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- Evil moves in next door in horror-thriller 'Fright Night' - Manila Bulletin
- Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 6, The Middle Men, Recap and Review - Indie Wire (blog)
- Torchwood: Miracle Day recap/review: Episode 4.6 “The Middle Men” - Examiner.com
- INTERVIEW: Bill Pullman - Big Shiny Robot!
- Accusations hit close to home in 'The Closer' - Minot Daily News (blog)
- Tom Holland Talks Fright Night at Austin Film Festival Event - Widescreen Warrior.com
- Actor Matt Smith has come into his own as the 11th iconic genius... - Los Angeles Daily News
- All British DC universe Fancast: Part 1 Batman - Comic Book Movie
- Cowboys, vampires, capers and crime in the 'city of ghosts' - Irish Times
- Trailer Talk: This Week in Movies - 'Fright Night,' 'Conan the Barbarian' & More - Starpulse.com
- Fright Night premiere closes Empire's BIG SCREEN weekend - seenit.co.uk
- Get the Party Started with Blue Box Ale!
- Matt currently filming ‘Bert And Dickie' in London
- HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 20 Pairs of Chicago Passes to 'Fright Night' With ... - HollywoodChicago.com
- Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful
- Top 5 Geek Culture Crushes – Part 1 - Capsule Computers
- Things to come on British TV for Autumn and Winter - Monsters and Critics.com
- Ror Reviews: Fright Night 3D - Comic Book Movie
- Waiting for the Doctor… UK's air date speculation
- “The Time Warrior” - A.V. Club DC
- Chilling tale of Gothic horror - Matlock Today
- Doctor Who “Let's Kill Hitler” Prequel Episode - Capsule Computers
- Hitler Prequel Announced
- The Categories of Life
- The best network you're not watching - New York Post
- Queenie's TV Highlights: The Hour, Torchwood and Wish Me Luck - ATV Today
- Barrowman: “No Party Animal”
- Whooverville 3!
- TV Review: Torchwood: Miracle Day – "The Middle Men" - Blogcritics.org (blog)
| Evil moves in next door in horror-thriller 'Fright Night' - Manila Bulletin Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT
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| Torchwood: Miracle Day, Episode 6, The Middle Men, Recap and Review - Indie Wire (blog) Posted: 14 Aug 2011 03:47 PM PDT
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| Torchwood: Miracle Day recap/review: Episode 4.6 “The Middle Men” - Examiner.com Posted: 14 Aug 2011 03:33 PM PDT
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| INTERVIEW: Bill Pullman - Big Shiny Robot! Posted: 14 Aug 2011 03:20 PM PDT
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| Accusations hit close to home in 'The Closer' - Minot Daily News (blog) Posted: 14 Aug 2011 02:51 PM PDT
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| Tom Holland Talks Fright Night at Austin Film Festival Event - Widescreen Warrior.com Posted: 14 Aug 2011 11:50 AM PDT
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| Actor Matt Smith has come into his own as the 11th iconic genius... - Los Angeles Daily News Posted: 14 Aug 2011 11:11 AM PDT
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| All British DC universe Fancast: Part 1 Batman - Comic Book Movie Posted: 14 Aug 2011 10:41 AM PDT
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| Cowboys, vampires, capers and crime in the 'city of ghosts' - Irish Times Posted: 14 Aug 2011 10:11 AM PDT
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| Posted: 14 Aug 2011 09:39 AM PDT
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| Fright Night premiere closes Empire's BIG SCREEN weekend - seenit.co.uk Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:26 AM PDT
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| Get the Party Started with Blue Box Ale! Posted: 14 Aug 2011 05:57 AM PDT It seems like something of a missed opportunity that the discerning world of Ale aficionados and the anal workings of a Doctor Who fans mind have never met and formed a frothy yeast based alcoholic beverage. There have been Doctor Who based cocktails but never has a dark-as-Bovril ale clouded even the fluffiest of drinkers beards (of course if I'm wrong about this feel free to send me a sample – I'll list Kasterborous as an enabler at AA meetings) Going someway to rectify this is this t-shirt which promises nothing more refreshing after a hard day saving the universe than Blue Box Ale. Come on look at that logo you know you want one! The text reads:
You can purchase this t-shirt from Uniique for $19.99. Cheers!  | ||
| Matt currently filming ‘Bert And Dickie' in London Posted: 14 Aug 2011 05:52 AM PDT Following on from his recent trip to the US, during which he attended Comic Con and guested on The Late Late Show, Matt Smith is now back in London filming the upcoming BBC Olympics film confirmed last month. He'll be playing Bert Bushnell in the 90 minute drama, which is called Bert And Dickie. It tells [...]  | ||
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| Doctor Who: Weird and Wonderful Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:15 AM PDT Weird and Wonderful is our look at the some of the other Doctor Who bits and bobs around the web that caught our attention over the last week or so. This week: Doctor Who meets The Beatles, more Awesome Art, Adolf Hitler finds out Rory punches him, 16 bit Doctor Who and the new micro figures. Doctor Who meets The BeatlesVia subwavenetwork
