U.S.-based distributor Synkronized Distribution has acquired the world rights for the crime drama “The Vortex,” represented by Iuvit Media Sales at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
The film is directed by Richard Zelniker (“As Night Comes”) and written by Steven Barr. It stars Billy Gardell, Jaina Lee Ortiz and Jamie McShane.
“The Vortex” looks at the tragic 1980 MGM Grand fire on the Las Vegas Strip, and tells the story of a Native American Paiute cleaning lady who enters the casino, setting off a chain of weird events and unexplained gambling wins.
The events center on the in-house comedian (played by Gardell), who is struggling with a gambling addiction, and plays shrink to a host of colorful characters and is forced to make a life-altering decision.
“The Vortex” is produced by Lucid Pictures, with the participation of Olliecorp. It is produced by Richard Zelniker, Adriana Rotaru, Callie Nguyen Zelniker and Justin Richards.
The film is directed by Richard Zelniker (“As Night Comes”) and written by Steven Barr. It stars Billy Gardell, Jaina Lee Ortiz and Jamie McShane.
“The Vortex” looks at the tragic 1980 MGM Grand fire on the Las Vegas Strip, and tells the story of a Native American Paiute cleaning lady who enters the casino, setting off a chain of weird events and unexplained gambling wins.
The events center on the in-house comedian (played by Gardell), who is struggling with a gambling addiction, and plays shrink to a host of colorful characters and is forced to make a life-altering decision.
“The Vortex” is produced by Lucid Pictures, with the participation of Olliecorp. It is produced by Richard Zelniker, Adriana Rotaru, Callie Nguyen Zelniker and Justin Richards.
- 2/7/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
From Dan + Shay to Hannah + Shay!
Shay Mooney, one half of country duo Dan + Shay, married former Miss Arkansas Hannah Billingsley on Friday evening, his rep confirms to People exclusively.
The ceremony was held between two oak trees on the Mooney family property in Arkansas and was followed by an outdoor reception with the Ozarks visible in the background, wedding planner Jessica Sloane tells People.
The couple’s 9-month-old son Asher James — sporting a baby tux! — was carried down the aisle, while Dan Smyers and the duo’s guitarist Justin Richards stood up as groomsmen for their bandmate. Billingsley’s bridesmaids,...
Shay Mooney, one half of country duo Dan + Shay, married former Miss Arkansas Hannah Billingsley on Friday evening, his rep confirms to People exclusively.
The ceremony was held between two oak trees on the Mooney family property in Arkansas and was followed by an outdoor reception with the Ozarks visible in the background, wedding planner Jessica Sloane tells People.
The couple’s 9-month-old son Asher James — sporting a baby tux! — was carried down the aisle, while Dan Smyers and the duo’s guitarist Justin Richards stood up as groomsmen for their bandmate. Billingsley’s bridesmaids,...
- 10/21/2017
- by Sarah Michaud and Brianne Tracy
- PEOPLE.com
Take a look at exclusive extracts from a new Doctor Who book, revealing the Time Lord's secret correspondences.
Doctor Who: Time Lord Letters collects over 100 letters, notes and jottings - both to and from the Doctor (and compiled by author Justin Richards).
These messages span all of the Doctor's lives - from his desperate plea to the Time Lords to help end the War Games (from 1969's 'The War Games') to a letter to Santa Claus.
Below, you can get a sneak peek at two letters; one written by Martha Jones to the 10th Doctor - just before she departed the Tardis - and another written by the latest Doctor, applying for the job of caretaker at Coal Hill School.
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Doctor Who: Time Lord Letters collects over 100 letters, notes and jottings - both to and from the Doctor (and compiled by author Justin Richards).
These messages span all of the Doctor's lives - from his desperate plea to the Time Lords to help end the War Games (from 1969's 'The War Games') to a letter to Santa Claus.
Below, you can get a sneak peek at two letters; one written by Martha Jones to the 10th Doctor - just before she departed the Tardis - and another written by the latest Doctor, applying for the job of caretaker at Coal Hill School.
