With the probable exception of Richard O’Brien, it’s safe to say that no actor aspires for cult-stardom. But it happens. Young, ambitious, and unassuming actors take on a cheap horror-picture or a low-budget TV series to pay that month’s rent. “It’s just a stepping stone” they’ll say, but twenty years later they’re still tagged as that character.

This time in the Fandom Menace, we head in to murky waters of inter fan group conflict especially in the most vocal of disputes; Old Who vs Nu Who. And we ask why the hate for something that for all its gloss is absolutely no different at all from one era to the next?

News just in about the release of one of the worst remakes ever, Rob Zombies' ill advised remake of John Carpenters classic seminal movie Halloween . For the one fan out there, yes of course I'm talking about Zombie himself, it would appear that Halloween '07 will be getting a THREE DISC special edition release.

I'm sure the question that's foremost in your mind, as it was mine, is what exactly can fill the other two and a half discs?

Well it would seem that Rob would like "the fans" to really share in the experience of making the movie and is including a four and a half hour making of documentary! Which makes the mind boggle, firstly because who would sit through four and a half hours of anything, and secondly who would invest that time in dirge like Zombies Halloween remake!?

Oh well takes all sorts I suppose.

Grace Park revealed in an interview with the LA Times, that a new Battlestar Galactica TV movie is scheduled to begin shooting in August.

Naturally at this stage plot details are not available at this time, but Park, promoting her new show "The Cleaner", suggested that it will set around events before season 4 currently on a mid season hiatus until January 2009.

The rumour is that this will be the first of three TV movies based on and around the serie, following the format of Razor the movie released earlier this year, filling in the blanks between episodes and seasons. 

All of this though may be for nothing with the impending Screen Actors Guild Strike, is set to go ahead in August, which, if the effects of the writers strike is anything to go by, could seriously disrupt production or cancel it all together. 

Avery Dawes regarded the open sky. It was easy to do so, as he sprawled full on his back, without inclination or necessity to rise. The soft sand warmed him, the sighing waves teased his toes, and from time to time waving palm fronds infringed upon his field of vision. He contemplated the feathery clouds as they passed.

“I say,” he said to no one in particular, “it’s a far cry from Pall Mall, isn’t it?”