Month: March 2012

As thousands of Doctor Who fans descended on Cardiff at the weekend, the glorious Welsh capital took on a slightly TARDISy shade of blue. “Whovians” from across the world

Of all the weapons the dark lord possesses, his most pervasive and insidious is the found footage movie. Though not first, The Blair Witch Project was most famous,

The process of novelising a television or film script is unenviable, and while there are those who have made successful careers out of it, such as Alan Dean

Concealed under heavy makeup as Sandor “The Hound” Clegane, Knight of House Baratheon in Game of Thrones, Rory McCann may not be immediately recognisable, yet he has an

On March 3rd, 2012, Mars and Earth were on their closest approach, as Earth’s faster orbit brought it between the more distant, slower Mars and overtook it on

On October 7th 1849, the American writer Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore. He was taken to hospital, where he later died, aged

Much as global austerity has forced cuts to the space programmes of the major nations, diverting funds to more immediate concerns of continuity and survival, so has science