Who is the greatest Doctor of all time? Rank the stars of Doctor Who
Click here to see the full-size extract in HQ
Click here to see the...
- 9/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Simon Danes is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
My great claim to fame is my connection to Justin Richards. Back in 1980, I co-edited a fanzine called Fendahl. We once ran a charity raffle; John Nathan-Turner generously sent us a box of stuff that had been used on TV, including Tyssan’s nylon rope: as you watch the story, you will see Tim Barlow...
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My great claim to fame is my connection to Justin Richards. Back in 1980, I co-edited a fanzine called Fendahl. We once ran a charity raffle; John Nathan-Turner generously sent us a box of stuff that had been used on TV, including Tyssan’s nylon rope: as you watch the story, you will see Tim Barlow...
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- 7/24/2015
- by Simon Danes
- Kasterborous.com
Josh Maxton is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Later this year, a special treat involving the Seventh Doctor will arrive! As announced before, Big Finish is continuing their range of fantastic adaptions of the Virgin New Adventures. More recently, however, the full cast has been revealed! Coming up in December, Theatre of War (written by Justin Richards, published in 1994) will get the...
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Later this year, a special treat involving the Seventh Doctor will arrive! As announced before, Big Finish is continuing their range of fantastic adaptions of the Virgin New Adventures. More recently, however, the full cast has been revealed! Coming up in December, Theatre of War (written by Justin Richards, published in 1994) will get the...
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- 7/20/2015
- by Josh Maxton
- Kasterborous.com
Simon Guerrier and Marek Kukula's The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who is well worth a look, says Patrick...
One of the quotes The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who chooses to open with is said by the Fourth Doctor's sidekick Leela in 1977's Horror Of Fang Rock: "I, too, used to believe in magic, but the Doctor has taught me about science. It is better to believe in science". And while it is fundamentally true, it doesn't quite hold water when you look at Doctor Who's relationship with science over the years.
The earlier seasons, particularly the Hartnell/Troughton monochrome years, tried to root explanations in science - or the closest thing to it - while the more recent series starring Peter Capaldi's cantankerous incarnation asked us to suspend disbelief most of the time (In The Forest Of The Night, though underappreciated, defied basic science). Lately, Doctor Who...
One of the quotes The Scientific Secrets Of Doctor Who chooses to open with is said by the Fourth Doctor's sidekick Leela in 1977's Horror Of Fang Rock: "I, too, used to believe in magic, but the Doctor has taught me about science. It is better to believe in science". And while it is fundamentally true, it doesn't quite hold water when you look at Doctor Who's relationship with science over the years.
The earlier seasons, particularly the Hartnell/Troughton monochrome years, tried to root explanations in science - or the closest thing to it - while the more recent series starring Peter Capaldi's cantankerous incarnation asked us to suspend disbelief most of the time (In The Forest Of The Night, though underappreciated, defied basic science). Lately, Doctor Who...
- 7/6/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Billy Garratt-John is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Big Finish have announced the first story in the fifth series of their Fourth Doctor Adventures range. Wave of Destruction is penned by Doctor Who stalwart Justin Richards and is due for release in January 2016. Starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana, the audio concerns the strange goings on on-board a pirate radio station. Set...
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Big Finish have announced the first story in the fifth series of their Fourth Doctor Adventures range. Wave of Destruction is penned by Doctor Who stalwart Justin Richards and is due for release in January 2016. Starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Lalla Ward as Romana, the audio concerns the strange goings on on-board a pirate radio station. Set...
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- 6/23/2015
- by Billy Garratt-John
- Kasterborous.com
James McLean is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Big Finish’s second season of classic Blake’s 7 audio adventures comes to a close with Truth and Lies by Justin Richards. This is the final story in the search for missing crewmember Dayna Mellanby, and it takes the Liberator crew to Apalon V having followed a vessel Avon and Orac are certain contains their missing...
