Pomona Rewind

In 1994, some bright spark in Paramount Pictures had the idea of bringing the original ' Star Trek ' cast together with the cast of the TV spin-off ' Star Trek : The Next Generation'. David Carson's ' Star Trek : Generations' brought William Shatner's Captain Kirk together with Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean Luc Picard in what represented the handing over the cinematic baton to the newer franchise. Much to Paramount's delight, it made a very handsome profit - scooping almost four times its $35 million budget at the box office. Stewart's other signature role has been, of course, as the wheelchair confined Charles Xavier/Professor X in the 'X Men' movies - appearing in five of 20th Century Fox films based on Marvel Comics' series about a band of mutant superheroes. However unlike ' Star Trek ', the cinematic baton has already been passed on to a new generation of actors. James McAvoy became Charles

“Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America,” the attorney and environmental campaigner Robert F Kennedy Jr observed. “We don’t really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.” Alex Gibney has been one of the most effective flag wavers for investigative reporting in the US in recent years. The New Yorker, who in 2007 captured the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ about the beating to death fof a taxi driver in Afghanistan by US soldiers, has carved out a reputation as a fearless documentary filmmaker. He has tackled subjects as varied as Enron, the child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, Scientology and the doping scandal in cycling epitomised by Lance Armstrong. In recent years, he has also collaborated with the Belfast-based journalist Trevor Birney and his colleagues at Below the Radar and Fine Point Films. Birney and his team co-produced G