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RegenerEIGHT: The Great Movie Re-Watch

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Jun 122013

I met the Eighth Doctor with Grace

Actress Daphne Ashbrook

Actress Daphne Ashbrook is one of the nicest, most effervescent people you’d ever want to meet. She’s also got the distinction of having played characters in two perennial favorites, Doctor Who and Star Trek.

She played the Dr. Grace Holloway, companion of the 8th Doctor in Doctor Who: The Movie – and on Sunday, June 23, 2013, she’s hosting a Re-Watch event of the film that put her on the map in Doctor Who fandom.

Reprinted, with kind permission, from her own web site:

June 12, 2013 in Announcements, Doctor Who, Featured

And now…for my British buddies….Yeah, I know you’re eight hours ahead….eight….interesting!

We’re gonna do this thing! RegenerEIGHT: The Great Movie Re-Watch will be happening On Sunday, June 23rd.

It’s at 1:00pm PST, 4:00pm EST, 9:00 pm GMT – for you lovely Brits.

More details will be coming soon!! And for everyone who doesn’t have their “Doctor Who: The Movie” DVD yet, click on the link to get your copy through Amazon. Then forward your email confirmation from Amazon to: RegenerEIGHT@daphneashbrook.com and you will receive a commemorative picture that you can slide right into your DVD cover slip. Your confirmation will only give me your shipping address & name but no personal financial information….so your secrets are safe! So. Get your movie…and the popcorn….it’s all happening!

The movie is also on Netflix, but what would you slide your commemorative picture into?

She also appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space 9 as Melora Pazlar in the episode Melora – she played a crewman who had to decide whether to accept Dr. Bashir’s treatment that would allow her to function normally outside the extreme low gravity of her home planet.

Events like this are what Doctor Who fandom is all about, and kudos to Miss Ashbrook for bringing fans together to celebrate being Whovians.

Will you be watching?

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Elves Watching Fans Watching Elves

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Jun 122013

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There’s something very circular about this. Yesterday we published an article about the first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

The first shows two fans’ reactions to the new trailer. It’s from the TORnHappyHobbit YouTube channel.

The second shows three very familiar elves – or the actors who play them – in full stage dress reacting to the video; it came from Peter Jackson’s Facebook page only a few hours after Kili and Fili posted their video.

Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and Lee Pace (Thranduil) watch in delight as sisters Kelli & Alex (“Kili & Fili”), who regularly contribute to the fan site TheOneRing.net, react to the new trailer.

To all writers and filmmakers and screenwriters and actors who believe that fans do not have ownership of the dreams you create, you need to watch these two videos. When you create something wonderful that the fans embrace, you’ve given them a gift beyond price. And having given it to them, it might be yours to do with as you wish, but don’t forget that it’s theirs now too.

Don’t just observe it. Be a part of it and celebrate it. We’re all the fans. It’s for all of us. It’s okay – you can squee along with the rest of us. We know you’re fans too, or you wouldn’t be making the stuff in the first place. You’re among friends.

Video Of the Day!: Tom Baker’s Cats

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Jun 112013

Krypton Radio Video Of the Day!

Sometimes it’s hard to call it a matter of opinion, but it does indeed seem like cats are slowly taking over the world. First our real world, then our beloved internet. Now we find evidence that they’re out to conquer time and space itself, by softening the hearts of a certain Time Lord. Doctor Who actor Tom Baker has an enduring love of our feline friends, and this wonderful compilation video shows us just how much.

Tom Baker portrayed the famous Gallifreyan from 1974 to 1981, spending seven years enthralling audiences of all ages and introducing us to his quirky fun loving incarnation of the Doctor.

Photo Gallery and Official Site: Tom Baker’s Cats

Krypton Radio First Look: Doctor Who – Besieged

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Jun 102013

It’s a Doctor Who / Aliens crossover fan film series, and done entirely for fun and the love of it. The first of the films was finished in 2010 to great acclaim from the British Doctor Who fandom community. Now they’ve just completed another, the second installment in the series.

This being a fan film allows the creators to do things with the story that couldn’t be done otherwise because of the normally unsolvable licensing issues – the other half of this equation is Ridley Scott’s Aliens films, who provide the all too necessary monsters for this Who epic.