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Big Finish’s second season of classic Blake’s 7 audio adventures comes to a close with Truth and Lies by Justin Richards. This is the final story in the search for missing crewmember Dayna Mellanby, and it takes the Liberator crew to Apalon V having followed a vessel Avon and Orac are certain contains their missing...
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- 5/4/2015
- by James McLean
- Kasterborous.com
Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Announced over the weekend, Big Finish are set to continue their excellence adaptations of the Virgin Adventures Novels into 2016 with five new titles announced – starring the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. In December 2015, Doctor Who: Theatre of War, written and adapted by Justin Richards, sees The Seventh Doctor, Ace (Sophie Aldred) and Bernice...
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Announced over the weekend, Big Finish are set to continue their excellence adaptations of the Virgin Adventures Novels into 2016 with five new titles announced – starring the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. In December 2015, Doctor Who: Theatre of War, written and adapted by Justin Richards, sees The Seventh Doctor, Ace (Sophie Aldred) and Bernice...
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- 3/31/2015
- by Andrew Reynolds
- Kasterborous.com
Tony Jones is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
The Darkness of Glass is the second release in the 2015 series of Fourth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish. Written by Justin Richards, this is a self-contained, single disc adventure. The Tardis crew is (notionally) the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9, though in this case K9 is a quick off-screen presence told to stay in...
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The Darkness of Glass is the second release in the 2015 series of Fourth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish. Written by Justin Richards, this is a self-contained, single disc adventure. The Tardis crew is (notionally) the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9, though in this case K9 is a quick off-screen presence told to stay in...
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- 2/25/2015
- by Tony Jones
- Kasterborous.com
Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
The Third Doctor will return to Big Finish in two brand new stories featuring The Light at the End’s Tim Treloar in the title role. Treloar will once again recreate Jon Pertwee’s incarnation of the Doctor from the 50th anniversary story for both Prisoners of the Lake by Justin Richards and The Havoc of Empires...
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The Third Doctor will return to Big Finish in two brand new stories featuring The Light at the End’s Tim Treloar in the title role. Treloar will once again recreate Jon Pertwee’s incarnation of the Doctor from the 50th anniversary story for both Prisoners of the Lake by Justin Richards and The Havoc of Empires...
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- 11/15/2014
- by Andrew Reynolds
- Kasterborous.com
Mark checks out a new mashup of Doctor Who with Shakespeare...
Over its 50 years, Doctor Who has made some pretty wild pseudo-historical leaps in its representation of artists. The Fourth Doctor wrote “This Is A Fake” on the Mona Lisa in Uv pen. Donna Noble came up with the name of Miss Marple. Stevie Wonder sang under London Bridge in 1814.
The new BBC Books tie-in The Shakespeare Notebooks follows in much the same tradition of warping history around the Doctor, with its whole audacious premise being that most of the Bard’s works were Doctor Who fan fiction.
It’s a fun place to start, with an introduction that contextualises the book as a collection of notes and scraps, comprising early drafts and notes written by Will himself. These notes happen to have been transcribed by seasoned Who authors James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
Over its 50 years, Doctor Who has made some pretty wild pseudo-historical leaps in its representation of artists. The Fourth Doctor wrote “This Is A Fake” on the Mona Lisa in Uv pen. Donna Noble came up with the name of Miss Marple. Stevie Wonder sang under London Bridge in 1814.
The new BBC Books tie-in The Shakespeare Notebooks follows in much the same tradition of warping history around the Doctor, with its whole audacious premise being that most of the Bard’s works were Doctor Who fan fiction.
It’s a fun place to start, with an introduction that contextualises the book as a collection of notes and scraps, comprising early drafts and notes written by Will himself. These notes happen to have been transcribed by seasoned Who authors James Goss, Jonathan Morris, Julian Richards, Justin Richards and Matthew Sweet.
