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

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


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.10 - Between The Darkness And The Light / Endgame [1994]
Release date: 1998-09-28
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.10 - Between The Darkness And The Light / Endgame [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Cinema Club / Fortress / Fortress 2 [1992) (1999)
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Gordon
  • Loryn Locklin
  • Pam Grier
  • Kurtwood Smith
  • Geoff Murphy
  • Christopher Lambert
  • Patrick Malahide
Release date: 2002-04-01
Run time: 181 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.98

Review Fortress / Fortress 2 [1992) (1999) / Cinema Club:

Christopher Lambert stars in Fortress 2, a straight-to-video sequel to the 1992 original. You just know it's gonna be good. Here he reprises his role as John Brennick, former leader of the Resistance and thorn in the side of the Men-Tel Corporation. In the first movie, Brennick escaped from and destroyed Men-Tel's high-tech "inescapable" prison. In the 10 years since then, he's gotten himself a house in the woods and some horses, and has illegally procreated with his wife. When Resistance members find him and try to recruit him back into the cause, the bad guys are not far behind, and after some two-dollar action scenes he finds himself captured and thrown into MEN-TEL's brand-new prison, which happens to be orbiting the Earth. Surely, nobody could ever escape from this! Except maybe, just maybe John Brennick! The plot is even more predictable than the placement of the co-ed shower scenes, to the point that you can practically quote the dialogue before it's spoken, with the only surprises being which cliché they're going to use, and when. (By the way, these violent prisoners are actually being used to build and modify the satellite they're imprisoned in. ) Pam Grier has an embarrassing cameo as the owner of MEN-TEL, and the dignity she tries to bring to the role is entirely out of place. The only fun to be had is if you watch it as if you're watching a bunch of adults play "action film", making for a strange entertainment, indeed. [+]
-Andy Spletzer, Amazon. com.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape - Season 3 - Vol. 1 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoff Bennett
  • Tony Tilse
  • Ian Watson
Release date: 2002-03-18
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.89

Review Farscape - Season 3 - Vol. 1 [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.06 - Phoenix Rising / The Ragged Edge [1994]
Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.66

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.06 - Phoenix Rising / The Ragged Edge [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.06 - Lines Of Communication / Conflicts Of Interest [1994]
Release date: 1998-07-13
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.75

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.06 - Lines Of Communication / Conflicts Of Interest [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 5 - Vol. 11 - Episodes 21 And 22 - Meridian / Revelations
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Wood
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Michael Shanks
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Don Davis
  • Christopher Judge
  • William Waring
Release date: 2002-09-23
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.99

Review Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 5 - Vol. 11 - Episodes 21 And 22 - Meridian / Revelations / MGM Entertainment:

Stargate SG-1 is the TV spin-off from the 1994 big-screen movie. In the roles of Colonel Jack O'Neill and Dr Daniel Jackson respectively are Richard Dean Anderson and Michael Shanks. They are joined by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) and guilt-stricken former alien baddie Teal'c (Christopher Judge) to form the 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. Episodes on this tape: "Meridian", "Revelations". It's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan all over again as Daniel Jackson decides the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, sacrificing himself for the greater good in "Meridian". The departure of Michael Shanks is both sudden and suspicious. His Season 6 replacement-Corin Nemec as Jonas Quinn-is quickly established too. So much intrigue will leave regular viewers puzzled, especially since this is only the penultimate cliffhanger to the year. "Revelations" are aplenty at the end of year five. [+]
Earth's seemingly all-powerful allies the Asgard show yet more chinks in their armour. The SG-1 teams' grief over Daniel is remarkably short-lived. And behind the scenes a change of US broadcast channels could mean anything might happen between now and next year. Is this the beginning of the end? -Paul Tonks.

