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BLAKES 7 SERIES 1

Having always been a closet fan of this show (it was always on UK Gold after the Doctor Who repeats) I thought I might splash out and purchase...
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SERIES 7

So here we go again. BUFFY fans have just about managed to get over the trauma of the end of this very special show and then Fox go and hit us aroun...
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BUGS SERIES FOUR

So it’s 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’s moderately-suc...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE GREEN DEATH

The one with the maggots. Even those with only the most cursory knowledge or memory of DOCTOR WHO in its glory days in the 1970s will feel a lit...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE HORROR OF FANG ROCK

After the oddly uneven patchwork release 'Lost In Time' back in November, it's a welcome return to 'proper' DOCTOR WHO on DVD with the timely arr...
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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS 1

Let The Quest Begin Wow, 80's cartoonic entertainment at its best. This childrens fantasy series loosley based on the very popular RPG sees a g...
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I ROBOT

I ROBOT is an odd one. In so many ways it’s a typical summer blockbuster for modern audiences - Will Smith, sci-fi lite, robots, big action se...
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KILL BILL 1

With the release of KILL BILL VOL. II a few months back, opinion of this first half has changed several times over to bring into line what ...
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OKTOBER

With Britain's TV schedules currently at an all-time low it's refreshing to be able to get a second chance to take a look at quality drama like O...
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PAYCHECK

PAYCHECK is based on a short story by SF author Philip K. Dick, whose work has had a pretty decent time of it on the big screen in one way ...
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ROSWELL - SEASON ONE BOXSET

"Why are you so scared to be human?" ROSWELL, based on a series of teen drama books by Melinda Metz, ran for three seasons. All of them passed ...
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ROSWELL - SEASON THREE

I approached this third season boxset of ROSWELL with some trepidation. With the second season revamp - away from soft-focus lovey-dovey teen ang...
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ROSWELL SEASON 2

Having escaped cancellation at the end of its first season by the skin of its teeth - and with considerable help from its small but vociferous...
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SHAUN OF THE DEAD

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SLIDERS

SLIDERS: SEASONS ONE AND TWO BOXSET Every now and then a genre TV show comes along and promises so much and ultimately fails - often quite brav...
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SPACED DEFINITIVE COLLECTOR'S EDITION

In my continuing quest to see the movies and TV shows I really should have done by now, I picked up this three disc SPACED boxed set as a Christm...
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STARSHIP TROOPERS 2 HERO OF THE FEDERATION

Paul Verhoeven’s original STARSHIP TROOPERS was one great big bloody battlefield of a movie, a hymn to the gung-ho American fighting spirit whos...
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SUPERMAN SUPERMAN 2

In the words of Mr Samwise Gamgee 'there's an eye opener and no mistake.' To think, I had never watched either of these movies properly, never p...
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THE LOCALS

Low budget, horror, teenagers, YAWN. BUT wait, against all odds this is actually a very good film. Two best friends, Grant (Barker) and Paul...
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE RETURN OF THE KING EXTENDED

Well, after three years, the journey is over. Peter Jackson has completed his opus, the cast have moved on, the unthinkable has been achieved- T...
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

What can I possibly say about THE RETURN OF THE KING? You know it, you love it. I believe I said it all in my cinema review back in December and ...
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THE NIGHT STALKER/THE NIGHT STRANGLER

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THE STAR WARS TRILOGY

Reviewing something like the STAR WARS TRILOGY is something best avoided if possible- I mean, what CAN be said about these films? Globally recognise...
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THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

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THE TOMORROW PEOPLE SERIES 5

It's generally accepted that by about 1977, as THE TOMORROW PEOPLE reached its fifth year and the focus of much of the show's attention shifte...
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28 DAYS LATER

2002 is likely to be remembered – by me at least – as the year the British film industry put aside the crinolines and gave Hugh Grant the afternoon...
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ANGEL SEASON 3 BOXSET

ANGEL. To many it's just BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER's impudent offspring, the show which stands forever in the shadow of its bigger, spikier sister...
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BACK TO THE FUTURE DVD BOXED SET

"Are you trying to tell me my mom has the hot' s for me?" THE FILMS: Stop and think for a moment about the nature of time. Think about the past ...
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BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY

