The last time I saw a Star Trek movie for the first time on opening weekend, it was 1998 for "Star Trek: Insurrection."Ian Cullen, someone I have known since our days chatting in the Star Trek area of AOL, had made the trip from England to Orlando, and I was taking both him and his mom to see the film in a suburb of Tampa.Sure, there's only been three movies since then, so it's probably not that major of a feat. But I've attended previews of "Star Trek: Nemesis," the 2009 "Star Trek" and its sequel, "Star Trek: Into Darkness." I was even invited to a preview of "Star Trek: Beyond," but unfortunately I'm currently, should I say, geographically disadvantaged.For the past year, I've been living in the amazing island nation of Grenada. We are in the southernmost part of the Caribbean Sea, and really ...
- 7/24/2016
- GeekNation.com
Digital Spy readers named David Tennant as Doctor Who's greatest ever Doctor - now, with just 10 weeks to go until the 50th anniversary, DS is embarking on a new quest... to list the top 10 Who stories of all time.
We kick off with a William Hartnell classic - a sublime character drama set in 15th century Mexico that saw Doctor Who confront the dangers of time-travel and changing history for the first time...
10. The Aztecs (1964) - Four episodes - written by John Lucarotti
Narrowing down Doctor Who's (as-of-writing) 239 stories to the 10 best was an incredibly difficult task, but one serial that was always guaranteed to make it into this writer's own personal 'Best Of' list is John Lucarotti's fantastic jaunt into history, 'The Aztecs'.
William Hartnell's first Doctor struck gold early on - his sixth story is his very best, with a multi-layered and powerful script,...
We kick off with a William Hartnell classic - a sublime character drama set in 15th century Mexico that saw Doctor Who confront the dangers of time-travel and changing history for the first time...
10. The Aztecs (1964) - Four episodes - written by John Lucarotti
Narrowing down Doctor Who's (as-of-writing) 239 stories to the 10 best was an incredibly difficult task, but one serial that was always guaranteed to make it into this writer's own personal 'Best Of' list is John Lucarotti's fantastic jaunt into history, 'The Aztecs'.
William Hartnell's first Doctor struck gold early on - his sixth story is his very best, with a multi-layered and powerful script,...
- 9/16/2013
- Digital Spy
As the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who gets closer, there are plenty of rumours about which stars from the past might be returning to what has become the world's longest running sci-fi series.
One man fans would love to see enter the Tardis again for the 2013 celebrations is William Russell, one of the original stars of the programme.
Russell played science teacher Ian Chesterton (below) who, alongside his colleague Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), was whisked off into time and space with the initially untrustworthy Doctor (William Hartnell) and his granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford).
During his two years with the show, Russell would travel back in time and encounter cavemen, Aztecs, Richard the Lionheart, Emperor Nero and Marco Polo, as well as battling monsters in the future, including Sensorites, Voord, Zarbi and the ever-popular Daleks.
Fifty years on, Russell explained described the show's longevity as "amazing" and that he thinks...
One man fans would love to see enter the Tardis again for the 2013 celebrations is William Russell, one of the original stars of the programme.
Russell played science teacher Ian Chesterton (below) who, alongside his colleague Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill), was whisked off into time and space with the initially untrustworthy Doctor (William Hartnell) and his granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford).
During his two years with the show, Russell would travel back in time and encounter cavemen, Aztecs, Richard the Lionheart, Emperor Nero and Marco Polo, as well as battling monsters in the future, including Sensorites, Voord, Zarbi and the ever-popular Daleks.
Fifty years on, Russell explained described the show's longevity as "amazing" and that he thinks...
- 11/15/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Tune in alert for Syfy's Warehouse 13, as the next episode (USA) is "Endless Wonder." Pete and Myka investigate an artifact that causes people to stretch...to death! Danielle Nicolet guest stars. The show airs Monday, Sept 10 at 9/8c. On Thursday, September 6, the UK launch of the 4th season of Warehouse 13 happens, and M&C contributor and site friend Ian Cullen was recently lucky enough to speak with one of the shows stars, Eddie McClintock, on what fans can expect to see in the new series, but also what his thoughts are on the shows evolution thus far. Eddie McClintock's interview can be heard on Blog Talk Radio today - as Ian is rolling it out today at...
