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Review Mvm / Blue Gender - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 3
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Vale
  • Koichi Ohata
  • Ryôsuke Takahashi
  • Houko Kuwashima
  • Masashi Abe
  • Kenji Nojima
  • Chinami Nishimura
  • Laura Bailey
Release date: 2002-06-17
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Katsumi Hasegawa
Price: £12.99

Review Blue Gender - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 3 / Mvm:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager Vol 5.11 [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Ethan Phillips
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.28

Review Star Trek Voyager Vol 5.11 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 7 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Judge
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Michael Shanks
  • Don S. Davis
  • Richard Dean Anderson
Release date: 2001-11-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 7 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. 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 teacher's pet 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. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld-the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On this tape: It's five years after the Stargate movie saw Dr. Jackson's theories professionally debunked. In "The Curse", he finally finds short-lived vindication with a few of his old archaeological colleagues. Unfortunately, one of them is more interested in the recently discovered Osiris Jar than is healthy. [+]
The birth of a powerful new Goa'uld God is sure to spell trouble for the SG team soon. "The Serpent's Venom" is the strongest test of Teal'c's loyalties anyone could have imagined. Betrayed and captured on homeworld Chulak, the "sholvah" is tortured to the point of death. In fact, it is his willingness to accept death that convinces his captors that perhaps his rejection of Apophis has meaning for them too. This is a powerful episode with strong violence and performances.

Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 10 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Shanks
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Don S. Davis
  • Christopher Judge
  • Richard Dean Anderson
Release date: 2001-12-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 10 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 9 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Judge
  • Michael Shanks
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Don S. Davis
Release date: 2001-12-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 9 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.8 (Hunters/Prey) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
  • Robert Beltran
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Ethan Phillips
Release date: 1998-08-10
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Rick Berman
Price: £5.99

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.8 (Hunters/Prey) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.08 - No Surrender, No Retreat / The Exercise Of Vital Powers [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Mira Furlan
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Richard Biggs
  • Jerry Doyle
Release date: 1998-08-31
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.00

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.08 - No Surrender, No Retreat / The Exercise Of Vital Powers [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review ITV DVD / Godzilla VS Hedorah [1971]
Release date: 1998-06-29
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Godzilla VS Hedorah [1971] / ITV DVD:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 8 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Don S. Davis
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Michael Shanks
  • Christopher Judge
  • Amanda Tapping
Release date: 2001-11-26
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
Price: £12.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 8 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:

The 1994 movie Stargate was originally intended as the start of a franchise, but creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were distracted celebrating their Independence Day. Episodic TV treatment was the natural next step. 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 teacher's pet 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. Chasing their heels at almost every turn are the "overlord" Goa'uld-the ancient Egyptian Gods who are none too chummy after the events of the original film. There's something of The Time Tunnel to the show's premise, but Stargate has held its own with stories that put the science fiction back into TV sci-fi. On this tape: When General Hammond announces his resignation on the grounds of disliking sending people into danger, the team know something's wrong. A "Chain Reaction" of events and clues leads O'Neill to the recently incarcerated turncoat Maybourne. Suddenly with this episode, all the previous references to the sinister NID agency make worrying sense. [+]
As Hammond explains, they're "above the law". That doesn't stop Jack from MacGuyvering a way out of the clutches of Ronny Cox's double-dealing Senator Kinsey though Inexplicably, we're then presented with a future vision of the year "2010" where Kinsey has become President. Here we see Earth in peaceful alliance with the Aschen race. But Jack is sulking in secluded retirement. Sure enough things aren't at all idyllic-just as he forewarned-and in typical style for the series, an engaging time-travel plotline unravels to safeguard the past from this imperfect present. -Paul Tonks.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.6 - Too Short A Season / When The Bough Breaks / Home Soil
Actors & Directors
  • Corey Allen
  • Denise Crosby
  • Kim Manners
  • Michael Dorn
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Rob Bowman
  • Patrick Stewart
  • LeVar Burton
Release date: 1998-08-10
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.00

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.6 - Too Short A Season / When The Bough Breaks / Home Soil / 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 Clear Vision Ltd / PSI Factor--Chronicles of the Paranormal, Season 3 Vol. 3.1 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Fox
  • Matt Frewer
  • Barclay Hope
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Nancy Anne Sakovich
Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.60

Review PSI Factor--Chronicles of the Paranormal, Season 3 Vol. 3.1 [1998] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Cinema Club / Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • Michael Bay
  • Linda Fiorentino
  • Tea Leoni
  • Will Smith
  • Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Martin Lawrence
Release date: 2001-12-17
Run time: 208 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.50

Review Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997] / Cinema Club:


Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Dunn
  • Maria Pitillo
  • Roland Emmerich
  • Jean Reno
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Hank Azaria
Release date: 1998-06-29
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Terry Rossio
Price: £5.99

Review Godzilla - The Return Of Godzilla [1984] [1998] / ITV DVD:

As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit that Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. There's really no other way to approach it-you just have to accept the fact that Independence Day creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are unapologetic plagiarists, incapable of anything more than mindless spectacle that can play in any cinema in the world without dubbing or subtitles. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s; it's little more than a rehash of the Jurassic Park movies. The derivative script is so trivial that it's unworthy of comment, apart from a few choice laughs and the casting of Michael Lerner as New York's mayor, whose name is Ebert and who closely resembles a certain well-known movie critic. Perhaps that's a clever hint that this movie's essentially critic-proof. It's stupid but it's fun, and for most audiences that's a fitting definition of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. -Jeff Shannon Zorro, a pop-fiction creation invented by Johnston McCulley in 1918, is given new blood in this fast-moving and engaging version. Director Martin Campbell wisely instils a measure of frivolity into the deftly choreographed action sequences, while letting a serious tone creep in when appropriate. This covers much ground under the banner of romantic-action-adventure and it does so most excellently. [+]
-Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon. com Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Mvm / Hurricane Live 2032 [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael House
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 25 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.84