Well, you pays your money, you makes your choice… You can wait until December for the Region 2 Boxset of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s epic ti...
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BATMAN RETURNS

"Ok. . .now I'm a lil' worried…"As its Christmas, or was as I'm writing it, I've decided to trawl over my video collection to find the best possible...
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE MINI-SERIES

Forget everything you know about BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. This is easy for me because I know very little about it - apart from the universal trut...
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BLADE 2

Stephen Norrington's original BLADE movie, starring Wesley Snipes as the leather-clad, mean'n-moody half-undead hi-tech vampire slayer, was one o...
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BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW

This moderately-entertaining horror film hails from the early 1970s, when UK horror was still very much the domain of the bods at Hammer and C...
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON SIX BOXSET

(Released in the UK on 12th May 2003) Season Six was a difficult, turbulent time for Buffy the TV character and for BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, ...
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BUGSY MALONE

"Italian Mother, Irish Father, so naturally he grew up a lil' confused" I tried to like this movie, I really did. After getting the review dis...
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CUBE 2 HYPERCUBE

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DAREDEVIL

"I want a bloody costume!" The generally lacklustre early cinema schedules were given a boost this year, thanks to a film that made a quiet ...
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DARK ANGEL – SEASON ONE BOXSET

"Sometimes it seems like it happened to someone else. Like maybe it was a story I heard… The hardest part is not knowing…if any of them made it...
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DEATHWATCH

Ok so after Dog Soldiers and 28 Days Later the British horror industry is being revived. This offering sees a band of World War 1 soldier...
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DECOYS

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 plo...
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DER GOLEM

"The Golem! The Golem!"Its nice to see the odd curio released on the shiny disc to add some substance to the dvd shelves at your local Virgin once i...
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DIE ANOTHER DAY

It's beginning to look as if I'm not that much of a James Bond film after all. I got bored and frustrated with Roger Moore's one-eyebrow performa...
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DOCTOR WHO AND THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG

That rat. That damned, damned rat. Many fondly-remembered DOCTOR WHO yarns are defined by abiding memories – the maggots, the spiders, the shopwindow...
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DOCTOR WHO EARTHSHOCK

1981 saw DOCTOR WHO riding on a bit of a crest of wave. Having successfully overcome two massive traumas - the loss of longest-running Doc Tom Baker...
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DOCTOR WHO LOST IN TIME

I’m not sure I really altogether approve of the idea of LOST IN TIME, a handy three-disc boxset of assorted DOCTOR WHO odds’n’sods scrubbed up an...
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DOCTOR WHO: PYRAMIDS OF MARS

Me, contrary? I’ve been grizzling for months about the BBC’s peculiar choice of titles for their impressive range of DOCTOR WHO DVD releases....
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DOCTOR WHO: REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS

"My men just put 3 high explosive grenades into a confined area, nothing even remotely human could survive that!" "That's the point group captai...
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DOCTOR WHO: RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS

Hottish on the heels of the recent DVD release of ‘The Aztecs’, another tale of derring-do from TV’s legendary death-defying Time Lord. ‘Resurrec...
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DOCTOR WHO: SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE

"An alien who travels through time and space- in a police box?" DOCTOR WHO is all about (for most people) the abiding memories- everyone remembers...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE VISITATION

Quick rant. With nearly thirty years worth of television DOCTOR WHO adventures to chose from - classic Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker yarns especially...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE CURSE OF FENRIC

"We hoped to return to the North Way, but the dark curse follows our dragon ship... The Wolves of Fenric shall return for their treasure, and then s...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH

"One day I shall come back…"Reviewed by Paul MountThe old doc's fortieth anniversary is shaping up quite well so far. Whilst the Beeb smile patronis...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE LEISURE HIVE

The tenure of John Nathan-Turner as producer on DOCTOR WHO from 1980 to 1989 is a bone of contention here at SciFind. On one hand I love...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE SEEDS OF DEATH

He's back – and it's about thirty-four years old. There are two great tragedies in DOCTOR WHO; firstly, it's not being made any more (boo hoo) and ...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE THREE DOCTORS

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...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE TV MOVIE