- 6/24/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
Philip Bates is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Could three fiction books give us Whovians a clue as to when Doctor Who Series 8 will air in the UK? Silhouette by Justin Richards, The Crawling Terror by Mike Tucker, and The Blood Cell by James Goss are expected to continue the New Series Adventures range that began in 2005, but introduce Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor to
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Could three fiction books give us Whovians a clue as to when Doctor Who Series 8 will air in the UK? Silhouette by Justin Richards, The Crawling Terror by Mike Tucker, and The Blood Cell by James Goss are expected to continue the New Series Adventures range that began in 2005, but introduce Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor to
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- 5/16/2014
- by Philip Bates
- Kasterborous.com
If you’re within shouting distance of London, and you collect Doctor Who novelizations and original fiction, you might want to head to Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenue on Saturday, March 15th, for a signing with a bunch of authors. Forbidden Planet:
Join us for monsters!
To celebrate BBC Books’ ‘The Monster Collection’, each featuring a classic monster from the Doctor Who series, Forbidden Planet are hosting a signing with authors Trevor Baxendale, Stephen Cole, Terrance Dicks, Jonathan Morris, Justin Richards and Mike Tucker, on Saturday 15th March 1- 2pm at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London.
This series of books includes Trevor Baxendale’s ‘Prisoner of the Daleks’, Stephen Cole’s ‘Sting of the Zygons’, Terrance Dicks’ ‘Shakedown’, Jonathan Morris’ ‘Touched by an Angel’, Justin Richards’ ‘Sands of Time’, and Mike Tucker’s ‘Illegal Alien’,
Each story features an individual adventure across space and time, and the titles include the Third,...
Join us for monsters!
To celebrate BBC Books’ ‘The Monster Collection’, each featuring a classic monster from the Doctor Who series, Forbidden Planet are hosting a signing with authors Trevor Baxendale, Stephen Cole, Terrance Dicks, Jonathan Morris, Justin Richards and Mike Tucker, on Saturday 15th March 1- 2pm at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in London.
This series of books includes Trevor Baxendale’s ‘Prisoner of the Daleks’, Stephen Cole’s ‘Sting of the Zygons’, Terrance Dicks’ ‘Shakedown’, Jonathan Morris’ ‘Touched by an Angel’, Justin Richards’ ‘Sands of Time’, and Mike Tucker’s ‘Illegal Alien’,
Each story features an individual adventure across space and time, and the titles include the Third,...
- 3/3/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
A new digital-only Doctor Who eBook will explore the final days of Matt Smith's Doctor.
Tales of Trenzalore is comprised of four separate tales, each featuring a classic Doctor Who monster.
The Ice Warriors return in 'Let It Snow' by Justin Richards, 'An Apple a Day' by George Mann reintroduces The Krynoids, while the Autons are back in Paul Finch's 'Strangers in the Outland' and the Mara reappears in 'The Dreaming' by Mark Morris.
The tales are set during the 900 years that the Doctor spent defending the town of Christmas, as referenced in Smith's final outing, 'The Time of the Doctor'.
The book's blurb reads: "As it had been foretold, the armies of the Universe gathered at Trenzalore. Only one thing stood between the planet and destruction - the Doctor. For 900 years, he defended the planet, and the tiny town of Christmas, against the forces that would destroy it.
Tales of Trenzalore is comprised of four separate tales, each featuring a classic Doctor Who monster.
The Ice Warriors return in 'Let It Snow' by Justin Richards, 'An Apple a Day' by George Mann reintroduces The Krynoids, while the Autons are back in Paul Finch's 'Strangers in the Outland' and the Mara reappears in 'The Dreaming' by Mark Morris.
The tales are set during the 900 years that the Doctor spent defending the town of Christmas, as referenced in Smith's final outing, 'The Time of the Doctor'.
The book's blurb reads: "As it had been foretold, the armies of the Universe gathered at Trenzalore. Only one thing stood between the planet and destruction - the Doctor. For 900 years, he defended the planet, and the tiny town of Christmas, against the forces that would destroy it.
