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Actors & Directors
  • Brad Dourif
  • Denice Duff
  • Stephen Nichols
  • Peter Murnik
  • Billy Drago
  • Troy Cook
Release date: 1998-02-16
Run time: 182 min.
Creator: Morgan Salkind
Price: £12.99

Review Phoenix / Phoenix II [1995] / Metrodome Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.12 - To The Death / The Quickening [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • LeVar Burton
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1996-10-28
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.48

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.12 - To The Death / The Quickening [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.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.10 - Hard Times / Shattered Mirror [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Marina Goldovskaya
Release date: 1996-10-07
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Marina Goldovskaya
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.10 - Hard Times / Shattered Mirror [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
  • Frank Finlay
  • Steve Railsback
  • Peter Firth
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Mathilda May
  • Tobe Hooper
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.45

Review Lifeforce [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:

Director Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, the follow-up to his most popular hit Poltergeist, is a film that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, though, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a picture that starts out as a science fiction mission to Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon have whipped up a concoction that's got everything anyone could ask of a horror movie-from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts that signal the apocalypse to come. Keeping it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley-mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation-but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Vol. 4.11 - The Muse / For The Cause [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Terry Farrell
  • James L. Conway
  • David Livingston
Release date: 1996-10-28
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Vol. 4.11 - The Muse / For The Cause [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 inter-personal 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 gutsy 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.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 32 - Shadow Dancing / Z'Ha'Dum [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Mira Furlan
  • Richard Biggs
  • Jerry Doyle
  • Peter Jurasik
Release date: 1998-01-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 32 - Shadow Dancing / Z'Ha'Dum [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Scream Time Video / Rocketship X-M
Actors & Directors
  • Noah Beery Jr.
  • Osa Massen
  • Lloyd Bridges
  • Kurt Neumann
  • Hugh O'Brian
  • John Emery
Release date: 1900-01-01
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Orville H. Hampton
Price: £12.99

Review Rocketship X-M / Scream Time Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Leonardo Cimino
  • Francesca Annis
  • Brad Dourif
  • Virginia Madsen
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • David Lynch
Release date: 1996-07-08
Run time: 131 min.
Creator: Frank Herbert
Price: £12.99

Review Dune [1984] / Universal Pictures UK:

This two-disc special edition release of David Lynch's 1984 film Dune presents the same cut as originally shown theatrically, but with an improved transfer compared to the previous DVD edition and with the addition of new and archive documentary material. In case of confusion, it should be noted that this is not any of the following versions: the re-edited TV movie adaptation of Lynch's film, the long-sought-after extended version Lynch screened for cast and crew in January 1984, a new Director's Cut, or the Sci-Fi Channel mini series. The first disc contains a new anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 transfer taken from a High Definition archive copy of the 1984 film, further restored to remove dirt and scratches, and a Dolby Digital 5. 1 remix as well as the original stereo soundtrack. The film looks superb and sounds almost as good, though a DTS soundtrack would have been welcome. This is much superior to the average making-of, featuring significant new contributions from Kyle MacLachlan, producer Raffaella De Laurentiis, cinematographer Freddie Francis and others-though David Lynch is conspicuous by his absence. Destination Dune is a six-minute promotional featurette made by Sammon at the time of the film's release and the 4:3 image is fairly poor quality. An 83-second BBC interview with Frank Herbert is too short to be of more than passing interest, though the original trailer is a fine example of the 1980's way of selling movies. The set is completed with routine cast and crew profiles. [+]
Even with no involvement from Lynch and no commentaries, this is still the best Dune on DVD. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review 4 Front Video / The Thing From Another World [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Douglas Spencer
  • Robert Cornthwaite
  • Christian I. Nyby
  • Margaret Sheridan
  • Ken Tobey
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.55

Review The Thing From Another World [1951] / 4 Front Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Gareth Hunt
Release date: 1990-06-11
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The New Avengers - The Eagle's Nest / The Gladiators / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.1 - A Time To Stand / Rocks and Shoals
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Vejar
  • Terry Farrell
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Avery Brooks
  • Michael Dorn
  • Allan Kroeker
Release date: 1998-02-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.98

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.1 - A Time To Stand / Rocks and Shoals / 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. This 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 demonstrating a gutsy 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.

