Actors & Directors
- Sally Knyvette
- Paul Darrow
- Garath Thomas
Run time: 120 min. RRP: £10.99 Price: £1.25
Review Blake's 7-Orac / BBC:All-action space adventure about a group of intergalactic resistance fighters fighting against a galactic super power. This is the third BBC tv film released in 1990, a compilation of 3 early episodes of the cult sci-fi series originally broadcast in the late 1970's. Blake is caught in a desperate race against time to save the lives of hs crew and also find the mysterious ORAC before Servalan and Tavis locate it first. Once in Blake's possession ORAC predicts the future of Blake and his crew by showing them an image of the Liberator being blown to atoms in space!.
Release date: 1996-09-16 Run time: 145 min. Price: £5.99
Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 11 - The Imposters / Man From MI5 / Security Hazard [1965] / 4 Front Video:
Actors & Directors
- David Duchovny
- Gillian Anderson
Release date: 1995-05-03 Run time: 90 min. RRP: £10.99 Price: £0.99
Review The X Files - Vol. 2 - Squeeze / Conduit / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Cliff Bole
- Patrick Stewart
- Gates McFadden
- Wil Wheaton
- Rob Bowman
- Jonathan Frakes
- Marina Sirtis
Release date: 1990-09-03 Run time: 89 min. RRP: £10.99 Price: £4.98
Review Star Trek The Next Generation 5 : The Battle / Hide And Q [1987] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Frakes
- Patrick Stewart
- Robert Wiemer
- Michael Dorn
- Gates McFadden
- Patrick Stewart
- LeVar Burton
- Robert Scheerer
Release date: 2002-09-02 Run time: 131 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £3.94
Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 5.4 - New Ground / Hero Worship / Violations / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Release date: 1996-10-07 Run time: 88 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £0.84
Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 4.10 - Hard Times / Shattered Mirror [1996] / 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.
Run time: 97 min.
Review thunderbirds volume 8 / channel 5:'End Of The Road' finds Alan in a vicious love triangle. 'The Perils Of Penelope' sees Lady Penelope in danger whilst stranded in a mountain tunnel. cert u.
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Wright-Miller
- Fiona Cumming
- Douglas Camfield
- Vivienne Cozens
- Viktors Ritelis
Release date: 1999-02-22 Run time: 103 min. RRP: £10.99 Price: £12.71
Review Blake's 7 - Aftermath / Power Play - Episodes 27 And 28 [1978] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Stewart
- Jonathan Frakes
- Michael Dorn
- Gates McFadden
- Jonathan Frakes
- Robert Scheerer
- LeVar Burton
- Chip Chalmers
Release date: 2002-11-18 Run time: 131 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £44.99
Review Star Trek - The Next Generation - Vol. 5.6 - Ethics / The Outcast / Cause And Effect / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Reza Badiyi
- Avery Brooks
- Rene Auberjonois
- Terry Farrell
- Cirroc Lofton
- Siddig El Fadil
- Alexander Singer
Release date: 1995-07-10 Run time: 88 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £2.29
Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.9 - Visionary / Distant Voices [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.
Price: £13.99
Review Woman Avenger:
Release date: 2002-12-02 Run time: 176 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £34.99
Review Star Trek - The Next Generation - Vol. 5.7 / Star Trek Next Generation:
Actors & Directors
- David Duchovny
- Annabeth Gish
- Mitch Pileggi
- Gillian Anderson
- Robert Patrick
- Kim Manners
Release date: 2003-01-27 Run time: 148 min. RRP: £14.99 Price: £1.93
Review The X-Files: The Truth / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:As with earlier releases, The X-Files: Providence splices together two episodes, "Provenance" and "Providence", into a pseudo-movie. Again, the results fall way below the series average as the long-dead alien conspiracy business is flogged, with a lot of running around and ominous rumbling still not adding up to anything like an actual story. FBI agent Neal McDonaugh (of Minority Report) inexplicably survives a flaming motorcycle crash, leaving behind brass rubbings taken from an alien spaceship, then shows up and tries to murder Scully's psychokinetic baby, who is promptly kidnapped by a UFO cult. In Part 2, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) fend off enemies and friends within the bureau as they track down the cultists, who are having trouble with a spaceship they've dug up, and a typical pointless climax has things happen without the characters doing anything to contribute. Even at this late, post-Duchovny stage in the game, The X-Files has turned out some fine stand-alone episodes, but these dreary wallowings go a long way towards explaining why only diehards are still watching. After the child says "I made this" at the end of the credits, it's becoming very hard not to shout "well, clean it up then". On the DVD: The X-Files: Providence, as with Nothing Important Happened Today, arrives in a great-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer. There are two slight promotional "featurettes"-three-minute clips/talking heads promos focusing on the episode "Providence" and actor Cary Elwes' character. -Kim Newman.
Release date: 1993-07-12 Run time: 200 min. RRP: £10.99 Price: £5.50
Review Thunderbirds - Volume 3 [1965] / Universal Pictures UK:
Actors & Directors
- Cliff Bole
- Wil Wheaton
- Corey Allen
- Michael Dorn
- Patrick Stewart
- LeVar Burton
- Jonathan Frakes
- Gabrielle Beaumont
Release date: 2002-07-22 Run time: 131 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £2.60
Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Vol. 5.2 - Silicon Avatar / Disaster / The Game / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Release date: 1990-09-24 Run time: 95 min. Price: £10.99
Review Thunderbirds - Volume 14 / Universal Pictures UK:
Actors & Directors
- Cirroc Lofton
- Rene Auberjonois
- Avery Brooks
- Alexander Singer
- Reza Badiyi
- Siddig El Fadil
- Terry Farrell
Release date: 1995-06-12 Run time: 88 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £14.64
Review Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.7 - Life Support / Heart Of Stone [1996] / 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.
Actors & Directors
- Kate Mulgrew
- Robert Duncan McNeill
- David Livingston
- Robert Picardo
- Jeri Lynn Ryan
- Les Landau
- Roxann Dawson
Release date: 1999-03-01 Run time: 88 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £1.24
Review Star Trek Voyager Vol 5.1 [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Release date: 1996-09-16 Run time: 92 min. Price: £5.99
Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 2 - In Outer Space [1965] / 4 Front Video:
Actors & Directors
- Rene Auberjonois
- Cliff Bole
- Avery Brooks
- Avery Brooks
- Siddig El Fadil
Release date: 1995-04-10 Run time: 88 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £4.79
Review Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Vol. 3.5 - Defiant / Fascination / Paramount Home Entertainment:
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