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Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2001-08-13
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

Review Thunderbirds - Episodes 31 And 32 [1965] / ITV DVD:


Review Alpha Video / Horrors of Spider Island [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Valentin
  • Rainer Brandt
  • Elfie Wagner
  • Alexander D'Arcy
  • Fritz Böttger
  • Harald Maresch
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £2.49

Review Horrors of Spider Island [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Anchor Bay / Prehistoric Women [1967] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephanie Randall
  • Michael Carreras
  • Martine Beswick
  • Edina Ronay
  • Carol White
  • Michael Latimer
Release date: 1999-04-06
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £24.53

Review Prehistoric Women [1967] (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Sling Shot / Beneath the 12-Mile Reef [1953] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert D. Webb
  • Robert Wagner
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Terry Moore
  • Richard Boone
  • Gilbert Roland
Release date: 1999-06-01
Run time: 102 min.
Price: £51.99

Review Beneath the 12-Mile Reef [1953] (NTSC) / Sling Shot:


Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / Things To Come [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Raymond Massey
  • Edward Chapman
  • Margaretta Scott
  • Ralph Richardson
  • William Cameron Menzies
Release date: 1997-03-10
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.84

Review Things To Come [1936] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:

Based on HG Wells's speculative meditation on the price of progress, this 1936 English science-fiction epic shows the painterly touch of director William Cameron Menzies, an American whose career in art direction and production design, as well as uncredited directorial work, attached him to such visual triumphs as Gone with the Wind, Alexander Korda's sumptuous 1940 Thief of Baghdad, and Menzies's better-known SF achievement as director, the original Invaders from Mars. Things to Come traces a generational saga that begins, presciently, with a global war that outlives its own political purpose, unravelling society to a Balkanised world of isolated communities. In the wake of a subsequent, devastating plague, a new technocracy arises, evolving toward Menzies's striking vision of vast, subterranean cities, rendered in matte paintings building on then-contemporaneous art-deco "streamlined" aesthetics. Driven more by theme than plot, Things to Come lacks the sheer momentum of other Wells classics brought to film (The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine, among them); but Menzies's bold look and a strong cast including Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke and a young Ann Todd explain the film's enduring appeal. -Sam Sutherland.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.7 - The Squire Of Gothos / Arena / The Alternative Factor [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • William Campbell
  • William Shatner
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Gerd Oswald
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Don McDougall
  • Richard Carlyle
Release date: 1996-11-04
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.74

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.7 - The Squire Of Gothos / Arena / The Alternative Factor [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

One of the most popular and influential shows in the history of television, for many viewers the original Star Trek (1966-9) defines good science fiction: however much it tries to be about the future, it cannot help but reflect the values of its own time, and Star Trek's vision was very much a product of creator Gene Roddenberry's 1960s' liberal-humanist idealism. Conceived at the height of the Cold War and during the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, his was a radical vision of a world where national and racial differences have been put aside and all people work together. With a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other civilisations, and violence only as a last resort, Star Trek embodied a lost dream, a fantasy of what America could have been had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated in 1963. Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) had the middle name of a Roman emperor, but otherwise shared his initials with the late president, and both were young, good looking, womanising, charismatic popular heroes. If Kirk didn't uphold truth, justice and the American way from the White House, a big white starship was the next best thing. There was even a Russian, Mr Chekov (Walter Koenig), on the bridge, and the show delivered network TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Even though there was a white American male in control, it was still all a bit much for 1960s' mainstream TV, hence the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, boldly going on its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, only lasted three seasons and 72 episodes before being cancelled in 1969, the year Man first walked on the moon. While the once-ground-breaking special effects now look routine, and the then-radical politics have now become part of the politically correct global mainstream, Star Trek retains an enduring popularity due to its strong storytelling-the show employed such top science fiction writers as Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon-and admirable characters. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Kirk, Chekov and Uhura remain icons for a world short of real heroes: loyal to the end, honest and utterly dedicated, these were the friends and colleagues who week after week trusted each other with their lives. [+]
Devoid of cynicism and self-interest the crew of the USS Enterprise never, ever let anyone down, and ultimately that is a very big reason for Star Trek's enduring popularity. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Alpha Video / Gammera the Invincible [1965] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Noriaki Yuasa
  • Michiko Sugata
  • Eiji Funakoshi
  • Yoshiro Kitahara
  • Sandy Howard
  • Junichirô Yamashiko
  • Harumi Kiritachi
Release date: 2003-05-20
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £1.98

