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Reviews IndexSelect reviews by clicking on start letters below.[a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] [i] [j] [k] [l] [m] [n] [o] [p] [q] [r] [s] [t] [u] [v] [w] [x] [y] [z] TERMINATOR 3 "She'll be back."They said it couldn't be done. They said it shouldn't be done. But Hollywood can never really leave a franchise alone so they went...
Full Review THE CORE Ah, I remember the heady days of 1999. You could see roughly two disaster films a week about giant comets heading towards the Earth and still ...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review THE HULK "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."I have a general rule when it comes to films. They're either good or they're bad. It's not rocket science but...
Full Review 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...
Full Review THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Some ideas look good on paper. Some go on to look good on film too. THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN may have been a wonderfully-inventive com...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review THE LORD OF THE RINGS:THE RETURN OF THE KING Wow. I could probably leave it there really. You’re going to see THE RETURN OF THE KING whatever the reviews say - and they’ve all bee...
Full Review THE MATRIX RELOADED "Mr Anderson!" Ding ding, round one. Well here it is folks, the film most of us have been waiting over four years for, (with the exception of Star W...
Full Review THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS "Everything that has a beginning has an end. . ."Six months on from RELOADED and the world has changed. In half a year, things on the Matrix front h...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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 ...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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 ...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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 ...
Full Review 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...
Full Review TIMELINE Let’s get something straight from the start. TIMELINE isn’t anything like as bad a movie as the press - both popular and genre - have tried to m...
Full Review 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...
Full Review 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...
Full Review THE 4400 – COMPLETE SECOND SEASONWith other US genre shows – THRESHOLD, INVASION, SURFACE – crashing and burning after just one season and others – LOST – punching far above their own...
Full Review THE AXIS OF INSANITY Ahh, that's more like it. After a few months without a new slice of audio WHO, THE AXIS OF INSANITY lands on the doormat. Its nice just to he...
Full Review THE BIG SHOT This is actually what I have been waiting for in the Dredd audio series, the start of a story arc. However I don't know if this is going to ...
Full Review THE CHAMPIONS - THE COMPLETE SERIESThe
Champions - The Complete Series (Special Edition)
Cast Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Directors
Various
Year
1968
Format...
Full Review THE CREED OF THE KROMON ...
Full Review THE DEADLIEST SPECIES If the sleevenotes themselves don't give the game away, it's clear that these audios are the work of fans of the series in general and lead head bo...
Full Review THE DESCENTPotholing. Can there be a more pointless past-time known to Man – other than watching BIG BROTHER or listening to the second Lighthouse Family album?...
Full Review THE FAITH STEALER When the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz find their journey through the Interzone interrupted by a nightmarish vision, they are surprised to find the...
Full Review 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
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Full Review 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...
Full Review THE GHOSTS OF MENDEZ John's development as a real person as well as a Tomorrow person continues apace in 'The Ghosts of Mendez' where we meet him actually on a date wit...
Full Review THE HARVEST ...
Full Review THE HILLS HAVE EYESHow times have changed. Back in the early days of the home video explosion – I’m talking late ‘70s, early ‘80s – there were a string of films known as...
Full Review THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY“I wonder if it wants to be friends with me?”
Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) wakes up one morning to find that the council want to knock his house do...
Full Review THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXYThis 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...
Full Review THE I INSIDESimon 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 ...
Full Review THE ISLANDMichael Bay is the Devil. Apparently. He appears to be the most hated, sneered-at, slagged-off Director in Hollywood. No-one’s got a good word to say ...
Full Review THE KILLING ZONE 'Mutilated corpses are found around Mega-City One - victims of 'The Killing Zone' an illegal combat sport that is being held at a secret venue and...
Full Review THE LAST Hopeless. Don't worry! I'm not talking about the play, that's actually quite good. Im trying, in my own random manner to refer to the Doctor, ...
Full Review THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN'S APOCALYPSENow I’m as big a fan of TV’s LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN as the next local person but even I’m a bit bemused by their first big screen outing. What the Hell’s...
Full Review THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FEAR ...
Full Review THE NEW GODS For adults of a certain age (no, don't ask...I'd have to kill you. And then eat you) in the early to mid '70s it was all about DOCTOR WHO and THE T...
Full Review 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...
Full Review THE PIRATES In this sixth Doctor adventure do we really want to see Bill Oddie as an evil pirate? The answer is YES! This may seem unbelievable it and was at f...
Full Review THE ROOF OF THE WORLD Review By Liam O Brien Peter Davison hasn't always benefited from the best scripts on Audio. Even the acclaimed SPARE PARTS is beaten hands do...
Full Review THE TOMORROW PEOPLE - SEASON SEVENThe 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...
Full Review THE TOMORROW PEOPLE – 1990SReviving 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...
Full Review THE TRIANGLEYear
2005
Format
2 Discs, 3 80’ Episodes
Release
Date Out Now
Distributor
Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment
RRP
£19.99
Th...
Full Review THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM ...
Full Review THE ULTIMATES VOL. 2, HOMELAND SECURITY The Ultimates Vol. 2, Homeland Security. Mark Millar, Brian Hitch (Illustrator) Paperback: 192 pages (June 1, 2004) Publisher: Marvel Comics I...
Full Review THE WICKER MANObviously any attempt at remaking an absolute classic like Robin Hardy’s 1973 thriller THE WICKER MAN is doomed to some sort of failure before the len...
Full Review THE YEAR OF OUR WAR
Paperback 384 pages (April 1, 2005)
Publisher: Gollancz
Language: English
ISBN: 0575076429
Steph Swainson is following in the footsteps of...
Full Review TOBY LONGWORTH - ACTORTOM BAKER'S ULTIMATE SCI-FI QUIZ - INTERACTIVE DVDTom 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...
Full Review TORCHWOOD - EPISODES 1+2
TORCHWOOD. As a concept it’s been rattling around the fertile imagination of creator Russell T Davies for some time, way before his retooled DOCTOR ...
Full Review TORCHWOOD – EPISODES THREE AND FOURHelen Raynor’s script for ‘Ghost Machine’ the third episode in Russell T Davies’ ‘adult’ DOCTOR WHO spin-off TORCHWOOD sees the fledgling series edge...
Full Review TORCHWOOD: KISS KISS BANG BANG
Who else could open a series with a puffer fish speeding along in a sports car, only to stop at a red light to let an old lady cross. This must be T...
Full Review TRANSFORMERS: THE WAR WITHIN VOLUME 2 - THE DARK AGES Transformers: The War Within Volume 2 - The Dark Ages Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman (Illustrator) Paperback 168 pages (September 30, 2004) Publ...
Full Review TRANSFORMERS: TRIAL BY FIRE Transformers: Trial by Fire Jose Delbo, Bob Budiansky (Illustrator), Frank Springer (Illustrator) Paperback 144 pages (September 24, 2004) Pub...
Full Review TRAPPED ON TITAN "Why don't ye' try a lil' swig o' Old Riley's toilet wine?" Well, here I finally am, with my very own column! I must say it's been long eno...
Full Review 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...
Full Review TRU CALLING - COMPLETE SERIES BOXSETWhen 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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