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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Elizabeth Sladen
  • Tom Baker
  • Ian Marter
Release date: 1995-03-06
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £14.99

Review Doctor Who The Android Invasion [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • John Korty
  • Warwick Davis
  • Aubree Miller
  • Eric Walker
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Thomas G. Smith
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.95

Review Caravan of Courage-Ewok Ad. / CBSFOX 1454-50:

The crash of the Towani family's Star Cruiser on the forest moon of Endor sets into motion an extraordinary adventure that takes young Cindel, and her older brother Mace, into the magical world of the Ewoks.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 14 - Biogenesis
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Bowman
  • Kim Manners
  • David Duchovny
  • Michael Watkins
  • Gillian Anderson
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 125 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.95

Review The X Files : File 14 - Biogenesis / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Green Death [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee
Release date: 1996-10-07
Run time: 154 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.98

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation: Descent - The Full Length TV Movie [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • John Neville
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Alexander Singer
  • Alex Datcher
  • Jim Norton
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.81

Review Star Trek The Next Generation: Descent - The Full Length TV Movie [1990] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. [+]
After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. -Paul Tonks.

Review Tartan Video / Tetsuo - The Iron Man [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
Release date: 2002-04-22
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.88

Review Tetsuo - The Iron Man [1989] / Tartan Video:

In Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto draws on the marriage of flesh and technology that inspires so much of David Cronenberg's work and then twists it into a Manga-influenced cyberpunk vision. A man (Tomoroh Taguchi) awakens from a nightmare in which his body is helplessly fusing with the metal objects around him, only to find it happening to him in real life. or is it? Haunted by memories of a hit and run (eerily prophetic of Cronenberg's Crash), the man knows this ordeal could be a dream, a fantastic form of divine retribution, or perhaps technological mutation born of guilt and rage. Shot in bracing black and white on a small budget, Tsukamoto puts a demented conceptual twist on good old-fashioned stop-motion effects and simple wire work, giving his film the surreal quality of a waking dream with a psychosexual edge (resulting in the film's most disturbing scene). The story ultimately takes on an abstract quality enhanced by the grungy look and increasingly wild images as they take to the streets in a mad chase of technological speed demons. This first entry in his self-titled "Regular Sized Monster Series" was followed by a full-colour sequel, Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer, which trades the muddy experimental atmosphere for a big-budget sheen but can't top the cybershock to the system this movie packs. -Sean Axmaker.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Carnival Of Monsters [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Letts
  • Jon Pertwee
Release date: 1995-03-06
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £1.98

Review Doctor Who - Carnival Of Monsters [1973] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Long John Baldry
  • Ken Stephenson
  • Peter Blais
  • Sue Murphy
  • John Stocker
  • Diane Polley
Release date: 1993-10-04
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Ewoks - The Battle For Endor [1986] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Hollywood Pictures Home Video / The Faculty [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jordana Brewster
  • Josh Hartnett
  • Shawn Hatosy
  • Clea DuVall
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Laura Harris (II)
Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.90

Review The Faculty [1999] / Hollywood Pictures Home Video:

Okay, you knew everyone in high school was just a little different: everyone looked at you strangely, the teachers were freaky, and you never could find the right groove to fit into. What if it turned out that it was all because your school was inhabited by creepy aliens from outer space? That's the enjoyably cheesy B-premise for this fun and scary flick from the pen of Scream's Kevin Williamson, the master of the post-modern teen horror film. Directed by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), it's The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, as six disparate students from Herrington High School band together when they discover that an alien life form is invading both the student and faculty bodies, with plans to take over the world. Each of the heroes represents a different high school type: popular babe (Jordana Brewster), picked-on geek (Elijah Wood), goth girl (Clea DuVall), sensitive jock (Shawn Hatosy), new kid in town (Laura Harris), and bad-boy rebel (Josh Hartnett). The plot isn't much-a basic kill-or-be-killed premise spiked with a healthy shot of paranoia-but Willliamson and Rodriguez do a great job of building the tension slowly but surely. The suspense set pieces are genuinely frightening, and the film pokes fun at itself without deflating its scares; Williamson is a master at shifting gears from comedy to horror quickly and adroitly. The young cast doesn't have a weak link among them (with special kudos to Wood, DuVall and heartthrob-in-the-making Hartnett), and Rodriguez gets maximum mileage from the titular faculty, which includes Jon Stewart, Piper Laurie, Salma Hayek, Bebe Neuwirth, and Robert Patrick of Terminator 2. Go to the head of the class, Mr. Williamson. -Mark Englehart.