- 9/5/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
A while back, it had been announced that David Yates – the man who directed some of the best of the Harry Potter films – was planning on making a big screen version of Doctor Who. The problem being that Yates’ vision was of a completely different Doctor, absolutely separate from the established canon of the series. Many Whovians (myself included) called foul, and questioned how someone could even imagine such a thing. After all, it was attempted in the sixties, with Dr. Who and the Daleks, and Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. Both films starred Hammer Studios veteran Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, an eccentric human inventor who created Tardis, which only resembled the ship on the outside, the inside looking like an indoor lab. The two films took Terry Nation’s first two Dalek stories from the original series and transposed them for the films, which little resemble the much better program.
- 7/23/2012
- Shadowlocked
In this video feature introduced by Kristin Scott Thomas, The Big Picture takes a look at the biggest releases of February 2012.
The Muppets are back in cinemas, Sam Worthington is a Man on a Ledge, Adam Sandler is both Jack and Jill and Tom Hanks leads an all-star cast in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe explores new horizons in The Woman in Black, Charlize Theron impresses in new black comedy Young Adult and you can feel the force of the 3D re-release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
The Big Picture also chats to Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas and Pawel Pawlikowski about their Paris thriller The Woman in the Fifth.
There's also a recap of new fantasy film Dawn of the Dragon Slayer with stars Ian Cullen and Nicola Posener - and we bring you some previously unseen Madonna from the W.E. premiere.
The Muppets are back in cinemas, Sam Worthington is a Man on a Ledge, Adam Sandler is both Jack and Jill and Tom Hanks leads an all-star cast in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
Meanwhile, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe explores new horizons in The Woman in Black, Charlize Theron impresses in new black comedy Young Adult and you can feel the force of the 3D re-release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
The Big Picture also chats to Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas and Pawel Pawlikowski about their Paris thriller The Woman in the Fifth.
There's also a recap of new fantasy film Dawn of the Dragon Slayer with stars Ian Cullen and Nicola Posener - and we bring you some previously unseen Madonna from the W.E. premiere.
- 2/9/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Having breathed enough mythological fire to secure the Best Fantasy Film prize at BleedFest in Los Angeles, Anne K. Black's Dawn of the Dragon Slayer is heading to UK stores on DVD and Blu-ray on February 13, 2012.
The film is the first fantasy dragon feature to be directed by a woman and Anne presented the world premiere of the movie at BleedFest last September.
The festival is held in Los Angeles every month and celebrates "the women who love writing, producing, directing, and watching badass genre movies: action, thriller, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, western, exploitation (of men or audience only), B-movie, and erotica."
It was the first directing role for Anne, who also co-wrote the special effects extravaganza and previously co-scripted the 2003 modern-day update of Pride & Prejudice. After the praise for Dawn of The Dragon Slayer, she is now finishing work on another sword-and-sorcery film titled The Virgin And The Warrior.
The film is the first fantasy dragon feature to be directed by a woman and Anne presented the world premiere of the movie at BleedFest last September.
The festival is held in Los Angeles every month and celebrates "the women who love writing, producing, directing, and watching badass genre movies: action, thriller, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, western, exploitation (of men or audience only), B-movie, and erotica."
It was the first directing role for Anne, who also co-wrote the special effects extravaganza and previously co-scripted the 2003 modern-day update of Pride & Prejudice. After the praise for Dawn of The Dragon Slayer, she is now finishing work on another sword-and-sorcery film titled The Virgin And The Warrior.
- 2/4/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
This new episode features an informative and fun interview with John Rogers, who is perhaps best known these days for his work on the hit TNT series .Leverage.. During the course of this interview John tells host Ian Cullen about his influences and discusses his work on Transformers, Catwoman, Global Frequency and The Jackie Chan Animated Series. And if all that isn.t enough we also talk a little about Leverage, and how the show came into being and look at the various characters from the show. For This Week In Comics Wayne, Ian and Gianluca go on the rampage and discuss how 2000Ad is no available in America as a Weekly Comic, which is something that hasn.t happened...
