Our friends over at VH1 and MTV gave us the heads up on their new “Become Tony Stark For A Weekend Competition”, in promotion of IRON MAN. They’ve produced two promotion videos…
Year: 2008
Has Battlestar Galactica Lost Its Way?
The following article contains spoilers for up to episode 4.05 of Battlestar Galactica.
Coming into the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica, I had high hopes. The sublime season finale, and standard of the season which preceded it offered a great deal of excitement and promise for the final year. However, five weeks in, and I can’t help but feel a little disappointed.
If this were any year other than the closing season, the negative aspects of the last few weeks could probably be over-looked. After all, it’s not that the show is bad; far from it. Galactica remains, behind ‘Dexter’, one of my favourite shows on television. The acting is still top-notch, as is the style of production and the intensity of performance on the screen. So where’s it gone wrong?
id Software announce DOOM 4
According to id Software’s official website, “production has begun on DOOM 4â„¢, the next journey into the legendary DOOM universe.” The latest installment of the best-selling DOOM franchise comes on the heels…
Site Updates, 8th May 2008
Just a little update on the status of the site. General Updates: We’ve had a lot of new content posted lately, coupled with a few minor design updates. Hopefully these design updates…
Morales Joins Caprica
Esai Morales, best known as Major Beck on Jericho, has joined the cast of SCI FI Channel’s two-hour pilot for Caprica, the proposed television prequel to Battlestar Galactica, according to The Hollywood…
Who Shot Darth Vader?
Kelvin Pike did. And that’s not all… This Saturday, Raindance are welcoming veteran cameraman Kelvin Pike BSC to the Kodak Masterclass at BAFTA. His work includes 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, THE SHINING,…
Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge 2008
Many of you have no doubt seen the very successful Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager on YouTube. If not, here you go: What you may not know about, is where the movie…
Star Wars ‘Clone Wars’ Poster Released
If you’re slightly confused about whats’ going on with Clone Wars, don’t be. You’re not alone. In an effort to help explain, this poster is for the upcoming theatrical movie. Star Wars:…
Heath Ledger ‘Joker’ Figures Sell Out
According to reports surfacing online, fans have bought out a popular New York toy stores’ entire supply of the new Batman movie’s Joker (Heath Ledger) action figure within minutes of them going…
Stargate Continuum DVD Cover(s)
Multiple DVD covers are spewing out of the Stargate Continuum project at the moment. Gateworld was the first to post details of the cover, and ran with the following image. Shortly afterwards,…
Doctor Who: Series 4: The Poison Sky
In-brief:
Wow.
(Very) In-depth:
I’m a little bit shocked actually. I just sat down and watched the second of a two-part episode of Doctor Who, and not only did it manage to build upon the first episode, with no stone left not fully unturned, it did so in a way that was, quite simply, brilliant.
Plot; Martha has been cloned, the Sontarans are flooding the world with somekind of poisonous gas, Donna’s granddad is being poisoned to death by said gas and the Doctor, and UNIT, stand helpless…
…but not for long.
Climbing out of the Tardis…
In the midst of all the Doctor Who excitement, what else is going on out there? Scarce little. In a round up of the latest happenings, we’ve had some movement on the…
Doctor Who: Series 4: The Sontaran Stratagem
In brief:
Someone’s back! Oh! And it’s good!
In-depth:
So far with this series, there has not been a single episode I wouldn’t want to go back and watch again. I’ve got the DVDs for Series 3, but quite frankly, I tend to skip the Shakespeare episode (I feel the need to point out I had to think for a few long moments before I remember what the second episode was…), skip the first 20 odd minutes of ‘Gridlock’… With this collection, I could quite happily just sit back, and let the DVD play all of them.
And this episode is no exception.
Plot! A mysterious academy looms and a journalist is thrown from the building, ranting about how ATMOS is somekind of conspiracy… her death by her car driving into a river with the doors locked, is seemingly arranged by the satellite navigation device in her car, the ATMOS previously mentioned.
Onboard the TARDIS, Donna learns how to pilot, and the Doctor receives a phone call. Except it’s not his phone. It’s Martha Jones’, and only one person promised to ring that number…
Doctor Who: Series 4: Planet of the Ood
In brief: Solid storytelling.
In-depth: Okay. Now this is a curious little Doctor Who tale.
I simply can’t fault how beautiful this episode looked; the CGI effects of the snow covered planet, the interior and exterior designs of the Oodsphere complex… it was an alien planet that looked and felt like an alien planet! The design team here did some fantastic work.
Back to the story though, as it transpires, the Ood were a docile race that humans found and decided to take of; to educate as one character within the episode calls it. We know something has gone wrong though from the opening scene where one of the humans running the Ood servants company is murdered by the Ood who serves him. One who has a familiar looking red colour to his eye… The Doctor and Donna arrive and quickly the Doctor determines that the Ood are somehow being controlled by an outside force again – it simply isn’t in their nature to kill.
Doctor Who: Series 4: The Fires of Pompeii
In-brief:
Better!
In-depth:
Ah. Now. This is tricky. I’m extremely tempted to call this an absolutely fantastic showing of what Doctor Who can be when it’s on top form based solely on the second half of this episode, but that would not be fair to the first half!
Doctor Who: Series 4: Partners in Crime
In brief:
Fun with good gut kick.
In-depth:
Russell T. Davies. I think what this man has done to Doctor Who, is absolutely nothing short of fantastic. He brought back to life a series which had been thought gone, and has helped to turn it into the powerhouse it is today with a strong guiding hand.
For that I am extremely thankful because it’s brought an element of fun to Saturday nights in front of the tv that hasn’t been there for a good while. All that said, I will freely admit I’m not entirely sure he’s the best person to write episodes of Doctor Who. I think, although he has brilliant ideas and themes, the execution gets a little bit mixed up sometimes.
Battlestar Galactica Returns Tomorrow
Just a heads up to anyone who hasn’t missed the media frenzy: The fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica begins tomorrow night on Sci-Fi Channel in the US with the opener,…
CBS Cancels Jericho… Again
From The Hollywood Reporter CBS has nuked "Jericho." Producers were told Thursday the show is ending its run on the broadcast network, sources said. CBS will air the season finale next week…