- 1/17/2014
- Digital Spy
Meredith Burdett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Someone on the old Interweb once described Cavan Scott and Mark Wright’s new book Doctor Who: The Official Miscellany as merely an update on Justin Richards’ and Andrew Martin’s 1997 Doctor Who: Book of Lists, which detailed different aspects of Doctor Who’s past in fiction and nonfiction form. Whilst it’s true that some of the
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Someone on the old Interweb once described Cavan Scott and Mark Wright’s new book Doctor Who: The Official Miscellany as merely an update on Justin Richards’ and Andrew Martin’s 1997 Doctor Who: Book of Lists, which detailed different aspects of Doctor Who’s past in fiction and nonfiction form. Whilst it’s true that some of the
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- 11/3/2013
- by Meredith Burdett
- Kasterborous.com
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If you can make it to London on 2nd October, head to the Forbidden Planet Megastore for a signing of the new Essential Guide to To 50 Years Of Doctor Who with Justin Richards! From Forbidden Planet - This essential guide to fifty years of Doctor Who includes all eleven incarnations of the Doctor, and
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If you can make it to London on 2nd October, head to the Forbidden Planet Megastore for a signing of the new Essential Guide to To 50 Years Of Doctor Who with Justin Richards! From Forbidden Planet - This essential guide to fifty years of Doctor Who includes all eleven incarnations of the Doctor, and
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- 9/28/2013
- by Rebecca Crockett
- Kasterborous.com
Interview Simon Brew 21 Jun 2013 - 07:00
We interview Stuart Crouch, the man responsible for overseeing the incoming Doctor Who Regeneration DVD set...
London-based design and TV production house Peacock is a firm that provides creative services to the music and entertainment industries. And as part and parcel of that, it's had a long association with Doctor Who, and the DVD releases over the past few years. We chatted to creative director Stuart Crouch about his work, and the Doctor Who: Regeneration boxset...
Can you take us back right to the beginning. What Doctor Who projects have you worked on before, and how did this one come about?
We've been designing the new series DVD stuff since Tennant's first year and we've also done a number of Doctor Who packages for BBC America. In 2011 we did The Complete David Tennant Years set for the U.S. which was a coffee...
We interview Stuart Crouch, the man responsible for overseeing the incoming Doctor Who Regeneration DVD set...
London-based design and TV production house Peacock is a firm that provides creative services to the music and entertainment industries. And as part and parcel of that, it's had a long association with Doctor Who, and the DVD releases over the past few years. We chatted to creative director Stuart Crouch about his work, and the Doctor Who: Regeneration boxset...
Can you take us back right to the beginning. What Doctor Who projects have you worked on before, and how did this one come about?
We've been designing the new series DVD stuff since Tennant's first year and we've also done a number of Doctor Who packages for BBC America. In 2011 we did The Complete David Tennant Years set for the U.S. which was a coffee...
- 6/19/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Eleven Classic Adventures. Eleven Brilliant Writers. One Incredible Doctor.
What impresses me most with these choices of reprinted novels is the list of authors. Anyone with knowledge of Doctor Who in print will have heard of Justin Richards’ contribution or perhaps know the work of Stephen Cole, improving the appearance of reprinting books by writers who ‘get’ Doctor Who, but that’s no truer than this novel, which is written by Mark Gatiss. That brilliantly intelligent man who gave us The Unquiet Dead, who played the titular riser-from-the-dead in The Lazarus Experiment and recently gave us back the Ice Warriors certainly delivers here.
It’s no secret that Gatiss has a strong love for the third Doctor and with Last Of The Gaderene he provides us with every item on the checklist for the atypical Pertwee adventure. I suppose the television story this novel...
What impresses me most with these choices of reprinted novels is the list of authors. Anyone with knowledge of Doctor Who in print will have heard of Justin Richards’ contribution or perhaps know the work of Stephen Cole, improving the appearance of reprinting books by writers who ‘get’ Doctor Who, but that’s no truer than this novel, which is written by Mark Gatiss. That brilliantly intelligent man who gave us The Unquiet Dead, who played the titular riser-from-the-dead in The Lazarus Experiment and recently gave us back the Ice Warriors certainly delivers here.
