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Review Adv Films / Neon Genesis Evangelion - Part 13
Actors & Directors
  • Megumi Ogata
  • Megumi Hayashibara
  • Kotono Mitsuishi
  • Hiroyuki Ishidô
  • Masayuki
  • Kazuya Tsurumaki
  • Masahiko Ôtsuka
  • Keiichi Sugiyama
  • Spike Spencer
  • Allison Keith
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.49

Review Neon Genesis Evangelion - Part 13 / Adv Films:


Review Kiseki Films / Robotech - Vol. 7 - Bursting Point / Paradise Lost [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert V. Barron
  • Jean-Claude Ballard
  • Lara Cody
  • Katy Amaizo
  • Greg Finley
  • Rebecca Forstadt
Release date: 1997-03-24
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Steve Kramer
Price: £7.99

Review Robotech - Vol. 7 - Bursting Point / Paradise Lost [1985] / Kiseki Films:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Retribution [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Caputo
  • George Caldwell
  • Ed Berke
  • Harry Caesar
  • Hoyt Axton
  • Guy Magar
Release date: 1997-12-08
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Scott Levin
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

Review Retribution [1986] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Marquee Pictures / The Silencers [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Carlos Lauchu
  • Lucinda Weist
  • Jack Scalia
  • Richard Pepin
Release date: 2000-02-22
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £4.99

Review The Silencers [1996] / Marquee Pictures:


Review Entertainment in Video / The Astronaut's Wife [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Rand Ravich
  • Charlize Theron
  • Johnny Depp
  • Donna Murphy
  • Clea DuVall
  • Joe Morton
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Mark Johnson
Price: £5.99

Review The Astronaut's Wife [1999] / Entertainment in Video:

An intriguingly creepy premise but failed execution marks The Astronaut's Wife, a stylish and ultimately bland thriller about a pretty, young woman whose pretty, young astronaut husband comes back from his most recent space mission a little. odd. Before that fated space trip, Spencer (Johnny Depp) and Jillian (Charlize Theron) were a sunny, happy couple with matching blonde hairdos and a predilection for romping in the sack from extremely clever camera angles. However, after a communications blackout brings Spencer and his partner back down to earth prematurely, things are a little. peculiar. Spencer's partner goes bonkers and has a heart attack; on top of that, the partner's wife takes a fatal shower with a plugged-in radio. [+]
Getting out of the space biz, Spencer accepts a job as a corporate exec in New York, and as a welcome to the Big Apple for his comely wife, he molests her at the company cocktail party. Soon enough, Jillian is pregnant, but as you might expect, this pregnancy (twins, don't you know) is a little. unusual. Writer-director Rand Ravich takes his sweet time getting from extremely obvious plot point A to even more obvious plot point B, stretching out the development particulars in mind-numbing, suspense-killing fashion. Even Joe Morton, as a sinisterly psychotic NASA official, can't liven things up-you know you're in bad thriller territory when the biggest scare comes from a light suddenly being switched off. Theron, sporting a Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby style haircut, sleepwalks beautifully through the movie, but she did this role much, much better in The Devil's Advocate. Depp, with a cornpone Southern accent, is about as realistic as his peroxided hair. Ravich does the viewer no favours with a hackneyed ending straight out of a B-grade paperback horror novel in which the most shocking moment is Theron's sudden emergence as a brunette. With Blair Brown as a jaded socialite who offers to help out Theron by providing do-it-yourself abortion pills, and a lovely Donna Murphy as the suicidal wife who figures it all out before everyone else. - Mark Englehart, Amazon. com.

Review Entertainment in Video / Highlander: The Sea Witch
Actors & Directors
  • Adrian Paul
  • Stan Kirsch
  • Alexandra Vandernoot
Release date: 1994-02-28
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.95

Review Highlander: The Sea Witch / Entertainment in Video:


Review Mentorn Films / Space Precinct - Vol. 2 - The Snake / Predator and Prey[1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Shackleford
  • Rob Youngblood
  • Simone Bendix
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Space Precinct - Vol. 2 - The Snake / Predator and Prey[1995] / Mentorn Films:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape Vol. 1.10 - 1.21 Bone To Be Wild / 1.22 Family Ties [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Tilse
  • Lani John Tupu
  • Ben Browder
  • Jonathan Hardy
  • Claudia Black
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Ian Watson
  • Geoff Bennett
Release date: 2000-10-30
Run time: 50 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Price: £12.99

Review Farscape Vol. 1.10 - 1.21 Bone To Be Wild / 1.22 Family Ties [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:

An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia' s Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds-in Dolby Digital 5. 1) like every penny made it to the screen. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays leading man John Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up. On this tape: Two more episodes from Season One: "Bone to be Wild" and "Family Ties", plus a profile of the Australian Creature Shop. -Mark Walker.

