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Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 10 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Judge
  • Peter DeLuise
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Don Davis
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Allan Lee
  • Michael Shanks
Release date: 2001-12-26
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 10 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Body Snatchers [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Kinney
  • Christine Elise
  • Billy Wirth
  • R. Lee Ermey
  • Abel Ferrara
  • Gabrielle Anwar
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95

Review Body Snatchers [1993] / Warner Home Video:


RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.86

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Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 7 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Andy Mikita
  • Christopher Judge
  • Don Davis
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Martin Wood
  • Michael Shanks
Release date: 2001-11-26
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 7 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld-the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On this tape: It's five years after the Stargate movie saw Dr. Jackson's theories professionally debunked. In "The Curse", he finally finds short-lived vindication with a few of his old archaeological colleagues. Unfortunately, one of them is more interested in the recently discovered Osiris Jar than is healthy. [+]
The birth of a powerful new Goa'uld God is sure to spell trouble for the SG team soon. "The Serpent's Venom" is the strongest test of Teal'c's loyalties anyone could have imagined. Betrayed and captured on homeworld Chulak, the "sholvah" is tortured to the point of death. In fact, it is his willingness to accept death that convinces his captors that perhaps his rejection of Apophis has meaning for them too. This is a powerful episode with strong violence and performances.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Red Dwarf VII - Series 7 - Xtended [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Barrie
  • Craig Charles
  • Chloe Annett
  • Ed Bye
  • Robert Llewellyn
  • Danny John-Jules
Release date: 1997-11-03
Run time: 117 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.89

Review Red Dwarf VII - Series 7 - Xtended [1988] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Head Saves The Earth
Release date: 1997-04-28
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Head Saves The Earth / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 5 - Episodes 9 and 10 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Davis
  • Christopher Judge
  • Peter DeLuise
  • Michael Shanks
  • William Gereghty
  • Peter Williams
  • Amanda Tapping
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 5 - Episodes 9 and 10 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

The 1994 film Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1. With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld-the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. The welcome notion of a continued plot thread sees offshoots that follow the reincarnation of Daniel's wife, Sam's father literally joining a renegade faction of the Goa'uld, and Jack in an unending quest to out-sarcasm everyone. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but amid a dearth of derivative look-a-likes, Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On the Tape This volume begins in confusion when the SG-1 team discover a military camp training for "Rules of Engagement". All is not what it seems however. [+]
The same is true of "Forever in a Day", when Daniel's wife Sha're is killed by Teal'c. This episode begins an important story line about her stolen child who is a "Harcesis", an illegal breeding between Goa'uld hosts. -Paul Tonks.

Actors & Directors
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Hank Azaria
  • Maria Pitillo
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Jean Reno
  • Kevin Dunn
Release date: 1998-06-29
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Godzilla - The Return Of Godzilla [1984] [1998] / ITV DVD:

As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit that Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. There's really no other way to approach it-you just have to accept the fact that Independence Day creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are unapologetic plagiarists, incapable of anything more than mindless spectacle that can play in any cinema in the world without dubbing or subtitles. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s; it's little more than a rehash of the Jurassic Park movies. The derivative script is so trivial that it's unworthy of comment, apart from a few choice laughs and the casting of Michael Lerner as New York's mayor, whose name is Ebert and who closely resembles a certain well-known movie critic. Perhaps that's a clever hint that this movie's essentially critic-proof. It's stupid but it's fun, and for most audiences that's a fitting definition of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. -Jeff Shannon Zorro, a pop-fiction creation invented by Johnston McCulley in 1918, is given new blood in this fast-moving and engaging version. Director Martin Campbell wisely instils a measure of frivolity into the deftly choreographed action sequences, while letting a serious tone creep in when appropriate. This covers much ground under the banner of romantic-action-adventure and it does so most excellently. [+]
-Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon. com Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.12 - Homestead / Renaissance Man
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Michael Vejar
  • Ethan Phillips
  • LeVar Burton
Release date: 2002-01-14
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 7.12 - Homestead / Renaissance Man / 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 (does she, doesn't she fancy him?) relationship with first officer and Native American-lite Chakotay (Robert Beltran). Tim Russ gives possibly the franchise's 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 a 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 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.

Review Dd Home Entertainment / X The Unknown [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Leo McKern
  • Dean Jagger
  • Edward Chapman
  • Anthony Newley
  • Jameson Clark
  • Leslie Norman
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.49

Review X The Unknown [1956] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Buena Vista / Mission to Mars [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Cheadle
  • Gary Sinise
  • Tim Robbins
  • Brian De Palma
  • Jerry O'Connell
  • Connie Nielsen
Release date: 2001-03-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.63

Review Mission to Mars [2000] / Buena Vista:

