Galaxy Quest: The Documentary

15 January 2014 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Galaxy Quest was a brilliant 1999 movie about a fake TV series called Galaxy Quest (which bears more than a passing resemblance to Star Trek and certain other sci-fi shows, in both the fake onscreen and fake off-screen moments), its cast and its fans. If you haven’t watched it, you really should, since it stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Robin Sachs, Missi Pyle and Justin Long – and is very funny.

You can buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray.

But even dedicated Galaxy Quest fans might not know that when Galaxy Quest came out, E! created a mockumentary about the show for its ’20th anniversary’ that included interviews with the cast in-character, as well as footage that wasn’t included in the film. Guess what I just found, though:

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Random Acts: Amber Heard dyes Jonny Depp’s hair, Scarlett Johansson gets busy with the fizzy

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The battle between various actresses to be as random as possible is hotting up, but it looks like one of them just gets random in a way that the others don’t. Amber Heard, for example, has randomly decided to get Jonny Depp to dye his hair blond.

Amber Heard and blond Jonny Depp

How odd.

But Scarlett Johansson demonstrates once again that she’s the best at knowing how to bewilder us all by becoming the global brand ambassador for SodaStream.

Scarlett Johansson and SodaStream

Amazing. Who can top that?

More4’s Mammon, more Web Therapy, less Justified, Netflix’s Marco Polo and Zack G with Louis CK

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Review: Helix 1×1-1×3 (SyFy/Channel 5)

14 January 2014 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Helix cast

In the US: Fridays, 10/9c, SyFy
In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, Channel 5. Starts January 20th

Normally, I do love a killer virus TV show or movie. Whether it’s The Andromeda Strain (original or remake), Outbreak, The Burning Zone, The Satan Bug or anything else, I loves them.

You know what else I love? I also love stuff by Ronald D Moore, the exec producer of Battlestar Galactica.

So I was thoroughly looking forward to his new show Helix, in which a brave group of scientists from the CDC in the US travel to a secret research facility in the Arctic to investigate the outbreak of a brand new ‘retro-virus’ (ooh, actual biological terms being used – count me in). Queue the paranoia. Queue the tension. I mean that’s The Thing (kind of), The Andromeda Strain (secret lab) and The X-Files episode Ice. Brilliant!

Except… as always, the devil is in the details and while everyone is trying ever so hard to make this scary and upsetting and horrifying, it’s all falling just a little bit short. Here’s a trailer.

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