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Review Manga Entertainment / Patlabor 2 - The Movie [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Daisuke Gôri
  • Mamoru Oshii
  • Mîna Tominaga
  • Issei Futamata
  • Toshio Furukawa
  • Michihiro Ikemizu
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Kazunori Itô
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.20

Review Patlabor 2 - The Movie [1993] / Manga Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 4.1 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Brent Spiner
  • Marina Sirtis
  • LeVar Burton
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 4.1 [1990] / 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.

Review Cinema Club / The Lawnmower Man [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Fahey
  • Brett Leonard
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Jenny Wright
  • Pierce Brosnan
  • Mark Bringleson
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Stephen King
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.57

Review The Lawnmower Man [1992] / Cinema Club:

In 1992, The Lawnmower Man was hailed as a CGI (Computer Generated Image) breakthrough. It's fascinating to consider the effects in a historical context, knowing it came just a year after T2: Judgment Day and was followed by Jurassic Park a year later. Written and directed by Bill Leonard, this was intended to showcase how realistic digital likenesses and landscapes had become. Little did they know that Toy Story was already in pre-production! The story hangs on the concept that a scientist gain (Pierce Brosnan) is drafted in to utilise the technology for governmental. As with all top-secret government projects in the movies, it all goes horribly wrong. Forced to progress from a chimp to a human subject, Brosnan secretly recruits local backwards boy and lawnmower pusher Jobe (Jeff Fahey). The increases in intelligence are alarming. He learns Latin in two hours, becomes an object of sexual desire (all it takes is cowboy boots apparently), and then develops telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Some very overt religious analogy is in evidence. Jobe's beatings by a priest give way to an eventual crucifixion on the spinning wheel that allows him to enter Virtual Reality. [+]
Will he be resurrected for a sequel? Such questions were what Stephen King took extreme exception to when his name was placed before the title. A lawsuit took care of that. What the film ought to be remembered and appreciated for though are the visuals, which undoubtedly advanced the arcade and home computer game industry. -Paul Tonks.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers Kinky Boots Collection - Vol. 4 [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Clemens
  • Richmond Harding
  • Honor Blackman
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Philip Chambers
  • Peter Hammond
Release date: 2001-04-23
Run time: 202 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers Kinky Boots Collection - Vol. 4 [1963] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Moon 44 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Devlin
  • Brian Thompson
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Lisa Eichhorn
  • Malcolm McDowell
  • Michael Paré
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: P.J. Mitchell
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.49

Review Moon 44 [1990] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 2 - Episodes 3 and 4 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Christopher Judge
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Don S. Davis
  • Michael Shanks
Release date: 2001-01-29
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 2 - Episodes 3 and 4 [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. 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" Pharaonic 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 this tape: In "Fair Game", a solid link in the expanding story arc, O'Neill is "beamed up" to his chum the Asgard Thor in the middle of Carter's promotion to Major. Thor warns him that the Goa'uld System Lords are miffed about his team thwarting Hathor in "Out of Mind". [+]
All manner of underhand trickery and subterfuge then follows at a treaty meeting between three representatives and the hapless Jack. "Legacy" on the other hand is a strange connection back to Season Two's "Holiday" when Daniel suffers a mental breakdown courtesy of scientist Ma'chello. Some unnerving imagery (slugs in the ear akin to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) makes this one of the series' darker instalments. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Tekwar 4 - TekJustice [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • Eugene Clark
  • Greg Evigan
  • Torri Higginson
  • Jerry Ciccoritti
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Tekwar 4 - TekJustice [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 80 : Dark Page / Attached
Release date: 1994-05-23
Price: £10.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 80 : Dark Page / Attached / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • John Agar
  • Robert Fuller
  • Henry Travis
  • Nathan Juran
  • Joyce Meadows
  • Thomas Browne Henry
Release date: 1995-03-20
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Ray Buffum
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.98

Review The Brain From Planet Arous [1958] / First Class Films:


Review Cinema Club / Crossworlds [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrea Roth
  • Josh Charles
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Krishna Rao
  • Perry Anzilotti
  • Stuart Wilson
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Raman Rao
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.94