Ryan Hendrick writes and produces, and has cast himself in the title role, breaking a long tradition of exomorph actors – but he establishes himself quickly as The Doctor and you don’t look back. It could so have been a disastrous decision, but Hendrick knows his abilities and pulls it off well.

The Doctor, of course, has a companion – and in this case the role of Ade is played by Natalie Clarke, who brings a quirky sense of humor and a vibrant energy to the screen which perfectly counterpoints this more thoughtful incarnation of the Timelord she travels with.

Given that we have to wait till November to see the next episode of the real series, and that after the Christmas Special we’re going to be waiting until August of 2014 to see any more, Doctor Who – Besieged couldn’t have come at a better time.

They’re even mimicking the prequels and teasers the BBC releases prior to their own series airing, and to great effect. They’re really going for the full simulcrum of the Doctor Who experience, and it works astonishingly well. In fact, if you’re reading this, Steve Moffat, you could do worse than cast this fellow in the real show.

Have a look at this first prequel for the first film – we’ll be showing you this in pieces over the next few weeks, just as the BBC would do. We realize you can just look it all up on YouTube, but we want to have a little fun with it too, signing ourselves up for a little bit of make believe.

We’ll show you more tomorrow.

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Video Of The Day: The Continuum’s “So Dark”

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Jun 092013

Today’s offering comes from independent film production team The Continuum, in their work entitled So Dark. In it, a 200-year-old vampire-with-a-conscience has been arrested for murdering a pedophile on a Florida train. Now he’s in the clutches of the FBI’s clandestine task force that hunts, tortures, and kills the undead. Can he escape before sunrise? Watch and find out.

Vampires have been enjoying a renaissance in popular fiction and pop culture, in part due to a sort of anti-Twilight, anti-twinkle backlash. They’re becoming real monsters again, reminding us of our humanity and our own struggle to become better than our base instincts. This serves one of the major important functions of popular culture – to help remind us of who we are and where we fit into the world.

So Dark was written by James Williams, produced by Al Lougher & Keri Maletto, and directed by Al Lougher.

Producer Al Lougher is a British writer, director and photographer currently living in Miami and has produced and directed many music videos and short films as well as corporate videos and commercials. He’s currently working on getting a feature film version of So Dark made, and after seeing this short subject, we think it’s a grand idea.

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The Event Horizon: Dr. Rebecca Housel, The Pop Culture Professor!

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Jun 082013

“Knowledge through Pop Culture”

rebeccahousel The first female scholar in the United States to focus on comics, Dr. Rebecca Housel, is appearing on The Event Horizon this evening at 9pm PST, 12AM EST! Join hosts Gene Turnbow and Susan Fox as they engage Dr. Housel in a fascinating discussion of popular culture, our influence on it and its influence on us. We talk about everything from sparkly vampires to zombies, societal need for superheroes to gender bias in fiction, and we can tell you now that of all the guests we’ve had on the show, she is one of the most entertaining, informative and knowledgeable speakers on the topic of popular culture and how it shapes our lives.

Housel, who celebrates her 18th year in the classroom in 2012, is a freelance writer and editor. Her recent titles in Wiley’s Pop Culture and Philosophy series includes work on X-Men (2009), Twilight (2009, 2010), and HBO’s Emmy-winning series, True Blood (2010, 2011). Housel’s work in medical narratives has earned her inclusion in the Directory of American Poets and Writers as well as a sponsored membership by New York Times Bestselling author, Rebecca Skloot, in the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).

Housel is on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and Journal of American Culture; her most recent book review for the Duke University Press volume, Sex and Disability (2012), can be found in the Journal of American Culture. Dr. Housel was one of 100 American writers invited to participate in Yale’s Inaugural Writer’s Conference for her work in medical narratives in June 2012; she was also a TED speaker in June, presenting, “Why Story is the Best Medicine,” on how using the patient’s narrative can save not only thousands of patient’s lives each year, but has the potential to save millions in health care dollars, too.

She also teaches writing classes called The Hero in Popular Culture.

Tune in at 9pm PST / 12am EST today to hear Dr. Rebecca Housel, the Pop Culture Professor!

The show reprises Sunday 4pm PST / 7pm EST.

The Event Horizon – it’s Sci-Fi for your Wi-Fi!

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