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In 2009, the BBC produced a 60-minute pilot for a new series. It was written by Steven Moffat, starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, and was based on the first (and little-adapted) Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet. If this sounds familiar, it's because the episode was ultimately reworked – and re-shot entirely – as the episode 'A Study in Pink', after the BBC decided to produce the show as three feature-length episodes rather than six hour-long ones.

Reports that the pilot had been scrapped led to some less-than-positive buzz around the show, with rumours flying that the series was a dud – but then Sherlock debuted in all its 90-minute glory back in summer of 2010, and we all remember how that went.

Co-creators Moffat and Mark Gatiss have always maintained that they're proud of the pilot, and it's included on the first series DVD as proof. So on...

Godzilla 1954, Mickey Rooney, Giant Ants, Fascists, and rarely seen ‘Musty Stuffer’: Eclectic Packard Theater movies in May 2014 (photo: ‘Godzilla’) Godzilla 1954, Mickey Rooney, military fascists, deadly giant ants, racing car drivers, and The Mishaps of Musty Suffer, a super-rare slapstick comedy series from the 1910s, are a few of the highlights at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater in May 2014. Godzilla 1954 and fellow movie monsters Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla 2014, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe, and Bryan Cranston, opens on May 16 in much of the world. On May 8 at the Packard Theater, you’ll get the chance to check out Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla 1954 aka Gojira — in the original, Toho-released, Japanese-language version (i.e., without Raymond Burr). As part of its Godzilla double bill, the Packard Theater will also present Motoyoshi Oda’s Gigantis, the Fire Monster aka Godzilla Raids Again (1955). Besides Godzilla, the Packard Theater will...

Casting Call 

Brotherhood is the story of Harry Watson (17) a teenager with a serious attitude problem. His home life is as frayed as his mothers nerves, from the constant fighting between him and his older brother Josh (19) who has Downs Syndrome. Harry has always resented his older brother for not acting like an older brother should and for all the attention his mother lavishes upon him. Caught between her two sons when they are at loggerheads, it is a source of great upset for mum. 

Their already difficult relationship is tested when, in order to get what he wants Harry must bring Josh onside and repair their relationship, at least on the surface. In a drunken adolescent misadventure when Harry needs help most, it falls to Josh to save his brother's neck. Can they repair their relationship or has it gone too far?

Gavin (17) (M) Gavin is the best friend...