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Review Warner Home Video / V - The Series - Vol. 4 - Episodes 8 And 9 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • June Chadwick
  • Bruce Seth Green
  • Kevin Hooks
  • Michael Wright
  • Jane Badler
  • Jeff Yagher
  • Jennifer Cooke
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.25

Review V - The Series - Vol. 4 - Episodes 8 And 9 [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers - Celebrity Guest Collection - Vol. 4 [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Tracy Reed
  • Gerry O'Hara
  • Kenneth Cope
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Don Sharp
  • Richmond Harding
  • Dudley Foster
  • Anthony Bate
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers - Celebrity Guest Collection - Vol. 4 [1962] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Actors & Directors
  • Robert Asher
  • Charles Crichton
  • Douglas Wilmer
  • Nigel Davenport
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Diana Rigg
  • Warren Mitchell
Release date: 1994-02-28
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Avengers - Vol. 7 - The Danger Makers / The See- Through Man [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf - Smeg Outs [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Bye
  • Hattie Hayridge
  • Danny John-Jules
  • Chris Barrie
  • Robert Llewellyn
  • Craig Charles
Release date: 1997-02-03
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.89

Review Red Dwarf - Smeg Outs [1995] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Manga Entertainment / New Gall Force - Episode 1 - Earth 1
Release date: 1996-10-14
Run time: 45 min.
Price: £5.99

Review New Gall Force - Episode 1 - Earth 1 / Manga Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / V - The Series - Vol. 2 - Episodes 4 and 5 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Wright
  • Jennifer Cooke
  • Jeff Yagher
  • Bruce Seth Green
  • June Chadwick
  • Jane Badler
  • Victor Lobl
Release date: 1997-04-14
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.72

Review V - The Series - Vol. 2 - Episodes 4 and 5 [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 79 : Gambit, Part 2 / Phantasms [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Dorn
  • LeVar Burton
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Alexander Singer
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Caitlin Brown
Release date: 1994-05-09
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.24

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 79 : Gambit, Part 2 / Phantasms [1993] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • James Villiers
  • Gerry O'Hara
  • Diana Rigg
  • Sidney Hayers
  • Bill Fraser
  • Ronnie Barker
  • Patrick Macnee
Release date: 1994-02-28
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Avengers - Vol. 8 - Small Game For Big Hunters / The Hidden Tiger [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / V - The Series - Vol. 3 - Episodes 6 and 7 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Englund
  • June Chadwick
  • Gilbert Shilton
  • Jane Badler
  • Michael Wright
  • Walter Grauman
  • Jennifer Cooke
Release date: 1997-05-12
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.97

Review V - The Series - Vol. 3 - Episodes 6 and 7 [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Independence Day [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Pullman
  • Will Smith
  • Mary McDonnell
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Jeff Goldblum
  • Judd Hirsch
Release date: 2001-02-26
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.35

Review Independence Day [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes-played by Will Smith-just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County. ) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. -Tom Keogh.

Review Manga Entertainment / Doomed Megalopolis - Chapter 4 - The Final Challenge [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Tamasaburo Bando
  • Shintarô Katsu
  • Akio Jissoji
  • Mieko Harada
  • Junichi Ishida
  • Kyusaku Shimada
Release date: 1994-02-14
Run time: 39 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Doomed Megalopolis - Chapter 4 - The Final Challenge [1992] / Manga Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Doctor Who And The Daleks [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Castle
  • Peter Cushing
  • Jennie Linden
  • Gordon Flemyng
  • Roberta Tovey
Release date: 1996-02-26
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.89

Review Doctor Who And The Daleks [1965] / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : Season 4 Box Set
Actors & Directors
  • James Charleston
  • Kim Manners
  • Tucker Gates
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Rob Bowman
  • David Duchovny
Release date: 1998-11-16
RRP: £79.99
Price: £2.99

Review The X Files : Season 4 Box Set / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

As with earlier releases, The X-Files: Providence splices together two episodes, "Provenance" and "Providence", into a pseudo-movie. Again, the results fall way below the series average as the long-dead alien conspiracy business is flogged, with a lot of running around and ominous rumbling still not adding up to anything like an actual story. FBI agent Neal McDonaugh (of Minority Report) inexplicably survives a flaming motorcycle crash, leaving behind brass rubbings taken from an alien spaceship, then shows up and tries to murder Scully's psychokinetic baby, who is promptly kidnapped by a UFO cult. In Part 2, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) fend off enemies and friends within the bureau as they track down the cultists, who are having trouble with a spaceship they've dug up, and a typical pointless climax has things happen without the characters doing anything to contribute. Even at this late, post-Duchovny stage in the game, The X-Files has turned out some fine stand-alone episodes, but these dreary wallowings go a long way towards explaining why only diehards are still watching. After the child says "I made this" at the end of the credits, it's becoming very hard not to shout "well, clean it up then". On the DVD: The X-Files: Providence, as with Nothing Important Happened Today, arrives in a great-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer. There are two slight promotional "featurettes"-three-minute clips/talking heads promos focusing on the episode "Providence" and actor Cary Elwes' character. -Kim Newman.

