"Director: Ben Burtt"

• T-Rex / Blue Planet / Dream Is Alive | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  T-Rex: Dinosaurs are very much alive - at least in the mind of Ally Hayden. When a museum accident transports Ally on an adventure back in time to explore the terrain and territory of life-size dinosaurs she is thrust literally nose-to-nose with the largest and most realistic dinosaur ever to appear on a movie screen - the 20 foot tall 15-ton Tyrannosaurus Rex! Dream Is Alive: Walter Cronkite narrates this journey about the space shuttle. Share the astronauts' experience of working eating and sleeping in zero gravity. Look back at our magnificent earth witness an exciting satellite repair and the historic walk in space by an American woman. Blue Planet: Filmed in IMAX experience the forces of nature which affect our lives and see how we are changing our fragile world. Filmed by astronauts from five space shuttle missions this video gives the viewer an understanding of the forces affecting earth's fragile ecological balance through volcanoes hurricanes earthquakes and ultimately humankind.

• Blue Planet | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Not to be confused with the epic BBC series, this Blue Planet is a 41-minute IMAX documentary from 1990. It’s a cautionary message about what's happening to the face of the planet, which is seen here from space with the camera in the hands of astronauts. From their unique vantage point 200 miles above we see the Earth in all its glory. Jaw-dropping views of Sri Lanka, India, Hawaii and Africa are enough to convince the viewer of the narrator's assertion that this is a place of great beauty. Then we dive down into the heart of things, and are shown how human evolution has affected that beauty in a very small period of time. Great open plains of land that once teemed with animal life have given way to us. Logging and pollution has taken an enormous toll. While changes in climate are shown to offer clues to what the future may hold, the film's saddest conclusion is on a global scale only visible from space. Quite simply, our prized life-giving watery blue is fading. On the DVD: the only extra is a trailer for the feature. The quality of sound and picture is as superb as you'd expect from the IMAX experience, presented in Dolby 5.1 and 1.33:1 screen ratio. --Paul Tonks