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Review Warner Home Video / Forbidden Planet [HD DVD] [1956] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Francis
  • Walter Pidgeon
  • Fred M. Wilcox
  • Jack Kelly
  • Warren Stevens
  • Leslie Nielsen
Release date: 2006-11-14
Run time: 187 min.
Price: £28.97

Review Forbidden Planet [HD DVD] [1956] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:

This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make Forbidden Planet as fresh, imaginative and fun as it was when first released.

Review Alpha Video / The Snow Creature [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Teru Shimada
  • Robert Kino
  • Leslie Denison
  • Rollin Moriyama
  • W. Lee Wilder
  • Paul Langton
Release date: 2002-11-19
Run time: 69 min.
Price: £1.90

Review The Snow Creature [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Battlefield [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Kerrigan
  • Sylvester McCoy
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £9.75

Review Doctor Who - Battlefield [1989] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Lost World [1925]
Actors & Directors
  • Wallace Beery
  • Harry O. Hoyt
  • Lewis Stone
  • Lloyd Hughes
  • Bessie Love
  • Alma Bennett
Release date: 2007-01-04
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.99

Review The Lost World [1925] / Eureka Entertainment:

The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since-from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park-owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London. With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously extant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. [+]
The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. On the DVD: From the attractive solid slipcase to the wonderful "period" menu interface, this is a delightful DVD package. The film itself looks surprisingly good-a real tribute to the restoration team's efforts-with careful tinting in the style of the period (blues for evening, reds for dawn etc. ). The disc features the choice of either an original score by The Alloy Orchestra or a classical orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models) and a well-meaning but basic commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. There's also a text biography of Conan Doyle and a display of original postcards, posters and other promotional items. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Queen of Outer Space [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lisa Davis
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Laurie Mitchell
  • Dave Willock
  • Eric Fleming
  • Edward Bernds
Release date: 2007-06-26
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £4.86

Review Queen of Outer Space [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Peter Davison
  • Pennant Roberts
  • Peter Moffatt
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Tom Baker
  • Patrick Troughton
  • John Nathan-Turner
  • Richard Hurndall
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £99.99

Review Doctor Who - The Five Doctors / The King's Demons - Box Set [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Talons Of Weng-Chiang
Actors & Directors
  • David Maloney
  • Tom Baker
Run time: 134 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Doctor Who - The Talons Of Weng-Chiang / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • David Maloney
  • Patrick Troughton
Run time: 240 min.
Price: £19.99

Review Doctor Who: War Games / BBC Video BBCV 7363:


Review Lions Gate / Day the World Ended/She Creature (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Denning
Release date: 2006-04-18
Run time: 159 min.
Price: £5.09

Review Day the World Ended/She Creature (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Release date: 2001-09-17

Review Doctor Who - Davros Box Set / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / One Million Years BC [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • John Richardson
  • Robert Brown
  • Percy Herbert
  • Martine Beswick
  • Don Chaffey
  • Raquel Welch
Release date: 2002-07-29
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.98

Review One Million Years BC [1966] / Warner Home Video:

One Million Years B. C. might be about as palaeontologically accurate as The Flintstones, but it's still a lasting kitsch masterpiece, as much for Raquel Welch's Amazonian presence in an abbreviated fur bikini as for Ray Harryhausen's wonderful stop-motion dinosaurs. A rare big-budget venture from Hammer Films, this 1966 version of the 1940 Victor Mature classic One Million B. C. is set in a fantasised prehistory where Caucasian cavemen coexist with dinosaurs. Loana (Welch) of the Shell People teaches Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rock Tribe that harmonious cooperation on the beach is a better way of life than rule-of-the-mightiest savagery in caves. Every quarter of an hour, the gibberish-spouting ("Akita akita"), skin-wearing, remarkably clean cave folk are inconvenienced by special effects: a giant sea turtle, a hungry Allosaur, a Triceratops/Iguanodon battle, a Pterodactyl that wants to feed Raquel to its chicks, a major volcanic upheaval. Poster icon Welch gets stiff competition from a lithe Martine Beswick in a cat fight, and the camp goings-on are given real screen presence by gorgeous, primitive Canary Isles locations and an epic score from Mario Nascimbene. On the DVD: One Million Years B. [+]
C. arrives on DVD with minimal extras: a wonderfully ballyhoo-intensive trailer, plus nice little retrospective chats with Welch and Harryhausen. The picture is an anamorphic print of the original 1. 85:1 ratio, and sound is Dolby mono. -Kim Newman.

Review Universal Studios / The Reluctant Astronaut [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jesse White
  • Joan Freeman
  • Leslie Nielsen
  • Edward Montagne
  • Jeanette Nolan
  • Don Knotts
Release date: 2003-09-02
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £4.86

Review The Reluctant Astronaut [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Retromedia Entertainment / Night of the Blood Beast [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Baer
  • Michael Emmet
  • Angela Greene
  • Ed Nelson
  • Bernard L. Kowalski
  • Georgianna Carter
Release date: 2005-10-11
Run time: 62 min.
Price: £3.16

Review Night of the Blood Beast [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Retromedia Entertainment:


Review BBC Warner / Doctor Who: The Key to Time - The Armageddon Factor (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2002-10-01
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £8.04

Review Doctor Who: The Key to Time - The Armageddon Factor (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1963] / BBC Warner:


Review Image Entertainment / Confessions of a Psycho Cat [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arlenne Lorrance
  • Eileen Lord
  • Frank Geraci
  • Dick Lord
  • Herb Stanley
  • Ed Garrabrandt (II)
Release date: 2001-08-14
Run time: 69 min.
Price: £3.35

Review Confessions of a Psycho Cat [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • William Hartnell

Review Doctor Who-The Chase / Bbc:

Doctor Who-The Chase

Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Colin Baker Years
Actors & Directors
  • John Nathan-Turner
  • Colin Baker
Release date: 1994-03-07
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.95

Review Doctor Who - The Colin Baker Years / 2 Entertain Video:


Review BBC Warner / Doctor Who: The Key to Time - The Complete Adventure [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2002-10-01
Run time: 633 min.
Price: £45.04

Review Doctor Who: The Key to Time - The Complete Adventure [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review BBC Warner / Doctor Who: Ribos Operation [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2002-10-01
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £8.24

Review Doctor Who: Ribos Operation [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review MGM / Mars Needs Women [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Edgley
  • Chet Davis
  • Cal Duggan
  • Pat Delaney
  • Larry Buchanan
  • Yvonne Craig
Release date: 2001-08-28
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Robert Jessup
Price: £5.99

Review Mars Needs Women [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Models & Brands:
Forbidden Planet [HD DVD] [1956] [US Import], The Snow Creature [1954] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - Battlefield [1989], The Lost World [1925], Queen of Outer Space [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - The Five Doctors / The King's Demons - Box Set [1983], Doctor Who - The Talons Of Weng-Chiang, Doctor Who: War Games, Day the World Ended/She Creature (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who - Davros Box Set, One Million Years BC [1966], The Reluctant Astronaut [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Night of the Blood Beast [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who: The Key to Time - The Armageddon Factor (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1963], Confessions of a Psycho Cat [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who-The Chase, Doctor Who - The Colin Baker Years, Doctor Who: The Key to Time - The Complete Adventure [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who: Ribos Operation [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mars Needs Women [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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