Invasion Earth : Complete Uncut Version : Mini Series
Jan/100
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This ambitious miniseries, a coproduction between the BBC and the American cable entity the Sci-Fi Channel, is an unusually intelligent and demanding example of the genre. The story begins when a cocky pilot shoots down a UFO inside British air space, but the following revelations only hint at the scope of the predicament. A few soldiers and civilians, led by an American general with the NATO forces (Fred Ward), find themselves in the middle of an intergalactic war and discover they are the next target of a mysterious civilization that has already conquered most of the galaxy. Working with a limited budget, the filmmakers concentrate on creating a palpable sense of fear of the unknown while punctuating the story with sparse but startling effects: dimensional portals that open out of nowhere, a hellish otherworldly land where prisoners appear to be digested in a monstrous stomach, our first and only glimpse of the demonic-looking enemy as it lays waste to an Earth laboratory. These eerie moments only intensify the moody dread that permeates the series. Though an unconvincing romantic subplot occasionally slows the pace, the consistently smart writing and dense, delirious plotting makes this unusual epic compelling viewing right through to its jaw-dropping conclusion.
STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL – Series 1 to 3: The Complete Lim. Collectors Ed.
Jan/100
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___ THIS DVD WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD REGION CODE 1 USA DVD PLAYERS. THIS IS AN EUROPEAN IMPORT DVD IN REGION CODE 2. YOU NEED A REGION CODE FREE DVD PLAYER TO WATCH THIS IN THE USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA ETC. MORE INFO ON: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code ___ SOUNDTRACK: English, French, German ___ SUBTITLES: English, French, German, Dutch ___ SUMMARY: Exclusive DVD Boxset is limited to just 2,000 individually numbered copies** “Space…The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before!” Created by Gene Roddenberry, follow the adventures of the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise. This is the complete season one, two and three of the original series.
STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL – Series 1 to 3: The Complete Lim. Collectors Ed.
STAR TREK VOYAGER – Series 1 to 7: The Complete Lim. Collectors Ed.
Jan/100
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___ THIS DVD WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD REGION CODE 1 USA DVD PLAYERS. THIS IS AN EUROPEAN IMPORT DVD IN REGION CODE 2. YOU NEED A REGION CODE FREE DVD PLAYER TO WATCH THIS IN THE USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA ETC. MORE INFO ON: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code ___ SOUNDTRACK: English, French, German ___ SUBTITLES: English, French, German, Dutch ___ SUMMARY:
STAR TREK VOYAGER – Series 1 to 7: The Complete Lim. Collectors Ed.
Star Trek – The Original Series, Vol. 3, Episodes 6 & 7: The Man Trap/ The Naked Time
Dec/095
Amazon.com
Volume 3 in this terrific DVD library of original Star Trek programs includes “The Man Trap,” the first broadcast episode of the Gene Roddenberry series. Though it was not the first story produced for the show, the process was still new enough that contracted writers were obliged to fill in various blanks, develop some of the key characters, and smoothly introduce some of the Trek technology we’ve come to take for granted. Writer George Clayton Johnson conceived a story in which an old flame of Dr. McCoy’s (DeForest Kelley), a woman named Dr. Nancy Carter (Jeanny Bealy), is in need of medical supplies on a planet where she and her husband (Alfred Ryder) are the only humans. “Nancy,” however, turns out to be a shape-shifting creature that sucks the salt from the bodies of humanoids. Once it’s loose aboard the Enterprise, the “salt vampire” can look like anyone in its pursuit of nourishment.
With McCoy having such a pivotal part in the narrative, Johnson worked with the series’ story editor and episode director (Marc Daniels) on fleshing out his underdeveloped character. There were other issues to think about: this premiere show introduced the Enterprise’s transporter technology as well as Star Trek’s realistic take on scary extraterrestrials. Everyone involved survived the episode, and while it played only to a meager television audience, Trek was off and running for three-plus decades.
Also on this DVD is episode 4, “The Naked Time,” in which an alien disease that strips inhibitions from individuals affects the Enterprise crew. Sulu (George Takei) frees the swashbuckler in his soul, Kirk (William Shatner) battles his demons, and a young lieutenant, Riley (Bruce Hyde), serenades the entire starship and steers her toward certain doom. Still early in the proceedings, this episode introduced a psychological aspect that would become a cornerstone for the storytelling on all four Trek series. –Tom Keogh
Star Trek – The Original Series, Vol. 3, Episodes 6 & 7: The Man Trap/ The Naked Time