Review Entertainment in Video / Highlander: See No Evil
Actors & Directors
  • Alexandra Vandernoot
  • Adrian Paul
  • Stan Kirsch
Release date: 1994-02-28
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £15.95

Review Highlander: See No Evil / Entertainment in Video:


Review Adv Films / Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 11
Actors & Directors
  • Hiroki Hayashi
  • Kiyoyuki Yanada
  • Satsuki Yukino
  • Hiroko Konishi
  • Rio Natsuki
  • Yu Asakawa
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 50 min.
Creator: Chiaki Konaka
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.99

Review Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 11 / Adv Films:


Review Metrodome Distribution / Invaders, The - Vol. 3 - The Innocent / Moonshot [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Thinnes|Peter Graves
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Invaders, The - Vol. 3 - The Innocent / Moonshot [1967] / Metrodome Distribution:


Review Marquee Pictures / Armageddon
Actors & Directors
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Tibor Takacs
  • Yvonne Scio
  • Mark Dacascos
Release date: 1998-11-02
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99

Review Armageddon / Marquee Pictures:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - Vol. 3.3 - 3.06 K-Town / 3.07 Tunnels [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael McManus
  • Jeffrey Hirschfield
  • Nigel Bennett
  • Stefan Ronowicz
  • Stephen Manuel
  • Xenia Seeberg
  • Brian Downey
Release date: 2000-10-16
Creator: Paul Donovan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.63

Review Lexx - Vol. 3.3 - 3.06 K-Town / 3.07 Tunnels [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 2,000 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 understatementOn this tape: We've seen Xev in the shower, Stanley without his hat, and even the inside of 790's head. So seeing Kai in the nude was only a matter of time. Lost among the schizophrenic denizens of "K-Town", Stan and Xev are eventually found by the dead assassin whose biomechanical systems are malfunctioning. It takes a shock re-appearance of season 2's Universe-destroying Mantrid to make sense of his groin-located repair mechanism. Subsequently split up, Kai suffers the red tape of petty bureaucracy in Hog Town while Stan and Xev descend 39,000 steps to the planet's "Tunnels". Stan bumps into show writer Lex Gigeroff cameoing as insane surgeon Doctor Rainbow, and escape is determined by another death and resurrection from the enigmatic Prince. [+]
Halfway along, the viewer should by now be carefully questioning this season's premise. -Paul Tonks.

Review Adv Films / Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 10
Actors & Directors
  • Katsuhito Akiyama
  • Akiko Hiramatsu
  • Nozomu Sasaki
  • Michie Tomizawa
  • Masami Ôbari
  • Fumihiko Takayama
  • Kinuko Ômori
  • Hiroki Hayashi
  • Yoshiko Sakakibara
  • Hiroaki Gôda
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 50 min.
Creator: Kenichi Matsuzaki
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.48

Review Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Vol. 10 / Adv Films:

The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life-so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1. 33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2. 0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. [+]
There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Seven Of Nine - Vol. 2 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
Release date: 2000-12-11
Run time: 352 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
Price: £24.99

Review Star Trek Voyager - Seven Of Nine - Vol. 2 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Metrodome Distribution / Invaders, The - Vol. 4 - The Saucer / The Enemy [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Thinnes|Anne Francis|Dabney Coleman
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Invaders, The - Vol. 4 - The Saucer / The Enemy [1967] / Metrodome Distribution:


Actors & Directors
  • Geoff Murphy
  • Alison Routledge
  • Anzac Wallace
  • Norman Fletcher
  • Bruno Lawrence
  • Pete Smith
Release date: 1993-10-12
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Craig Harrison
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99

Review Quiet Earth [1984] / Art House Productions Ltd.:


Review Moonstone Pictures / Final Executioner [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • William Mang
  • Woody Strode
  • Romolo Guerrieri
  • Margit Evelyn Newton
  • Harrison Muller Jr.
  • Marina Costa
Release date: 1994-01-24
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Roberto Leoni
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.94

Review Final Executioner [1983] / Moonstone Pictures:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape Vol. 1.9 - 1.19 Nerve / 1.20 The Hidden Memory [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Virginia Hey
  • Anthony Simcoe
  • Tony Tilse
  • Ian Watson
  • Claudia Black
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Ben Browder
  • Kent McCord
  • Andrew Prowse
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
RRP: £12.99
Price: £24.99

Review Farscape Vol. 1.9 - 1.19 Nerve / 1.20 The Hidden Memory [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:

An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia' s Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds-in Dolby Digital 5. 1) like every penny made it to the screen. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays leading man John Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up. On this tape: Two more episodes from Season One: "Nerve" and "The Hidden Memory", plus a profile of costume designer Terry Ryan. -Mark Walker.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - Vol. 3.4 - 3.08 The Key / 3.09 Gardens [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Xenia Seeberg
  • Brian Downey
  • Stefan Ronowicz
  • Nigel Bennett
  • Stephen Manuel
  • Jeffrey Hirschfield
  • Michael McManus
Release date: 2000-10-16
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Paul Donovan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.50

Review Lexx - Vol. 3.4 - 3.08 The Key / 3.09 Gardens [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 2,000 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: Stan has been endlessly teased by Xev. They got it together (in a manner of speaking) in "Love Grows", but here at last they experience the "ultimate in sexual satisfaction". Don't they? "The Key" metaphorically stands for a number of things in this ship-bound episode, which furthers the season's mystery considerably. And as if the sexual tension wasn't high enough already, the lifestyle offered Stan on the Water planet's "Garden" is all too tempting. It even causes Kai to down roots-in a soil box! The biggest lure is the return of beautiful plant gal Lyekka. [+]
As a double act, the episodes on this volume illustrate a lot of what keeps the censors' scissors at the ready. Fortunately they still get away with the line: "The dead do not poo". -Paul Tonks.

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