Advantages: Visually unique mix of art film and sci-fi movie - half Matrix half Eastern European masterpiece and yet better than most of either Disadvantages: The dodgy aria that is sung throughout the film
...by anime director Mamoru Oshii, Avalon is a live action film, written, produced and directed by the Japanese but filmed in Poland, in Polish with Poles in all roles. Hardly what you would expect from the director of the influential Ghost in the Shell and its sequel, but then again maybe it is.
On the surface Avalon looks to be one of those movies influenced, like so many alongside it, by the matrix - but, frankly, it's nothing of the sort. Without ... ...novels (Neuromancer et al), though Avalon is very much its own entity. The story, on the surface, is really rather trite. In a rather nameless city, whether or not it's meant to be Warsaw is never explicated, and a rather timeless setting of gothic romanticism, Ash (played with deliciously icy detachment by Malgorzata Foremniak) is one amongst many who plays an illegal computer game - the titular Avalon - (that rather like in the Matrix, you have ...
Advantages: plot lines, acting, effects Disadvantages: no DVD extras
season two of the show carries on where the fist one left off with 13 epps with 530min on 4 discs of existing drama witch is a year after they returned the 4400 centre is open to other 4400 to learned more about them self and there ability. NTAC are still on the tail of the 4400 and getting more and more involved with they loved one who are a 4400. Tom and Diana faces more problems trying to control them. And with a new team leader making her mark ... ...is hits all of the 4400 making them very very ill and some will die.
In this season you see more ability’s more twists and some main people will die, and the end of the season is shocking. ½ of the epps has Audio commentary which explains a lot of how they made each epp, but there are no other extras on the DVD but over all pretty good 9/10 ...
Advantages: creepy tales perfect for a fright night Disadvantages: dated stories the arnt scary the second time round
...Joe these are the original Twilight Zone heres a list of every episode and a brief description
Two
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman
A man and a woman from different sides of a war are the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
CAST: Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery.
The Arrival
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Boris Segal
An airline official tests his theory that a newly arrived but totally empty plane is imaginary-with ... ...series, it is the only Twilight Zone episode with a laugh track.
CAST: Carol Burnett, Jesse White, Howard Smith, William O'Connell, Pitt Herbert, John Fiedler, G. Stanley Jones, Frank Behrens, Albert Carrier, Roy Sickner, Norma Shattuc, Rory O'Brien, Sandra Gould, Adrienne Marden, Jack Younger, Danny Kulick, Donna Douglas, Maurice Dallimore, Barbara Morrison.
The Changing of the Guard
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
A well-loved ...
SPACE 1999
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Here we are again with another memorable sci-fi series from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson whose other 'Hits' included Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds and UFO.
Space 1999 was set on the Moon where a Moon base has been built and nuclear waste from the Earth was stored, but things are not well and soon the nuclear waste explodes blowing the moon out of earths orbit and sets it on a course out of the ... ...The Troubled Spirit 20. Space Brain 21. The Infernal Machine 22. Mission Of The Darians 23. Dragon's Domain 24. The Testament Of Arkadia I remember as a kid having a toy ‘Eagle’ and really enjoying each episode. You can get it on DVD or catch the repeats on ITV4, daily.
At the time the sets where clever and innovative and the scripts fresh and different. The special effects where not up to much but then it was 1975, oops sorry, 1999.
The acting ...
Advantages: Every Star Trek Movie, in one Handy Box Disadvantages: There aren't enough hours in a day!
If you love Star Trek, these are definitely for you!
This is every movie ever made, okay thats only ten, but still thats impressive.
The packaging is brilliant, it is a box within a box, with two Holders within that, which spread out and hold five movies.
There are five original movies, and five of the next generation movies. In total they make 1101 minutes (I make that about 18 hours 30 mins) of pure star Trek excellence. The ratings of the movies ... ...you havent seen them.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
Produced 1979, Directed by Robert Wise
This is the first movie. Star Trek was going down hill, and was switched off air, so to get back in the swing, they launched this movie, which all of a sudden created an explosion of Star Trek fans, which was good for us, as it also encouraged them to make more movies! The only disappointing thing about it, is there is no special features or anything, you ...
