Scrubbers DVD Report

Its 1980s Britain, what happens when a young girl is sentenced to Borstal and locked away from the everyday world? In Scrubbers you find out.

Well acted by a cast including Pam St Clement, Kathy Burke, Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margoyles, and many others, some of whom had actually done time (including Honey Bane!), Scrubbers exposes a brutal society in which the strong survive and the weak are no match for the cruelties of the system.

Through the hatred of Carol by teenage mother Annetta, we follow the endless rounds of violence, bitching and brawling that have made the UKs borstals notorious breeding grounds for crime and violence, and shows why they where eventually abolished in 1982. Scrubbers is still worth watching, plus there are so many actresses in this who have gone on to have a successful career!

There is at least one Doctor Who connection, Miriam Margoyles was in the Big Finish audio drama The Beast Of Orlok, I'm sure there are more if you dig :)

Here is the trailer...

The Gravedancers DVD Report

In The Gravedancers, Harris (Dominic Purcell), Sid (Marcus Thomas), and Kira (Josie Maran) are reunited by their college friends funeral, they stage an impromptu graveside wake. Before long they are singing and dancing around the cemetery, trampling nearby graves, but one of them finds a verse written on a card and reads it out. Later, the friends discover they’ve made a serious mistake and awakened angry spirits.

After a series of bizarre happenings, they approach paranormal experts who explain they have disturbed spirits of the graves they danced on, and those ghosts (a jealous woman with an axe, ten-year-old pyromaniac, and a psychotic rapist) have one lunar cycle to exact their revenge on them. As the attacks become more frequent and more violent, the bonds between the three friends start to give way.

The Gravedancers is a very good horror movie, it reminds me of the Evil Dead crossed with Thirteen Ghosts! The story is credible, the acting is pretty good, the effects are generally very good and the action is pretty non-stop too! Watch this movie!

Here is the trailer...

Australian Torchwood Children Of Earth Teaser

Original here.

Alan Moore Discusses The Watchmen

Alan Moore discussing his seminal work Watchmen from the documentary The Mindscape Of Alan Moore.

House of 9 DVD Report

In House of 9, nine people awaken in a locked and deserted mansion, including Dennis Hopper and Kelly Brook, and are forced into a deadly game of survival in a tense tale of dread and deception.

They learn the last person standing will be permitted to leave the residence with $5 million, the now paranoid prisoners struggle for survival as the events quickly turn deadly and the body count begins to rise.

House of 9 starts off looking OK, even though the idea isn't new, but soon becomes a terrible movie, about 15 minutes are wasted by playing music while we watch the people a-la-big brother (I ended up fast forwarding through this), I think they were short of plot development ideas, but they do have a clever ending! If you get this movie, watch the first 20 minutes and the last 5! Otherwise dull!

Here is the trailer...

Doctor Who Children In Need 2005 Screencaps

Here are 430 screencaps from the Doctor Who 2005 Children In Need Special.

They are 1024x576, and can be downloaded here.

Thanx go to Nancherrow for the caps, if you use these for anything, please remember who did the work :)

Claims Of Alien Skull Found On Mars

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The Sun (Britains lamest comic), are claiming an alien skull has been photographed on Mars by NASA, personally I think its just a rock!

The big question is this, if I'm wrong and it is an alien skull, is the rest of the body buried below :)

Source.

Doctor Who Ocean Of Noise by E.R. Butler

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I read a rumour about there being an advert for Ocean Of Noise by E.R. Butler on the bus in Planet of the Dead, so I have looked into it.

You can see the advert it in a few places in the episode, so here is an image showing the advert, I have lightened this a lot to make it clearer, so is this important to one of the stories this year I wonder?

So what do we know about Ocean Of Noise by E.R. Butler? Well we can assume its a book, as its a BBC show, it won't be product placement, so defiantly fictional, but thats about it, so is it just set dressing, or a clue to something? The Waters of Mars perhaps?

Doctor Who The Waters Of Mars Base

Doctor Who Magazine 408 reports that in the forthcoming story The Waters of Mars, the Mars base is called Bowie Base One. I suppose I have to ask is there a Major Tom on board? And perhaps they know a Moon Unit too?

Doctor Who Of The Day - Tosh & Ianto

Toshiko Sato: The entire. Telephone. Network. Is down!

Ianto Jones: Mobiles, landlines, tin cans with bits of string - everything, absolutely everything! No phones, phones all broken. Hello? Anyone there? No, 'cause the phones aren't working!

Torchwood, Sleeper.