DISCOVER KYLE XY: DECLASSIFIED ON DVD FROM 4 AUGUST 2008.

The OC meets Smallville in the explosive BBC2 teen drama Kyle XY: Declassified which is available to own on DVD this August.

This gripping American teen soap opera come sci-fi mystery show has attracted a cult following after a prime time Saturday night TV slot and is set to win the hearts and minds of more fans following its DVD release.

So who is Kyle XY? We first meet the hunky hero (Matt Dallas) wandering naked through a forest on the outskirts of Seattle. Unable to speak and without any memory – and curiously no belly button – Kyle is eventually picked up by the authorities and placed in a juvenile detention centre.

It’s there Kyle meets his future foster mother – social worker Nicole Trager (Marguerite MacIntyre - Bones, Numb3rs) who takes pity on him and invites him to live with her.
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Win One Of Five Robot Chicken Star Wars On DVD

To win a copy just answer the following question:

A chicken is sometimes known to:

A) Cross The Road
B) Partake In Algebra
C) Do Lap Dancing
D) Quack

Send you answers in through the competition page with your answer, name, age and email address.

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Trailer: http://www.revolvergroup.com/trailers/robotchicken_starwars2.mov

Propeller TV Seach For The Scariest Horror Short

This is your chance to win a holiday for 2, Avid software or an XBOX 360 as part of PropellerTV’s search for the scariest horror short. Following the huge success of PropellerTV’s first ever short film festival, ShortFest, we are now launching a brand new competition to find the most horrifying short.

To get involved all you’ve got to do is send in your horror short (no longer than 10 mins) to:

Horrorfest,
Propeller TV,
C/O Screen Yorkshire,
Leeds,
LS2 7EY,
UK

before Friday 12th September, 2008, along with a PropellerTV submission form which you can download from:

http://www.propellertv.co.uk/Contributetofilmfirst.aspx.

All entries to HorrorFest will be broadcast on PropellerTV over Halloween (subject to terms and conditions).

Judging the films will be James Mullighan, Creative Director of Shooting People and makers of cult film The Zombie Diaries, Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett.
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BSFA’s 50th Anniversary

The British Science Fiction Association is celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year and they’ve got a range of events and plans going on:

• Publishing an original anthology of British SF.
• The 50th Anniversary BSFA Awards at Eastercon – including a range of panels looking back over the last 50 years of fandom at the Con, picking this year’s best novel and a “retro” award for 50 years ago.
• A new website.
• Their AGM will feature a panel of fans who were around at the founding of the BSFA.
• And they’re having a birthday party in November!

BSFA 50th ANNIVERSARY SHORT STORY COMPETITION
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Illumination Extravaganza: Illumini

15 artists come together to create an extraordinary exhibition of light in an underground crypt.

Curated by Jane Webb
http://www.illuminievent.co.uk
Email: illumini@hotmail.co.uk

The Crypt, St Pancras Church
Euston Rd / Duke’s Rd, London, NW1 2BA (nearest tube Euston Station)

4th September – 17th September
Open daily 11am- 7pm Free Admission

Opening Night Thursday 4th September, 6pm – 9pm.
Free Admission.
All welcome.

ARTISTS : Mercedes Altuna, Madi Boyd, David Chalkley, Vincenzo Di Maria, Lewis Hayward, Caroline Lambard, Jayne Lloyd, Liz murfitt, Adrian Navarro, Silviu Pascalin, Suzan Swale, Matthew Swift, Andrea Tyrimos, Jane Webb and Deon Winter.

Illumini is supported by Mathmos, who will be displaying a range of their latest products also supported by Surelight Glowsafe and the Glass bar

An electrifying new exhibition with a difference, starting with a opening night on the 4th Sept, which is complimented with a full evening of free entertainment. Light shows, circus acts and performance artists, working with illumination taking place through out the crypt. This is no PV night, this is an evening where everybody is welcome, Illumini will not just showcase art it will entertain, introducing all communities that may not normally visit the arts to a different approach.
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Win The Director’s Cut Of Dark City On DVD

Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland (24, Stand By Me), Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist, A Knight’s Tale), William Hurt (The Incredible Hulk, A History of Violence) and Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (Little Children, A Beautiful Mind) star in the visually stunning, modern noir sci-fi classic Dark City. This is the eagerly awaited never-before-seen director’s cut of the film which is being released by Entertainment In Video on retail DVD and Blu-Ray with a host of all-new extras on 4th August.

Directed, written and produced by acclaimed sci-fi director Alex Proyas (I, Robot), Dark City finds John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) waking up naked and alone in a strange hotel room, suffering from what appears to be amnesia.
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To win one of two pairs of Hero.com: Rise Of The Heroes and Villian.net: Council Of Evil just answer the following heroic and yet villainous question:

Oxford University Press is based in…

Is it:

A) Cloud Nine
B) Fleet
C) Oxford
D) Emmerdale-Upon-Thames

Send you answers in through the competition page with your answer, name, age and email address.

They will both be reviewed in the near future, but until then, check out their official site at http://whichsideareyouon.co.uk

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Win A Copy Of FIDO on DVD

What Actually Happened After The Attack Of The Zombies? (pick any genre film).

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the ‘50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbour…. and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Funny, frightening and just a little bit twisted, the multi award winning Fido is now released on DVD by Entertainment In Video, to rent on 9th June and to buy on 23rd June.