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Review Digital Video Distribution / Dark Planet [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael York
  • Ed O'Ross
  • Harley Jane Kozak
  • Paul Mercurio
  • Albert Magnoli
  • Maria Ford
Release date: 1999-06-21
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: S.O. Lee
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.95

Review Dark Planet [1997] / Digital Video Distribution:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / PSI Factor - Chronicles Of The Paranormal - Season 3 - Vol. 3.2 - Episodes 3.05 To 3.07
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Anne Sakovich
  • Colin Fox
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Matt Frewer
  • Barclay Hope
Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.15

Review PSI Factor - Chronicles Of The Paranormal - Season 3 - Vol. 3.2 - Episodes 3.05 To 3.07 / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 11 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Dean Anderson
  • Don S. Davis
  • Amanda Tapping
  • Christopher Judge
  • Michael Shanks
Release date: 2002-01-28
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Jonathan Glassner
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

Review Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 11 [1998] / MGM Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Tom Sizemore
  • Peter Hyams
  • Linda Hunt
  • Penelope Ann Miller
  • Clayton Rohner
  • James Whitmore
Release date: 2001-12-27
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Rick Jaffa
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.35

Review Virus / The Relic [1997] / 4 Front Video:

The Relic is the story of a monster that runs amok in a Chicago museum on the very day the institution is holding a glitzy reception. Naturally, the museum bosses want to go ahead with their public relations even as the creature is decapitating victims. Penelope Ann Miller plays a scientist on the run from the critter (which is at times computer generated and reminiscent of the raptors in Jurassic Park), and Tom Sizemore is a cop looking for his cold-blooded (in every sense) killer. Peter Hyams (Timecop) directs, and as always he excels at managing the plastic action at the cost of real feeling and logic. (Much of the story is pretty laughable. ) -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner / 2001: A Space Odyssey
Actors & Directors
  • William Sylvester
  • Leonard Rossiter
  • Keir Dullea
  • Daniel Richter
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Gary Lockwood
Release date: 2001-09-10
Run time: 141 min.
Creator: Arthur C. Clarke
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.95

Review 2001: A Space Odyssey / Warner:

A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Arthur C Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", 2001: A Space Odyssey is a visual tone poem (barely 40 minutes of dialogue in a 139-minute film) that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. When Stanley Kubrick recruited Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film", it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience with the result. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools in the film's opening sequence to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise. In keeping with the director's underlying theme of dehumanisation by technology, the notorious, seemingly omniscient, computer HAL 9000 has more warmth and personality than the human astronauts it is supposedly serving. (The director also leaves the meaning of the black, rectangular alien monoliths open for discussion. ) This theme, in part, is what makes 2001 a film like no other, though dated now that its post-millennial space exploration has proven optimistic compared to reality. Still, the film is timelessly provocative in its pioneering exploration of inner and outer-space consciousness. With spectacular, painstakingly authentic special effects that have stood the test of time, Kubrick's film is nothing less than a cinematic milestone-puzzling, provocative and perfect. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Paul Anderson (III)|Laurence Fishburne|Sam Neill|Kathleen Quinlan
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.88

Review Event Horizon [1997] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Drawing from Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation Solaris by way of Alien and Hellraiser, this visually splendid but pulpy piece of science fiction schlock concerns a mission in the year 2047 to investigate the experimental American spaceship Event Horizon, which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, reappeared in the orbit of Neptune. Laurence Fishburne stars as mission commander Captain Miller and Sam Neill is Dr. Weir, the scientist who designed the mystery ship. Miller's T-shirt- and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pros finds a ship dead and deserted but further investigations turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts and a decidedly unearthly presence. It turns out that the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and obviously impossible) visions lure each of the crew members into situations they should know better than to enter. The ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of Alien and adding the menacing touch of teeth sprouting from bulwark doors and claw-like spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Unfortunately the film is not nearly as inventive as the production design-it turns into a woefully inconsistent psychic monster movie that sacrifices mood for tepid shocks-but the special effects are top-notch and ultimately the movie has a trashy B-movie charm about it. -Sean Axmaker.

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Blue Gender - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1 To 3, Star Trek Voyager Vol 5.11 [1996], Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 7 [1998], Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 10 [1998], Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 9 [1998], Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 4.8 (Hunters/Prey) [1996], Babylon 5 - Vol. 4.08 - No Surrender, No Retreat / The Exercise Of Vital Powers [1994], Godzilla VS Hedorah [1971], Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 8 [1998], Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.6 - Too Short A Season / When The Bough Breaks / Home Soil, PSI Factor--Chronicles of the Paranormal, Season 3 Vol. 3.1 [1998], Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997], Godzilla - The Return Of Godzilla [1984] [1998], Hurricane Live 2032 [1988], Dark Planet [1997], PSI Factor - Chronicles Of The Paranormal - Season 3 - Vol. 3.2 - Episodes 3.05 To 3.07, Stargate SG-1 Series 4 Vol. 11 [1998], Virus / The Relic [1997], 2001: A Space Odyssey, Event Horizon [1997]

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