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Review Sling Shot / Radar Men From the Moon [1952] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Cogan
  • Fred C. Brannon
  • Roy Barcroft
  • Baynes Barron
  • William Bakewell
  • Peter Brocco
Release date: 2002-10-22
Run time: 169 min.
Creator: John McBurnie
Price: £8.64

Review Radar Men From the Moon [1952] (NTSC) / Sling Shot:


Review Twilight Zone / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 11 [1963]
Release date: 2000-11-27
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £15.99

Review The Twilight Zone - Vol. 11 [1963] / Twilight Zone:

In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. -Mark Walker.

Run time: 96 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Thunderbirds - Volume 12 / Universal Pictures UK:


Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Troughton
Release date: 2007-03-06

Review The Doctor Who: Ep. 46 - Invasion (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Bbc Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / Earth vs. the Flying Saucers [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Morris Ankrum
  • Hugh Marlowe
  • Donald Curtis
  • Joan Taylor
  • Fred F. Sears
  • John Zaremba
Release date: 2002-09-17
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £27.62

Review Earth vs. the Flying Saucers [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Notable neither for its director nor its stars, Earth vs the Flying Saucers has been given the widescreen DVD treatment rather because of its special-effects man, the legendary Ray Harryhausen. A Twilight Zone styled voiceover introduces Dr Marvin Russell and his wife of two hours as they're buzzed by an overhead flying saucer-the first of many. When a translation device reveals the saucer-occupants' fiendish plan to take over the world, it's time for a good old army-alien punch-up. Cue screenfuls of avuncular patriarchs, loads of techno-flannel space-speak and plenty of gratuitous American-monument destruction. A by-numbers B-movie, this is only really notable for Harryhausen's stop-motion FX work-and though this, his fifth feature, isn't a patch on his later Technicolor masterpieces, his trick of demolishing facsimiles of recognisable landmarks is cited by many premier filmmakers as being hugely influential on their work. This is very much of its time, the saucer-people arousing few of the thrills engendered by his later creations (Sinbad's Cyclops, for example). And with Cold War fears now just a memory, the Ruskies, or rather aliens, can no longer prevail upon a zeitgeist of xenophobic paranoia for their power. On the DVD: Earth vs the Flying Saucers's black-and-white picture is clean and crisp in this anamorphic 1. 85:1 widescreen transfer and the Dolby digital mono soundtrack is clear enough. The theatrical trailer will please fans of kitsch, as will the featurette "This Is Dynamation" produced at the same time as the first Sinbad movie. [+]
The real corker here though is the generously proportioned documentary "The Harryhausen Chronicles": narrated by Leonard Nimoy, it features a stellar cast of devotees (George Lucas among them) waxing lyrical about the influence of Harryhausen's films, and allows the man himself to ramble fascinatingly over clips of his filmic canon. If you're a fan, it's Harryhausen heaven. -Paul Eisinger.

Actors & Directors
  • Luis Aceves Castañeda
  • Ramón Gay
  • Jorge Mondragón
  • Rafael Portillo
  • Crox Alvarado
  • Rosa Arenas
Release date: 2002-07-30
Run time: 65 min.
Price: £12.20

Review Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Alpha Video / Indestructible Man [1956] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ross Elliott
  • Joe Flynn
  • Jr. Lon Chaney
  • Casey Adams
  • Marian Carr
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Albert Glasser
Price: £2.87

Review Indestructible Man [1956] (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Bbc Video / Doctor Who: Ep. 77 - The Sontaran Experiment (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Baker
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £17.72

Review Doctor Who: Ep. 77 - The Sontaran Experiment (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Bbc Video:


Review Twilight Zone / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 27 [1963]
Release date: 2002-01-28
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £15.99

Review The Twilight Zone - Vol. 27 [1963] / Twilight Zone:


Review Columbia TriStar / Mysterious Island [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Craig
  • Herbert Lom
  • Cy Endfield
  • Richard Schickel
  • Gary Merrill
  • Joan Greenwood
  • Michael Callan
Release date: 2002-10-29
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £8.09

Review Mysterious Island [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Aviva International / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 10 [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Haigh
  • Buster Keaton
  • Brian Aherne
  • Cliff Robertson
Release date: 2000-10-09
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £14.99

Review The Twilight Zone - Vol. 10 [1963] / Aviva International:

In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. -Mark Walker.

