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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine broke the mold of the original vision by exploring the impact of Starfleet's decisions on a micro and macro level. Commander Sisko's character arc and the depth of the cast in DS9 were major successes, adding complexity to episodes that could have been lightweight. "In the Pale Moonlight" is a breathtaking morality play that challenges Roddenberry's utopian vision, showing the tough decisions that must be made to maintain it.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is acclaimed for its darker and mature approach and its 20 best episodes perfectly combine the core ideals of Star Trek with a more complex morality. DS9 broke the mold of Gene Roddenberry's original vision to rebuild Star Trek with contemporary relevance. Swapping a starship for a space station, Deep Space Nine was able to explore the impact of Starfleet's decisions on a micro and macro level. Many of...

Odd List Ryan Lambie 12 Feb 2014 - 06:36

From faked lunar landings to invisible WWII warships, here are six conspiracy theories and the genre films they inspired...

"Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face," Sterling Hayden's General Jack D Ripper coldly announces in Stanley Kubrick's breathtakingly funny satire, Dr Strangelove.

Ripper's conspiracy theory, that the commies are secretly trying to compromise our "precious bodily fluids", becomes his harebrained reason for unleashing a missile strike on the Ussr. And just as Ripper was inspired by this strange notion to trigger a nuclear apocalypse, so filmmakers have been inspired by conspiracy theories to make all kinds of science fiction and horror movies - some funny, some tense and absorbing, others terrifying.

Here, then, is a selection of six real-world conspiracy theories and the varied movies they inspired - and funnily enough, Stanley Kubrick...

Mulder would have loved this one. Former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association Philip Mantle recently released a book about the grainy black-and-white film footage that surfaced in 1995 claiming to be autopsy footage of the Roswell aliens taken in 1947.

All the details on Roswell Alien Autopsy: The Truth Behind the Film That Shocked the World are below. To purchase a copy, you can go right to Roswell Books.

From the Press Release

After the alleged recovery of a UFO and its occupants near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, did the U.S. military conduct an autopsy on the fallen creatures while cameras documented the eerie event? A new book closely examines the autopsy film. Sixty-five years ago, a strange object crashed in the desert north of Roswell, New Mexico, and witnesses claimed that the bodies of "extraterrestrials" were recovered by the U.S. military and taken to...

On tonight’s Peter Andre – The Next Chapter…..

Peter is back in work mode and meets his fans for the first time this year at his official calendar signing. Well over a thousand fans turn up to the event and for some of them hysteria sets in when meeting their idol.

Peter has also been asked to present the backstage TV footage for the Brit Awards, and after his initial nerves he does a great job at interviewing all the celebrities, including Alan Carr and Dermot O’Leary.

Peter and his brother Danny are moving forward in their plans to open up a line of coffee shops, and they visit a barista school to learn more about coffee beans and they also take the kids to a cupcake shop and have some messy fun decorating.

There’s more fun with Peter and his brothers when he takes them all paintballing.

Every month there's a slew of movies released directly to DVD, and rather than let them pass harmlessly under the radar, we're compiling them here in easy to digest capsule reviews. If you're looking for a nice flick to get you through the weekend, then this is the list for you. So sit back, and take a gander at some of the notable independent and direct-to-dvd releases of September.

September 7th

Doc West

Doc West is a made-for-tv Western with one immediate advantage over many of the cheap dollar store direct-to-dvd western flicks that come out nowadays: it has enough of a budget to keep things consistent. There are no blatant anachronisms or costume defects that take you out of the feature with a sudden, “Is that guy wearing a Phillies shirt under his vest?” The story is simple and sees Doc West in pursuit of some bandits who stole his money,...

Directed by: Jonny Campbell

Written by: William Davies

Cast: Declan Donnelly, Anthony McPartlin, Bill Pullman, Götz Otto, Morwenna Banks, Omid Djalili

Alien Autopsy tells the true story of Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield, two British lads who came into possession of proof of the most startling discovery in human history. We are not alone. Or are we? This is a question that cave dwellers and today's scientists using the most bleeding edge technology have been trying to answer.

Written by William Davies and directed by Jonny Campbell, this film doesn't try to answer that question. Instead, it is a light-hearted comedy about how Ray and Gary came upon the film which supposedly contained images of an actual Alien Autopsy and who eventually became famous for perpetrating one of the largest, world-spanning and profitable hoaxes ever.

In 1995 Ray and Gary unleashed their video on the world having sold the rights to over 30 countries worldwide.

In honor of the release of a film about the 1995 controversy surrounding an infamous bit of footage known as Alien Autopsy called (what else?) Alien Autopsy, we had the opportunity to speak with the real men behind the mania -- Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield. Time to separate fact from fiction.

Alien Autopsy is available now from Warner Premiere. Order your copy below.

About the Film:

The autopsy allegedly occurred in 1947 after the Army issued a press release that a crashed "flying disc" had been recovered. Soon after the army reported debris from a classified radar tracking balloon was recovered, and the speculation began.

The case was eventually forgotten but resurfaced in the late 1970s when physicist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery and said he thought the military covered up the incident.

Then in 1995 Santilli, a London-based video producer, promoted a...