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Review Reeltime Pictures / K 9 Unleashed
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.11 - The Omega Directive / Unforgettable
Actors & Directors
  • Miguel Poveda
Release date: 1998-11-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.87

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.11 - The Omega Directive / Unforgettable / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Nemesis 2-Nebula [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Earl White
  • Albert Pyun
  • Sue Price
  • Tina Cote
Release date: 1996-04-01
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Nemesis 2-Nebula [1995] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Manga Entertainment / Megazone 23 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Mîna Tominaga
  • Noboru Ishiguro
  • Kaneto Shiozawa
  • Mayumi Shô
  • Masato Kubota
  • Maria Kawamura
  • Matt Greenfield
Release date: 1995-06-05
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 7 - Inconstant Moon / Trial By Fire [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Lawrence Dane
  • Joseph L. Scanlan
  • Robert Foxworth
  • Michael Gross
  • Jonathan Glassner
  • Ian Tracey
  • Joanna Gleason
Release date: 1997-02-17
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.95

Review The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 7 - Inconstant Moon / Trial By Fire [1996] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Godzilla Vs Gigan
Actors & Directors
  • Yuriko Hishimi
  • Hiroshi Ishikawa
  • Tomoko Umeda
  • Jun Fukuda
  • Toshiaki Nishizawa
  • Minoru Takashima
Release date: 1998-06-15
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Manga Entertainment / The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 1 And 2
Actors & Directors
  • Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Shigeru Ueda
Release date: 1995-02-06
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £13.99

Review The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 1 And 2 / Manga Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Godzilla - Invasion of Astro Monsters
Actors & Directors
  • Inoshiro Honda
Release date: 1998-06-15
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.10 - Through the Looking Glass / Improbable Cause [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • Avery Brooks
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Siddig El Fadil
  • Rene Auberjonois
Release date: 1995-08-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £15.99

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.10 - Through the Looking Glass / Improbable Cause [1995] / 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 Reeltime Pictures / P.R.O.B.E. - Unnatural Selection
Actors & Directors
  • Zoe Randall
  • Charles Kay
  • Bill Baggs
  • Louise Jameson
  • Keith Brooks (III)
  • Caroline John
Release date: 1996-10-14
Run time: 47 min.
Price: £11.99

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Review Manga Entertainment / The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 5 And 6 [1991]
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Alien 3 [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles S. Dutton
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Charles Dance
  • Brian Glover
  • Paul McGann
  • David Fincher
Release date: 1997-12-29
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.97

Review Alien 3 [1992] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened life span that awaits her. But the striking imagery makes for muddled action and the script confuses it further. The ending looks startling but it takes a long time-and a not particularly satisfying journey-to get there. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com On the DVD: The clarity of the digital picture throws light into some of Fincher's darker recesses, but is unkind to the primitive computer animation (the CGI alien is never convincing). Compared to the Alien DVD there are few extras, although a "making of" featurette that covers all three movies is included.

Review 4 Front Video / Dark Crystal/Labyrinth [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Henson
  • Frank Oz
  • Stephen Garlick
  • David Bowie
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • Lisa Maxwell
Release date: 2003-03-17
Run time: 186 min.
Price: £9.99

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Review Manga Entertainment / The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 9 And 10 [1991]
Release date: 1995-06-05
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : Season One Box Set [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • David Duchovny
  • Gillian Anderson
Release date: 2000-06-19
RRP: £79.99
Price: £9.89