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| Top 5 Geek Culture Crushes – Part 1 - Capsule Computers Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:00 AM PDT
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| Things to come on British TV for Autumn and Winter - Monsters and Critics.com Posted: 14 Aug 2011 03:45 AM PDT
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| Ror Reviews: Fright Night 3D - Comic Book Movie Posted: 14 Aug 2011 03:31 AM PDT
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| Waiting for the Doctor… UK's air date speculation Posted: 14 Aug 2011 03:13 AM PDT With the Series 6: Part 2 premiere dates already announced for the US, Canada and Australia, fans in the UK are still on tenterhooks about when the Doctor will be back for us. Although it's expected to begin on BBC One on 27th August, there's no mention of it on the BBC Press Office's listings for [...]  | ||
| “The Time Warrior” - A.V. Club DC Posted: 14 Aug 2011 02:09 AM PDT
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| Chilling tale of Gothic horror - Matlock Today Posted: 14 Aug 2011 12:38 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who “Let's Kill Hitler” Prequel Episode - Capsule Computers Posted: 14 Aug 2011 12:29 AM PDT
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| Posted: 13 Aug 2011 11:59 PM PDT Fed up of waiting for the Doctor to kill Hitler? Well the BBC have heard your fascist ending cries and are releasing another prequel episode to wet your appetite for (surely?) Saturday 27th August. The prequel is designed to bridge the gap between A Good Man Goes to War and Let's Kill Hitler and is written by Steven Moffat and featuring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan – which the BBC have promised will contain:
Sounds humorously dramatic and tear-jerkingly wonderful! To view the prequel head over to the BBC site on Monday.  | ||
| Posted: 13 Aug 2011 11:27 PM PDT WARNING! If you haven't seen the Torchwood: Miracle Day episode The Categories of Life, this review contains spoilers, so click with care! Halfway through the series and finally, a shocking ending! Well, at least I was fairly surprised. Perhaps you saw the backyard barbecue of all Category One patients coming a mile away. After all, the foreshadowing was there: Rex pointing out to his camcorder the complete impossibility of a few metal sheds containing the predicted high quantity of "storage units," the obnoxious-accented camp director Maloney being indifferent to the fact that he'd more or less just tossed Dr. Juarez on the floor and left her to bleed rather than at the very least finding her a bed for an extremely minimal attempt at proper medical care, and of course the oft-repeated concept throughout the episode…
So while the reduction to ashes of Vera Juarez, a bunch of other people, and possibly even Gwen's dad was an unexpected twist for my easily-amused self, even I could tell that some big bang or other was going to sound at the end of the episode. Upon Vera's informal induction into the Torchwood team (the ceremony was a fist pump from Jack as he said "Welcome aboard" on a sofa), we had a complete crew of five for the first time since 2008. Someone was most definitely about to die. But wait – doesn't the existence of the entire story arc for this season depend on a world where nobody is allowed to kick buckets or buy farms? So what happens when people are burned alive? Do they remain intact but continue to burn until the fire department arrives? Are they reduced to animated ash? Can the remaining pieces of their bodies grow back like an exploded Jack Harkness from Children of Earth? I hope so, because if Arlene Tur has been written out her role as Dr. Juarez, we've lost one of a small number of fine performers in this season of substandard acting. That's where Miracle Day as a whole, and The Categories of Life in particular, seems to be failing: the acting. This 2011 series seems to be a perfect example of how the actor is only as good as the ensemble. To maintain the audience's suspension of disbelief, everyone from John Barrowman and Eve Myles right down to the guy playing "News Reporter #2″ has to bring their A-Game to the set, and that's not entirely happening. While the majority of leads were cast well, those with lower spots on the call sheet, like Creepy Maloney the overflow camp dude, Ralph the panicked soldier with him as he gunned down Dr. Juarez, and the girl exclaiming her unhealthy obsession with Oswald Danes on the news, often seemed unrealistic. I feel the same way about Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond; she seems to have this idea that playing Torchwood's nerdy computer girl, a position once played brilliantly by Naoko Mori as Toshiko Sato, requires her to yank her vocal cords into her nose. Heaven forbid the possibility that REAL geek girls might NOT constantly sound nasally.
