Doctor Who star David Tennant to guest star on "Sarah Jane" spin-off

In what is perhaps a shrewd move on the BBC part, Doctor Who star David Tennant will appear as the Doctor in a two-part episode of the series spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Elizabeth Sladen has already crossed over play Sarah Jane Smith a few times since the revival of the series back in 2005. Now this will be the first time that the Doctor will guest on her show. Of course, this entitles the fans to seeing Tennant a few more times before his swan song as the Time Lord at the end of the year. Plus, one assumes, The Sarah Jane Adventures -heading into season three - should see it's highest ratings yet, if only because while the character has been mentioned on SJA and the other spin-off, Torchwood, the Doctor has actually never appeared on them.

Tennant returns as the Doctor in The Waters of Mars this November, followed by the two-part finale this Christmas and New Years. His appearance on SJA will air in September, however.

Other news comes that indeed, a motion picture version of Doctor Who is in the works. The same production team running the show, will produce a big screen version of the series. However, there is no timetable for release of said film or if it would involve current Who star David Tennant or incoming 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, or something else completely.

Movie: Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band (2008)

In this documentary, we see the behind the scenes look at the first punk/gay band from their beginning to the present. Like Jon Ginoli's recent book, the movie more or less tells the story of how the band was formed and how -as fate or what ever you want to call it -snagged them when Green Day wanted them for their opening act just as the punk band was really getting big.

You get to see plenty of old video footage of them singing in the small clubs and hear the history of what has become legendary about them -well, besides the lyrics to their songs - the never ending search for a drummer.

I enjoyed the film as much as Jon's book and one can't help but get a sense that despite their initial thought that no one would expect them to become half as popular as they did, you have to think that, with Jon's lyrics, that from the very start, Pansy Division was destined to be what they are today.

Movie: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

Michael Cera has made a career out of being the cute, aw-shucks kind of guy. And in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, he succeeds somewhat in letting that go. Here he plays Nick, a hapless teen who has girl problems. Well, girl problems in the sense that Tris has broken up with him, and he’s having difficulty dealing with that. He spends endless days leaving phone messages and making mix-CD’s for her and pining after pictures of her on his wall, which could come close to stalking.

His bandmates, Thom and Dev, try to bring him out of his funk -because they have a gig to play - but when they discover that an indie-rock band they all love will be playing at a secret location somewhere in New York, a road trip begins.

At there gig, Nick finds both his ex, Tris, and Norah (who knows Tris from school, and hates her). Norah (the delightful Kat Dennings), blanching at the idea that Tris will see her alone, goes up to Nick and asks to be his boyfriend for “five minutes” (Norah unaware that Nick is Tris’ ex).

Thus, as it turns out, both love this indie-band and spend the rest of the movie sparring, trading insults and trying to find Caroline, Norah’s friend who is drunk as a skunk and who at first thinks Nick’s bandmates are out to rape her. She, of course, is wrong as both Dev and Thom are gay (which brings up the coolest aspect of the film. In other films, these band members would’ve slowly faded in the background, but here they become central to the plot -they’re the first to realize that both Nick and Norah really belong together and work towards making sure they stay together).

While the story is slight, it beams with delightful performances from Cera and Dennings, along with Aaron Yoo and Rafi Gavron as Nick’s fellow queercore band members. Ari Gaynor almost steals the film as the drunk Caroline who seems to never want to give up the gum she chewing -and you’ll remember what she does with it forever. And while Jonathan B. Wright has little to say as cute guy Dev picks up, his looks - sort of a blond, beefier version Josh Hartnell -kept me hoping that Dev and him would kiss.