"It's not often one has a Time-Lord in one's living room Doctor!"He's back, and its about time! howled the BBC, press and any one else who cared in ...
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DOCTOR WHO: THE TWO DOCTORS

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 enemie...
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DOG SOLDIERS

A group of squaddies in the Scottish Highlands trapped by a group of werewolves that had already devoured a group of Special Forces... Wow. A Br...
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DOG SOLDIERS

At last! The film which gave the moribund British film industry a much needed punt up the posterior finally arrives on R2 disc, months after it's a...
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EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS

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 a...
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FU MANCHU

DVD Review THE FU MANCHU COLLECTION THE FACE OF FU MANCHU Directed by Don Sharp Starring Christopher Lee, Nigel Greene, Tsai Chin,...
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FUTURAMA SEASON 3

Ok, so FUTURAMA was never going to scale the giddy height of Matt Groening's other animated series – a little yellow-skinned family you may have ...
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FUTURAMA SEASON 4

As THE SIMPSONS rolls on and on (now entering its fifteenth year!) it’s time to bid a sad farewell to its younger, less illustrious brother. Matt Gro...
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GHOSTWATCH

Halloween 1992. BBC 1 are hosting a brave live television investigation into the supernatural, a studio phone-in hosted by Michael Parkinson (Parky...
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HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

Scifind has already raved about this superior Harry Potter sequel, released theatrically last Christmas. Now, almost indecently-quickly, here comes t...
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HULK

“You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.” On the whole, summer 2003 was ok. We had gems like RELOADED or PIRATES, and even...
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ICE AGE

It looks very much as if the writing's on the wall for the traditional cartoon. Just look at the box office of recent disappointments RETURN TO NE...
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IDENTITY

Ten strangers, a ferocious rainstorm, a couple of nasty accidents, loads and loads of terrible secrets… Michael Cooney and James Mangold’s tense...
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INDIANA JONES

THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES “You call this archaeology?” As voiceover man intones in the TEMPLE OF DOOM trailer, ‘if adventure has a n...
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JAMES BOND ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

“Its alright….its quite alright you see…we have all the time in the world….” Imagine for a moment that you are, for some unknown and convolute...
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JASON X

In space, no-one can hear you…er, get hacked to bits by a resuscitated cryogenically-suspended unstoppable serial killer. No, doesn’t have quite th...
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JEEPERS CREEPERS 2

It’s only occasionally that a film arrives on DVD after you’ve spent some time with it at the multiplex and you’reforced to rethink it a bit. Suc...
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LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - THE CRADLE OF LIFE

Sniffy genre critics sometimes really get up my nose. The two LARA CROFT movies are both perfectly efficient, entertaining Summer blockbuster ...
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LIAM O’BRIEN’S DVD GUIDE: CHRISTMAS 2003

Yes, its been twelve months and your still not a millionaire, so what to get that troublesome-hard-to-buy-for friend or relative? Scifind and ...
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LILO AND STITCH

In a distant galaxy far, far away, an insane scientist is brought to book by the Galactic Federation for his terrible crimes. He has created an...
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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING SPECIAL EXTENDED EDITION.

Keep it secret. . . . keep it safe. . . Now here is a release, that will almost certainly have more people complaining about “money grabbing ...
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LOST IN SPACE SEASON 1

“Danger! Danger, Scifinders! Cheesy 1960s SF show approaching! Danger!” As a new, super-annuated 21st century version of Irwin Allen’s LOST I...
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LOST IN TRANSLATION

You may think that Scifind only reviews Science Fiction or Horror movies, you were wrong in truth we will review any film that is any good and th...
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MATINEE

Handy budget-priced release for Joe Dante's fondly-remembered but oft-forgotten 1993 homage to 1950s B-movie and the age of nuclear paranoia. Goodman ...
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MAY

What the..? Now this one is seriously weird. Straight-to-video horror ain’t usually my thing but MAY came highly recommended from various source...
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METROPOLIS

Metropolis is the first ever big science fiction film, a German film from the 1920s this is the mother of all modern cinematic science fiction, ima...
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MILLENIUM

MILLENIUM When you sit at home waiting for STAR WARS to come out on dvd, its nice to know that even though there are some big movies yet to ...
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MIMIC 2

