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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.3 (Tattoo/Cold Fire) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Lien
  • Ethan Phillips
  • Roxann Biggs-Dawson
  • Robert Beltran
  • Alexander Singer
  • Cliff Bole
  • Kate Mulgrew
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.35

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.3 (Tattoo/Cold Fire) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - The Web / Seek, Locate, Destroy - Episodes 5 And 6 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Blake's 7 - The Web / Seek, Locate, Destroy - Episodes 5 And 6 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 1.2 - Parallax / Time And Again [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Miguel Poveda
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.42

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 1.2 - Parallax / Time And Again [1995] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 88 : Emergence / Pre-emptive Strike
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Gates McFadden
  • LeVar Burton
  • Michael Dorn
  • Cliff Bole
Release date: 1994-09-26
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 88 : Emergence / Pre-emptive Strike / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.5 (Alliances/Prototype) [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Roxann Biggs-Dawson
  • Jennifer Lien
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Les Landau
  • Kate Mulgrew
  • Robert Beltran
  • Robert Duncan McNeill
Release date: 1996-05-13
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.50

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 2.5 (Alliances/Prototype) [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.7 - Fair Trade / Alter Ego [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Mulhare
  • Robert Beltran
  • Robert Picardo
  • Tim Russ
  • Roxann Dawson
  • Jesus Trevino
  • Robert Picardo
Release date: 1997-06-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.19

Review Star Trek Voyager - Vol. 3.7 - Fair Trade / Alter Ego [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 39 : Brothers / Suddenly Human [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Gabrielle Beaumont
  • Rob Bowman
  • LeVar Burton
  • Marina Sirtis
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 39 : Brothers / Suddenly Human [1990] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.2 - Sons and Daughters / Behind the Lines
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • LeVar Burton
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Michael Dorn
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.39

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.2 - Sons and Daughters / Behind the Lines / 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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.4 - Hide and Q / Haven / The Big Goodbye
Actors & Directors
  • Denise Crosby
  • Richard Compton
  • Cliff Bole
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • LeVar Burton
  • Michael Dorn
  • Joseph L. Scanlan
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 1998-06-15
Run time: 136 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.94

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.4 - Hide and Q / Haven / The Big Goodbye / 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 Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Fiona Cumming
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Vivienne Cozens
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.71

Review Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue - Episodes 39 And 40 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:

One thing Blake's 7, the BBC's low budget space opera that ran for four series in the interstellar slipstream of Star Wars, could always be counted on to deliver were memorable cliff-hanging finales. Terminal was the 13th and last episode of the third series (1981-2), where Blake had been replaced by Tarrant (played by Steven Pacey) and Jenna by Dayna (Josette Simon). It was originally planned as the very last episode of all, going-out with a bang by destroying the heroes' starship, the Liberator-a device later used for the climaxes of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek: Generations. When a fourth season was unexpectedly commissioned it opened with Rescue, featuring the shock death of one major character and the first appearance of a new ship, the Scorpio. It also marked the debut of Glynis Barber's sexy new heroine, Soolin, the creation of Script Editor Chris Boucher, who had introduced the even more sexy and popular Leela (Louise Jameson) in Dr Who in the story "The Face of Evil". If the fourth season of Blake's 7 was ultimately to demonstrate a show spectacularly collapsing into self-parody, it certainly began in promisingly eventful fashion. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 28 : The Enemy / The Price [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Michael Dorn
  • Gates McFadden
  • LeVar Burton
  • David Carson
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Robert Scheerer
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.50

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 28 : The Enemy / The Price [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • John Moxley
  • Eunice Gayson
  • Patricia Haines
  • Patrick Macnee
  • James Hill
  • Diana Rigg
  • Carole Gray
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Avengers - Vol. 27 - Quick-Quick Slow Death / Who's Who??? [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:


Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Macnee
Release date: 1995-04-24
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.89

Review The Avengers - A Retrospective / Lumiere Pictures:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / The New Avengers - Mission 4 - Face / Sleeper / Dirtier By The Dozen [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • James Hill
  • Sidney Hayers
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Joanna Lumley
  • Gareth Hunt
  • Graeme Clifford
  • Keith Buckley
  • David De Keyser
Release date: 1998-10-12
Run time: 150 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The New Avengers - Mission 4 - Face / Sleeper / Dirtier By The Dozen [1976] / Contender Entertainment Group:

Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for the 1970s' audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one-Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful; those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss has always been made of her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series and the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker le Carre-esque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period-the 70s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. -Roz Kaveney.

Actors & Directors
  • Diana Rigg
  • Peter Bowles
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Andre Morell
  • Charles Crichton
  • T.P. McKenna
  • John Krish
Release date: 1993-11-29
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Avengers - Vol. 4 - Death At Bargain Prices / Escape In Time [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.3 - Lonely Among Us / Justice / The Battle
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • James L. Conway
  • Rob Bowman
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Cliff Bole
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.30

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 1.3 - Lonely Among Us / Justice / The Battle / 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 Fabulous Films Ltd. / Blake's 7 - Moloch / Death- Watch - Episodes 37 And 38 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Jonathan Wright-Miller
  • Douglas Camfield
  • Vivienne Cozens
  • Viktors Ritelis
  • Fiona Cumming
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Blake's 7 - Moloch / Death- Watch - Episodes 37 And 38 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.3 - Favour of the Bold Pt.I / Sacrifice of Angels Pt.II
Actors & Directors
  • Terry Farrell
  • Avery Brooks
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Cirroc Lofton
  • Allan Kroeker
  • Michael Dorn
  • Winrich Kolbe
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.35

Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 6.3 - Favour of the Bold Pt.I / Sacrifice of Angels Pt.II / 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.

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files Movie [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • John Neville
  • William B. Davis
  • David Duchovny
  • Rob Bowman
  • Martin Landau
  • Gillian Anderson
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.21

Review The X Files Movie [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The definitive American television series of the 1990s. The X-Files comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realised in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving ongoing story lines, which is not something movies are especially good at. The big-screen drive for closure cramps the creative style, though it may also help nonfans get a grip on the proceedings. We do get some invigorating thrills and chills, however, and a more satisfying sense of the scale of an all-enveloping human-alien conspiracy than ever before, but there's no more plot development here than in an average two-part season-ending. FBI black sheep Mulder and Scully have been temporarily transferred from the X-Files project to an anti-terrorist unit to investigate an Oklahoma City-style bombing. They uncover a new wrinkle in the Syndicate/Cancer Man conspiracy-basically an attempt to help one bunch of (benign?) aliens fight off another bunch who want to colonise Earth. A spectacular, ice-bound finale thrillingly staged by series-veteran director Rob Bowman offers Mulder (but not a conveniently unconscious Scully) his first clear look at a You Know What, which in some quarters qualifies as an epochal event. Martin Landau offers the agents some crucial clues, and several familiar TV faces (including the Lone Gunmen and Mitch Pileggi's indispensable Assistant Director Skinner) turn up briefly to wink knowingly at faithful fans. -David Chute.

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