Now James Cawley, Star Trek Phase II/New Voyages producer and super-fan, has made public a letter that he sent to the Nebula awarding body, the Science Fiction Writers of America on the Trek BBS, a Star Trek message board. In this letter he refutes any claim to professional status – saying Marc Zicree had painted a “wrong picture” of his project. “Legally, we are a fan-based production. We exist solely because we maintain our amateur status, and good faith relationship with Paramount CBS....

To kind of prevent any panic attacks at the Den of Geek offices, we decided to take a look back at the teasers that have come before from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. These teasers are awesome pieces of nostalgia, full of epic voice-overs (peep James Earl Jones in the original REVENGE of the Jedi teaser), beautiful concept art from Ralph McQuarrie, and just lots of awesome Star Wars....

3.22 Wookiee Hunt Thankfully, the heralded return of Chewbacca doesn’t take long and his role in the episode is considerable, helping the Jedi younglings evade and turn the tables on their oppressors, the nasty lizard-like Trandoshans. But first of all, they have to rescue Han Solo’s BFF. In a remarkable scene where Ahsoka and two fellow youngsters attack a ship, intent on escaping the jungle planet they’re being hunted on, we find its survivor (after a spectacular crash) is everyone’s favourite Wookiee, Chewbacca....

Steven Universe Season 5 Episode 4 While last time I was unsure about Lars gaining powers, I’m starting to come around to it. Especially if his only power is to be a magical hair portal for Steven to get back to Lion AND be a Zombie. See, when I write it like that? It sounds perfect! This episode was very transitional, setting up what will probably be the next major arc of episodes....

Ah, Yes, the widely used yet misrepresented word ‘blah’. Perhaps originating from the French ‘blasé’, it can be used to represent a feeling of lethargy, apathy and fatigue. To have ‘the blahs’ in 1969 meant you were bored with life and the black seas of depression had washed away that childish grin, that feeling of meaning, that flutter of excitement in the depths of your heart. It’s an introduction far removed from last week’s review, I know....

9.7 Bad Boys It’s the reason, too, why Bad Boys often feels like the Sparknotes version of the first two seasons. In a way that’s extremely stylistically similar to the first season’s Something Wicked, this episode uses the brothers’ weekly case as a narrative frame for its flashbacks, which are the heart and the foundation of this episode. That’s a problem, though: the nature of such sustained, detailed flashbacks is precisely to develop character, to reveal things we didn’t know about our protagonists....

With the intention of reuniting with her, at the other end of the spectrum Greg is trying his hardest to get rid of Tom, stating that his casual use of violence, his demeanour and his general outlook is endangering everyone, especially the fact that he is constantly waving a shotgun around. It seems there can only be one ‘alpha-male’ in the group and Greg, who is still reeling from his wound last week, still has the firmness of will to force Tom to leave....

It isn’t just the teens exploring their angsty sides this week. Oh no. The olds have their share of problems too. Kate is still on the lam. It’s gotta sting slightly, right? She is being pursued by a band of incredibly good-looking teens. It’s like turning around to discover a Noxzema ad is after you. Other adults feeling the hurt this week include Peter. Now that he’s out his millions, he spends a fair portion of the episode bemoaning his poverty-stricken state....

There’s a feeling of getting away with something about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You don’t have to look particularly closely to find all sorts of signs of the film being pieced together on the fly. Plot holes abound (to the point where the story scarcely makes sense), supporting characters appear only to disappear and never be mentioned again, characters seem to reference cut scenes and one role looks to have been clumsily split into two late in the game....

Although technically gifted, it was Alvin’s talent for crystalising a film’s subject tone in a single, clear image that really set him apart from other illustrators. His best posters often focused on one or two objects suspended against an expanse of sky or stars, such as the alien and child’s fingers touching in his poster for E.T., or the silhouette of a boy in Empire Of The Sun. Alvin was one of a handful of practitioners who elevated the movie poster to an artform....