Review Gammera the Invincible [1965] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Twilight Zone Volume 4 - Walking Distance; Nightmare At 20,000 Feet; The Midnight Sun; The Purple Testament
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • Rod Serling
Release date: 1991-05-09
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Twilight Zone Volume 4 - Walking Distance; Nightmare At 20,000 Feet; The Midnight Sun; The Purple Testament / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review John Newland / One Step Beyond, Vol. 2
Release date: 2004-10-26
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.39

Review One Step Beyond, Vol. 2 / John Newland:


Review Alpha Video / Warning from Space [1956] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keizo Kawasaki
  • Bin Yagasawa
  • Koji Shima
  • Toyomi Karita
  • Shozo Nanbu
  • Bontarô Miyake
Release date: 2003-10-07
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £2.11

Review Warning from Space [1956] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.5 - The Conscience Of The King / The Galileo Seven / Court Martial [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Elisha Cook
  • Gerd Oswald
  • Joan Marshall
  • George Takei
  • Percy Rodriguez
  • Robert Gist
  • Marc Daniels
  • William Shatner
Release date: 1996-09-09
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.5 - The Conscience Of The King / The Galileo Seven / Court Martial [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

One of the most popular and influential shows in the history of television, for many viewers the original Star Trek (1966-9) defines good science fiction: however much it tries to be about the future, it cannot help but reflect the values of its own time, and Star Trek's vision was very much a product of creator Gene Roddenberry's 1960s' liberal-humanist idealism. Conceived at the height of the Cold War and during the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, his was a radical vision of a world where national and racial differences have been put aside and all people work together. With a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other civilisations, and violence only as a last resort, Star Trek embodied a lost dream, a fantasy of what America could have been had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated in 1963. Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) had the middle name of a Roman emperor, but otherwise shared his initials with the late president, and both were young, good looking, womanising, charismatic popular heroes. If Kirk didn't uphold truth, justice and the American way from the White House, a big white starship was the next best thing. There was even a Russian, Mr Chekov (Walter Koenig), on the bridge, and the show delivered network TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Even though there was a white American male in control, it was still all a bit much for 1960s' mainstream TV, hence the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, boldly going on its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, only lasted three seasons and 72 episodes before being cancelled in 1969, the year Man first walked on the moon. While the once-ground-breaking special effects now look routine, and the then-radical politics have now become part of the politically correct global mainstream, Star Trek retains an enduring popularity due to its strong storytelling-the show employed such top science fiction writers as Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon-and admirable characters. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Kirk, Chekov and Uhura remain icons for a world short of real heroes: loyal to the end, honest and utterly dedicated, these were the friends and colleagues who week after week trusted each other with their lives. [+]
Devoid of cynicism and self-interest the crew of the USS Enterprise never, ever let anyone down, and ultimately that is a very big reason for Star Trek's enduring popularity. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.9 - Space Seed / This Side Of Paradise / The Devil In The Dark [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Frank Overton
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Ricardo Montalban
  • William Shatner
  • Ralph Senensky
  • Marc Daniels
  • Jill Ireland
Release date: 1996-12-30
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.80

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.9 - Space Seed / This Side Of Paradise / The Devil In The Dark [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Mamie van Doren
  • Margot Hartman
  • Mary Mark
  • Aldo Roman
  • Paige Lee
  • Derek Thomas
Release date: 2003-10-07
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £2.30

Review Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women [1966] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Dd Home Entertainment / The Quatermass Experiment/Quatermass 2 [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Margia Dean
  • Brian Donlevy
  • Val Guest
  • Thora Hird
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Jack Warner
Release date: 2004-03-08
Run time: 159 min.
Price: £23.99

Review The Quatermass Experiment/Quatermass 2 [1955] / Dd Home Entertainment:


Review Mac Filmworks / Horrors of the Red Planet [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David L. Hewitt
  • Eve Bernhardt
  • Jerry Rannow
  • John Carradine
  • Vic McGee
  • Roger Gentry
Release date: 2007-03-13
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £11.27

Review Horrors of the Red Planet [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Mac Filmworks:


Review Reeltime Pictures / I Was A Doctor Who Monster! [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Sophie Aldred
  • Julia Farino
  • Keith Barnfather
  • Julia Burnett
  • Mark Curtis (III)
  • Sylvester McCoy
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 55 min.
Price: £4.99

Review I Was A Doctor Who Monster! [1996] / Reeltime Pictures:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The War Of The Worlds [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Barry
  • Byron Haskin
  • Ann Robinson
  • Robert Cornthwaite
  • Les Tremayne
  • Sandro Giglio
Release date: 1997-02-03
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.95