Overall, The Categories of Life can be summed up as follows: excellent writing/story, substandard acting. But this week's continuation of the Oswald Danes subplot is just the opposite. Bill Pullman, John Barrowman, and the aforementioned Ambrose all performed at the top of their game, which was mostly to be expected, but the story they were glued into wasn't especially believable. It would be one thing if throughout the series we saw Oswald slowly unlocking the gate leading to superstardom, but what we got this week was a murderous pedophile walking onto a stage, deservingly being heckled so much we were just seconds away from seeing tomatoes fly onto the stage, hurling out a two minute speech off the top of his head, and turning the entire crowd in his favor, cheering for him and chanting his name. I hope Russell T. Davies and his writer's room can forgive me for being one of the all-humans-in-the-world who wouldn't be so quickly and easily duped, even if we were frightened and anxious about not being able to die and stuff. There we are then – the series halfway point. Just think, in a mere five weeks we'll not only have seen three new episodes of Doctor Who, we'll know everything there is to know about who's behind Phicorp and the Miracle, and we'll have discovered whether or not people will be able to start dying again. The question is whether the buildup to the conclusion can be executed better than the so-so introductory half of Torchwood's fourth outing. We can only find out by continuing to watch!  | ||
| The best network you're not watching - New York Post Posted: 13 Aug 2011 11:09 PM PDT
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| Queenie's TV Highlights: The Hour, Torchwood and Wish Me Luck - ATV Today Posted: 13 Aug 2011 09:57 PM PDT
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| Barrowman: “No Party Animal” Posted: 13 Aug 2011 08:55 PM PDT John Barrowman is no party animal but…oh wait, there's no 'but' – John Barrowman isn't a party animal! The actor revealed recently that he and civil partner Scott Gill like nothing more than relaxing at home, rather than reliving the wild clubbing days of his twenties (or later):
However Captain Jack himself isn't quite ready to purchase a comfortable pair of slippers and go quietly into middle age:
Torchwood: Miracle Day continues to disappoint this Thursday 9pm on BBC 1 in the UK and at 9/8c on the Starz Network in the US.
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| Posted: 13 Aug 2011 07:25 PM PDT Do you live near Derby? Ever heard of an arts centre there called Quad? If so, you may want to read on… Whooverville 3, an annual convention for fans of Doctor Who is set to take place there in September and it promises to be a cracking day out for all. Not only is it a great opportunity for fans to meet up and discuss the show, it's also going to have a number of special guests appearing that are not to be missed! Frazer Hines (who played the Second Doctor's friend Jamie) and Nicola Bryant (Peri, who travelled with the fifth and sixth Doctors) will both be in attendance alongside Ian McNeice (Winston Churchill in Victory of the Daleks) and a few others as well. If that's not enough to get you marching down there, you will also be able to get hold of autographs and photos. Plenty of merchandise and see a range of costumes and props from the show which may just include a Dalek or two… It's looking like it'll be a great day out for all Doctor Who fans, so don't miss out-get your ticket today! Taking place on Saturday September 3rd from 10am onwards, tickets will cost £35 for an adult, £15 for a child ticket or £85 for a family ticket (which equates to two adults and two children). Call the Quad box office on 01332 290 0606 or visit their website at www.derbyquad.co.uk for more information  | ||
| TV Review: Torchwood: Miracle Day – "The Middle Men" - Blogcritics.org (blog) Posted: 13 Aug 2011 05:08 PM PDT
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