- Babylon 5 - Season 1
"Nerds of the world rejoice, for our quavering voices have finally been heard - the first DVD box set of Babylon 5 is here, full of enough geeky goodness to gobsmack us for hours and drive our girlfriends/boyfriends (those few of us who have 'em) utterly insane..."
- Beauty and the Beast: SE
"...a classic of its type that, despite containing a little too much sugar and shmaltz for some cynics, can be enjoyed by youngsters and oldsters alike. The disc boasts sadly flawed video, great audio, and a stunning collection of extras."
- Ben Folds Five - Sessions
"...a decent concert performance bundled with an entertaining road film that is actually more interesting then the main feature. Fans will get a kick out of this disc..."
- The Bible
"It's a ponderous film with flashes of majesty, but ultimately too humourless, too bland, and waaay too long..."
- Cinderella II - Dreams Come True
"Cinderella II is not a kiddie's flick that caters for adults; it aims strictly for the pre-teen crowd. "
- Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
"Ferngully has its heart in the right place, but only the very young and the very easily satisfied will have the patience to see it through to its banality-redefining conclusion."
- Hard to Kill
"This is an action flick by the numbers; artlessly directed, joylessly performed and brain-numbingly scripted. It's no Under Siege. Hell, it's not even an Above the Law. "
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
"By ravaging the corpse of the original, the film-makers have churned out a pointless encore that has no reason to exist other than the purely commercial."
- The Jazz Channel Presents Brenda Russell
"...despite a couple of grumpy old man qualifications, for the connoisseur of contemporary R&B, this ranks as a must-buy."
- Justice League
"The show is great, but the video transfer is so bad that there's no way you'll be able to watch the full 60 minutes without your eyes bleeding."
- Liam
"This is a modest disc for an unpretentious, but very worthy film."
- Men in Black II
"MIIB is hard to dislike, but harder still to love. It's a note-perfect reprise of the first film, which means that MIB fans eager for more of the same - exactly the same - will be more than satisfied. Top-notch video and audio, combined with a comprehensive extras package..."
- Nico: Above The Law
"Seagal is far less wooden in this decent action flick (his first) than he would become in his later films, even going so far as to smile on occasion (and not just at his latest burst of socket-wrenching). But he's still a sadistic fellow, make no mistake..."
- Night Of The Living Dead - 30th Anniversary Edition
"...the best version we'll ever see of one of the greatest horror films of all time... but wash your eyes with boiling water should you accidentally view any part of the atrocious 30th anniversary edition."
- The Norman Gunston Show - The Best of the Last 3
"Garry McDonald is a funny man... but you’d never know from this disc."
| - Pocahontas (Remastered)
"This one is strictly for the kiddies, although older viewers prepared to cut the film some slack will be entertained by the flawless animation and some clever visual gags..."
- The Prisoner Volume 1 - Arrival
"The Prisoner is a surreal, intelligent and well acted British drama, with clever and ambiguous storylines that have earned it a cult following over 30 years since its original broadcast. "
- Robin Hood
"If you're a soft-hearted sucker like me - or better still, if you want to expose your kids to some good ol' fashioned high adventure that doesn't involve seizure-provoking computer graphics or serve as an extended toy advertisement - Robin Hood is worth checking out."
- Robocop 2
"...a brutal sci-fi film with almost all of the essential ingredients of a typical '80s action film: gratuitous gore, over-the-top violence, and a barrelling narrative with almost as many holes as one of the trigger-happy hero's unfortunate victims. Excess is the keyword here!"
- Robocop 3 (Remaster)
"Robocop 3 is a horrible blemish on the Robocop series. It's a pimple on the bum of cinematic science fiction. It's a vomitous stain on the action genre. And now, it's here to lower the tone of your local DVD vendor. Don't let it tarnish your collection!"
- Robocop Trilogy Box Set
"The Robocop trilogy is a study of highs and lows... an example of brave, innovative Hollywood film-making next to crass, commercial, committee-driven pap... a high watermark of the sci-fi genre as well as its absolute nadir... or to boil it down, two good movies and a really crappy one."
- Samurai Jack
"A bizarre action-packed sci-fi cartoon... won't be to everybody's taste, but it's worth checking out - especially for those unphased by below-par video transfers."
- The Sand Pebbles
"The Sand Pebbles is a captivating, if leisurely paced action film with some hilariously politically incorrect dialogue and some great performances, particularly from the legendary Steve McQueen. "
- Scorcher
"Question: what do you get when a director tries to film a $100 million FX-driven action movie script with a budget of $13.10? Answer: Scorcher, a film that makes Armageddon look like a Science Channel documentary."
- Sitting Ducks Volume 1 - Duck Cravings
"...a decent DVD of a sweetly amusing animated series that the kids will gobble up, but don't expect the crossover appeal of a Shrek or a Toy Story."
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
"... a well-intentioned, beautifully crafted and technically superb animated masterpiece that will probably bore most adult viewers to tears, but a younger demographic should love it to death."
- The Steven Seagal Collection 1988-1992
"...this collection sees Seagal at his leanest and meanest, before he became a pudgy self-parody given to uttering trite Zen-lite philosophy whilst despatching impossibly slow and moronic opponents... and singing..."
- Tarzan & Jane
"Tarzan and Jane is a decent follow-up to the much-loved original, and is well worth at least a rental to keep the youngsters entertained for a few hours."
- Three Men and a Baby
"The overfamiliarity of the one-gag story is offset by the gut-bustingly hilarious Eighties fashions and haircuts. "
- Under Siege
"Orson Welles had Citizen Kane. Krzysztof Kieslowski had Three Colours: Blue. Steven Spielberg has Schindler's List. And Steven Seagal has Under Siege, universally acknowledged as the pony-tailed one's best film by a country mile."
- The X-Files - Providence
"Providence is another of the two-part "mythology" mini-movies (i.e. the ones that deal with the alien invasion arc) that raises far more questions than it answers. Still, this is a fine example of The X-Files doing what The X-Files does best..."
- The X-Files Season 4 Box Set
"There's nothing new here - each of these twenty-four episodes are virtual remakes of earlier shows - yet that's part of the series' charm, isn't it?
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- The X-Files Season 5 Box Set
"The fifth X-Files box set is comprised of 20 of the series' best and most confident episodes, a great set of extras and decent sound and vision. "
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