Writer/director Jon Kroll looks to merge sci-fi adventuring with '90s late-night cable entertainment in "Amanda and the Alien." The 1995 endeavor has a plan to be a silly comedy about a friendship forming between a lonely twentysomething woman and a visitor from another world capable of inhabiting human bodies. It's a bit of B-movie and "Starman," with the pair soon on the run from government agents, but Kroll doesn't have John Carpenter money. He's making something for a limited audience, leaving "Amanda and the Alien" restrained when it comes to goofiness, awkward with sex, and fairly uneventful during confrontations. It reaches for campiness but can't quite get there, leaving the viewing experience flat, with lukewarm performances and sluggish plotting. But hey, there are few features that capture parts of the mid-1990s as well as this one. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com