![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.13 (Worst Case Scenario/Scorpion Pt.I) [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413QQWSMSPL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Lien
- David Livingston
- Kate Mulgrew
- Roxann Dawson
- Alexander Singer
- Robert Beltran
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.24
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.13 (Worst Case Scenario/Scorpion Pt.I) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Peter Jeffrey
- Garfield Morgan
- Patrick Macnee
- Linda Thorson
- Robert Fuest
- Ian Ogilvy
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99
Review The Avengers - Vol. 9 - Game / They Keep Killing Steed [1969] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review MGM Entertainment / The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 7 - Inconstant Moon / Trial By Fire [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PNVRXQ1VL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Foxworth
- Jonathan Glassner
- Michael Gross
- Ian Tracey
- Lawrence Dane
- Joseph L. Scanlan
- Joanna Gleason
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.95
Review The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 7 - Inconstant Moon / Trial By Fire [1996] / MGM Entertainment:
![Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Nemesis 2-Nebula [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511RCM7CPYL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Albert Pyun
- Sue Price
- Tina Cote
- Earl White
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Nemesis 2-Nebula [1995] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:
![Review Warner Home Video / Outland [1981]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41D8PHQRSDL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Sean Connery
- Peter Boyle
- Frances Sternhagen
- James Sikking
- Kika Markham
- Peter Hyams
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Outland [1981] / Warner Home Video:Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction. Writer-director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, 2010, Timecop) re-stages High Noon in outer space, with Sean Connery as O'Neil, the marshal for a settlement on one of Jupiter's moons. While investigating the deaths of some miners, O'Neil discovers that mine boss Peter Boyle has been giving his workers an amphetamine-like, work-enhancing drug that keeps them productive for months-until they finally snap and go berserk. When Boyle sends killer henchmen to neutralize the lawman, O'Neil is unable to get the miners to back him up. Outland is no classic but it offers solid suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere. It also stars Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking (Howard on television's Hill Street Blues) and John Ratzenberger (later to become famous as Cliff on the sitcom Cheers). -Jim Emerson.
Actors & Directors
- Richard Fleischer
- Charlton Heston
- Brock Peters
- Joseph Cotten
- Leigh Taylor-Young
- Chuck Connors
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £13.94
Review Soylent Green - Special Collector's Edition (1973) / Warner Home Video:While Soylent Green may be one of the many dystopian visions of the future, the film stands out because it's one of the few titles that addresses current environmental issues head on. Adapted from Harry Harrison's novel Make Room, Make Room, it gives us a nightmarish vision of an over-populated, polluted future on the brink of collapse-a vision that gets uncomfortably closer every year. Charlton Heston as police officer Thorn investigates a murder in between suppressing food riots and uncovers the nightmarish truth about Soylent Green, the new foodstuff being sold to the poor. The film neatly combines police procedural with conspiracy thriller. Heston's scenes are counterpointed by more elegiac ones in which the centenarian Edward G Robinson as his friend Sol broods on the world he has outlived-his death in a euthanasia chamber is a gloriously lachrymose moment, which he plays to the hilt. Heston, too, is good as Thorn, a morally equivocal cop who loots the apartments of the victims whose deaths he investigates-he's a man just getting by in an impossible world. On the DVD: Soylent Green on disc comes with a commentary from director Richard Fleischer, the highpoint of which is a memorable description of what it was like to work with the brilliant ailing, entirely deaf Robinson. He is joined by Leigh Taylor-Young whose work on the film as heroine led to years of serious environmentalist commitment. It has a useful contemporary making-of documentary and touching shots of Robinson's 100th birthday party with telegrams from Sinatra and others. The feature itself is presented in anamorphic widescreen with its original mono sound. [+]-Roz Kaveney.
![Review Connoisseur Video / Stalker [1979]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JQ9XFSKPL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Aleksandr Kajdanovsky
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Anatoli Solonitsyn
- Alisa Frejndlikh
- Nikolai Grinko
- Natasha Abramova
Run time: 155 min.
Price: £15.99
Review Stalker [1979] / Connoisseur Video:
Release date: 1994-05-23
Price: £10.99
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 80 : Dark Page / Attached / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Manga Entertainment / Megazone 23 [1990]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M14WND5CL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Noboru Ishiguro
- Kaneto Shiozawa
- Masato Kubota
- Matt Greenfield
- Mîna Tominaga
- Maria Kawamura
- Mayumi Shô
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Megazone 23 [1990] / Manga Entertainment:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Alien Nation [1988]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418AC89BDML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kevyn Major Howard
- Terence Stamp
- James Caan
- Leslie Bevis
- Mandy Patinkin
- Graham Baker
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99
Review Alien Nation [1988] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:Alien Nation is a routine cop thriller with a comedic sci-fi twist. They get drunk on sour milk. They have two hearts and bald, spotted heads. They're highly intelligent, but if you drop them in seawater they'll melt into a puddle of goop. They're "Newcomers", and they arrived as refugees in a massive alien slave-ship, quarantined for three years and then reluctantly accepted as citizens of Earth. To some humans-including seasoned Los Angeles cop Matt Sykes (James Caan)-the Newcomers are unwelcomed "slags". Sykes' own virulent "speciesism" intensifies when Newcomer thugs kill his partner, but he sees logic in teaming up with Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin), the first Newcomer detective in the LAPD. Francisco's Newcomer knowledge is vital to their investigation of an alien drug ring, and a friendship grows from life-or-death circumstances. Alien Nation has two things working in its favour: Caan and Patinkin form a memorable duo, and the basic premise-as conceived by Rockne S O'Bannon (who later developed the film as a TV series)-intelligently accounts for the sociological impact of an alien population. The subtle point is made that humans are extraordinary beings who squander their potential, and the evil of drugs-as dealt by a social-climbing Newcomer played by Terence Stamp-leads to a crisis that threatens to generate global intolerance. [+]These points are well presented in a context of overly familiar plotting and standard-issue sarcasm. It's entertaining for a brisk 90 minutes, but in its attempt to be widely appealing, Alien Nation glosses over issues that might have made it more uniquely provocative. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.
![Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/717AAE7FC4L._SL160_.gif)
Release date: 2000-11-13
Price: £99.99
Review Thunderbirds [1965] / ITV DVD:"Filmed in Videcolor [explosions, drum roll, music builds to a climax] and Supermarionation"! The opening sequence of Thunderbirds is itself a masterclass in Gerry Anderson's marionette hyperbole: who else would dare to make a virtue out of the fact that (a) the show is in colour and (b) it's got puppets in it? But everything about this series really is epic: Thunderbirds is action on the grandest scale, pre-dating such high-concept Hollywood vehicles as Armaggedon by 30 years and more (the acting is better, too), and fetishising gadgets in a way that even the most excessive Bond movies could never hope to rival. Unsurprisingly, it transpires that the visual effects are by Derek Meddings, whose later contributions to Bond movies such as The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker echo his pioneering model work here. As to the characters, the clean-cut Tracey boys take second place in the audiences' affections to their cool machines-the real stars of the show-while comic relief is to be found in the charming company of Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls (number plate FAB1), driven by lugubrious chauffeur Parker, whose "Yes, milady" catchphrase resonated around school playgrounds for decades. (Spare a thought for poor old John Tracey, stuck up in space on Thunderbird 5 with only the radio for company. ) The puppet stunt-work is breathtakingly audacious, and every week's death-defying escapade is choreographed in the very best tradition of disaster movies. First shown in 1964 and now digitally remastered, Thunderbirds is children's TV that still looks and sounds like big-budget Hollywood. In this box set: All 32 episodes on nine videos, plus "The Brains Behind Thunderbirds", an exclusive-to-video introduction to the series narrated by Brains himself. -Mark Walker.
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.7 [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CTP58TF9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson
- Robert Beltran
- Kate Mulgrew
- Jeri Ryan
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.58
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.7 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input at all 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 none the less 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 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 fan favourite was the straight-funny man role of Robert Picardo's nameless Doctor. Then, with the brave Borg storyline "Scorpion Part 2", a serious improvement in the show's behind-the-scenes thinking introduced actress Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, 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 obsessions 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.
Actors & Directors
- Kôzô Shioya
- Kôichi Ishiguro
- Sanshirô Nitta
- Bill Kestin
- Takeshi Kusao
- Yûko Mizutani
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £5.99
Review The Guyver - Data 5-8 / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.5 [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5174WG5QE3L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Kate Mulgrew
- Robert Picardo
- Jeri Ryan
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.74
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.5 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:Star Trek: Voyager, the first Trek spin-off to be made without any input at all 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 none the less 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 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 fan favourite was the straight-funny man role of Robert Picardo's nameless Doctor. Then, with the brave Borg storyline "Scorpion Part 2", a serious improvement in the show's behind-the-scenes thinking introduced actress Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, 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 obsessions 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.
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 4 : Lonely Among Us / Justice [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FTSEMSRWL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- James L. Conway
- Jonathan Frakes
- Gates McFadden
- Marina Sirtis
- Cliff Bole
- Patrick Stewart
- Wil Wheaton
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.98
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 4 : Lonely Among Us / Justice [1987] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 89 : All Good Things - Parts 1 and 2 [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5124453S74L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- LeVar Burton
- Michael Dorn
- Winrich Kolbe
- Jonathan Frakes
- Patrick Stewart
- Colm Meaney
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.49
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 89 : All Good Things - Parts 1 and 2 [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
- Shigeru Ueda
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £13.99
Review The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 1 And 2 / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 45 : First Contact / Galaxy's Child [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BX75T0CVL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jana Marie Hupp
- Cliff Bole
- Winrich Kolbe
- LeVar Burton
- Marina Sirtis
- Patrick Stewart
- Jonathan Frakes
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.25
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 45 : First Contact / Galaxy's Child [1991] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Encore Entertainment / Runaway [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HH87308PL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gene Simmons
- Cynthia Rhodes
- Tom Selleck
- Michael Crichton
- Kirstie Alley
- Stan Shaw
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.95
Review Runaway [1985] / Encore Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Minoru Takashima
- Yuriko Hishimi
- Toshiaki Nishizawa
- Jun Fukuda
- Hiroshi Ishikawa
- Tomoko Umeda
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99
Review Godzilla Vs Gigan / 4 Front Video:
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