It’s no secret that Gatiss has a strong love for the third Doctor and with Last Of The Gaderene he provides us with every item on the checklist for the atypical Pertwee adventure. I suppose the television story this novel...
- 4/23/2013
- by Matt Holsman
- Obsessed with Film
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Eleven Classic Adventures. Eleven Brilliant Writers. One Incredible Doctor.
Dreams Of Empire by Justin Richards laughs in the face of the Troughton era. At least it does when it comes to budget. I can not imagine how this story could be pulled off by Team Troughton when it comes to the sets, the villains (who sound like a cross between a Vcr player and a vitamin) and the visuals; however, the story isn’t really unlike anything we got from late 1960s Doctor Who. This is, at heart, a base under siege story, that old trap which most of the second Doctor’s stories fall into.
Looking beyond the base under siege-ness of the novel, which doesn’t emerge until the halfway point, there’s a real foundation of a plot, which, sadly, we don’t get to see much of. Richards points out...
Dreams Of Empire by Justin Richards laughs in the face of the Troughton era. At least it does when it comes to budget. I can not imagine how this story could be pulled off by Team Troughton when it comes to the sets, the villains (who sound like a cross between a Vcr player and a vitamin) and the visuals; however, the story isn’t really unlike anything we got from late 1960s Doctor Who. This is, at heart, a base under siege story, that old trap which most of the second Doctor’s stories fall into.
Looking beyond the base under siege-ness of the novel, which doesn’t emerge until the halfway point, there’s a real foundation of a plot, which, sadly, we don’t get to see much of. Richards points out...
- 4/16/2013
- by Matt Holsman
- Obsessed with Film
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection. Eleven Classic Adventures. Eleven Brilliant Writers. One Incredible Doctor.
The first Doctor novel to be selected for reprint as part of Doctor Who’s golden celebrations is Stephen Cole’s Ten Little Aliens from 2002, which sees the Doctor, Ben and Polly arrive on a hollowed-out moon where they discover the corpses of the ten most dangerous criminals in the universe, all frozen in time.
The new introduction gives a brilliant new insight into this novel, with Cole admitting he was obsessed with Agatha Christie at the time of planning (he was then editing a Christie part-work magazine) and thought Christie meets Starship Troopers would be a smash hit. And reader, he was right.
As we witnessed at Christmas, the Eleventh Doctor can do a mean Sherlock Holmes impersonation, but William Hartnell’s Doctor Is Hercule Poirot. He sits at the back of the room,...
The first Doctor novel to be selected for reprint as part of Doctor Who’s golden celebrations is Stephen Cole’s Ten Little Aliens from 2002, which sees the Doctor, Ben and Polly arrive on a hollowed-out moon where they discover the corpses of the ten most dangerous criminals in the universe, all frozen in time.
The new introduction gives a brilliant new insight into this novel, with Cole admitting he was obsessed with Agatha Christie at the time of planning (he was then editing a Christie part-work magazine) and thought Christie meets Starship Troopers would be a smash hit. And reader, he was right.
As we witnessed at Christmas, the Eleventh Doctor can do a mean Sherlock Holmes impersonation, but William Hartnell’s Doctor Is Hercule Poirot. He sits at the back of the room,...
- 4/10/2013
- by Matt Holsman
- Obsessed with Film
Wish you could get The Angel’s Kiss -- that pulp paperback the Doctor was enjoying in Central Park in “The Angels Take Manhattan” -- on your Kindle? Well, you can... sort of. This Angel’s Kiss is not written by Melody Malone, or even by River Song, but by Justin Richards, who appears to be a regular author of Doctor Who spinoff novels. This one isn’t even a novel, more a novella, and if you were hoping to read about Rory going for coffee and the Doctor having to break River’s wrist because Amy read it in a book, you will be disappointed. The synopsis, from Random House: On some days, New York is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. This was one of the other days… Melody Malone, owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency, has an unexpected caller. It’s movie star Rock Railton,...
- 10/12/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
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