Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment Run time: 342mins Year: Various Release date: 17/09/2009 RRP: $ 24.99
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SILENT RUNNING 86 mins
Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey) made his landmark directorial debut with this 1971 eco-themed sci-fi classic. Bruce Dern stars as a nature-loving crewmember of the Valley Forge, a gigantic spaceship that carries Earth's last surviving forests, fallen victim to ecological destruction. When orders come from earth to destroy the domes, Dern vows to save the forests by sending them into deep space. Joan Baez sings the classic hippy-generation theme song.
DARK STAR Extended Release 83 mins, Original Release 73 mins
John Carpenter's (Halloween, The Thing) debut feature, made while he was at film school, is a sci-fi spoof that attracted a huge cult following and launched the career of a cinema legend. The film follows four jaded astronauts on a mission to clear unstable planets from outer galaxies. But years from Earth, things start to go wrong as a beachball-like alien arrives, one member decides to 'surf' back to Earth, and the toilet paper runs out! Very black, very funny and strangely moving, this is a genuine cult classic.
COMMUNION 100 mins
In this gripping alien thriller, the brilliant Christopher Walken (Pulp Fiction) stars as a novelist who believes he's been abducted by a strange extraterrestrial force during a visit to the family mountain cabin. With Walken suffering from depression and writer's block, his family believe he is having hallucinations and convince him to see a psychiatrist. But when the writer returns to the cabin, he finally communicates with the alien visitors. Based on a true story and directed by award-winning Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan), this eerie sci-fi thriller pre-empted The X-Files.
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