![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.10 - Through the Looking Glass / Improbable Cause [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518VNZD2TDL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Siddig El Fadil
- Winrich Kolbe
- Terry Farrell
- Cirroc Lofton
- Avery Brooks
- Rene Auberjonois
- Avery Brooks
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 Warner Home Video / V - The Final Battle - Part 2 [1984]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PTKGSTA0L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Faye Grant
- Michael Durrell
- Jane Badler
- David Packer
- Peter Nelson
- Kenneth Johnson
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.72
Review V - The Final Battle - Part 2 [1984] / Warner Home Video:In its day, V was a monumental event that for one generation remains a pop culture touchstone. Close Encounters of the Third Kind may have reassured us that perhaps we have nothing to fear from alien visitors and E. T. introduced us to a benign extra-terrestrial who only wanted to go home, but Kenneth Johnson's 1983 television miniseries knew better. Visitors who claim to come in peace are revealed to be nothing but reptilians in human skin bent on human conversion and conquest. As in the dark days of Fascism, some collaborate with the enemy; others form the Resistance. At the time, the epic scale of this production was unprecedented. The special effects are still awesome: those 50 mother ships that hover over the Earth's major cities anticipate Independence Day by more than a decade. Less so is the often-hackneyed dialogue. But thanks to their signature roles, the mostly no-star cast (most of whom would be reunited for a sequel and subsequent television series) have ensured themselves standing invitations to sci-fi conventions for the rest of their lives. [+]Marc "Beastmaster" Singer is cameraman-turned-freedom fighter Mike Donovan; Julie Parrish is a medical student-turned-Resistance leader; Richard Herd is the Visitor's Supreme Commander ("Call me John"); Jane Bradler is Diana, the ravishing, but ruthlessly ambitious Visitor Science Officer; Leonardo Cimino lends dignity to his heavy-handed allegorical role as a Holocaust survivor. Look for a pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund as one of the aliens. -Donald Liebenson, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Kôji Ishii
- Illich Guardiola
- Dean Turner
- Phil Ross (II)
- John Swasey
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.94
Review AD Police - Parts 1 to 3 / Manga Entertainment:
Price: £8.95
Review THE INVISIBLE MAN - THE ORIGINAL B&W CLASSIC / universal:
Actors & Directors
- Johnny Depp
- Holly Robinson Peete
- Peter DeLuise
- Steven Williams
- Dustin Nguyen
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.99
Review Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 File 3 - Metal Storm / A.D. Vision:
Release date: 1998-06-15
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Godzilla - Invasion of Astro Monsters / 4 Front Video:
![Review 4 Front Video / Fortress [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417SPJH87KL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Clifton Collins Jr.
- Loryn Locklin
- Lincoln Kilpatrick
- Stuart Gordon
- Kurtwood Smith
- Christopher Lambert
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49
Review Fortress [1994] / 4 Front Video:The story of Fortress takes place in drastically overpopulated America of the year 2017, where each woman is allowed only one pregnancy. John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Loryn Locklin) flee to Mexico when she becomes pregnant after the death of their first child. They are captured by border police and sent to the Fortress, a subterranean high-security prison owned by the Men-Tel corporation and operated by "Zed-10", an omnipotent computer system, and a sadistic, genetically "enhanced" warden (Kurtwood Smith) who has nefarious plans involving Brennick's wife and unborn child. Along with his cellmates (including Jeffrey Combs, a favourite of director Stuart Gordon), Brennick plots a breakout and Fortress shifts into auto-pilot action mode. After making his reputation with such audacious horror films as From Beyond and Re-Animator, Stuart Gordon graduated to a bigger budget with Fortress but his penchant for exploitation remains deliriously intact. While borrowing elements from a variety of better sci-fi movies, Fortress indulges every prison-flick cliché, but does it with such enjoyable B-movie vigour that it qualifies as a bona-fide guilty pleasure (indeed, it deserves to be ranked with James Cameron's original Terminator in terms of its budgetary ingenuity). Featuring such giddy (and gory) devices as "intestinators" (deadly obedience devices implanted in prisoners' bodies) and a torturous "Mind Wipe Chamber", this is really just a drive-in action movie with lofty ambitions and the schlocky script hasn't a prayer of rising above the level of juvenile popcorn fodder. But there's no denying the energy and enthusiasm that Gordon brings to the film, which understandably became a global box-office hit and spawned a 1999 sequel starring Lambert and Pam Grier. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Brendon Ryan Barrett