Somewhere in Virginia, a family is found dead in their own home, the crime scene bloody and the doors locked from the inside. The mystery’s heightened further when the police venture into the basement: there, partly buried in the ground, lies the corpse of a young woman. Keen to figure out the cause of death, the police bag the woman’s body up and take it to the local mortuary – a family-run business run by Tommy Tilden (Brian Cox) and his son Austin (Emile Hirsch)....

The Bay takes a somewhat staid genre and pushes it several steps further by using the footage from a range of sources, not just one camera: mobile phones, home movies, video conferencing calls, news coverage, security and police cameras, and piecing it all together to relate a story, told in flashback, of gross negligence resulting in an environmental disaster. In an era, where everything is recorded, photographed, broadcast, uploaded and shared almost instantly, the film becomes disturbingly relevant, tapping into the zeitgeist of our media-saturated reality....

I think The Belko Experiment is an excellent film. I don’t know that you’ll agree with me. The set-up is simple enough. The workers of the Belko company are locked in their building and ordered to complete violent tasks. It’s Lord Of The Flies meets The Purge. A sort of office block apocalypse, The End Is Nigh Hard. That’s a brief set-up of the story, mirroring how it happens in the film....

After the drama of the previous episode’s closing scenes, it comes as something of a relief to learn that neither of those apparent catastrophes has come to pass. Saga’s crippling breakdown hasn’t led to further hospitalisation; instead, she’s diagnosed herself with post-traumatic stress disorder and arranged sessions with a psychiatrist (Jenny Lampa). Saga’s potted history of everything she’s been through will be handy for the viewers whose introduction to The Bridge only started with this series (not an approach I recommend, frankly, but I do admire your courage)....

The template actually kind of worked on Unknown and Non-Stop, capitalizing on Neeson’s post-Taken reboot as a somewhat inexplicable action hero and providing harmless B-movie entertainment in the early winter months of their given years, when quality films can be few and far between (interestingly, the more character-driven and cerebral of the three, Run All Night, was the least successful at the box office). With The Commuter, Collet-Serra and his star return to the action-oriented style of their first two team-ups, but it’s clear that a third trip to that particular well is coming up largely empty....

HOWEVER, in the blog Al posted on his Myspace page Monday evening revealing the title of his fresh 2008 joint, the accordion-slinging singer first cracked the following shocking joke: “The name of the [new] parody, of course, is ‘I Kissed A Squirrel.’ Just kidding.” I know it sounds crazy, but come on – is there anyone else on the whole entire planet witty and clever enough to whip up something like “I Kissed A Squirrel?...

Dusty, you’ve been in show business for a long time, can you tell me about the early days. Please, call me Dustin. Originally I was assistant stage manager, but they couldn’t keep me off the stage! If anyone was ill I’d do the part; it didn’t matter what age or sex they were. Then I did the northern stand-up circuit for a while, but I don’t think people quite got my act....

The Deuce Episode 5 The mob really knows how to get things organized. Maybe that’s why they call it organized crime. “I know you’re working for the CIA,” the band War sang on its hit “Why Can’t We Be Friends.” “They wouldn’t have you in the Mafia.” They are not kidding. The CIA is in shambles when comes to organization compared to the volcano. Can you imagine the international house of intrigue getting someone street ready, much less taking the trade off the street?...

The conceit seems to have been that the daughter represents the humanising conscience of amoral science. Since Carol Ann Ford wanted out and the Doctor didn’t have an unlimited supply of grand-daughters, she was replaced by a continuing run of (mostly) female assistants. Many of the Hartnell Whos were erased forever, though efforts continue to recover them, mostly from foreign archives. Jon Pertwee (1970-74) Dandy. Exiled to Earth by the Time Lords for his interfering ways, Pertwee was stuck with those stuffy UNIT chaps for pretty much his entire time as The Doctor....

Sara (played by Marling) is a former FBI agent who has been researching for an undercover job with a private security firm for the best part of a year. It entails going undercover with an anarchist organisation called The East, who have pledged to enact vengeance on the CEOs of corporations that have damaged the environment. Sara ultimately gets the job because she is seen as “unexpected”. Over the course of her previous two films, Marling has shown a knack for slowly building upon a solid, central idea, before rallying with an unexpected and thought-provoking ending....