Review Uca Catalogue / Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Moto Sakakibara
  • Hironobu Sakaguchi
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Steve Buscemi
  • Peri Gilpin
  • Ming-Na
  • Ving Rhames
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.95

Review Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within [2001] / Uca Catalogue:

Inspired by the popular video game franchise, Hironobu Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a completely computer-generated film which, unlike Toy Story and Shrek, is also a serious science fiction drama with astonishingly human digital actors. Aki, the female lead, appeared in a full-page spread in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list-and was indistinguishable from the real-life models. The setting and conflict make for incredible action, but it's the larger issues, character interaction and human elements that really make the movie shine. The Spirits Within is not simply a science fiction movie, in the same way that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is not simply a kung-fu flick. The result is a fantastic summer movie with better action and more emotion than Pearl Harbor and actors more lifelike than those in that other video game movie, Tomb Raider. -Mike Fehlauer, Amazon. com On the DVD: disc one includes an interesting, if a little flat, director's commentary. Better is the isolated score with a superb and fascinating commentary from composer Elliot Goldenthal. Other options allow you to access more information about the film. The menus are clear and feature full CGI effects and specially created sequences. [+]
Disc two is where you will find the real meat, with literally hours of documentaries and technical promos to plough through covering every aspect of the filmmaking process, along with music videos and an alternative opening sequence. You can re-edit a short sequence from the film and there's also a wealth of DVD-ROM material offering the complete screenplay and an interesting tour of Square Pictures, makers of the film. Features like the FHM-style photo shoot of CGI heroine Aki give an indication of the target audience for this movie. Add all this extra material to the superb picture quality-which almost leaves you convinced that you are watching a live action movie-and crystal sharp sound and you have one of the most technically impressive discs to hit the market so far. Any DVD buff will need this just to prove that the format is a worthwhile investment. -Jon Weir.

Actors & Directors
  • William Hartnell
  • Richard Martin
Release date: 1990-05-08
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.99

Review Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion Of Earth - Parts 1 and 2 [1964] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Dune [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • Francesca Annis
  • Kenneth McMillan
  • Sian Phillips
  • David Lynch
  • Sting
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.92

Review Dune [1984] / 4 Front Video:

This two-disc special edition release of David Lynch's 1984 film Dune presents the same cut as originally shown theatrically, but with an improved transfer compared to the previous DVD edition and with the addition of new and archive documentary material. In case of confusion, it should be noted that this is not any of the following versions: the re-edited TV movie adaptation of Lynch's film, the long-sought-after extended version Lynch screened for cast and crew in January 1984, a new Director's Cut, or the Sci-Fi Channel mini series. The first disc contains a new anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 transfer taken from a High Definition archive copy of the 1984 film, further restored to remove dirt and scratches, and a Dolby Digital 5. 1 remix as well as the original stereo soundtrack. The film looks superb and sounds almost as good, though a DTS soundtrack would have been welcome. This is much superior to the average making-of, featuring significant new contributions from Kyle MacLachlan, producer Raffaella De Laurentiis, cinematographer Freddie Francis and others-though David Lynch is conspicuous by his absence. Destination Dune is a six-minute promotional featurette made by Sammon at the time of the film's release and the 4:3 image is fairly poor quality. An 83-second BBC interview with Frank Herbert is too short to be of more than passing interest, though the original trailer is a fine example of the 1980's way of selling movies. The set is completed with routine cast and crew profiles. [+]
Even with no involvement from Lynch and no commentaries, this is still the best Dune on DVD. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - The Way Of The Warrior [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Dorn
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • James L. Conway
Release date: 1996-12-09
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.95

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - The Way Of The Warrior [1996] / 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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 78 : Interface / Gambit, Part 1 [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Michael Dorn
  • Peter Lauritson
  • LeVar Burton
  • Robert Wiemer
  • Gates McFadden
  • Jonathan Frakes
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.98

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 78 : Interface / Gambit, Part 1 [1993] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / V - The Series - Vol. 5 - Episodes 10 And 11 [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Aki Aleong
  • Lane Smith
  • Michael Wright
  • Blair Tefkin
  • Kevin Hooks
  • Gilbert Shilton
  • Jeff Yagher
Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.94

Review V - The Series - Vol. 5 - Episodes 10 And 11 [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Tekwar 1 - Tekwar [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • Torri Higginson
  • Greg Evigan
  • Eugene Clark
  • William Shatner
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Tekwar 1 - Tekwar [1993] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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