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Dr. Bell wasn't the only one using an alias in "Grey Matters", last week's episode of 'Fringe'. The severed head that was brought back to life and reattached to a body was identified as Thomas Jerome Newton, but I'm told this was the name of David Bowie's character in "The Man Who Fell To Earth". Supposedly "Newton" was from the parallel dimension ...

John Lennon wasn't the only rock star to have experiences with UFOs and the occult.

A low-budget science fiction film directed by David Bowie's son was recognised last night as the outstanding British independent film of the year.

" Bowie: A Biography " by Marc Spitz isn't just about David Bowie. After the Beatles, there was David Bowie.

He reimagined Elizabeth I as a flirtatious young princess and upset David Starkey with a hedonistic Henry VIII who looks more like a male model than Holbein's florid monarch.

As new BBC4 documentary Synth Britannia shows, the synthesizer first dehumanised then re-humanised British pop, fulfilled the DIY promise of punk, and changed how bands looked forever Numan nature: Are 'Friends' Electric sent synth-pop overground, changing the face of British pop Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns The synth-pop era really kicked off ...

Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems. "I ask for so little.

"Like" is the most ubiquitous word of our time. And, in its comparative form, it is probably the most representative.

The world is a better place for its futuristic cinematic look into the future and in some instance a look into the past.

In The Man Who Fell to Earth , an alien played by David Bowie drops in on ol' terra firma looking for a spot of tea and a way to take water back to his drought-suffering home world.

Bipartisanship is bad. Hedge funds are good. And the environment has never been better, thank you very much.

Nicolas Roeg started working in the film industry at the age of 19 at the Marylebone Studio, where he was a tea-boy and assisted in the dubbing of French films.

Judge Clark Douglas is looking for a woman to wash his dishes. Please send applications to sexistpig@stupidville.com. Note: This is a pre-release review.

Profile: The director of the acclaimed sci-fi movie Moon, has taken a long time to make his mark but now he has emerged - and without any help from his father, David Bowie Tags: entertainment Many fathers are eager to hand the family business down to their sons and Duncan Jones's dad was no exception.

For Duncan Jones, formerly known as Zowie Bowie, promoting his big screen directorial debut was always going to bring up questions about his superstar father.

David Bowie at the O'Keefe Center in Toronto, Canada Photo: jlacpo [Flickr] "Bowie" is Loaded with Alter Egos Although he was born David Robert Hayward-Jones in 1947, he had already decided to change his name to "Davie Jones" by the sixties.

Little movie. Big jolt. "Moon" is the early summer movie no one saw coming - a small movie with a decidedly modest budget that shakes you into big remembrance of a simple fact about movies: some of the best and smartest we've ever had have always been sci-fi. For decades now, we've gotten used to the genre commandeered by the mega-geekdom of ...

Echoing father's classic The Man Who Fell to Earth Duncan Jones, formerly Zowie Bowie, created low-budget sci-fi film Moon Tim Cooper Trouble is brewing at the sci-fi convention, where three members of the Sith and two Stormtroopers surround a Dalek with menacing intent.

Comments Share Sam Rockwell dazzles in a double role in "Moon," the debut feature film by Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie.

Moon is a shocker - because of its cunning, because it's so good, and because it's not supposed to be as good or as clever as it is.