Guillermo del Toro's giant bug flick MIMIC was one of the more underrated horror movies of the last few years (and a considerably better film than ...
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MINORITY REPORT

The omens really weren't good for this one. Steven Spielberg, the most over-rated film-maker of his generation, whose last genre outing was the ...
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MISERY: SPECIAL EDITION

"I'm your number one fan."Novelist Paul Sheldon (Caan) has made his name and his fortune by chronicling the melodramatic exploits of his Victorian h...
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MY LITTLE EYE

My Little Eye two disc DVD with Special Browser viewing mode. Also available on VHSMy Little Eye capitalises on the reality TV fads of late, using th...
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

Summer 2003. Forget all you know about the year’s big blockbusters - various MATRIXes, HULK, CHARLIE’S ANGELS, X2…even my beloved TERMINATOR 3. W...
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PLANET OF THE APES

US science-fiction TV in the 1970s was a very strange beast indeed. There were none of the hallmarks of today's better fantasy shows – no multi-layer...
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PREDATOR

“If it bleeds, we can kill it” Great news! The Aliens Vs Predator picture is not far off now! Finally, the Predator can return (we hope) ...
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RED DWARF 1

Back in 1988, BBC 2 broke one of those unwritten rules. You just don't do sci-fi comedy on TV! But when the budget allocated to an expected (b...
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RED DWARF 2

>With the last few series having been distinctly lacklustre it's easy to forget just how good the original three or four years of RED DWARF actua...
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REIGN OF FIRE

Rob Bowman's apocalyptic monster movie, which failed to set the Box office alight last year (ho ho) finally arrives on DVD and if you've got a few q...
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SAPPHIRE AND STEEL

Box Set 1 Assignments I,II,III Box Set 2 Assignments IV,V,VI Where as some people talk of hiding behind the Sofa watching the Daleks, I remem...
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SCOOBY-DOO

One of the year’s biggest box office hits, SCOOBY DOO was pulling in the punters even as the reviewers were raging about just how bad the film wa...
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SHADA

BIG FINISH AUDIO REVIEW As all good DOCTOR WHO fans know, ‘Shada’ is the ‘lost’ DOCTOR WHO story; not lost in the sense of all those half-writt...
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SIGNS

This is a review of a Region 1 DVD for more info try here M Night Shyamalan's ingeniously low-key take on the alien invasion story, hugely successfu...
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SPIDER-MAN

Was it really only five months ago that this long-awaited superhero flick was redefining the term ‘box office smash’? Apparently so and here it i...
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SPOOKS

It's a fine line between safety and terror. Meet the rulers.Last year something very strange happened on British television. BBC1 made a series f...
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION

"Make it so" With the airwaves seemingly clogged with endless science fiction dross nowadays (Andromeda I mean you) and the new Star Trek show E...
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STAR WARS EPISODE TWO: ATTACK OF THE CLONES

I will be the most powerful Jedi in the Galaxy..... Ahhh, Christmas. Time for family, friends, and that really nasty mulled wine stuff. Oh ...
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SURVIVORS - THE COMPLETE SERIES 1

It’s fair to say that my abiding interest in the science-fiction genre - or the fantasy genre or whatever label imaginative fiction is currently lum...
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THE DALEK TIN

THE DALEK TIN CD Set “We are your servants” Oh those poor misguided fools at the Beeb. In the early 70’s, whilst DOCTOR WHO was still J...
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL

>Directed by Robert WiseStarring: Michael Rennie, Patricial Neal, Sam JaffeReviewed by Paul MountRATING: 4.5 out of 5Some science-fiction films ju...
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THE GOODIES…AT LAST

Take a little good advice…THE GOODIES? Excuse me…? Well, there's a giant kitten, there's a beanstalk, there's thirty minutes till the end of t...
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THE GRINCH

"If you so much as utter one syllable ill hunt you down and gut you like a fish! If you'd like to fax me press the star key…" Another year, ano...
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THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

This is real car-crash film-making, a text-book exercise in how to really balls something up. But let’s face it, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINAR...
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THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

The jury may still be out on the merits or otherwise of the most recent series of THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN with its continuing narrative and its lac...
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS

“The battle of Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin.” For those of you who snapped up a copy of two disc...
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THE SCIFIND AWARDS 2004

