[5] Eternal opportunist Roger Corman piggy-backs on the success of Star Wars with this low-budget space adventure about a young man who assembles a rag-tag team of mercenaries to protect his people when another race threatens enslavement. Battle Beyond the Stars is among the more watchable films in Corman’s canon. Most of that is owed to a fast-paced script by John Sayles (Matewan, Passion Fish) …