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For Smeg Heads and Twonks the world over

Advantages: Easy to navigate menus, options for fans and non-fans of Red Dwarf
Disadvantages: Questions can become repetitive, cut scenes cannot be skipped.

...Doug Naylor came along with Red Dwarf. The series follows slobby space bum, Dave Lister, the last human being alive who is stranded three million years into deep space. His only travelling companions are Arnold Judas Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunk mate brought back to life by the ship's senile computer Holly to keep him sane and a creature evolved from the ship's cat. They are later joined by Kryten, a Series 4000 mechanoid with a BA in the ...
...you who have never seen Red Dwarf it became something of a cult classic running for ten years. There are still rumours of a movie version but as time goes on this seems more and more unlikely. The Red Dwarf Interactive - Beat The Geek DVD is an interactive game that guides you through 8 levels of questions hosted by the ship's computer Holly (Norman Lovett and Hatty Hayridge). You start in the landing bay aboard Starbug and work your way through ...

morgandr 29.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Red Dwarf Interactive Quiz - Beat The Geek (DVDi)

The Tribe

Advantages: Amazing costumes, compelling storylines
Disadvantages: Weak acting

...acting as a disadvantage, because the few people I've met who haven't loved this show have cited that as their reason. Everyone else has known that this is what makes it so great! There are some shows that are brilliant because they are rubbish. This is one of those shows. It's cheesy, the actors aren't too convincing but somehow it draws you in. The plotlines are on a par with Buffy - it can be unrealistic, but there are some really poignant moments. ...
...older I get, the less I can identify with the characters, so maybe if you loved this in your youth, it might be one of those things you fear going back to, like Disneyland, because it's never the same. Still, if you're under 20 and you still haven't seen it, you must. One word of caution - you may feel the need to start making your own clothes, dying your hair odd colours and adopting some more unorthodox makeup techniques but then if you're even ...

sakura42 22.06.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Tribe Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-4 (Wide Screen) (DVD)

Flawless set of episodes from the Doctor's team!

Advantages: Superb cast and crew performances
Disadvantages: None really

...In this third disc, the Doctor and Martha have two more adventures, as we are treated to one of the better double episodes in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, and then one of the scariest ever in Blink. Seriously, don't watch this last one in the dark if you're even a little on edge by sci-fi! The Episodes Human Nature and The Family of Blood is the double episode. The Doctor and Martha are fleeing alien hunters from a distant planet, and ...
...1913 in England, where the Doctor takes up the position of a school master, with Martha as a maid. It's not long before the alien hunters, known as the Family, following the Doctor's trail, land in the same place and time, but are unable to find the Doctor. As they narrow down the hunt, putting everyone in the school and its surroundings in danger, Martha must decide whether to release the Doctor early or to wait until the Family have exacted their ...

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Review of Doctor Who - Series 3 Vol.3 (DVD)

The unsinkable just sank... sort of...

Advantages: more great entertainment (plus kylie in a maids outfit)
Disadvantages: none

...third series ending, leaving the Doctor alone once more, he is stunned to find the TARDIS defences being infiltrated by a massive spaceship, aptly named 'the Titanic' (after the famous unsinkable ship which met disaster in 1912 after hitting an iceberg) So as this 2007 Christmas special begins we see the Doctor taking a quiet break on a galactic tour spaceship, orbiting the planet Earth… only this time he has no companion… for now. ** BRIEF PLOT ...
...and crew With the Doctor relishing the fact that he is on the most gorgeous ship in the universe it is not long before his flirtatious ways attract the attentions of the very lovely waitress Astrid Peth, (played by Kylie Minogue)… the chemical attraction begins. The many guest on the ship, such as competition winners Morvin and Foon Van Hoff, (played by Clive Rowe and Debbie Chazen), historian, Mr Copper, (played by Clive Swift), whose facts are ...

blissman70 20.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned (2007 Christmas Special) (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)