Where to go and what to do this week...

02/10/2010

Who's scariest?

No hiding behind the sofa when Doctor Who Live hits the stage this week. OK, so Matt Smith and Karen Gillan aren't on the UK tour, but the show promises special effects, pyrotechnics and scary monsters. Time to round up the key baddies...

From October 8, Doctorwholive.com, Ticketmaster.co.uk (0844 847 1963)

From left to right Oods, Cybermen. Weeping angels, Judoon, Daleks

OODS

Appearance: Zombie ZZ Top

Weapon: Telepathy

Achilles heel: Could easily get mistaken for a four-day-old bowl of spaghetti

Scare factor: No one wants to be around that face

Overall score: 5/10

CYBERMAN

Appearance: Head of Smash potato man/body of a Coke can

Weapon: Arm-mounted gun

Achilles heel: Gold chokes their respiratory systems

Scare factor: We could have them with a tin opener

Overall score: 7/10

WEEPING ANGELS

Appearance: Creepy-as winged statue

Weapon: Banishing humans to the past. Don't blink or you're done for

Achilles heel: Looking at them makes them turn into stone

Scare factor: Well, we certainly wouldn't mess

Overall score: 8/10

JUDOON

Appearance: Yellow-blooded rhino in a space kilt

Weapon: Red energy beam

Achilles heel: Low intelligence. Logical to a ridiculous degree

Scare factor: Kind of cuddly, really - in a horny kind of way

Overall score: 4/10

DALEKS

Appearance: Giant, evil cheese graters

Weapon: Death ray, remorselessness

Achilles heel: Stairs, though the new ones can fly

Scare factor: Exterminate! Exterminate! Not words we'd relish hearing.

Overall score: 8/10

PS: Missing David Tennant?

The ex-Doctor stars in Single Father, a touching drama about a photographer who has to bring up four children on his own after the sudden death of his wife. From Who to boo-hoo, we reckon!

Coming soon, BBC1

Portsmouth: Marina Diamandis

Marina of 'The Diamonds' fame takes her brand of electro-pop to the Pyramid.

October 19, Portsmouth Pyramid (023 9279 9977)

Liverpool: Anthony And Cleopatra

SATC's Kim Cattrall swaps her Manolos for Shakespearian sandals.

From October 8, Everyman Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool (0151 709 4776)

Titanic has topped a poll of chick-flicks men secretly love to watch. So that explains the rogue Celine Dion on his iPod*...

*We hope

Glasto: guaranteed

To get your Glastonbury 2011 tickets, which go on sale at 9am today:

1. Pre-register beforehand at Glastonburyregistration.co.uk.

2. Sit poised, laptop/mobile at the ready.

3. Call 0844 412 4635 or visit Seetickets.com. Breathe.

4. Squeal loudly when ticket confirmation arrives.

5. Start planning festival wardrobe NOW!

5 random reasons...

...to print a picture of Jack 'hot' Huston

1. Catch him at the cinema playing drug smuggler Graham Plinston in Mr Nice, about the infamous drug smuggler Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans).

2. Jack also appeared in Factory Girl with Rhys' ex Sienna Miller. His ex is Cat Deeley.

3. His grandfather is John Huston, who directed The Misfits, The African Queen and The Maltese Falcon, among other films beginning with 'The'.

4. He played Rosalie's evil ex, Royce King II, in Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

5. In real life, he's the son of Lady Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley, an actual aristocrat!

Mr Nice is in cinemas nationwide from October 8

We see DEAD PEOPLE

Zac Efron with his dead screen bro

In his new movie Charlie St Cloud (out October 8) Zac Efron plays a character so upset by his younger brother's death that he takes a job at the cemetery where he's buried (riiight) - only to find he can talk to his ghost! But Zac's not alone (well, clearly, he's got his dead bro) - he's one of a line of actors who find themselves starring in a 'ghost buddy movie'. Weird concept, but it seems to work...

From left to right: Ghost, The Sixth Sense, American Werewolf In London, Beetlejuice

The film: Ghost

The buddies: Murdered Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) and fake-turned-actual psychic Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg).

Bonding moment: After a night of Sam 'singing' I'm Henery The Eighth I Am, Oda Mae agrees to help him talk to girlfriend Molly.

The film: The sixth sense

The buddies: Dead psychologist Dr Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) and psychic kid Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment).

Bonding moment: When Malcolm finally accepts that Cole is psychic and "sees dead people that walk around like regular people".

The film: American Werewolf In London

The buddies: Soon-to-be werewolf David Kessler (David Naughton) and his already-dead mate Jack (Griffin Dunne).

Bonding moment: When a decaying Jack turns up with David's victims and convinces him that, yes, he is a werewolf.

The film: Beetlejuice

The buddies: Teen goth Lydia (Winona Ryder) and dead-but-lovely couple The Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin).

Bonding moment: Pretty much as soon as Lydia meets the Maitlands, who turn out to be way nicer than her own obnoxious parents.