If Brian De Palma directed Mission to Mars for 10-year-olds who have never seen a science fiction film, he can be credited for crafting a marginally successful adventure. Isolated moments in this film serve the highest purpose of its genre, inspiring a sense of wonder and awe in the context of a fascinating future (specifically, the year 2020). But because most of us have seen a lot of science fiction films, it's impossible to ignore this one's derivative plot, cardboard characters and drearily dumb dialogue. Despite an awesome and painstakingly authentic display of cool technology and dazzling special effects, Mission to Mars is light years away from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the scale of human intelligence. After dispensing with a few space-jockey clichés, the movie focuses on a Mars-bound rescue mission commanded by Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise), whose team (Tim Robbins, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell) has been sent to retrieve the sole survivor (Don Cheadle) of a tragic Mars landing. During the sequence en route to Mars, De Palma is in his element with two suspenseful scenes (including a dramatic-albeit somewhat silly-space walk) that are technically impressive. But when this Mission gets to Mars, the movie grows increasingly unconvincing, finally arriving at an alien encounter that more closely resembles an astronomical CGI video game. But this is a $75 million Hollywood movie, and no amount of technical wizardry can lift the burden of a juvenile screenplay. Kudos to Sinise, his co-stars, and the special effects wizards for making the most of hoary material; shame on just about everyone else involved. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Blake's 7 - Season 4 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Vivienne Cozens
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 663 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £12.00

Review Blake's 7 - Season 4 [1978] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.18

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Review Digital Entertainment Ltd / Breeders [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Clifton Lloyd-Bryan
  • Todd Jensen
  • Samantha Janus
  • Kadamba Simmons
  • Paul Matthews
  • Oliver Tobias
Release date: 1999-02-01
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

Review Breeders [1997] / Digital Entertainment Ltd:


Review 4 Front Video / Naked Souls
Actors & Directors
  • Pamela Anderson
  • Brian Krause
  • David Warner
  • Dean Stockwell
  • Lyndon Chubbuck
  • Clayton Rohner
Release date: 1997-09-08
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

Review Naked Souls / 4 Front Video:


Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / Things To Come [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Edward Chapman
  • William Cameron Menzies
  • Raymond Massey
  • Margaretta Scott
Release date: 1997-03-10
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.84

Review Things To Come [1936] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:

Based on HG Wells's speculative meditation on the price of progress, this 1936 English science-fiction epic shows the painterly touch of director William Cameron Menzies, an American whose career in art direction and production design, as well as uncredited directorial work, attached him to such visual triumphs as Gone with the Wind, Alexander Korda's sumptuous 1940 Thief of Baghdad, and Menzies's better-known SF achievement as director, the original Invaders from Mars. Things to Come traces a generational saga that begins, presciently, with a global war that outlives its own political purpose, unravelling society to a Balkanised world of isolated communities. In the wake of a subsequent, devastating plague, a new technocracy arises, evolving toward Menzies's striking vision of vast, subterranean cities, rendered in matte paintings building on then-contemporaneous art-deco "streamlined" aesthetics. Driven more by theme than plot, Things to Come lacks the sheer momentum of other Wells classics brought to film (The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine, among them); but Menzies's bold look and a strong cast including Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke and a young Ann Todd explain the film's enduring appeal. -Sam Sutherland.

Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 9 - Episodes 17 and 18 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Judge
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Martin Wood
  • Don Davis
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • David Warry-Smith
  • Michael Shanks
Release date: 2001-05-21
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 9 - Episodes 17 and 18 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 8 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Lawrence Dane
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Don Davis
  • Christopher Judge
  • Martin Wood
  • Andy Mikita
  • Michael Shanks
Release date: 2001-11-26
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 8 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr. Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They're joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the teacher's pet primary unit SG-1 With a seemingly endless network of Stargates found to exist on planets all across the known universe, their mission is to make first contact with as many friendly races as possible. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld-the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On this tape: When General Hammond announces his resignation on the grounds of disliking sending people into danger, the team know something's wrong. A "Chain Reaction" of events and clues leads O'Neill to the recently incarcerated turncoat Maybourne. Suddenly with this episode, all the previous references to the sinister NID agency make worrying sense. [+]
As Hammond explains, they're "above the law". That doesn't stop Jack from MacGuyvering a way out of the clutches of Ronny Cox's double-dealing Senator Kinsey though Inexplicably, we're then presented with a future vision of the year "2010" where Kinsey has become President. Here we see Earth in peaceful alliance with the Aschen race. But Jack is sulking in secluded retirement. Sure enough things aren't at all idyllic-just as he forewarned-and in typical style for the series, an engaging time-travel plotline unravels to safeguard the past from this imperfect present. -Paul Tonks.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Outer Limits - Vol. 3 - The Man Who Was Never Born / The Sixth Finger [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • John Considine
  • Shirley Knight
  • David McCallum
  • Martin Landau
  • Edward Mulhare
  • Leonard Horn
  • James Goldstone
Release date: 1995-10-30
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £7.99

Review The Outer Limits - Vol. 3 - The Man Who Was Never Born / The Sixth Finger [1963] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 15 - Closure [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • David Duchovny
  • Kim Manners
  • Michael Watkins
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • Gillian Anderson
Release date: 2000-04-24
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.49

Review The X Files : File 15 - Closure [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


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