THE OSCARS MAY HAVE BEEN AND GONE, THE BAFTAS MAY BE A DISTANT MEMORY, BUT THERE IS ONE MAJOR AWARD NOT YET GIVEN OUT…IT’S THE FIRST ANN...
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THE SECOND COMING

They said it would be controversial. They said there'd be an uproar. They said there's be questions asked in the Houses of Parliament. Learned cler...
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THE SLAYER COLLECTION

As we wait with bated breath for the upcoming Season Seven DVD boxset, here’s a handy selection of four discs - aimed, I imagine, at the casual BUFF...
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THE UNINVITED

Back in the mid-1990s THE X FILES was the hottest ticket on the box. Ratings were huge in America and even in the UK the normally SF-resistant TV au...
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THE WAR GAME

Another gem from the dusty archives of British television, this is one of the BFI's most interesting releases yet. Back in the days when the BBC we...
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THE WISHER

(note in the USA this film was called SPLICED)Mary (Liane Balaban) compulsively watches horror films, much to her fathers disgust, but little do...
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THE X FILES 7

Seven seasons seems to be about the point at which most American SF/Fantasy shows reach their sell-by date. The majority of them bow out gracefully ...
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THE X FILES SEASON 6 BOXSET

Season Six of THE X FILES was a turning point for the long-running, ground-breaking series created by surfer boy Chris Carter. After five years t...
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THE X FILES SEASON 7

Seven seasons seems to be about the point at which most American SF/Fantasy shows reach their sell-by date. The majority of them bow out gracefully ...
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THE X FILES: ‘THE TRUTH’

Well, here it is. The end. The truth. It was always out there but now, apparently, it’s here - or at least as much of it as series creator Chris Ca...
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THE X MEN 1.5

(released in the UK on 7thApril 2003) Hmmm. I don't think I really approve of DVD Special Editions – particularly ones like THE X MEN 1.5 which ...
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TIME BANDITS

Terry Gilliam is probably up there with my favourite film directors. His films – and his canon of work isn't enormous – are rich with bizarre imagery...
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TIMESLIP

TIMESLIP: The Wrong End of Time/The Time of the Ice Box A recurring theme in many of my scifind reviews is the dumbing-down of British te...
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TREMORS 4

REGION 1 Release at this time, please use this link to buy Action-packed Tremors 4: The Legend Begins - prequel to the original theatrical hit Tre...
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VAMPIRE PRINCESS

Don't be fooled by its '12' rating, Vampire Princess is hardly the type of animated series to keep the kids quiet. It's subject matter and depi...
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AFTERLIFE

Something very strange has been happening on Saturday nights on ITV lately. Typically the domain of pointless talent pantomimes, noisy Ant’n’Dec varie...
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ANGEL - SEASON FIVE BOXSET

53 weeks after Warners insanely pulled the plug on Joss Whedon’s impeccable BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER spin-off, the fifth and final season of ANGEL arr...
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AVPR: ALIENS VS PREDATOR 2 - REQUIEM

Following on directly from the the original Alien vs Predator movie the Predalien – the hybird alien / predator creature seen at the end of the fir...
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BATMAN BEGINS

Christopher Nolan’s reboot of the long-dormant BATMAN franchise (thanks for that, Joel Schumacher) met with almost universal acclaim on its cinematic ...
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BLADE TRINITY

The third film in the Blade series (hopefully now just a trilogy – unless they get Guillermo del Toro back in the helm) sees Westley Snipes coast t...
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BLAKES 7 SERIES 3

Series three of BLAKES 7 saw major cast changes, the ultimate destruction of a well known series icon, and a general shake up of the established unive...
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BLOOD TIES - SERIES 1

BLOOD TIES – rating 2 out of 5 Welcome to the world of vampires roaming the nights (and days, too, actually) – Blood Ties. The show, which seems to...
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: 'ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING'

. (Released April 2003 in the UK) Buffy Summers – the Vampire Slayer – is back from the dead, resurrected by the sorcery of her best friend...
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BUGS - THE COMPLETE SERIES BOXSET

BUGS saw a brief return in popularity of the action/adventure series so beloved of British television in the 1960s and early 1970s. The brainchild of ...
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CARNIVALE - THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

