June 2009 Archives

Ok - we couldn't wait till tomorrow....

This clip is from one of the worst films of all time - Turkish Star Wars. This is a Jedi training scene and bizarrely is set to the music from the Karate Kid.

The best thing about this clip is that I have an even better one for tomorrow...

Cook your sausages in style this summer.

You can buy this banger cooking X-Wing at http://www.roastmyweenie.com

This one was for tomorrow too... don't worry - there are plenty more where this came from.

Something surprisingly good from the Star Wars universe.

This promo - more a mini movie - for the new Star Wars computer game is more imaginative and exciting than the three prequel films put together.

A Bolivian television news channel has been left red-faced after falling for a Lost hoax.

The station showed photos caught on mobile phone camera of the last minutes of tragic Air France flight AF447.

A Periodistas Asociados de Televisión (PAT) newsreader describes several shots from inside the plane as it broke in half.

The shots show passengers being sucked out of the back of the plane into midair. The team said the "exclusive pictures" were from a recovered Casio Z750.

They claimed the camera was traced via the serial number to its owner "Paulo G Muller, an actor from a well-known children's theatre on the outskirts of Porto Alegre".

But the images were straight from TV show Lost, showing the break-up of fictional Oceanic Flight 815.

Perhaps someone should have noticed Evangeline Lilly in the photos, not to mention the fact that the plane breaks up in daylight ...

The hoax also caught out Dutch radio station BNR and Poland TV station TVN24.

It's not the first time news crews have been caught out.

The same images did the internet rounds in 2006 after a Gol Airlines flight collided mid-air with a private jet over the Amazon jungle.

PAT's news director apologised for the mistake.

"On Thursday, two photographs were aired on our prime-time news report and on Friday we apologised," he said.

DASHING doc Noah Wyle, out of his scrubs after the end of hospital drama ER, is set to star in a new sci-fi series.

The 38 year-old actor, who played Dr John Carter in the long-running show, will now battle alien invaders.

He has signed up for the pilot episode of a Steven Spielberg production set after aliens have wiped out most of the human race.

Wyle will play the leader of a ragtag group of soldiers and civilians who are fighting back against the occupying force.

Not the most groundbreaking plot, then. Not after Battlestar Galactica, V and Terminator.

Spielberg was involved in ER, and said: "It is a privilege to be starting a second series with Noah. The first didn't do too badly."

Expect it to screen on satellite channel TNT here in the UK

Superman Brandon Routh has had his wings clipped.

Instead of heading up the latest franchise based on the adventures of the man of steel, Brandon finds himself cameoing in what is being billed as 'the first ever Bollywood production to feature major Hollywood talent".

Make a date in your diary - to visit District 9.

The sci-fi movie of the year opens on August 14 in the UK and is the thinking fan's science fiction essential viewing.

Directed by Neill Blomkamp, and with Peter Jackson (yes, that Peter Jackson) as producer, sneak peeks suggest it's a winner.

Turn the page for the trailer and an interactive experience link...

What a legend!

Sir Christopher Lee is presented with a cake in celebration of his Knighthood by the cast and crew of his new film, The Resident.

And who's the blood-spattered character spurring him on?

None other than Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who played the Comedian in Watchmen.

Currently shooting in Albuquerque, New Mexico The Resident is produced by Hammer Films, marking Lee's first collaboration with the iconic company in 33 years.

It stars Hilary Swank and is the chilling tale of a young doctor who suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft.

Especially as her landlord has formed a frightening obsession with her ...