Reviewing something like the STAR WARS TRILOGY is something best avoided if possible- I mean, what CAN be said about these films? Globally recognised as works of total genius, A NEW HOPE (I? calling it that from now on, it fits in with the prequels as a ?ix film saga? THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and …
I approached this third season boxset of ROSWELL with some trepidation. With the second season revamp – away from soft-focus lovey-dovey teen angst and deep into the realms of fast-paced high-concept sci-fi – having done little to improve US ratings, season three, on its new home at the UPN Network, promised a return to the …
So it? the last role of the dice for Ros, Ed, Becket and their chums at Bureau 2 as the last batch of episodes from BUGS, the BBC? moderately-successful 1990s hi-tech action show arrives on a 3-disc DVD boxset. Previously, you may recall, the show escaped the icy fingers of cancellation by cleverly ending its …
Review By Brian Edwards, 2 out of 5 Available to rent from the 16th August 2004 Ok – for a start – this film bills itself as SPECIES meets AMERICAN PIE not a promising start. The plot concerns a Canadian High School having a spate of mysterious deaths where the victims have been found frozen …
Review By Liam O Brien, 4 out of 5 “Ok. . .now I’m a lil’ worriedT As its Christmas, or was as I’m writing it, I’ve decided to trawl over my video collection to find the best possible films based around the season. So far in my quest I’ve managed to turn up the excellent …
Review By Paul Mount, 3.5 out of 5 Ellory Elkayem’s affectionate homage to all those classic 1950’s mutated monster B-Movies (the best of which, THEM, is referenced here) is a bright and breezy fun romp which thrills but never chills and is an inoffensive way of wasting 95 minutes. And that’s the problem. EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS’ …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 As this remarkable 40th Anniversary year of DOCTOR WHO draws to a close, what better way to round off the celebrations than with a trip back in time thirty years, to a more innocent era when DOCTOR WHO rarely acknowledged its own history and when the idea …
Review By Paul Mount, 2.5 out of 5 1985. DOCTOR WHO is in trouble. But this time he’s not just bedevilled by Daleks and surrounded by Cybermen. No, he’s up against two terrible enemies which will prove to be the downfall of this most remarkable of television adventurers; viewer apathy and BBC disinterest. As this …