This week we’ve all been thinking about Carrie Fisher, who died earlier this week at the age of 60. While most people know her for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a lot of people don’t realize that her written career spans farther than the bestselling books and novels that she […]
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- 12/29/2016
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Sophie Aldred's Ace was a Doctor Who companion ahead of her time. We look back at the girl from Perivale's time in the Tardis...
In 1987, Doctor Who broke the companion mould with Dorothy Gale McShane - better known of course as Ace - the streetwise, working class kid who blew up the school art room, and became the only cautioned arsonist to ever board the Tardis.
With a fondness for homemade explosives, and hailing from a very different background to those she succeeded, Ace became the first Doctor Who companion to truly develop before our very eyes as she journeyed through adolescence and into adulthood. Laying the foundations for future companions to build upon, she is perhaps not only a pivotal character in Doctor Who history, but genre TV in general.
"From the beginning all we knew about Ace was that she would be a fighter and not a...
In 1987, Doctor Who broke the companion mould with Dorothy Gale McShane - better known of course as Ace - the streetwise, working class kid who blew up the school art room, and became the only cautioned arsonist to ever board the Tardis.
With a fondness for homemade explosives, and hailing from a very different background to those she succeeded, Ace became the first Doctor Who companion to truly develop before our very eyes as she journeyed through adolescence and into adulthood. Laying the foundations for future companions to build upon, she is perhaps not only a pivotal character in Doctor Who history, but genre TV in general.
"From the beginning all we knew about Ace was that she would be a fighter and not a...
- 1/4/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Andrew Cartmel was the Script Editor throughout the Seventh Doctor era and oversaw three seasons, including fan favourite tales like Remembrance of the Daleks, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and The Curse of Fenric. Kasterborous caught up with him to discuss the recent reprint of Script Doctor: The Inside Story of Doctor Who, 1987-89.
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Andrew Cartmel was the Script Editor throughout the Seventh Doctor era and oversaw three seasons, including fan favourite tales like Remembrance of the Daleks, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and The Curse of Fenric. Kasterborous caught up with him to discuss the recent reprint of Script Doctor: The Inside Story of Doctor Who, 1987-89.
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- 4/5/2014
- by Philip Bates
- Kasterborous.com
Danny_Weasel is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
If, like me, you were a child of the 80′s then you will have grown up watching the adventures of the Doctor as portrayed by the marvelous Sylvester McCoy and, quite possibly, enjoying them massively as I did. The reign of the Seventh Doctor saw the arrival of the iconic companion Ace, the first Dalek
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If, like me, you were a child of the 80′s then you will have grown up watching the adventures of the Doctor as portrayed by the marvelous Sylvester McCoy and, quite possibly, enjoying them massively as I did. The reign of the Seventh Doctor saw the arrival of the iconic companion Ace, the first Dalek
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- 12/13/2013
- by Danny_Weasel
- Kasterborous.com
Entertainment Geekly is a new weekly column that examines contemporary pop culture through a geek lens and simultaneously examines contemporary geek culture through a pop lens. So many lenses!
Four months ago, Star Trek Into Darkness hit theaters. By any objective concrete metric, it was a perfectly respectable Hollywood product. The critics generally liked it. It cost around $200 million and made $465 million worldwide, a financial showing that is neither impressive nor unimpressive. (It wasn’t Man of Steel, but it also wasn’t The Lone Ranger.) It had some funny jokes and it had things exploding in interesting ways. The...
Four months ago, Star Trek Into Darkness hit theaters. By any objective concrete metric, it was a perfectly respectable Hollywood product. The critics generally liked it. It cost around $200 million and made $465 million worldwide, a financial showing that is neither impressive nor unimpressive. (It wasn’t Man of Steel, but it also wasn’t The Lone Ranger.) It had some funny jokes and it had things exploding in interesting ways. The...
- 9/19/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Former Doctor Who Script Editor Andrew Cartmel has taken to Twitter to tentatively announce plans to re-release both of his out of print non-fiction books, Through Time and Script Doctor....
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Former Doctor Who Script Editor Andrew Cartmel has taken to Twitter to tentatively announce plans to re-release both of his out of print non-fiction books, Through Time and Script Doctor....
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- 7/27/2013
- by Andrew Reynolds
- Kasterborous.com
Principal photography began March 18 in Vancouver on Warner Bros./Legendary behemoth "Godzilla" with an all-star global cast: Brit Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars alongside Japanese Ken Watanabe, French Juliette Binoche and Americans David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston as well as indie darling Elizabeth Olsen in her first studio production. She's playing Taylor-Johnson's girlfriend, natch. Cranston would play Taylor-Johnson's stepfather. Of course the humans will be dwarfed by their super-size adversary. Gareth Edwards is making the leap from micro-budget "Monsters" to macro-budget juggernaut. Script doctor Frank Darabont did a polish. From the looks of the exclusive footage they shared in Comic-Con's packed Hall H, this is going to be one epic monster movie. Godzilla is of course no stranger to the big screen, having starred in more than 25 films, plus TV shows, books, and video games. The question is whether Legendary will effectively "return the character to its epic roots with...