Review 4 Front Video / Timecop [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Silver
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme
  • Peter Hyams
  • Bruce McGill
  • Mia Sara
  • Gloria Reuben
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Mark Verheiden
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.97

Review Timecop [1995] / 4 Front Video:

Pay no attention to the fact that Timecop is an insult to intelligent science fiction, and that it gradually succumbs to an acute case of the sillies. It is a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, after all, so check your brain at the door and enjoy this action flick set in the year 2004. Van Damme plays an officer in the Time Enforcement Police, assigned to prevent criminals from travelling to the past with the intent of altering the future. Ron Silver plays the evil politician who plots to retrieve a stockpile of gold from the Civil War to finance his latest campaign. The film is clever to a point, and entertaining if you can ignore the dumb jokes and inconsistencies. Best of all, it's an above-average vehicle for Van Damme (relatively speaking), who gets to kick some villainous butt and share a few scenes with Mia Sara, who plays the Timecop's wife. As Van Damme fans can tell you, this is one of the action star's better movies. - Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Billy Milton
  • Philip Guard
  • Richmond Harding
  • Peter Hammond
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Herbert Nelson
  • Honor Blackman
Release date: 1995-09-25
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.95

Review The Avengers - Cathy Gale - Vol. 3 - The Mauritius Penny / Death Of A Great Dane [1962] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review 4 Front Video / Godzilla Ebirah Horror Of The Deep
Actors & Directors
  • Jun Fukuda
Release date: 1998-06-15
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Godzilla Ebirah Horror Of The Deep / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 3.7 - The Cloud Minders / The Way To Eden / Requiem For Methuselah
Actors & Directors
  • Murray Golden
  • William Shatner
  • Jud Taylor
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • David Alexander
Release date: 1998-02-02
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.99

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 3.7 - The Cloud Minders / The Way To Eden / Requiem For Methuselah / Paramount Home Entertainment:

One of the most popular and influential shows in the history of television for many viewers the original Star Trek (1966-9) defines good science fiction: however much it tries to be about the future, it cannot help but reflect the values of its own time, and Star Trek's vision was very much a product of creator Gene Roddenberry's 1960s liberal-humanist idealism. Conceived at the height of the Cold War and during the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, his was a radical vision of a world where national and racial differences have been put aside and all people work together. With a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other civilisations and violence only as a last resort, Star Trek embodied a lost dream, a fantasy of what America could have been had John F Kennedy not been assassinated in 1963. Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) had the middle name of a Roman emperor but otherwise shared his initials with the late president, and both were young, good looking, womanising, charismatic popular heroes. If Kirk didn't uphold truth, justice and the American way from the White House, a big white starship was the next best thing. There was even a Russian, Mr Chekov (Walter Koenig), on the bridge and the show delivered network TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Even though there was a white American male in control, it was still all a bit much for 1960s' mainstream TV, hence the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, boldly going on its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, only lasted three seasons and 72 episodes before being cancelled in 1969, the year Man first walked on the moon. While the once-groundbreaking special effects now look routine, and the then-radical politics have now become part of the Politically Correct global mainstream, Star Trek retains an enduring popularity due to its strong storytelling-the show employed such top science fiction writers as Robert Bloch, Harlan Elllison, Richard Matheson, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon-and admirable characters. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Kirk, Chekov and Uhura remain icons for a world short of real heroes: loyal to the end, honest and utterly dedicated, these were the friends and colleagues who week after week trusted each other with their lives. Devoid of cynicism and self-interest the crew of the USS Enterprise never let anyone down and ultimately that is a very big reason for Star Trek's enduring popularity. [+]
-Gary S Dalkin.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Outer Limits - Vol. 5 - Corpus Earthlings / O.B.I.T. [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Gerd Oswald
  • Robert Culp
  • Joanne Gilbert
  • Peter Breck
  • Jeff Corey
  • Salome Jens
Release date: 1996-02-26
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £7.99

Review The Outer Limits - Vol. 5 - Corpus Earthlings / O.B.I.T. [1963] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Arena / Avenger Penguins 2 - Hog Jamboree / Quantum Mechanic / Winter Tale [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Lorelei King
  • Rob Rackstraw
  • Avenger Penguins
  • Mike McShane
  • Jimmy Hibbert
Release date: 1995-09-25
Run time: 66 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.95

Review Avenger Penguins 2 - Hog Jamboree / Quantum Mechanic / Winter Tale [1993] / Arena:


Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Douglas O'Keeffe
  • David Nerman
  • Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • John Bradshaw
  • Ingrid Kavelaars
Release date: 1998-02-16
Run time: 182 min.
Creator: Sheldon Inkol
Price: £12.99

Review Hybrid / Specimen [1996] / Metrodome Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.4 (Maneuvers/Resistance) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Robert Beltran
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Ethan Phillips
Release date: 1996-04-22
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.79

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.4 (Maneuvers/Resistance) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Arena / Avenger Penguins 3 - The Revenge Of Doom / Big City Little City / Computer Chaos [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Avenger Penguins
  • Lorelei King
  • Mike McShane
  • Rob Rackstraw
  • Jimmy Hibbert
Release date: 1995-11-13
Run time: 66 min.
Price: £8.99

Review Avenger Penguins 3 - The Revenge Of Doom / Big City Little City / Computer Chaos [1993] / Arena:


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