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Actors & Directors
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Doug McGrath
  • George Miller
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Vic Morrow
  • Albert Brooks
  • John Landis
  • Charles Hallahan
  • Joe Dante
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Melissa Mathison

Review Twilight Zone: The Movie:


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 5 - The Uninvited / Mighty Atom / The Cham Cham [1964]
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 145 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 5 - The Uninvited / Mighty Atom / The Cham Cham [1964] / 4 Front Video:


Review Image Entertainment / Missile to the Moon [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Travis
  • K.T. Stevens
  • Richard E. Cunha
  • Cathy Downs
  • Tommy Cook
  • Nina Bara
Release date: 2000-07-18
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Vincent Fotre
Price: £7.86

Review Missile to the Moon [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Sling Shot / Beneath the 12-Mile Reef [1953] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert D. Webb
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Terry Moore
  • Robert Wagner
  • Gilbert Roland
  • Richard Boone
Release date: 1999-06-01
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: A.I. Bezzerides
Price: £51.98

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


Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 25 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jay Overholts
  • Robert McCord
  • Rod Serling
  • Vaughn Taylor
  • Jack Klugman
Release date: 2000-05-16
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.48

Review The Twilight Zone, Vol. 25 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Aviva International / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 12 [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Serling
Release date: 2000-11-27
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £14.26

Review The Twilight Zone - Vol. 12 [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.

Actors & Directors
  • Paolo Audiberti
  • Earl Hammond
  • Peter Fernandez
  • Eleanor Kearney
  • Joan Audiberti
Release date: 1991-10-28
Run time: 70 min.
Price: £7.99

Review Thunderbirds 2086 - Firefall [1983] / Itc Home Video (UK):


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.95

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 8 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Serling
  • Vaughn Taylor
  • Robert McCord
  • Jack Klugman
  • Jay Overholts
Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.47

Review The Twilight Zone, Vol. 8 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Tokyo Shock / Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yuji Okada
  • Tamio Kawaji
  • Koji Wada
  • Haruyasu Noguchi
  • Yôko Yamamoto
  • Tatsuya Fuji
Release date: 2000-12-09
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Gan Yamazaki
Price: £8.79

Review Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tokyo Shock:


Review Aviva International / The Twilight Zone - Vol. 27 [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Serling
  • Jay Overholts
  • Robert McCord
  • Jack Klugman
  • Vaughn Taylor
Release date: 2002-01-28
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £15.99

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


Review Image Entertainment / Treasures of The Twilight Zone [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Klugman
  • Rod Serling
  • Jay Overholts
  • Vaughn Taylor
  • Robert McCord
Release date: 1999-10-26
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £6.10

Review Treasures of The Twilight Zone [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / More Treasures of the Twilight Zone [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Serling
Release date: 1998-11-24
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £6.56

Review More Treasures of the Twilight Zone [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.95

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Review Eureka Entertainment / Metropolis [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • Brigitte Helm
  • Fritz Rasp
  • Rudolf Klein-Rogge
  • Fritz Lang
  • Alfred Abel
  • Gustav Fröhlich
Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 139 min.
Creator: Thea von Harbou
RRP: £19.99
Price: £45.49

Review Metropolis [1927] / Eureka Entertainment:

