Release date: 1996-11-11
Run time: 49 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.99
Review New Gall Force - Episode 2 - Earth 2 / Manga Entertainment:
![Review MGM Entertainment / The Outer Limits - Vol. 8 - Demon With A Glass Hand / The Bellero Shield [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JQ4VWJYJL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Martin Landau
- John Brahm
- Abraham Sofaer
- Chita Rivera
- Sally Kellerman
- Arlene Martel
- Byron Haskin
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £7.99
Review The Outer Limits - Vol. 8 - Demon With A Glass Hand / The Bellero Shield [1964] / MGM Entertainment:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 6.7 (Virtuoso/Memorial) [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QAMM5DVJL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Roxann Dawson
- Robert Picardo
- Allan Kroeker
- Les Landau
- Ethan Phillips
- Kate Mulgrew
- Robert Beltran
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.98
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 6.7 (Virtuoso/Memorial) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
- Andy Lau
- Jessica Chau (II)
- Gordon Chan
- Claudia Lau
- Michelle Reis
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Armageddon / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - Vol. 2.4 - 2.07 Love Grows / 2.08 White Trash [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KC3XKN72L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Stefan Ronowicz
- Bruce McDonald
- Stephen Manuel
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.05
Review Lexx - Vol. 2.4 - 2.07 Love Grows / 2.08 White Trash [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the show's overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H. Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000-years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Jeffrey Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (Eva Habermann), replaced for Season Two by Xev (Xenia Seeberg). A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises: by the time of the third season, the expression "anything goes" had long passed being understatement. On this tape: A new, shorter title sequence opens the gender questioning "Love Grows". The Lexx accidentally eats a garbage dumper and the toxic cargo has an adverse effect on everyone-to say the least. Their sex organs are swapped! A cliffhanger surprise leads directly into "White Trash", where we find a yokel clan family have been stowed away since before the destruction of The Cluster. For those who haven't been paying attention, we're reminded that Lyekker is still aboard. This volume's documentary centres on the FX houses in Canada and Germany. [+]-Paul Tonks.
![Review Digital Video Distribution / Blood Sabbath [1972]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51STWKVPB9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Anthony Geary
- Susan Damante-Shaw
- Sam Gilman
- Brianne Murphy
- Dyanne Thorne
- Steve Gravers
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Blood Sabbath [1972] / Digital Video Distribution:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - The Way Of The Warrior [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418E87T2R6L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rene Auberjonois
- Avery Brooks
- James L. Conway
- Michael Dorn
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99
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.
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Frakes
- Joseph L. Scanlan
- James L. Conway
- Robert Becker
- Patrick Stewart
- Rod Loomis
- Marina Sirtis
- LeVar Burton
- Cliff Bole
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49
Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.8 - Skin of Evil / We'll Always Have Paris / Conspiracy / The Neutral Zone / Paramount Home Entertainment:In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. [+]After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. -Paul Tonks.
Actors & Directors
- Diana Rigg
- Patrick Macnee
- Patricia Haines
- Peter Graham Scott
- Nigel Green
- Jack McGowran
- Peter Doffell
- Gordon Flemyng
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.00
Review The Avengers - Vol. 13 - The Master Minds / The Winged Avenger [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Independence Day [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510CVSXC2PL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Mary McDonnell
- Roland Emmerich
- Jeff Goldblum
- Judd Hirsch
- Will Smith
- Bill Pullman
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.98
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 Head on / Trekkers Scrapbook - Trek The Series [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GMR1Y3GSL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1995-10-16
Price: £9.99
Review Trekkers Scrapbook - Trek The Series [1995] / Head on:
Actors & Directors
- Jorge Montesi|Markie Post|Stephen McHattie|Candace Cameron Bure
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £4.99
Review Visitors Of The Night / Marquee Pictures:
![Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Mission To Destiny / Duel - Episodes 7 And 8 [1978]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5160CSV3SCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Vivienne Cozens
- Douglas Camfield
- Jonathan Wright-Miller
- Fiona Cumming
- Viktors Ritelis
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £11.75
Review Blake's 7 - Mission To Destiny / Duel - Episodes 7 And 8 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Diana Rigg
- Dudley Foster
- James Hill
- Athene Seyler
- Derek Farr
- Patrick Macnee
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £10.99
Review The Avengers - Vol. 21 - Man-Eater Of Surrey Green / Something Nasty In The Nursery [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:
Release date: 1994-12-05
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £97.99
Review Geno Cyber - Stage 1 - A New Lifeform / Manga Entertainment:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Fly [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QYB8EAH1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Geena Davis
- John Getz
- David Cronenberg
- Jeff Goldblum
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.93
Review The Fly [1987] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
![Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Vol. 2.3 - Missions 2.05 & 2.06 [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5117KGKD69L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jay Acovone
- David Warry-Smith
- Don Davis
- Richard Dean Anderson
- William Gereghty
- Michael Shanks
- Amanda Tapping
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £7.99
Review Stargate SG-1 Vol. 2.3 - Missions 2.05 & 2.06 [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. Since neither Kurt Russell nor James Spader would be able to commit, it gave the producers licence to tinker with the cast and the universe they'd explore. Replacing 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" pharaoh-like 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. One of many romances for the supposedly grief-stricken Jackson puts SG-1 in jeopardy again. The episode title "Need" refers to several aspects of the plot, but someone should do something about Daniel's libido! A return to planet Cimmeria tests their battle savvy as "Thor's Chariot" links the Asgard race to the plot once more. [+]-Paul Tonks.
Actors & Directors
- LeVar Burton
- Jonathan Frakes
- Patrick Stewart
- Michael Dorn
- Winrich Kolbe
- Les Landau
- Gates McFadden
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £18.00
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 57 : The Masterpiece Society / Conundrum / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Kiseki Films / Robotech - Vol. 2 - The Long Wait / Transformation / Blitzkrieg [1985]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CH4GZVSQL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jean-Claude Ballard
- Rebecca Forstadt
- Mary Cobb
- Robert V. Barron
- J. Jay Smith
- Eddie Frierson
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £7.99
Review Robotech - Vol. 2 - The Long Wait / Transformation / Blitzkrieg [1985] / Kiseki Films:
Release date: 1994-11-21
Run time: 51 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £8.49
Review Urotsukidoji III - The Return Of The Overfiend: Episode 4 / Urotsukidoji III:
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