- 3/19/2013
- by Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Speed
Directed by Jan de Bont
Written by Graham Yost
1994, USA
For nearly two hours, the pulse-accelerating, Keanu Reeves vehicle, titled Speed, rarely taking a second to slow down. With a story by debuting screenwriter Graham Yost (of Justified fame), this high-adrenaline, nonstop roller-coaster ride is really three pictures rolled into one. Speed is divided into three acts; the first is a 23-minute curtain raiser, reminiscent to a scene in Die Hard, in which Officer Jack (Keanu Reeves), and his partner (Jeff Daniels), must rescue a group of passengers, trapped in the elevator of a high-rise building. The last act, a 25-minute climax, features an underground foot chase through La’s than still-under-construction subway system. These two sections bookend the longer sequence of which Speed has become famous for; a 67-minute, literally non-stop action sequence, set on board a bus that’s rigged to explode if it slows down to under 50 miles-per-hour.
Directed by Jan de Bont
Written by Graham Yost
1994, USA
For nearly two hours, the pulse-accelerating, Keanu Reeves vehicle, titled Speed, rarely taking a second to slow down. With a story by debuting screenwriter Graham Yost (of Justified fame), this high-adrenaline, nonstop roller-coaster ride is really three pictures rolled into one. Speed is divided into three acts; the first is a 23-minute curtain raiser, reminiscent to a scene in Die Hard, in which Officer Jack (Keanu Reeves), and his partner (Jeff Daniels), must rescue a group of passengers, trapped in the elevator of a high-rise building. The last act, a 25-minute climax, features an underground foot chase through La’s than still-under-construction subway system. These two sections bookend the longer sequence of which Speed has become famous for; a 67-minute, literally non-stop action sequence, set on board a bus that’s rigged to explode if it slows down to under 50 miles-per-hour.
- 2/21/2013
- by Ricky da Conceição
- SoundOnSight
During the First World War two French air force members, played by Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay, are shot down by German aristocrat Rittmeister von Rauffenstein (Eric von Stroheim). Despite the animosity between France and Germany, the three men break bread together and find that they have a lot in common, particularly Rittmeister von Rauffenstein and Captain de Boeldieu (Fresnay). Marechal (Gabin) and Boeldieu are then taken to a Pow camp where they get ensconced in a plot with the other prisoners to escape through a tunnel. Fate conspires against them though and they end up transferred to another camp, one run by Rittmeister von Rauffenstein.
Renoir’s prison masterpiece’s greatest scenes are perhaps those that focus on the differences between men, notably those of class and race. The duality in sequences involving von Rauffenstein and Boeldieu, for instance, is central to the depth that makes La Grande Illusion...
Renoir’s prison masterpiece’s greatest scenes are perhaps those that focus on the differences between men, notably those of class and race. The duality in sequences involving von Rauffenstein and Boeldieu, for instance, is central to the depth that makes La Grande Illusion...
- 4/26/2012
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The movie Dam 999 is a film based on the Banqiao dam disaster, which happened in 1975 in China. The film is directed by Sohan Roy, and stars Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajit Kapur, Linda Arsenio and others.
Check out a synopsis of the film, the cast and crew, a trailer, and some working stills and movie stills of the film!
Synopsis:
A corrupt mayor builds a new dam for political gains and personal glory endangering millions of innocent lives; A mariner desperate to save his sister from evil; Two not-so-young lovers challenging destiny in a bid to unite; A woman on a mission to win her family back; A little boy battling a deadly disease; A devoted wife wants to be with her husband even in death; And the astrologer who has foreseen their ominous fate – Nine lives entwined by the impending disaster. Take the journey of a lifetime – Nine characters, Nine moods...
Check out a synopsis of the film, the cast and crew, a trailer, and some working stills and movie stills of the film!
Synopsis:
A corrupt mayor builds a new dam for political gains and personal glory endangering millions of innocent lives; A mariner desperate to save his sister from evil; Two not-so-young lovers challenging destiny in a bid to unite; A woman on a mission to win her family back; A little boy battling a deadly disease; A devoted wife wants to be with her husband even in death; And the astrologer who has foreseen their ominous fate – Nine lives entwined by the impending disaster. Take the journey of a lifetime – Nine characters, Nine moods...
- 11/14/2011
- by BollySpice Editors
- Bollyspice
What in the world could J.K. Rowling's Pottermore possibly be?! We'll have to wait five more days to find out for sure, but for now, some new clues have emerged -- and it looks like some of our hunches hold some weight.
Entertainment Weekly reports that the Pottermore trademark was registered by Warner Bros. two years ago as a service that provides "multiple-user access to a global computer information network, [...] on-line chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among users in the field of general interest [and] on-line facilities for real-time interaction with other computer users concerning topics of general interest." So, it sounds like it is an interactive social networking experience, perhaps one that does include new stories and an Mmorpg of sorts. Nothing definitive yet, sadly, but we're closer to cracking the code!
Alright, enough Pottermore (for now, not forever). Let's take a look at...
Entertainment Weekly reports that the Pottermore trademark was registered by Warner Bros. two years ago as a service that provides "multiple-user access to a global computer information network, [...] on-line chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among users in the field of general interest [and] on-line facilities for real-time interaction with other computer users concerning topics of general interest." So, it sounds like it is an interactive social networking experience, perhaps one that does include new stories and an Mmorpg of sorts. Nothing definitive yet, sadly, but we're closer to cracking the code!
Alright, enough Pottermore (for now, not forever). Let's take a look at...
- 6/17/2011
- by Terri Schwartz
- MTV Movies Blog
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