Moon Zero Two (DVD)

William Kemp (James Olson) was a celebrated planetary voyager years back, the first to set foot on Mars. It's now 2021, and the celebration - and the era of exploration - is over. Kemp pilots a lunar-based scavenger craft, retrieving adrift satellites for scrap. But he'll find the adventure he longs for when he agrees to help a woman hunt for her missing brother at a mining camp on the moon's dark side. 'The first moon Western' blazoned ads for this film rife with cowboy-genre motifs. Sci-fi fans may note another influence. From sets to costumes to scenes of men in the blackness of space, Moon Zero Two seems to draw inspiration from a pivotal classic released two years earlier, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Starring: Catherine Schell, James Olson, Catherina von Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri, Ori Levy, Neil McCallum, Joby Blanshard, Robert Tayman, Sam Kydd, The Gojos, Keith Bonnard, Leo Britt, Dudley Foster, Bernard Bresslaw, Michael Ripper, Carol Cleveland, Roy Evans, Tom Kempinski, Lew Luton, Claire Shenstone, Chrissie Shrimpton, Amber Dean Smith, Simone Silvera

Director: Michael Carreras

Rating: G