With TV just about managing to cling on to its status as a legitimate art form (CELEBRITY SHARK BAIT…I mean, I ask you!!) it’s startling to come acros...
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CATWOMAN

Pitof? Pitof?? What kind of a name is that for a film director? And what kind of a film if CATWOMAN? Well, it’s not a great film by any stretch of th...
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CREEP

Having been delayed from its planned winter 2004 release, CREEP…er…crept into UK cinemas a few months back and more or, less crept back out again, unl...
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CSI MIAMI SERIES 5 VOL 1 DVD

Having only watched a few episodes of CSI Miami in the past, I found it very hard to follow the first episodes of this part of the season. This wa...
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CSI NEW YORK SEASON 4 VOL 1 DVD

'Absolutely brilliant' sums up how I feel about this programme. Each storyline is well presented and it's very easy to follow the evidence the CSI's...
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DARK SEASON

At last, a long-overdue DVD release for DARK SEASON, first full-length TV drama for Russell T Davies, BAFTA winning executive producer of the hugely...
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DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

My favourite book of all time has hit the screen twice. The first attempt was a fumbled feature film from the early 1960s which, despite the liberti...
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DEAD SCARED

Billed as 'The Evil Dead' meets 'Scream' this is an amusing if a bit dry horror comedy. No real new ground is covered - frat initiation, American te...
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DOCTOR WHO - CITY OF DEATH

With a 1979 vintage - a sort of a table-wine - ‘City of Death’ is one of the few classic DOCTOR WHO stories you could show fans of the new series w...
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DOCTOR WHO - SERIES ONE BOXSET

If you managed to resist the BBC’s quick-buck vanilla DVD releases of the first new season of DOCTOR WHO, here’s where you dig out your credit card an...
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DOCTOR WHO - THE MIND ROBBER

It’s a bit of a mind-bender watching cheesy old black-and-white DOCTOR WHO episodes one minute and then turning on the TV and watching the new all-sig...
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DOCTOR WHO - VOLUME ONE

To buy or not to buy, that is the question for DOCTOR WHO fans. Fork out on these extras-free three-episode compilations of the triumphant new series ...
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DOCTOR WHO NEW BEGINNINGS

One of the greatest disservices shiny 21st century DOCTOR WHO has done to what’s broadly known as “classic” DOCTOR WHO is to have made much of it unco...
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DOCTOR WHO – GENESIS OF THE DALEKS

‘Genesis of the Daleks’ is the most-repeated DOCTOR WHO TV serial in terrestrial TV history – oh, look, there is it again! – and its reputation as...
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DOCTOR WHO – REVELATION OF THE DALEKS

One of the unfortunate side-effects of the recent glossy new DOCTOR WHO series has been that it makes watching even the very best episodes of the old ...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE BEGINNING

Best DOCTOR WHO DVD release ever? Undoubtedly. Best archive TV DVD release ever? Very probably. If the worlds of ‘classic’ DOCTOR WHO and modern DOCT...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE HAND OF FEAR

No-one in their right mind would ever call ‘The Hand of Fear’ a DOCTOR WHO classic; it’s about as workmanlike and adequate as the series was ever ab...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT

Hailing from early 1975, just as fourth Doctor Tom Baker begins to establish himself in the title role, ‘The Sontaran Experiment’ is a pacey, undema...
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DOCTOR WHO – THE WEB PLANET

Russell T Davies, the architect of the recent triumphant DOCTOR WHO revival, was quite adamant that his new version of the venerated show always had t...
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DVD REVIEW CHILDREN OF MEN

Who’d have thought that a rather turgid dystopian science-fiction novel by PD James would turn out to be not only the best film of 2006 but also ver...
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ELEKTRA

Ah, another under-powered film featuring an obscure female comic book character. Mr. Hollywood, you spoil us! After the trash rush of last year’s CATW...
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EVIL ALIENS

Evil Aliens is a film about Aliens that are Evil... no really. The film opens with a couple 'enjoying' each other in a stone circle located on an iso...
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FIRELY - THE COMPLETE SERIES BOXSET