A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, Fido boasts a great ensemble cast including Carrie-Anne Moss (Disturbia, The Matrix trilogy), legendary stand up Billy Connolly (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events), Dylan Baker (Spider-Man 3) and Tim Blake Nelson (Meet the Fockers).
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Click for The Hills Have Eyes: Run For The Hills: If you’re scared of dark tunnels, don’t play this! Find the exit to the mineshaft, while blasting pesky mutants along the way with your shotgun. Collect extra ammo, bonus items and batteries for your flashlight.

See all games available.

Click for Iron Man Mark 3 Suit Test: Includes a trailer to the film. 1) Final Assembly, 2) Altitude Control Test, 3) Directional Control Test, 4) Weapons Targetting Test. Time limit: 1 minute. Great hand eye coordination game, overlayed on images from the film.

See all games available.

Black Static’s Dark Place
(Number 3 Out Feb 2007).

Matthew Holness AKA Gareth Marenghi of the eponymous cult TV show has a story in Black Static 3, which has just gone to the printer and will be out, early, in February.

The Toad and I” by Matthew Holness. The author is a “A real life TV star, most famous for his Gareth Marenghi character (absolutely brilliant — hope you’ve seen it)” and he won the 2001 Perrier Comedy Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s top prize.

Also two debut stories, The Morning After, is Carole Johnstone’s first author credit anywhere. Carole is a Scot now living in Essex.

Seth Skorkowsky’s The Mist of Lichthafen is his first story sale but he’s since sold other stories and they saw the light of publication before there was space for him in BS 3.
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Interviews / Screenshots / More Info Here.

Ever fancied trying out the closest vehicle to a Landspeeder we have in the 21st Century? Suspended a few inches above ground, putting the pedal to the metal and experiencing the thrill over all kinds of terrain?

Well, now you can, courtesy of Hovpod Surrey. They specialise in the luxury personal leisure hovercraft.

The Hovpod is an experience you won’t ever forget. You can use it to raise your profile and attendance at a promotional or corporate event (which we all know can be boring). It’s a fun, safe and exhilirating ride which uses a mechanism of a cushion of air (AVC - Air Cushion Vehicle) which enables it to navigate almost all surfaces.

For example, it can easily rocket over grass, gravel, tarmac, ice, water, snow, sand and mud. Land/Water transition is seamlessly smooth because, of course, the Hovpod is actually always sitting on a cushion of fresh air, floating 9 inches above whatever surface is below.

Today it is often in environmentally sensitive areas that the hovercraft shines the most. It won’t damage the ground. There’s no wheels to churn up the ground and no propellors to injure any marine creatures. A good example on their site is of the Hovpod being driven over eggs; they are untouched.

Imagine the look on student’s faces when the college or school hires one for educational purposes. They certainly never had anything like that when I went!

The hovpod will not damage the ground

And the reason is simple: If you look underneath the hovercraft skirt there’s nothing but fresh air. There are no wheels to churn up the ground, and no propellors to injure any marine creatures.

Darren, the coordinator, told us, “We were invited to a black tie dinner at a local rugby club. We gave experience rides from 6:30pm to 11:30pm. We tried to leave, but kept getting getting asked to stay. The organisers even turned on the floodlights for us to fly over their rugby pitches. And what was very impressive was women in their ballgowns wanting to experience the thrill in their twos!”

The Hovpod is a fantastic addition to any event, very safe, and certainly raises the profile. Hovpod Surrey also supplies owner support and hovpod maintenance.

It isn’t a Landspeeder exactly, but it’s probably the closest you’d get to with our current technology.

Landspeed digital 3D image used with kind permission of PerspectX - see more of these 3D images, which are available as 3D environment packages.

Southland Tales

From Richard Kelly, creator of (one of my favourite films) Donnie Darko.

“HAVE A NICE APOCALYPSE!” or “THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS, NOT WITH A WHIMPER BUT WITH A BANG!”

I watched the checkdisk, my brain went to mush. And I could quite easily imagine that is where the above quotes come from, the mushing and/exploding of the brain. As Richard Kelly apparently said, “You need to watch it twice to unlock its mysteries”. Yeah, no brainer really, it’s like a weird comic with so many strands and freaky things all at once it makes me think maybe he made it for his own amusement - a lets see how many ideas and effects and storylines and actors and other such things we can have in a large viewing timeframe-, and forgot there were people who were looking forward to it, to having to pay to watch it, to at least get some semblence of a cohesive story from watching it.

I’ll be putting myself through 2 hrs 25 minutes in the next day or so, and hopefully will be able to work out what the heck was going on.

By the way, the above doesn’t mean I dislike it, it’s just a lot for the five senses to take in. I think two of mine shutdown after about an hour and a half, so, once they’re bolstered up and recovered, I’ll re examine the film.

Until then, here’s some info to whet your appetite…
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We Just Want To Borrow Your Brain For a Few Minutes.

Q) Molly asks, I have a 1950’s trash can I want to sell, but not sure what it is please tell me if you know..

It is a Ballonoff home products made in Ohio it has the names in caracters of Me2, Zig 6, Gaz and it is totally a sci-fi thing, it has planets on the inside and characters and walking machines on the outside all around the can.

Do you know what this can is?

A) We actually did a google to see if we could find the answer, but even the names of the characters don’t mean anything to us! Aggh.

Do you know the answer? If you have an idea, please post a comment.