Lexx - The Movies - Series 1 Vol.1

Starring: Brian Downey, Eva Habermann Director: Bruce McDonald, Chris Bould, Stefan Ronowicz, Stephen Manuel Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 23rd April, 2001 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Box set, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Lexx is a science fiction TV series that follows the adventures of a group of mis-matched individuals aboard the Lexx, the most powerful destructive force in the two universes from which the show takes its name. The LEXX is a living spaceship, shaped like a dragonfly without wings. It is capable of destroying planets with ease. The Lexx is on the trail of His Divine Shadow & vice versa. The series is a Canadian/German co-production, with some additional funding from Britains Channel 5. Because it was not made for a US network it includes a lot more sexual innuendo than US audiences are generally accustomed to. As of 2002, the show was intermittently shown on the SciFi Channel. Security guard 4th class Stanley H Tweedle, agent of a failed rebellion and, by accident, captain of the Lexx. Zev Bellringer of planet B3K, a half cluster lizard, renegade love slave. 790, a robot head that received the love slave programming meant for Zev, first loving Zev, then in later series, Kai. Kai, last of the Brunnen G, an emotionless, undead assassin.

// The Movies is simulation game for personal computers & game consoles created by Peter Molyneux & his Lionhead Studios. It is set to be released in the fall of 2005. In the game players take the role of Hollywood film moguls who run a studio & create films. Much has been made about the film making aspect of the game as it will allow players to actually create viewable works or machinima. The game is set to be released for Microsoft Windows XP computers, Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube & Microsoft Xbox. The game is very simple. An original idea by Peter Molyneux - you get to run your own Hollywood movie studio. The game can really be divided into 3 main areas - designing your movie studio, forging the careers of movie stars & making movies. It is possible to focus on any of those areas that most appeal to you & spend less time on the others. The game plays through from the birth of cinema to the present day & a little way into the future, with all the technology & historical advances that occur along that timeline.

DVD Extras: The jam-packed pilot I Worship His Shadow is full of startlingly graphic imagery, skimpily clad women, & literally wall-to-wall computer graphics. TV sci-fi has never been introduced so explosively. Super Nova has the crew of the Lexx hunting for Kai's homeworld, & drawn to a planet by a holographic message from Poetman.

Essentially, the story has little to do with the overall arc, but is an experiment in format & testing boundaries.

There's also a nutty song & dance moment for Kai & Zev, a cameo of the director floating in space, & Curry chewing scenery with gusto.

The first movie's disc features a Sci-fi Channel trailer of interviews for the series, a behind-the-scenes documentary introducing the show's creators & their irreverent sense of humour, plus DVD-ROM Screen Saver & Weblinks. The second movie's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, cast biographies, & another documentary which this time looks at the enormous CGI work put into the first season. This is where the digital transfer really pays off, & the FX-heavy show looks gorgeous in crisp definition as opposed to the general murkiness of TV broadcast or the VHS releases.

A Light Universe & a Dark Zone keep good & bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though its often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat & unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The shows Canadian creators, Supreme Beans Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, & Jeffrey Hirschfield, partnered with German money & studio facilities, intended every episode to be, in their words, a nasty adventure. With flashes of nudity & surgical gore, & a collection of extreme hairstyles & accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx are the Dirty Three-and-a-Half: insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle , the Edward Scissorhands clone & 2000 years-dead Kai , decapitated & lovestruck robot head 790 , & the skimpily wardrobed Zev . Its with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience & proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions & good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises.

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