Review Troma / Undersea Kingdom [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lois Wilde
  • Boothe Howard
  • Ray Corrigan
  • William Farnum
  • Monte Blue
  • B. Reeves Eason
  • Joseph Kane
Release date: 2001-01-31
Run time: 226 min.
Price: £6.23

Review Undersea Kingdom [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Troma:


Actors & Directors
  • Charles Hallahan
  • Doug McGrath
  • Joe Dante
  • George Miller (II)
  • Albert Brooks
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • John Landis
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Vic Morrow

Review Twilight Zone: The Movie:


Review Retromedia Entertainment / Night of the Blood Beast [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Angela Greene
  • John Baer
  • Ed Nelson
  • Michael Emmet
  • Bernard L. Kowalski
  • Georgianna Carter
Release date: 2002-09-24
Run time: 62 min.
Price: £7.42

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


Review Universal Studios / This Island Earth [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lance Fuller
  • Russell Johnson
  • Rex Reason
  • Jack Arnold
  • Joseph M. Newman
  • Jeff Morrow
  • Faith Domergue
Release date: 1998-04-08
Run time: 86 min.

Review This Island Earth [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

A mysterious, pilotless plane carries scientist Rex Reason to a colony of America's best and brightest minds. They have been kidnapped by a dying alien race, the Metalunians, to repair their defence shield before their enemies destroy their world completely, and are to be found toiling under their spying eyes and futuristic security cameras (two-way TVs that dominate every room). Jeff Morrow, under a raised forehead, bronze tan, and snow-white hair, philosophises as Exeter, the thoughtful Metalunian torn between his duty and his morals as he forces the plucky humans to labour in his race's defence. The moody mystery of the first half turns to pure pulp adventure when the humans are transported across the galaxy to the battle-scarred world of Metaluna, under the threatening watch of a monstrous bug-eyed monster with a giant brain for a head and massive claws for hands. There is a genuine sense of wonder to Joseph Newman's intergalactic adventure, one of the most ambitious science fiction films of the 1950s. The story is simple space opera, but the futuristic designs of glass and metal, the marvellous alien makeup, and grand-standing special effects invest the film with a Technicolor splendour. Faith Domergue co-stars as a nuclear physicist and Gilligan's Island's Russell Johnson makes his first professorial appearance as a scientist. Science-fiction auteur Jack Arnold was an unbilled co-director. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Image Entertainment / Terror is a Man [1959] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Derr
  • Francis Lederer
  • Oscar Keesee Jr.
  • Lilio Duran
  • Gerardo de Leon
  • Greta Thyssen
Release date: 1999-06-08
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £57.95

Review Terror is a Man [1959] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Twilight Zone / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 8 [1963]
Release date: 2000-08-29
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £19.48

Review The Twilight Zone - Vol. 8 [1963] / Twilight Zone:

In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for a magnificent five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series (and still does) is the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras. On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, a season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. -Mark Walker.

Review Twilight Zone / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 7 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 1999-03-02
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.12

Review The Twilight Zone, Vol. 7 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Twilight Zone:


Actors & Directors
  • Bill Carter
  • Jacqueline Derval
  • Antonio Margheriti
  • Claude Rains
  • Maya Brent
  • Umberto Orsini
Release date: 2002-07-30
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £31.95

Review Battle of the Worlds [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Sergio Ciani
  • Nando Tamberlani
  • Anna Maria Polani
  • Jany Clair
  • Delia D'Alberti
  • Giacomo Gentilomo
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £5.93

Review Hercules Against the Moon Men [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Retromedia Entertainment:


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Radar Men From the Moon [1952] (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 11 [1963], Thunderbirds - Volume 12, The Doctor Who: Ep. 46 - Invasion (REGION 1) (NTSC), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Indestructible Man [1956] (NTSC), Doctor Who: Ep. 77 - The Sontaran Experiment (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 27 [1963], Mysterious Island [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 10 [1963], Undersea Kingdom [1936] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Twilight Zone: The Movie, Night of the Blood Beast [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), This Island Earth [1955] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Terror is a Man [1959] (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 8 [1963], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 7 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Battle of the Worlds [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hercules Against the Moon Men [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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