Fritz Lang's Expressionistic masterwork continues to exert its influence today, from Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) to Dr Strangelove (1963), and into the late 1990s with Dark City (1998). In the stratified society of the future (Y2K no less), the son of a capitalist discovers the atrocious conditions of the factory slaves, falling in love with the charismatic Maria in the bargain, who preaches nonviolence to the workers. But even the benevolent leadership of Maria is a challenge to the privileged class, so they have the mad-scientist Rotwang concoct a robot double to take her place and incite the workers to riot. The story is melodrama, but it's the powerful imagery that is so memorable. One of the most arresting images has legions of cowed workers filing listlessly into the great maw of the all-consuming machine-god Moloch. Unfortunately, the print used for this DVD is unfocused, scratchy, and five minutes short, altogether unworthy of a visionary masterpiece. It may be too much to hope for the complete film to be restored (only two hours of the original three-hour film are extant), but a clean transfer from a fine-grain negative ought to be possible. And why, when there are other possible future Metropolises to be had, should we downtrodden masses accept this junk? -Jim Gay If you think you know Fritz Lang's Metropolis backwards, this special edition will come as a revelation. Shortly after its premiere, the expensive epic-originally well over two hours-was pulled from distribution and re-edited against Lang's wishes, and this truncated, simplified form is what we have known ever since 1926. Though not quite as fully restored as the strapline claims, this 118-minute version is the closest we are likely to get to Lang's original vision, complete with tactful linking titles to fill in the scenes that are irretrievably missing. [+]
Not only does this version add many scenes unseen for decades, but it restores their order in the original version. Until now, Metropolis has usually been rated as a spectacular but simplistic science fiction film, but this version reveals that the futuristic setting is not so much prophetic as mythical, with elements of 1920s architecture, industry, design and politics mingled with the mediaeval and the Biblical to produce images of striking strangeness: a futuristic robot burned at the stake, a steel-handed mad scientist who is also a 15th Century alchemist, the trudging workers of a vast factory plodding into the jaws of a machine that is also the ancient God Moloch. Gustav Frohlich's performance as the hero who represents the heart is still wildly overdone, but Rudolf Klein-Rogge's engineer Rotwang, Alfred Abel's Master of Metropolis and, especially, Brigitte Helm in the dual role of saintly saviour and metal femme fatale are astonishing. By restoring a great deal of story delving into the mixed motivations of the characters, the wild plot now makes more sense, and we can see that it is as much a twisted family drama as epic of repression, revolution and reconciliation. A masterpiece, and an essential purchase. On the DVD: Metropolis has been saddled with all manner of scores over the years, ranging from jazz through electronica to prog-rock, but here it is sensibly accompanied by the orchestral music Gottfried Huppertz wrote for it in the first place. An enormous amount of work has been done with damaged or incomplete elements to spruce the image up digitally, and so even the scenes that were in the film all along shine with a wealth of new detail and afford a far greater appreciation for the brilliance of art direction, special effects and Helm's clockwork sexbomb. A commentary written but not delivered by historian Ennio Patalas covers the symbolism of the film and annotates its images, but the production information is left to a measured but unchallenging 45-minute documentary on the second disc (little is made of the astounding parallel between the screen story in which Klein-Rogge's character tries to destroy the city because the Master stole his wife and the fact that Lang married the actor's wife Thea von Harbou, authoress of the Metropolis novel and screenplay!). There are galleries of production photographs and sketches; biographies of all the principals; and an illustrated lecture on the restoration process which uses before and after clips to reveal just how huge a task has been accomplished in this important work. -Kim Newman.

Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 36 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vaughn Taylor
  • Jack Klugman
  • Robert McCord
  • Rod Serling
  • Jay Overholts
Release date: 2000-11-14
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.47

Review The Twilight Zone, Vol. 36 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Nude on the Moon [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lacey Kelly
  • Raymond Phelan
  • Doris Wishman
  • Marietta
  • William Mayer
  • Ira Magee
  • Lester Brown
Release date: 2000-09-12
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Martin Caplan
Price: £6.01

Review Nude on the Moon [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Platinum Disc / Beneath the 12 Mile Reef [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • J. Carrol Naish
  • Gilbert Roland
  • Robert Wagner
  • Terry Moore
  • Richard Boone
  • Robert D. Webb
Release date: 1999-06-29
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: A.I. Bezzerides
Price: £1.40

Review Beneath the 12 Mile Reef [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Image Entertainment / The Twilight Zone, Vol. 26 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Serling
  • Jack Klugman
  • Robert McCord
  • Jay Overholts
  • Vaughn Taylor
Release date: 2000-06-13
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.74

Review The Twilight Zone, Vol. 26 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Thunderbirds - Vol. 8 - End Of The Road / The Perils Of Penelope / Alias Mister Hackenbacker [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 145 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.75

Review Thunderbirds - Vol. 8 - End Of The Road / The Perils Of Penelope / Alias Mister Hackenbacker [1965] / 4 Front Video:


Models & Brands:
Twilight Zone: The Movie, Thunderbirds - Vol. 5 - The Uninvited / Mighty Atom / The Cham Cham [1964], Missile to the Moon [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beneath the 12-Mile Reef [1953] (NTSC), The Twilight Zone, Vol. 25 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 12 [1963], Thunderbirds 2086 - Firefall [1983], Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 8 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone - Vol. 27 [1963], Treasures of The Twilight Zone [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), More Treasures of the Twilight Zone [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thunderbirds - Vol. 6 - Vault Of Death / Move And You're Dead / The Duchess Assignment [1965], Metropolis [1927], The Twilight Zone, Vol. 36 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nude on the Moon [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beneath the 12 Mile Reef [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twilight Zone, Vol. 26 [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thunderbirds - Vol. 8 - End Of The Road / The Perils Of Penelope / Alias Mister Hackenbacker [1965]

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