Review Warner / Red Planet
Release date: 2001-10-01
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.41

Review Red Planet / Warner:

In Red Planet the only thing thicker than the Martian atmosphere (which is breathable, by the way) is the layer of clichés that nearly smothers a formulaic beat-the-clock plot. Science fiction fans are sure to be forgiving, however, because the film is reasonably intelligent, boasts a few dazzling sequences, and presents fascinating technology in the year 2057. We don't know how the Mars-1 spaceship gets to Mars in only six months (newfangled propulsion, no doubt), but we do get some cool diagnostic read-outs on tinfoil scrolls, an abundance of well-designed hardware, and a service-robot-turned-villain that's a high-tech hybrid of RoboCop, Bruce Lee, and a slinky panther with plenty of lethal attitude. The oxygen in the Martian atmosphere has resulted from nascent efforts at terraforming, made necessary by Earth's over-polluted condition. Mars-1 has been dispatched to determine why the terraforming is failing, and upon arrival everything goes inevitably haywire. Nearly two hours, three deaths, and multiple crises later (including the discovery of a Martian life form), "space janitor" Val Kilmer and his ultra-competent commander (Carrie-Anne Moss from The Matrix) have collaborated to set things right, capped off by second dose of the wretched narration that bookends the movie. Hoary material, to be sure, and as a veteran of TV commercials making his feature debut, director Anthony Hoffman is clearly more comfortable with flashy visuals than depth of character. Still, he keeps things humming right along. A perfectly suitable companion to another Y2K sci-fi thriller, Pitch Black, Red Planet is a fine way to kill a couple of hours. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.09 - The Face Of The Enemy / Intersections In Real Time [1994]
Release date: 1998-08-31
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.94

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.09 - The Face Of The Enemy / Intersections In Real Time [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Crusade - Vol. 1.07 - Each Night I Dream Of Home [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Dow
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 42 min.
Creator: Tracy Yates
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.98

Review Crusade - Vol. 1.07 - Each Night I Dream Of Home [1999] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Crusade - Vol. 1.03 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Dow
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Tracy Yates
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.94

Review Crusade - Vol. 1.03 [1999] / Warner Home Video:

When Babylon 5 finished its promised five-year run, it was obvious some things had been left out. Numerous plotlines lay casually unresolved and way too many "hints" looked ahead to an ominous future. With the Shadows dispatched at the end of the Great War, the final season revealed a race of hangers-on who stayed behind to continue the mischief-making. The biggest clue that more was to follow, came in the fourth TV movie A Call To Arms which introduced several new characters into the mix. Here we saw the Drakh's final "Planet Killer" let loose in Earth's atmosphere-a deadly virus that will take five years to adapt to human DNA, and then wipe it out. The rather high-stakes solution offered by Earthgov is to send an experimental starship, the Excalibur, out into the galaxy to find a cure. The Excalibur's crew is headed up by Gary Cole as Capt. Matthew Gideon; a no-nonsense leader whose principles seem to be challenged every show ("I'm not subtle. I'm not pretty. And I'll piss off a lot of people along the way. [+]
") Along for the ride are Daniel Dae Kim as the secretly telepathic Lt. John Matheson, Peter Woodward as quixotic Technomage Galen, and Carrie Dobro as the feisty criminal Dureena Nafeel. Although in theory there are members of the heroic Rangers at their side, the initial idea that this series should have the feel of an Arthurian quest clearly didn't come to pass. Suffering a plague of its own in studio indecisiveness, Crusade managed a run of 13 episodes which during post-production were juggled out of chronological order. It should be taken into consideration when viewing that the first eight were filmed last, so the "redesign" seen in the final five is in fact the opposite of what it seems. "The Path of Sorrows" leads to a healing planet where the crew's past gets explored. Sophie Ward and Gary (Alien Nation) Graham guest star. Then we return to more familiar territory where "The Rules of the Game" are explained. On good ol' Babylon 5, Captain Gideon fruitlessly tries to gain passage to planet Lorka 7 which may have clues to a plague cure ("Some days it's like nailing smoke to the wall"). Guest stars Tim (Zathras) Choate. -Paul Tonks.

Review 4 Front Video / It Came From Outer Space [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Carlson
  • Joe Sawyer
  • Barbara Rush
  • Jack Arnold
  • Charles Drake
  • Russell Johnson
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Ray Bradbury
Price: £5.99

Review It Came From Outer Space [1953] / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 2.3 - Wolf In The Field / The Changeling / The Apple
Actors & Directors
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Joseph Pevney
  • John Fiedler
  • Keith Andes
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • William Shatner
  • Marc Daniels
Release date: 1997-03-10
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.61