- 6/16/2011
- by Ian Cullen
- Monsters and Critics
For episode 20, Ian Cullen speaks to Sophie Aldred, who is best known for her role of Ace the companion of Sylvester McCoy.s Doctor in the Classic 'Doctor Who' series. During the course of the interview, they touch on many things, such as the loss of Nicolas Courtney and Elisabeth Sladen, and her thoughts on the new series. We also bring you another long form version of Sfp's comic book segment 'This Week In Comics,' in which we discuss the passing of legendary wrestler Randy .The Macho King. Savage and wax enthusiastically about Idw.s Rocketeer Adventures, which was released last week. For 'This Week In Television,' Ian discusses the thrilling finale of Supernatural with Julie Pyle, who shares her...
- 5/28/2011
- by Ian Cullen
- Monsters and Critics
For our 15th episode Ian Cullen Explores time and relative dimensions in space with former Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel, who was largely responsible for the big push to reinvigorate Doctor Who during the late 1980s when budgets were cut and the series was in decline. During our chat Andrew discusses the last minute changes he made for .Survival,. which wound up being the finale adventure of Sylvester McCoy.s Doctor, and featured a poignant end of The Doctor and Ace (Sophie Aldred) walking off into the distance for further adventure. We also touch on the fact that his run as script editor was referenced in the newspapers for being against the British Government. For This Week In Comics...
- 4/22/2011
- by Ian Cullen
- Monsters and Critics
In this episode of Sfp-now we feature two interviews. One with the magical Max Malini aka Keith David and the second with the charismatic yet lethal gangster, Scales aka Vinnie Jones. Both actors talk to Monsters and Critics' TV features writer and Sfp-now's Ian Cullen about their respective roles in the new NBC series .The Cape,. and talk at some length about their respective roles in the show. Also included are our regular features which include: Last Week In News: We.re Wayne Hall and I discuss a few genre news items from the recent couple of weeks. This Week In Comics: Comics discussion where Wayne Hall takes me through the weeks comic.s. Featured this week is Booster Gold issue...
- 1/23/2011
- by Ian Cullen
- Monsters and Critics
Starz "Camelot" will be the subject of a brief 20 minute special discussion as TV editor April MacIntyre of monstersandcritics.com and webmaster Ian Cullen of scifipulse.net discuss their hopes and thoughts about the new series, which will premiere this April in the USA. Over the course of the show, April and I discuss the recent television critics' association panel conversation that featured several questions asked by MacIntyre regarding the new series, specifically about James Purefoy, who is cast as King Lot. We also have an ongoing competition on the show, which anyone is free to enter. The prize is a copy of the new "Primeval" tie-in novel. Extinction Event. To enter the competition all you have to do...
- 1/20/2011
- by Ian Cullen
- Monsters and Critics
Unfortunately, SyFy‘s Red: Werewolf Hunter hit in the midst of holiday and sporting options that took over the collective mindset, and the media push for the show was not quite what it might have been. An entertaining bit of fantasy fun somewhere in the “tradition” of SyFy’s other fable spins (Tin Man and Alice), Red: Werewolf Hunter stars new media sensation Felicia Day as a descendant of Little Red Riding Hood… sort of… or something.
The show will air again sometime in December, and Twitter clued me in earlier today that there are hopes it will be available online before that, so you will have a chance at it again, but the interview with Felicia Day was too interesting to let lie.
It was an especially interesting call, and necessarily edited though it may be, I tried to leave much of it as it happened. Well, plus, I...
The show will air again sometime in December, and Twitter clued me in earlier today that there are hopes it will be available online before that, so you will have a chance at it again, but the interview with Felicia Day was too interesting to let lie.
It was an especially interesting call, and necessarily edited though it may be, I tried to leave much of it as it happened. Well, plus, I...
- 11/3/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
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