Yes, I know this boxset has been out there for ages. Yes, I know it’s been sitting there on my shelf unloved and unwatched for far too many months. ...
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FUTURAMA MONSTER ROBOT MANIAC FUN COLLECTION

If you’d rather not splash out on the full boxsets of Matt Groening’s underrated FUTURAMA series here’s a chance to bone up on four classic episodes -...
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GENE RODDENBERRY’S EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT – SEASON 1

Year 1997/98 Format 6 Discs, 22 Episodes Release Date Out Now Distributor Universal Price £34.99 The Episodes Although based on...
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HEROES SEASON 2

Heroes was one of the greatest TV shows of 2007, if not the greatest. But what happened to the second series, well the writers strike for one. Cutting...
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JEFF WAYNE’S MUSICAL VERSION OF WAR OF THE WORLDS – LIVE!

Back in 1976 record producer Jeff Wayne (best known at the time for his work with teen idol David Essex) was given a copy of HG Wells’ seminal ‘War of...
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KING KONG – REGION ONE BOXSET

We don’t normally recommend Region One DVD releases here on Scifind because we appreciate that some readers may not have easy access to (or the soft...
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LADY IN THE WATER

M Night Shyamalan is in danger of throwing it all away. Having redefined the horror movie genre with THE SIXTH SENSE, he went on to deconstruct supe...
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LOST IN SPACE - SEASON THREE BOXSET

“Warning! Warning! Alien approaching!” Business as usual for the Robinson clan as we reach the third and mercifully last season of the 1960s Irwin ...
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 appeared just as the peculiar anti-Tom Cruise movement started to gather steam in Hollywood, a movement which culminated in Param...
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RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION

The world is now almost completely infected by the T Virus and almost all of the human population that remain have turned into Zombies (or Biohazard...
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RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES

Return to the Planet of the Apes Voice Cast Richard Blackburn, Henry Corden, Philipa Harris, Edwin Mills, Claudette Nevins, Tom Williams Director...
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SCARY MOVIE 4

Ok, I think it is fair to say that the Scary Movie films are not to be taken seriously, that they do require a few mates and a few beers to enjoy and ...
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SEED OF CHUCKY

Chucky (Brad Dourif – Wormtoung from Lord Of The Rings), the killer doll from the original Childs Play had a child with Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) anoth...
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SERENITY

SERENITY really shouldn’t exist. I mean, who’d make a feature film spin-off based on a failed TV science-fiction series which bit the dust halfway thr...
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SILENT HILL

I happily admit I’m not a videogamer. I already spend far too many hours staring at screens to be able to justify wasting even more of my time playing...
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SLITHER

James Gunn’s SLITHER is clearly intended to be an affectionate homage to all those big, stupid monster movies of the 1950s – you know, the ones wher...
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SUPERMAN RETURNS

Who’d have ever believed that Bryan Singer’s long, languid cinematic love-letter to his beloved Man of Steel would be roundly whupped at box office ...
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THE 4400 – COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

With other US genre shows – THRESHOLD, INVASION, SURFACE – crashing and burning after just one season and others – LOST – punching far above their own...
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THE CHAMPIONS - THE COMPLETE SERIES

The Champions - The Complete Series (Special Edition) Cast Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt Directors Various Year 1968 Format...
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THE FLY – ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION

Year 1958, 1959, 1965, 1986, 1989 Format 7 Discs Release Date 29th May 2006 Distributor 20th Century Fox RRP £69.99 The Movies ...
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THE FORGOTTEN

“The goddam truth won’t fit in your brain!” Oh go on then, I’ll do it. This trashy, silly, sub-X FILES conspiracy thriller is definitely one you’l...
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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

This is the long awaited movie version of the BBC TV series of the book of the BBC radio series, oh and I should mention there should be a computer ga...
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THE I INSIDE

Simon Cable (Phillippe) wakes up in hospital after a car crash. He’s lost his memory; he think he’s been unconscious overnight but his last memory is ...
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THE OMEN

Hollywood remake-itis strikes again. Will they never learn? John Moore, who turned in an enjoyable but rather pointless remake of FLIGHT OF THE PH...
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THE TOMORROW PEOPLE - SEASON SEVEN

