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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape - Season 3 - Vol. 10 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Watson (II)
  • Tony Tilse
  • Geoff Bennett (II)
Release date: 2002-09-16
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.95

Review Farscape - Season 3 - Vol. 10 [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Actors & Directors
  • Amanda Plummer
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Mercedes Ruehl
  • Benicio Del Toro
  • Madeline Stowe
  • Johnny Depp
Release date: 2002-09-16
Run time: 374 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Twelve Monkeys / The Fisher King / Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas [1995] / 4 Front Video:


Review Star Trek Next Generation / Star Trek - The Next Generation - Vol. 5.5
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 131 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.90

Review Star Trek - The Next Generation - Vol. 5.5 / Star Trek Next Generation:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 5 - Vol. 5 - Episodes 9 And 10 - Between Two Fires / 2001
Actors & Directors
  • William Gereghty
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Peter DeLuise
  • Don Davis
  • Michael Shanks
  • Christopher Judge
Release date: 2002-06-24
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.65

Review Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 5 - Vol. 5 - Episodes 9 And 10 - Between Two Fires / 2001 / 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're 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:"Between Two Fires". If there's one lesson SG-1 has learned, it's to always look a gift horse in the mouth. So when old acquaintances the Tollan offer Earth a brace of advanced weaponry, Jack's the first to raise a questioning hand and wonder if they aren't "Between Two Fires". Some James Bond-style sneaking about soon unravels the mystery. "2001". A lot of behind-the-scenes political machinations occur during "2001". [+]
There's another gloriously menacing cameo from Ronny Cox as Senator Kinsey who's desperately trying to dismantle the Stargate programme. All of which makes the "A-plot" about a new ally somewhat insignificant. But as always with newcomers on the show, the Aschen may not be all they appear to be. -Paul Tonks.

Review Mvm / Hurricane Live 2033
Actors & Directors
  • Michael House
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 30 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Hurricane Live 2033 / Mvm:


Actors & Directors
  • Jay Oliva
  • David De Luise
  • Elizabeth Daily
  • Clancy Brown
Release date: 2002-08-19
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.00

Review Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 4 - The Tophet Campaign [2001] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 3 - Episodes 5 and 6 - Parliament Of Dreams / Mind War [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • William Allen Young
  • Jim Johnston
  • Julia Nickson-Soul
  • Bruce Seth Green
  • Andreas Katsulas
Release date: 1995-07-17
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.24

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 3 - Episodes 5 and 6 - Parliament Of Dreams / Mind War [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / PSI Factor - Chronicles Of The Paranormal - Season 3 - Vol 3.3 - Episodes 3.08 To 3.10
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Matt Frewer
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99

Review PSI Factor - Chronicles Of The Paranormal - Season 3 - Vol 3.3 - Episodes 3.08 To 3.10 / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Mutant X - Season 1 - Vol. 6 [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Goluboff
  • Jonathan Hackett (III)
  • Oley Sassone
  • Bruce Pittman
  • T.J. Scott
Release date: 2003-03-31
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Mutant X - Season 1 - Vol. 6 [2001] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Actors & Directors
  • Vic Hughes
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 152 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.75

Review Chocky [1984] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : Millennium
Actors & Directors
  • David Duchovny
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • Thomas J. Wright
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Klea Scott
Release date: 2000-07-24
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.90

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

Millennium, producer-writer Chris Carter's follow-up series to The X Files, never quite matched its elder sibling's audience appeal. In the US, it ran for three series but was cancelled before the millennium, cheating it of an apocalyptic finale. This is why semi-psychic FBI profiler Frank Black, played by star Lance Henriksen (owner of one of the most craggily expressive faces on television), pops up in the XF iles episode named "Millennium" to resolve some, if not all, of his show's dangling story. Along with this X Files-crossover, this VHS also includes the final episodes of Millennium ("Via Dolorosa", "Goodbye to All That"),which may bewilder UK fans since the latter show's second and third seasons haven't aired here. The Millennium wind-up has Frank Black on the trail of a killer who has copied the methods of a just-executed madman, while sub-plots about the mysterious Millennium Group abound. The X-Files episode has Mulder and Scully hauling Black out of an asylum in the last days of 1999 to advise them when ex-FBI agents who have committed suicide are raised from the dead as zombie horsemen of the apocalypse. This is also the show in which Mulder and Scully finally kiss, albeit for the New Year bells. There's also plenty of strong-meat horror drama and meaningful glances between characters who know more than is good for them, but don't expect anything like narrative closure. The unresolved plot threads pile up on the floor like spilled spaghetti at the end. -Kim Newman.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.5 - The Ascent / The Rapture [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Avery Brooks
  • Michael Dorn
  • Jonathan West
  • Allan Kroeker
  • Cirroc Lofton
Release date: 1997-04-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.10

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.5 - The Ascent / The Rapture [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. 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 Whe Europe Limited / The Doctors - 30 Years Of Time Travel And Beyond [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
  • Bill Baggs
  • Peter Davison
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Colin Baker
  • Sylvester McCoy
Release date: 2002-05-27
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £8.99

Review The Doctors - 30 Years Of Time Travel And Beyond [1995] / Whe Europe Limited:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager Vol 4.4 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Kroeker
  • David Livingston
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Jeri Lynn Ryan
  • Kate Mulgrew
Release date: 1998-05-04
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.44

Review Star Trek Voyager Vol 4.4 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Delta Visual Entertainment / The Monster Man
Actors & Directors
  • Jose Prendes
  • Denice Duff
  • Jose Prendes
  • Conrad Brooks
Release date: 2003-04-14
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.48