Review Manga Entertainment / Fist Of The North Star
Actors & Directors
  • Akira Kamiya
  • Ichirô Itano
  • Chikao Ôtsuka
  • Kenji Utsumi
  • Toshio Furukawa
  • Yuriko Yamamoto
  • Toyoo Ashida
Release date: 1992-03-30
Run time: 111 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Tartan Video / Liquid Sky [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Brady
  • Susan Doukas
  • Paula E. Sheppard
  • Otto von Wernherr
  • Slava Tsukerman
  • Anne Carlisle
Release date: 1993-08-30
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £39.90

Review Liquid Sky [1983] / Tartan Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - A Call To Arms [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Vejar
  • Peter Woodward
  • Carrie Dobro
  • Jeff Conaway
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Jerry Doyle
Release date: 1999-08-02
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.49

Review Babylon 5 - A Call To Arms [1999] / Warner Home Video:

We were promised that it would all end "in fire". Maybe at the end of its five-year run Babylon 5 fulfilled that promise for some viewers, but the announcement that a spin-off series, Crusade would serve to complete story threads moved the goalposts for most. It was a brave idea to attempt bridging the segue into Crusade via this fourth TV movie, but after the ending given by the episode "Sleeping in Light", the timing seems a little last-minute. Bruce Boxleitner gives one last greyed-up and chiselled performance as Sheridan-now President of the new Alliance. Overseeing an unveiled fleet of prototype Victory Destroyer ships, he receives visions offering warning about a lingering danger despite the end of the Shadow War. Though advised and manipulated by Technomage Galen (Peter Woodward), Sheridan is still unable to prevent the unleashing of the Drakh's last Planet Killer weapon. Infused in Earth's atmosphere, this plague will take five years to go "live" and then kill every last human. So begins the premise for the new show. It's a little too incomplete to satisfy as an individual movie. Watching it in conjunction with "War Zone" (the Crusade pilot episode) will give a better understanding of what's motivating everyone. [+]
-Paul Tonks The epic SF series Babylon 5 was a unique experiment in the history of television. It was effectively a novel for television in five seasons, consisting of 110 episodes with a clear beginning, middle and end. The first season introduces the main characters, headed this year by Commander Jeffery Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle), and familiarises the audience with the unique environment of a five-mile-long space station in the year 2257. The first episode, "Midnight on the Firing Line", plays at a breathless pace, introducing Commander Susan Ivanova (Claudia Christian) and establishing the conflict between the Narn and Centauri races as represented by their ambassadors, G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas) and Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik). Then follow several mediocre episodes which initially give the impression that B5 is a Star Trek clone afflicted with "silly alien of the week" syndrome. Episodes such as "Soul Hunter" and "Infection" are best watched in hindsight, with knowledge of how good the show later became. With "And the Sky Full of Stars" B5 really begins to hit its stride, Sinclair being forced to relive his mysterious experiences during the Earth-Minbari war. Filler shows such as "TKO" are notable only for being controversially violent, while the disappointing "Grail" points to writer-creator J. Michael Straczynski's fascination with Arthurian mythology. "Signs and Portents" introduces the sinister Mr Morden (Ed Wasser) and offers the chilling first appearance of ancient alien threat, the Shadows. B5 hits warp speed with a run of exceptional episodes building to the season finale. The two-part "A Voice in the Wilderness" has Mars breaking into open revolt against Earth and the discovery of a "Great Machine" on the dead world Epsilon 3. Referencing 1950s SF classic Forbidden Planet, the story leads to the superb time travel-based "Babylon Squared". Season finale "Chrysalis" proves more than just the usual television cliff-hanger, placing Minbari ambassador Delenn in conflict with her ruling Grey Council and forcing on her a decision which laid the groundwork for Babylon 5 eventually to become a great love story. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Stephen King's Golden Years [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Lauter
  • Allen Coulter
  • Michael Gornick
  • Stephen Tolkin
  • Felicity Huffman
  • Bill Raymond
  • Kenneth Fink
  • Keith Szarabajka
  • R.D. Call
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 236 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Keeper of Traken [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
  • John Black
Release date: 1997-04-02
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.94