The law of diminishing returns is all too applicable to Thames TV’s 1970s kid’s TV hit THE TOMORROW PEOPLE. What started off as an agreeable and inter...
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THE TOMORROW PEOPLE – 1990S

Reviving THE TOMORROW PEOPLE for the computer-age kids of the early 1990s was always going to be a risky undertaking. Exhuming old franchises like DOC...
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THE TRIANGLE

Year 2005 Format 2 Discs, 3 80’ Episodes Release Date Out Now Distributor Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment RRP £19.99 Th...
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TOM BAKER'S ULTIMATE SCI-FI QUIZ - INTERACTIVE DVD

Tom Baker Quiz DVD What a fantastic idea. An interactive Scifi quiz DVD hosted by none other than the king of British Scifi Tom Baker. What a pit...
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TREMORS, 3:, BACK TO PERFECTION

ack in 1989, the original TREMORS, starring Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon, was an unexpected critical, if not box office, hit. Harking back to the chea...
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TRU CALLING - COMPLETE SERIES BOXSET

When BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER shuffled off TV’s mortal coil a couple of years back, rumours were rife that Eliza Dushku was going to topline a spin-of...
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WAR OF THE WORLDS

Spielberg’s much-maligned SF summer blockbuster arrives on a pulsating 2-disc DVD edition just in time for all those Christmas stockings. Many critics...
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WOLF CREEK

These pesky kids just never learn! Don’t they watch video nasties? Haven’t they seen DELIVERANCE or WRONG TURN or THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE or ROADK...
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Reviews Index

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Reviews Index

BLAKES 7 SERIES 1

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SERIES 7

BUGS SERIES FOUR

BUGS SERIES THREE

CRIME TRAVELLER

DAWN OF THE DEAD

DOCTOR WHO: THE GREEN DEATH

DOCTOR WHO: THE HORROR OF FANG ROCK

DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS 1

I ROBOT

KILL BILL 1

OKTOBER

PAYCHECK

ROSWELL - SEASON ONE BOXSET

ROSWELL - SEASON THREE

ROSWELL SEASON 2

SHAUN OF THE DEAD

SLIDERS

SPACED DEFINITIVE COLLECTOR'S EDITION

STARSHIP TROOPERS 2 HERO OF THE FEDERATION

SUPERMAN SUPERMAN 2

THE LOCALS

THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE RETURN OF THE KING EXTENDED

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

THE NIGHT STALKER/THE NIGHT STRANGLER

THE STAR WARS TRILOGY

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE

THE TOMORROW PEOPLE SERIES 5

28 DAYS LATER

ANGEL SEASON 3 BOXSET

BACK TO THE FUTURE DVD BOXED SET

BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY

BATMAN RETURNS

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: THE MINI-SERIES

BLADE 2

BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON SIX BOXSET

BUGSY MALONE

CUBE 2 HYPERCUBE

DAREDEVIL

DARK ANGEL – SEASON ONE BOXSET

DEATHWATCH

DECOYS

DER GOLEM

DIE ANOTHER DAY

DOCTOR WHO AND THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG

DOCTOR WHO EARTHSHOCK

DOCTOR WHO LOST IN TIME

DOCTOR WHO: PYRAMIDS OF MARS

DOCTOR WHO: REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS

DOCTOR WHO: RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS

DOCTOR WHO: SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE

DOCTOR WHO: THE VISITATION

DOCTOR WHO: THE CURSE OF FENRIC

DOCTOR WHO: THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH

DOCTOR WHO: THE LEISURE HIVE

DOCTOR WHO: THE SEEDS OF DEATH

DOCTOR WHO: THE THREE DOCTORS

DOCTOR WHO: THE TV MOVIE

DOCTOR WHO: THE TWO DOCTORS

DOG SOLDIERS

DOG SOLDIERS

EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS

FU MANCHU

FUTURAMA SEASON 3

FUTURAMA SEASON 4

GHOSTWATCH

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

HULK

ICE AGE

IDENTITY

INDIANA JONES

JAMES BOND ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

JASON X

JEEPERS CREEPERS 2

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER - THE CRADLE OF LIFE

LIAM O’BRIEN’S DVD GUIDE: CHRISTMAS 2003

LILO AND STITCH

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING SPECIAL EXTENDED EDITION.