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Was Christopher Walken really close to playing Han Solo? Did Lucas really offer his actors no direction…?

I remember going into a very dark room the dubbing studio and getting to work. Everyone around was smoking, so I always left with a headache. Shiraz, who did the voice of Esteban, was usually there when I was. I was good at getting my lines right on the first reading. They used to call me One Take Janice. But it was just so much fun to play the only female lead in a cartoon series....

Here, he tells us all about it… How did you get the job of voicing Esteban? How old were you at thetime? At the start of the series I was around 9 years old I think. My name was forwarded to the director for this show and I was called in for an audition. Ad content continues below Basically we were asked to read some text, which went along with the animation....

IsVampyres Of Hollywoodthe first time that youve really looked for that creative voice inside yourself? Ad content continues below Its the first time Ive applied it to fiction, yes. You seem like a really social person, so how does the writing life suit you? So youre developing your own routines? Yeah, I guess I am. That you have access to creative resources that you cant normally get to..? Where did that come from?...

Was the Batmobile a lemon? Is the Batcape a girl-magnet? And which actors does the original Batman really rate in the new films? DoG chats with a cult legend… Some prefacing chit-chat about the weather led us on to talk of the show itself… I think the latter. It was like eating the same meal over and over. But I think the trick is to keep it fresh. Thats part of the actors responsibility, isnt it?...

and he replies Amigo, you just wrote my epitaph! The colour in this movie is jaw-dropping, and leaps out of the screen like a comic-book exposition. But its more than that, each stop is exquisitely framed like a moving Constable landscape. Although, overall the standard of sounds is actually much higher than a typical Western would enjoy. If like me, you love Westerns thenThe Professionalsshould be high on your list of desirable discs....

Would you make a documentary where you found out from all your former partners why they dumped you? Chris Waitt did, and Carl caught up with it at the Edinburgh International FIlm Festival. On the other hand, there are titles like this one. it may be a bittersweet experience for him to present this film for the first time ever. Why is Chris doomed to be left alone? Instead, he decides to go round to their houses and surprise them instead....

So thats just what I did. I must say, I was definitely wrong there. Not only is the film dark in style but also in subject matter. How these all tie in, Im not exactly certain. Thats about it, as everything else has a rather jumbled uncertainty about it. Who is doing what and for what reasons are they doing it? I thought to myself as about 20 people left the press screening....

Mark’s one of those who really liked I, Robot. But I still do. So what did the Blu-ray genie do to this movie? Some nice things and some very unimpressive ones just for good measure. It goes way beyond what Id expected in both clarity and resonance. The bad news, or not so great is the extras. I also loved the menu system which was styled to appear like V.I.C.K.I....

The legendary programmer who gave the world Football Manager - the original one! So whats he up to now, and how did Football Manager come about? I was a professional programmer. Mainframes were the first computers I worked with. The very first one, a long time ago, was an IBM mainframe. When you saw the avalanche of home computers… Ad content continues below That was it! Id always been inventing games as a hobby when I was quite young....

Jonathan James finds prickly problems with this hedgehog-based Nintendo DS game… The nucleus of making such a game should be simple, right? So after playing this game, the question keeps circling in my head. How did Oxygen (the developers) get this so wrong? The object of the game is to move three of your Hedgehogs from one side to the other. Sounds simple enough right? Perhaps…well get to that in a bit....

I did my first programme in December 1983 and I think it was the morning of New Years Eve. Was that nerve wracking? Ad content continues below Yeah, I think it probably was. I practice and practiced and practiced, and built a radio station in my bedroom. But doing it on the radio for real, yeah I was a bit nervous. But frankly, its not as awful as you might imagine....

This heroine is Samus Aran, the star of Nintendos long-running shooter-come-platformer-come-puzzler,Metroid. We thought it was about time DoG took a look at this Sci-Fi gaming classic. Oddly, Samus gender remained secret right until the end of the game. The task of finding and killing Metroids formed the core of the game. It also introduced the standard battery backup for save games, ditching the password method of the first. This is a triumph, and one of many testaments to Nintendos grasp of rock solid game design....