Review The X Files : Season One Box Set [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Back in 1993, the fledgling US network Fox thought its breakout hit series would be The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr, a wild Western that barely lasted a season. They expected little of this odd show they commissioned from producer-writer Chris Carter, whose track record was mainly in surfing magazines and teen programmes. Too many series (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Project UFO, Shadow Chasers) had been down the parapsychology/alien visitation route without making television history, and teaming a leading man (David Duchovny) who was fresh from wearing a dress in Twin Peaks and the cable erotica series Red Shoe Diaries with a female co-star with nothing at all on her curriculum vitae more or less guaranteed fast cancellation. Yet The X Files clicked and has grown into a major franchise, expanding into movies, books, t-shirts, comics and alien mugs. The foundation of the X-industry is in this box set, which collects all 24 episodes of the first season, as the show, its creators and stars were finding their feet. Watching them all at once, you can see Gillian Anderson go from stiff to subtle without breaking character, and notice how the Dragnet-style emotionless patter of the early episodes unbends to allow for a streak of black humour that has become one of the show's great strengths. The episodes themselves are hit and miss. The first couple of shows ("The X Files", "Deep Throat") and many later episodes ("Conduit", "Space", "Fallen Angel", "E. B. E. [+]
" and series finale "The Erlenmeyer Flask") introduce and develop the so-called "mythology" thread as FBI agent Fox Mulder (Duchovny) probes a series of UFO or alien-encounter stories to assuage his guilt over the disappearance of his sister long ago. Meanwhile, sinister forces within the government try to stop him and prevent any revelations as to what exactly is going on from breaking (a thread that would, in later seasons, stretch and break). The episode that really sold the series was the third, "Squeeze", in which Mulder and his sceptical partner Dana Scully (Anderson) tangle with a mutant (Doug Hutchison, the evil guard of The Green Mile) who can elongate himself and eat human livers. A bizarre, creepy, gruesome and slyly amusing show, this kicks off a run of episodes ("Shadows", "Fire", "Miracle Man", "Shapes", "Roland" and the "Squeeze" sequel "Tooms") featuring mutants, ghosts, psychic happenings, grisly murders (Anderson gets to do all the autopsies) and plots which sometimes have resolutions. Other standout episodes include: "Ice", a miniature of The Thing with alien bugs in the arctic taking over a research station; "Eve", an evil child/cloning story; and "Beyond the Sea", an unusually emotional ghost tale which finally allowed Anderson as much anguish as Duchovny. There are dropped balls ("Genderbender", "Lazarus", "Young at Heart") where repetition has already set in, or too much conventional cop-action stuff gets in the way. The simmering sexual chemistry of Mulder and Scully only surfaces in a few moments as the characters and the players settle into their game, and the supporting cast (Mitch Pileggi as the FBI superior, William B. Davis as the ever-smoking master villain) have yet to come into their own, but X-philes will need this on their shelves between their bottled alien baby and Anderson-in-lingerie calendar. -Kim Newman.

Review Connoisseur Video / Stalker [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Alisa Frejndlikh
  • Nikolai Grinko
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Natasha Abramova
  • Anatoli Solonitsyn
  • Aleksandr Kajdanovsky
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 155 min.
Price: £15.99

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Review 4 Front Video / First Men In The Moon [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Bird
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Martha Hyer
  • Edward Judd
  • Nathan Juran
  • Miles Malleson
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who Earthshock [1982] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Peter Grimwade
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.84

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Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Warlord / Blake - Episodes 51 And 52 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Vivienne Cozens
Release date: 2000-01-17
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Blake's 7 - Warlord / Blake - Episodes 51 And 52 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Manga Entertainment / The Guyver - Data 5-8
Actors & Directors
  • Takeshi Kusao
  • Bill Kestin
  • Kôichi Ishiguro
  • Kôzô Shioya
  • Yûko Mizutani
  • Sanshirô Nitta
Release date: 1996-08-12
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £5.99

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K 9 Unleashed, Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.11 - The Omega Directive / Unforgettable, Nemesis 2-Nebula [1995], Megazone 23 [1990], The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 7 - Inconstant Moon / Trial By Fire [1996], Godzilla Vs Gigan, The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 1 And 2, Godzilla - Invasion of Astro Monsters, Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.10 - Through the Looking Glass / Improbable Cause [1995], P.R.O.B.E. - Unnatural Selection, The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 5 And 6 [1991], Alien 3 [1992], Dark Crystal/Labyrinth [1982], The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 9 And 10 [1991], The X Files : Season One Box Set [1994], Stalker [1979], First Men In The Moon [1964], Doctor Who Earthshock [1982] [1963], Blake's 7 - Warlord / Blake - Episodes 51 And 52 [1978], The Guyver - Data 5-8

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