irascible and distinctively alien character, not at all happy having to put up with ignorant 20th-century humans. The "Unearthly Child" of the title is his granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford), temporarily attending school on Earth. She is conspicuously different from her classmates and attracts the attention of two of her teachers who resolve to find out why. After an encounter with her mysterious grandfather they are whisked away on an adventure to a different time and place where angry cavemen are trying in vain to learn the secret of fire. Thus the show's trademarks are established from the outset: the Doctor and his more or less reluctant human companions, the mechanical unreliability of the TARDIS, the cliffhanger ending of each episode. [+]It was a formula that rarely changed but that allowed apparently limitless variation, the only constraint being the BBC's budget. In later years the show tried vainly to compete with blockbuster special effects movies; but its original low-key incarnation relied more on inventive scenarios and good writing-qualities that are just as important now as then. -Mark Walker.
Actors & Directors
- Rebel Joy
- Christopher Courage
- Lucy Morales
- Bill Timoney
- Rose Palmer
- Hideki Takayama
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.99
Review Urotsukidoji II - Legend Of The Demon Womb / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.6 [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QTSA64BEL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Picardo
- Jeri Ryan
- Kate Mulgrew
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.27
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.6 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input from Gene Roddenberry, made its debut in 1995 and quickly established itself both as markedly different from cosmic cousin Deep Space Nine and as the successor to The Next Generation. Despite a lack of originality in its premise (Lost in Space anyone?), Voyager has nonetheless often been a bigger ratings success than any of its predecessors. Catapulted unwittingly to the far-flung Delta Quadrant, the crew of the Federation vessel Voyager must try somehow to get back home. The ghost of Katherine Hepburn lives on in Kate Mulgrew's forceful Captain Janeway, who has an equivocal relationship with first officer and Native American-lite Chakotay (Robert Beltran). Tim Russ gives possibly the franchises' first fully realistic (yawn) portrayal of a Vulcan and to enhance the alien quotient there's cuddly chef Neelix (Ethan Phillips). Garret Wang must have drawn the short straw for character development, since his Harry Kim is never imbued with any of the drama of rebellious pilot chum Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) who even gets the series' only romance with the seemingly inescapable resident half-breed B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson). Until the fourth season, the fans' favourite was the straight-funnyman role of Robert Picardo's nameless Doctor. Then, with the brave Borg storyline of "Scorpion Part 2", a serious improvement in the show's behind-the-scenes thinking introduced actress Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9, who immediately upped sex appeal and viewing numbers. There have been some oddities and errors along the way, such as the disappearance of cast regular Kes, the appearance of semi-regular Naomi Wildman and various Holodeck obssessions with Leonardo Da Vinci, a smoky bar, and an "Oirish" village. Flashes of brilliance still emerge, while Jerry Goldsmith's graceful theme always opens the show in style. [+]-Paul Tonks.
Release date: 2001-08-13
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98
Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 31 And 32 [1965] / ITV DVD:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 34 : Captain's Holiday / Tin Man [1990]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513EXKNW4QL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Michael Dorn
- Marina Sirtis
- Robert Scheerer
- LeVar Burton
- Chip Chalmers
- Jonathan Frakes
- Patrick Stewart
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.99
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 34 : Captain's Holiday / Tin Man [1990] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Warner Home Video / The NeverEnding Story 2 - The Next Chapter [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K5WJFVCQL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Martin Umbach
- John Wesley Shipp
- George Miller
- Clarissa Burt
- Jonathan Brandis
- Kenny Morrison
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.74
Review The NeverEnding Story 2 - The Next Chapter [1991] / Warner Home Video:
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