Review Crossworlds [1996] / Cinema Club:

Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time in this adventure of an intergalactic war where one unassuming young man holds the key to dimensional travel and the legacy of his mysterious adventurer father. Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker stand-in, a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when gorgeous guerrilla fighter Andrea Roth takes the battle to his bedroom. Rutger Hauer is the coffee-chugging freedom fighter who is roused from retirement to fill out the trio and face dimensional mob boss Stuart Wilson. This obviously low budget picture makes the most of limited special effects and striking settings-notably an elevator ride that turns into a free-floating mind game hanging in space and a knock-down, drag-out finale that sends our hapless hero popping up all over the universe. Hauer makes for a surprisingly charismatic mercenary turned father figure and Charles is modestly charming, once he loses the smart-ass wisecracks. Though it reaches for a scope that's beyond its means, Crossworlds is an entertaining bit of sci-fi fluff. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Avengers Kinky Boots Collection - Vol. 2 [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Honor Blackman
  • Bill Bain
  • Richmond Harding
  • Jonathan Alwyn
  • Peter Hammond
  • Patrick Macnee
Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 204 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Avengers Kinky Boots Collection - Vol. 2 [1962] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 4 - Episodes 7 and 8 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Judge
  • Don S. Davis
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Michael Shanks
  • Amanda Tapping
Release date: 2001-02-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.48

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 4 - Episodes 7 and 8 [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 this Tape The show is blessed with a star turn from Flash Gordon himself in "Deadman Switch" when Sam J Jones guests as Aris Boch, an alien bounty hunter working for the Goa'uld. Lastly, in "Demons" some serious lambasting of organised religion occurs in a storyline concerning a medieval Christian village that's being terrorised by a giant Goa'uld servant creature. [+]
This episode both brings to light and questions each of the principal characters' beliefs. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Tekwar 3 - TekLab [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Torri Higginson
  • Greg Evigan
  • Eugene Clark
  • William Shatner
  • Timothy Bond
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Tekwar 3 - TekLab [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 3 - Episodes 5 and 6 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Don S. Davis
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Christopher Judge
  • Michael Shanks
  • Richard Dean Anderson
Release date: 2001-02-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 3 - Episodes 5 and 6 [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 this Tape On planet Orban, Daniel Jackson is intrigued by a population's scientific advances over only a few years. An exchange of knowledge is agreed and the precise "Learning Curve" of their children is revealed. [+]
Still recalling the original film, O'Neill is concerned for the siblings because of the loss of his son. Some more continuity tests the memory back to the episode "There But For the Grace of God", when Jackson discovered a dimensional mirror. Here, in "Point of View", it allows the Sam Carter and Major Kawalsky from an alternate reality to shelter from their Goa'uld threat. The problem being that Sam's married to Jack in her reality, and Kawalsky's dead in ours. -Paul Tonks.

Release date: 1995-11-06
Price: £70.99

Review Star Trek : 1-7 / Sci-Fi:


Actors & Directors
  • Honor Blackman
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Jonathan Alwyn
  • Kim Mills
  • Tenniel Evans
  • Walter Hudd
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Avengers - Cathy Gale - Vol. 5 - The Big Thinker / Intercrime [1962] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : Dreamland
Actors & Directors
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Michael Watkins
  • David Duchovny
  • Kim Manners
Release date: 2000-06-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The X Files : Dreamland / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Godzilla / Anaconda [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Dunn
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Maria Pitillo
  • Hank Azaria
  • Jean Reno
Release date: 2000-12-27
Run time: 219 min.
Creator: Terry Rossio
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.75

Review Godzilla / Anaconda [1998] / Cinema Club:

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 / Tekwar 2 - TekLords [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Eugene Clark
  • Greg Evigan
  • Torri Higginson
  • George Bloomfield
  • William Shatner
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Tekwar 2 - TekLords [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Judge
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Michael Shanks
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Don S. Davis
Release date: 2001-01-29
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 and 2 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:


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