Alien Autopsy Film Review
Byker Grove' may have kept them off the streets, but it is their reluctance to get off our screens that has got them in with the wrong crowd.
The 'butterfly effect' in action; PJ & Duncan's caterpillar track Let's Get Ready To Rumble was a small-scale disaster whose seismic reverberations have since rocked ITV's Saturday schedules and now unleashed the ultimate cultural after-shock - an Ant & Dec Movie.
'Byker Grove' may have kept them off the streets, but it is their reluctance to get off our screens that has got them in with the wrong crowd. 'Alien Autopsy' is executive-produced by the very people it is about, pathological self-publicist Ray Santilli and his side-kick Gary Shoefield, who faked said autopsy after allegedly losing footage of a real one. Hmmm.
Making this as a documentary, which the film itself proposes, would have been a good idea; the events merit the investigative eye of a Broomfield or Theroux. What we get however is a vanity project that, like any Del Boy Trotter, is mildly amusing but not to be trusted. [Alec McLeod]