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Review By Paul Mount, 3 out of 5 Hottish on the heels of the recent DVD release of ?he Aztecs? another tale of derring-do from TV? legendary death-defying Time Lord. Resurrection of the Daleks hailing from fifth Doc Peter Davison? third and final season in the role, is a grim beast indeed. Less a story …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 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 off and rediscovered the simple pleasures of a well-told monster movie. Hot on the heels of DOG SOLDIERS came Danny …
Review By Paul Mount, 3.5 out of 5 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 audience couldn’t resist the conspiracy-based supernatural antics of Mulder and Scully. Wouldn’t it be good, thought drooling British Tv …
Review By Paul Mount, 3.5 out of 5 One of the year? biggest box office hits, SCOOBY DOO was pulling in the punters even as the reviewers were raging about just how bad the film was, how devoid of any artistic merit and imagination and ingenuity. Well, what did they expect? Only the meanest-minded could …
Review By Paul Mount, 3 out of 5 ?anger! Danger, Scifinders! Cheesy 1960s SF show approaching! Danger!? As a new, super-annuated 21st century version of Irwin Allen? LOST IN SPACE (written by BUFFY? Doug Petrie and directed by John Woo – yes, John Woo!!) is announced, here, just to remind us how ropey the original …
Review By Paul Mount, 4.5 out of 5 > Directed by Robert Wise Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricial Neal, Sam Jaffe Reviewed by Paul Mount RATING: 4.5 out of 5 Some science-fiction films just don’t show their age. Some are dated by the time they reached home video. INDEPENDENCE DAY, for example, the huge rabble-rousing blockbuster …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 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 around the head again with this latest (and last) lavish DVD boxset of the adventures of …
Review By Paul Mount, 4 out of 5 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 (but never planned) second series of the filmed Ben Elton sitcom HAPPY FAMILIES became available, RED DWARF was ready to …
Review By Brian Edwards, 0 out of 5 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 Tremors — shakes up viewers by exploring the origins of the unforgettable underground creatures that made the original a cult classic and …
Review By Liam O Brien, 5 out of 5 THE OSCARS MAY HAVE BEEN AND GONE, THE BAFTAS MAY BE A DISTANT MEMORY, BUT THERE IS ONE MAJOR AWARD NOT YET GIVEN OUT?T? THE FIRST ANNUAL SCIFIND AWARDS 2004! GRAB YOUR TUX, HAUL OUT THAT DRESS, AND GET READY FOR THE MOST GLAMOROUS ARTICLE OF …
Review By Paul Mount, 3.5 out of 5 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 lack of the more familiar Royston Vasey grotesques but here’s a timely release for 2000’s fifty-minute Christmas special which, viewed …
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Review By Liam O Brien, 3 out of 5 “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 1996- yes DOCTOR WHO was coming back! For one night. The American Tv movie held so much …