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 2.3 - Wolf In The Field / The Changeling / The Apple / 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-ground-breaking 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, ever let anyone down, and ultimately that is a very big reason for Star Trek's enduring popularity. [+]
- Gary S Dalkin.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 7 [2000]
Release date: 2002-08-12
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Naomi Janzen
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 7 [2000] / Contender Entertainment Group:

No sci-fi show can be without a trial episode accusing someone of past crimes. "Forced Perspective" sees Dylan accused of a 300-year-old war atrocity and having to argue the case from very peculiar perspectives. This episode feels like filler, but the viewer ought to pick up on two important aspects of the show happening on the periphery. What's going on between Tyr and Beka? Even more importantly, what's going on with Trance? An interesting reversal of roles is presented to Dylan when an organised group of machines offer for him to join their Consensus of Parts. Neither is fully willing to join the other however, and so "The Sum of Its Parts" turns out to be less than either hoped for. This episode was another cowritten by a noted science fiction author, and Steven Barnes injects some welcome introspection into the proceeding story arc. -Paul Tonks.

Review Clear Vision Ltd / Bugs - Series Two - Episodes 5 And 6 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Grieve|Brian Farnham|Craig McLachlan|Jaye Griffiths
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99

Review Bugs - Series Two - Episodes 5 And 6 [1995] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Warner Home Video / Crusade - Vol. 1.04 - Patterns Of The Soul / Appearances And Other Deceits [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Dow
Release date: 2000-05-08
Creator: Tracy Yates
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.99

Review Crusade - Vol. 1.04 - Patterns Of The Soul / Appearances And Other Deceits [1999] / Warner Home Video:

When Babylon 5 finished its promised five-year run, it was obvious some things had been left out. Numerous plotlines lay casually unresolved and way too many "hints" looked ahead to an ominous future. With the Shadows dispatched at the end of the Great War, the final season revealed a race of hangers-on who stayed behind to continue the mischief-making. The biggest clue that more was to follow, came in the fourth TV movie A Call To Arms which introduced several new characters into the mix. Here we saw the Drakh's final "Planet Killer" let loose in Earth's atmosphere-a deadly virus that will take five years to adapt to human DNA, and then wipe it out. The rather high-stakes solution offered by Earthgov is to send an experimental starship, the Excalibur, out into the galaxy to find a cure. The Excalibur's crew is headed up by Gary Cole as Capt. Matthew Gideon; a no-nonsense leader whose principles seem to be challenged every show ("I'm not subtle. I'm not pretty. And I'll piss off a lot of people along the way. [+]
") Along for the ride are Daniel Dae Kim as the secretly telepathic Lt. John Matheson, Peter Woodward as quixotic Technomage Galen, and Carrie Dobro as the feisty criminal Dureena Nafeel. Although in theory there are members of the heroic Rangers at their side, the initial idea that this series should have the feel of an Arthurian quest clearly didn't come to pass. Suffering a plague of its own in studio indecisiveness, Crusade managed a run of 13 episodes which during post-production were juggled out of chronological order. It should be taken into consideration when viewing that the first eight were filmed last, so the "redesign" seen in the final five is in fact the opposite of what it seems. "Patterns of the Soul" are determined which could mean the plague applies to human colonists as well as anyone on Earth. Stephen (Vir) Furst directs this volume's better half ("Appearances and Other Deceits"), which has the crew reacting uncharacteristically to an alien visitor as well as consultants from Earth's Political Affairs Office who want to spruce up the ship's public appeal. -Paul Tonks.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.01 - The Hour Of The Wolf / Whatever Happened To Mr Garibaldi [1994]
Release date: 1998-03-23
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.30

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.01 - The Hour Of The Wolf / Whatever Happened To Mr Garibaldi [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.05 - A Tragedy Of The Telepaths / Day Of The Dead [1994]
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.98

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.05 - A Tragedy Of The Telepaths / Day Of The Dead [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 71 : Tapestry / Birthright, Part 1
Actors & Directors
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Les Landau
  • Michael Dorn
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • LeVar Burton
  • Christine Rose
Release date: 1993-10-18
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 71 : Tapestry / Birthright, Part 1 / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 50 : In Theory / Redemption [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Malcolm McKay
  • Nick Moran
  • Lindsay Duncan
  • Miranda Richardson
  • Malcolm Storry
Release date: 1992-06-08
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: George Faber
Price: £10.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 50 : In Theory / Redemption [1991] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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