Review The Monster Man / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 5.12 (11.59/Relativity) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • David Livingston
  • Robert Beltran
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Robert Picardo
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Allan Eastman
Release date: 1999-11-22
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.60

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 5.12 (11.59/Relativity) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 8 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Philip David Segal
Release date: 2002-08-26
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 8 [2000] / Contender Entertainment Group:

"Fear and Loathing in the Milky Way" is experienced by all following the return of the Eureka Maru's original commissioning lowlife, Gerentex ("Under the Night"). Trance's deft sleight of hand helps at the casino tables, while Harper's wisecracking front finally slips to reveal a man capable of action in a tight spot. We also learn exactly how Beka practices Valentineology. At long last we learn Rev's full name (Reverend Behemiel) and get a fuller explanation of his Wayist belief. "The Devil Take the Hindmost" reveals Jesus to be one of the revered Saints too. This was actually one of the first plot lines considered for the show, but caught up with its own internal story arcs, Rev's character has had to wait until now for a proper spotlight. -Paul Tonks.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 6 - If These Walls Could Talk / Birthright [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • William Fruet
  • Perry King
  • John Novak
  • Dwight Schultz
  • Tibor Takacs
  • Alberta Watson
  • Ken Ryan
Release date: 1996-10-21
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.99

Review The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 6 - If These Walls Could Talk / Birthright [1995] / MGM Entertainment:


RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.59

Review Abyss:

Meticulously crafted but also ponderous and predictable, James Cameron's 1989 deep-sea close-encounter epic reaffirms one of the oldest first principles of cinema: everything moves a lot more slowly underwater. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some "issues" to work out, are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top- secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on earth, and the petro-techies have the only submersible craft capable of diving down that far. Every image and every performance is painstakingly sharp and detailed (and the computerised water creatures are lovely) but the movie's lumbering pace is ultimately lethal. It's the audience that ends up feeling waterlogged. For a guy who likes guns as much as Cameron (his next film after all, was the body-count masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day), it's interesting that the moral balance here is weighted heavily in favour of the can-do engineers; the military types are end-justifies-the-means amoralists, just like the weasely government bureaucrats in Aliens. -David Chute James Cameron's 1989 aquatic epic The Abyss was, quite literally, a watershed in the annals of filmmaking: not only was it the first (and only) movie to be shot almost entirely underwater, in the largest tank ever used for a movie set, and to use live dialogue from specially designed headsets, it also pushed forward the boundaries of computer animation in one gigantic leap. The famous water tentacle sequence is now regarded as the defining moment when CGI came of age; ironically perhaps, its very success has ensured that the punishing realism of the setting, which is the best thing about the movie, is likely never to be attempted again. But the impressive technical aspects aside, is the movie any good? Granted it contains any number of striking moments, from forcing a rat to breathe liquid (it really works, apparently) to resurrecting a drowned Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. But the story is a slim one for the running time, especially in the extended Special Edition version which plays almost half an hour longer than the theatrical cut and contains a completely excised subplot featuring much too much heavy-handed moralising: "How all the world can stop fighting and learn to get along with each other", by James Cameron esq. All you need is love, apparently. [+]
Here is one rare example of the theatrical cut being preferable to the director's. Now, if only he had cut the love story from Titanic too On the DVD: The Abyss Special Edition two-disc set has plenty of neat extra features, but is let down a little by the non-anamorphic 2. 35:1 letterboxed picture. Sound, on the other hand, is vivid THX mastered Dolby 5. 1. Happily, the first disc contains both the original theatrical cut and the extended special-edition version. There's a reasonably informative though inevitably rather dry text-only commentary. The principal extra on Disc 2 is a 60-minute documentary, "Under Pressure", with retrospective interviews in which cast and crew detail the extraordinary challenges involved in making the film, and more than one near-death experience. In addition there's the complete screenplay, various different pieces on the effects sequences, storyboards, artwork, DVD-ROM features-in short, plenty to keep even jaded DVD enthusiasts amused for hours. The menu interfaces for both discs are a treat and the set comes with a good 12-page booklet. -Mark Walker.

Review Cinema Club / Highlander - The Animated Series - The Last Of The MacLeods / A Taste Of Betrayal [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Yves Lafaye
  • Werner Stocker
  • Paolo Barzman
  • Jerry Ciccoritti
  • Gérard Hameline
  • Jorge Montesi
Release date: 2002-07-22
Run time: 44 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £1.66

Review Highlander - The Animated Series - The Last Of The MacLeods / A Taste Of Betrayal [1994] / Cinema Club:


Models & Brands:
Farscape - Season 3 - Vol. 10 [1999], Twelve Monkeys / The Fisher King / Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas [1995], Star Trek - The Next Generation - Vol. 5.5, Stargate S.G. 1 - Series 5 - Vol. 5 - Episodes 9 And 10 - Between Two Fires / 2001, Hurricane Live 2033, Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 4 - The Tophet Campaign [2001], Babylon 5 - Vol. 3 - Episodes 5 and 6 - Parliament Of Dreams / Mind War [1994], PSI Factor - Chronicles Of The Paranormal - Season 3 - Vol 3.3 - Episodes 3.08 To 3.10, Mutant X - Season 1 - Vol. 6 [2001], Chocky [1984], The X Files : Millennium, Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 5.5 - The Ascent / The Rapture [1995], The Doctors - 30 Years Of Time Travel And Beyond [1995], Star Trek Voyager Vol 4.4 [1996], The Monster Man, Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 5.12 (11.59/Relativity) [1996], Andromeda - Season 1 - Vol. 8 [2000], The Outer Limits - The New Series - Vol. 6 - If These Walls Could Talk / Birthright [1995], Abyss, Highlander - The Animated Series - The Last Of The MacLeods / A Taste Of Betrayal [1994]

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