Review The War Of The Worlds [1954] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

After the success of 1950's Destination Moon and 1951's When Worlds Collide, visionary producer George Pal brought the classic HG Wells story of a Martian invasion to the big screen, and it instantly became a science-fiction classic and winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson play the hero and heroine roles that werede rigueur for movies like this in the 50s, and their encounter with one of the Martians is as creepy today as it was in 1953. It finally takes an unseen threat-simple Earth bacteria-to conquer the alien invaders, but not before War of the Worlds has provided a dazzling display of impressive visual and sound effects. This is a movie for the ages, the kind of spectacle that inspired little kids such as Steven Spielberg (not to mention Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, whose Independence Day is a remake in all but name) and still packs a punch. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.4 - What Are Little Girls Made Of / Dagger Of The Mind / Miri [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Kim Darby
  • Grace Lee Whitney
  • Vincent McEveety
  • Morgan Woodward
  • William Shatner
  • Michael J. Pollard
  • James Goldstone
Release date: 1996-08-05
Run time: 144 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.99

Review Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.4 - What Are Little Girls Made Of / Dagger Of The Mind / Miri [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

One of the most popular and influential shows in the history of television, for many viewers the original Star Trek (1966-9) defines good science fiction: however much it tries to be about the future, it cannot help but reflect the values of its own time, and Star Trek's vision was very much a product of creator Gene Roddenberry's 1960s' liberal-humanist idealism. Conceived at the height of the Cold War and during the escalation of the Vietnam conflict, his was a radical vision of a world where national and racial differences have been put aside and all people work together. With a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other civilisations, and violence only as a last resort, Star Trek embodied a lost dream, a fantasy of what America could have been had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated in 1963. Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) had the middle name of a Roman emperor, but otherwise shared his initials with the late president, and both were young, good looking, womanising, charismatic popular heroes. If Kirk didn't uphold truth, justice and the American way from the White House, a big white starship was the next best thing. There was even a Russian, Mr Chekov (Walter Koenig), on the bridge, and the show delivered network TV's first inter-racial kiss between Kirk and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). Even though there was a white American male in control, it was still all a bit much for 1960s' mainstream TV, hence the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, boldly going on its five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, only lasted three seasons and 72 episodes before being cancelled in 1969, the year Man first walked on the moon. While the once-ground-breaking special effects now look routine, and the then-radical politics have now become part of the politically correct global mainstream, Star Trek retains an enduring popularity due to its strong storytelling-the show employed such top science fiction writers as Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon-and admirable characters. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Kirk, Chekov and Uhura remain icons for a world short of real heroes: loyal to the end, honest and utterly dedicated, these were the friends and colleagues who week after week trusted each other with their lives. [+]
Devoid of cynicism and self-interest the crew of the USS Enterprise never, ever let anyone down, and ultimately that is a very big reason for Star Trek's enduring popularity. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Alpha Video / Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: The Gypsy Moon (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hollingsworth Morse
Release date: 2004-06-22
Run time: 74 min.
Price: £1.99

Review Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: The Gypsy Moon (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / The 3 Worlds of Gulliver [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Sher
  • June Thorburn
  • Jo Morrow
  • Lee Patterson
  • Grégoire Aslan
  • Kerwin Mathews
  • Richard Schickel
Release date: 2002-04-16
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £5.49

Review The 3 Worlds of Gulliver [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


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Thunderbirds - Episodes 31 And 32 [1965], Horrors of Spider Island [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Prehistoric Women [1967] (NTSC), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef [1953] (NTSC), Things To Come [1936], Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.7 - The Squire Of Gothos / Arena / The Alternative Factor [1969], Gammera the Invincible [1965] (NTSC), The Twilight Zone Volume 4 - Walking Distance; Nightmare At 20,000 Feet; The Midnight Sun; The Purple Testament, One Step Beyond, Vol. 2, Warning from Space [1956] (NTSC), Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.5 - The Conscience Of The King / The Galileo Seven / Court Martial [1969], Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.9 - Space Seed / This Side Of Paradise / The Devil In The Dark [1969], Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women [1966] (NTSC), The Quatermass Experiment/Quatermass 2 [1955], Horrors of the Red Planet [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Was A Doctor Who Monster! [1996], The War Of The Worlds [1954], Star Trek : The Original Series - Vol. 1.4 - What Are Little Girls Made Of / Dagger Of The Mind / Miri [1969], Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: The Gypsy Moon (REGION 1) (NTSC), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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