Review Doctor Who The Keeper of Traken [1981] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 20 - The Long, Twilight Struggle / Divided Loyalties [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Andreas Katsulas
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Mary Kay Adams
  • Jesus Trevino
  • John C. Flinn III
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Claudia Christian
Release date: 1997-02-17
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.40

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 20 - The Long, Twilight Struggle / Divided Loyalties [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael E. Briant
  • Louise Jameson
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.50

Review Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

By Tom Baker's third season in the role the actor had become firmly established in the minds of many fans as the definitive Doctor. First broadcast in early 1977, "Robots of Death" follows on directly from "Face of Evil", which was writer Chris Boucher's debut and also that of Louise Jameson's Leela, the Doctor's most shapely companion (a kind of Neanderthal Seven of Nine if you will). Boucher's second Who story concerns an isolated mining ship on which a series of inexplicable deaths take place-although as the Doctor opines, "nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained". The Doctor and Leela inevitably become embroiled in events, which soon turn into a sci-fi murder-mystery: imagine Isaac Asimov crossed with Agatha Christie in a Frank Herbert Dune-like setting. Add an undercover robot sent by "the company" and the claustrophobic, not to say deadly setting of the mining ship and there is a fascinating foreshadowing of Alien, too. It is tightly plotted, intelligent Saturday teatime entertainment (something that was possible then but is now an unthinkable oxymoron) with a typically strong cast of redoubtable thesps in supporting roles (not to mention extravagant costumes and garish make-up). There may be no Daleks or Cybermen, but this is vintage Who nevertheless. -Mark Walker.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Lennie Manyne
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Barry Letts
  • David Troughton
  • Katy Manning
Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / The Quatermass Experiment [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Eugene Leahy
  • Iris Ballard
  • Moray Watson
  • Van Boolen
  • W. Thorp Deverreux
Release date: 2003-03-31
Run time: 78 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Quatermass Experiment [1953] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The Face of Evil [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Schofield
  • Louise Jameson
  • Pamela Salem
  • Tom Baker
  • Pennant Roberts
  • David Garfield
Release date: 1999-05-04
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £14.00

Review Doctor Who The Face of Evil [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

"The Face of Evil" (1976) was the fourth story in the 14th season of Dr Who. Tom Baker was well and truly established in the role of the heroic Time Lord, but the Doctor's popular assistant, Sarah Jane Smith played by Elizabeth Sladen had departed at the end of "The Hand of Fear". This story was inspired by HG Wells' The Time Machine (filmed in 1960) with its future society split in two: one group descended into primitive superstition the other surviving as a technological elite. Adding a crashed spaceship, a computer with multiple personalities and a mysterious carving of the Doctor, this would have been a routine adventure but for one thing; the first appearance of a new assistant played by Louise Jameson. An instant hit with the audience, Leela was a different kind of Dr Who companion. Confident, not adverse to violent self-defence, scantily-clad and unselfconsciously sexy, Leela was part-way between Tarzan's Jane and The Avengers' Emma Peel. Writer Chris Boucher acknowledged The Avengers influence, also noting that he named the character after Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled! Leela stayed with the Doctor until the end of "The Invasion of Time" (1978). -Gary S. Dalkin.

Actors & Directors
  • Sylvester McCoy
  • William Hartnell
Release date: 1993-09-06
Run time: 244 min.
Price: £30.99

Review Doctor Who - The Daleks (Limited Edition tin: The Chase/Remembrance of the Daleks) [1965] / 2 Entertain Video:


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