- Timothy Bond
- Andrew Prine
- Eric Roberts
- Sherilyn Fenn
- Dean Stockwell
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98
Review The Shadow Men / Mosaic Movies:
![Review Manga Entertainment / The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 5 And 6 [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511K0GPZMAL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £5.99
Review The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 5 And 6 [1991] / Manga Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
- Shigeru Ueda
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £13.99
Review The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 1 And 2 / Manga Entertainment:
![Review Entertainment in Video / Highlander: The Gathering [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X083FQJYL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Werner Stocker
- Jerry Ciccoritti
- Paolo Barzman
- Yves Lafaye
- Jorge Montesi
- Gérard Hameline
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Highlander: The Gathering [1992] / Entertainment in Video:
![Review 4 Front Video / Dark Crystal/Labyrinth [1982]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VSKRPSR4L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Frank Oz
- Lisa Maxwell
- Stephen Garlick
- David Bowie
- Jim Henson
- Jennifer Connelly
Run time: 186 min.
Price: £9.99
Review Dark Crystal/Labyrinth [1982] / 4 Front Video:
![Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Warlord / Blake - Episodes 51 And 52 [1978]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BE6KE7VTL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Fiona Cumming
- Vivienne Cozens
- Jonathan Wright-Miller
- Douglas Camfield
- Viktors Ritelis
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Blake's 7 - Warlord / Blake - Episodes 51 And 52 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.99
Review K 9 Unleashed / Reeltime Pictures:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Web Planet - Double Video : Parts 1 And 2 [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514PXS77E8L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- William Hartnell
- Richard Martin
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.00
Review Doctor Who - The Web Planet - Double Video : Parts 1 And 2 [1965] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Manga Entertainment / The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 9 And 10 [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M92FT6TNL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1995-06-05
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £5.99
Review The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 9 And 10 [1991] / Manga Entertainment:
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 4 Front Video / First Men In The Moon [1964]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HDN6S5MNL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Nathan Juran
- Edward Judd
- Martha Hyer
- Miles Malleson
- Lionel Jeffries
- Norman Bird
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.50
Review First Men In The Moon [1964] / 4 Front Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Horror Of Fang Rock [1977]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519RTJQ0FBL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Rio Fanning
- Paddy Russell
- Tom Baker
- Louise Jameson
- Colin Douglas
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £8.99
Review Doctor Who - Horror Of Fang Rock [1977] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.12 (Distant Origin/Displaced) [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YTHMJFY2L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Lien
- Robert Beltran
- Kate Mulgrew
- Roxann Dawson
- Allan Kroeker
- Ethan Phillips
- David Livingston
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.35
Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.12 (Distant Origin/Displaced) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
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Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.10 - Through the Looking Glass / Improbable Cause [1995], V - The Final Battle - Part 2 [1984], AD Police - Parts 1 to 3, THE INVISIBLE MAN - THE ORIGINAL B&W CLASSIC, Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 File 3 - Metal Storm, Godzilla - Invasion of Astro Monsters, Fortress [1994], The Shadow Men, The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 5 And 6 [1991], The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 1 And 2, Highlander: The Gathering [1992], Dark Crystal/Labyrinth [1982], Blake's 7 - Warlord / Blake - Episodes 51 And 52 [1978], K 9 Unleashed, Doctor Who - The Web Planet - Double Video : Parts 1 And 2 [1965], The Legend Of The 4 Kings - Chapters 9 And 10 [1991], Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.11 - The Omega Directive / Unforgettable, First Men In The Moon [1964], Doctor Who - Horror Of Fang Rock [1977], Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.12 (Distant Origin/Displaced) [1996] |
