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8 episodes on 2-DVDs from the classic “”Flash Gordon”" television series.

Flash Gordon – Volumes 1 & 2

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Studio: Geneon Entertainment Release Date: 07/04/2006

Tetsujin 28 – The Movie

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This 2001 Godzilla feature from Japan’s Toho Studios, released as part of the mighty monster’s 50th anniversary, is a visually impressive and action-packed entry in the long-running franchise, but also one with a fast and loose re-interpretation of its history that may displease some stalwart fans. Writer-director Shusuke Kaneko (who previously revitalized the Gamera series) erases everything that occurred after 1954’s Godzilla and re-imagines the beast as a mythical creature harboring the souls of the Japanese victims of World War II; its attack is challenged by three “Guardian Monsters”: Mothra, perennial villain King Ghidorah (here reinvented as hero) and B-list player Baragon (from Frankenstein Challenges the World). The retooling, while imaginative, is supported by spectacular special effects, but the monsters’ brawls (a core reason for enjoying these films) seem abbreviated, and Kaneko’s script experiences awkward seismic shifts from comedy to grim drama that may befuddle longtime G-fans. Columbia-Tri-Star’s DVD is widescreen and offers Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and a Japanese language track (with English subtitles) that should please viewers with an aversion to dubbing. Trailers for other Sony/Columbia sci-fi titles like the American Godzilla feature are also included. –Paul Gaita

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah – Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

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DARK STAR was originally intended to be a 68 minute film. Jack Harris, the Hollywood producer, convinced the filmmakers to shoot 15 minutes of extra footage and he released the expanded version theatrically in 1975 through Bryanston Pictures. In 1983, DARK STAR was re- issued to home video as a “Special Edition,” created under the supervision and authorization of the filmmakers. This special version, featuring a new technically superior video transfer, had been edited by the filmmakers though, virtually removing all the extra footage. Now, once again for all DARK STAR purest, here is the full length theatrical release version, painstakingly restored, and sporting a new Dolby Digital Hi-Fi stereo sound track. Enjoy! In the mid twenty-first century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advances to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. DARK STAR is a futuristic scout ship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermosteller Bombs, it prowls the unstable planets. But there is one obstacle that its crew members did not count on — one of the ship’s thinking and talking bombs is lodged in the bay, threatening to destroy the entire ship and crew! Bonus Features: Contains 2 Versions: Longer Theatrical & Original Shorter Version| Trailer| Scene Selection| Actor Bios| Remixed 5.1 Track. Specs: DVD5; Dolby Digital 5.1; 83 minutes; Color; 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA – G; Year – 1974; SRP – $9.99.Amazon.com
The Dark Star’s crew is on a 20-year mission to destroy unstable planets and make way for future colonization. The smart bombs they use to effect this zoom off cheerfully to do their duty. But unlike Star Trek, in which order prevails, the nerves of this crew are becoming increasingly frayed to the point of psychosis. Their captain has been killed by a radiation leak that also destroyed their toilet paper. “Don’t give me any of that ‘Intelligent Life’ stuff,” says Commander Doolittle when presented with the possibility of alien life. “Find me something I can blow up.” When an asteroid storm causes a malfunction, Bomb Number 20 (the most cheerful character in the film) has to be repeatedly talked out of exploding prematurely, each time becoming more and more peevish, until they have to teach him phenomenology to make him doubt his existence. And the film’s apocalyptic ending, lifted almost wholly from Ray Bradbury’s story “Kaleidoscope,” has the remaining crew drifting away from each other in space, each to a suitably absurd end. Absurd, surreal, and very funny. John Carpenter once described Dark Star as “Waiting for Godot in space.” Made at a cost of practically nothing, the film’s effects are nevertheless impressive and, along with the number of ideas crammed into its 83 minutes, ought to shame makers of science fiction films costing hundreds of times more. The DVD contains both the original 68-minute release and the director’s full version. –Jim Gay

Dark Star

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GENE RODDENBERRYS-FINAL CONFLICT-SEASON 1 (DVD) (5Amazon.com
“Fans of The Twilight Zone will easily recognize the influence of a memorable episode from that classic television series on Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict. Damon Knight and Rod Serling’s “”To Serve Man”" concerned an advanced, extraterrestrial race with large, bald heads and a seemingly benevolent attitude about helping Earth’s humans eliminate poverty, disease, and war. It took a little time for people who had grown complacent from all that allegedly no-strings-attached kindness to realize the aliens had a rather primal, hidden agenda.

Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict, based on notes and story ideas the late Roddenberry left behind, turns a similar premise into a complex, nuanced tale of tensions between a race of bald, androgynous aliens who serve mankind and skeptical humans who don’t trust them. Co-developed and co-produced by Roddenberry’s widow, actress Majel Barrett (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation), Earth: Final Conflict finds our planet more than happy to submit to the goodwill of super-evolved extraterrestrials called Taelons. Having eliminated much of our species’ miseries with advanced technology, the Taelons begin moving more and more into the business of running human affairs. Kevin Kilner stars as William Boone, a cop who becomes an inter-dimensional double agent when a Taelon ambassador, Da’an (Leni Parker), chooses him to be a security liaison. Reluctant to accept the job, Boone agrees only after an underground resistance group–funded by a billionaire (David Hemblen) and including another top security figure (Lisa Howard)–convinces him to be their spy. Equipped with a brain implant that expands his mental powers, Boone begins working for both sides, trying to discover the full story behind the Taelons’ altruistic relationship with Earth. Indeed, there is more to the Taelons’ story than meets the eye, though they are not unsympathetic, and Boone develops something of a relationship with Da’an. The series has a kind of zig-zagging episodic structure that emphasizes unique stories while allowing the deeper, Taelons-versus-rebels tale to thread its way through. Special effects, as in Star Trek: The Next Generation, are on the cheesy side, but that’s all right: several good performances compensate for that shortcoming. Parker, as Da’an, is very good as a creature of both duplicity and deep feeling. But the real standout is Von Flores as Ronald Sandoval, another security agent who destroyed his personal life to become a guardian for the Taelons. Flores is wonderful playing a man whose pain reveals itself, in small degrees, through a veneer of harsh authority. As it turns out, Sandoval is the only character who remained on Earth: Final Conflict all the way through its five seasons on television. Flores is the man to watch. –Tom Keogh ”

Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict – Season 1