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In advertising circles, Duncan Jones made headlines and a name for himself for a controversial British commercial for French Connection fashions, an ad that begins as a catfight and ends with its women combatants smooching.

Duncan Jones has worked hard to escape his father's thin white shadow. And yet once you delve into the content of his first feature film, Moon , it turns out to have some strikingly autobiographical elements.

Neil Armstrong's giant leap came at a time of grim realities - Biafra, Altamont, the Manson killings - back here on Earth.

Colossal space ships. Loads of bad-ass aliens. Big, deafening battle sequences. Toss in all the CGI special effects money can buy and you've got Hollywood's formula for a great sci-fi movie.

Just don't call him Zowie Duncan Jones, director of Moon, opening Friday: a Hopefully a people will start to judge me on the merits of my work, as opposed to where my genes come from.a Duncan Jones would rather not talk about his rock-star dad David Bowie, but admits his ability to make the sci-fi feature Moon is a testament to the grounding he got ...

Duncan Jones has created a quiet masterwork in MOON. Courtesy Moon. WeHo News. It would make sense the son born of a moonage daydream, the child of Angie and David Bowie would express an affinity for all things outer space, and this elegantly crafted film harkens to Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell To Earth, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, yet has a ...

Moon , the debut feature from film-maker Duncan Jones, took the award for best new British feature film at the Edinburgh film festival last night, as patron Sir Sean Connery lashed out at the BBC for failing to give the event proper coverage.

Murphy's version of "Instant Karma" is on iTunes now. Peter Murphy With the Mission Veo Respectable Street Cafe, West Palm Beach Wednesday, June 26, 2009 Better Than: Being too lazy to make the journey to West Palm.

IAN HUNTER: Despite popular belief, Ian Hunter -- not his Mott the Hoople bandmate David Bowie -- sang the lead on "All the Young Dudes." Hunter also has loads of solo stuff he'll be playing for free Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of the River to River Festival at Rockefeller Park, north end of Battery Park City, where River Terrace meets Warren ...

The genius is in the beats. Amon Tobin creates fantastic, groovy beats behind beats.

If you follow my posts, you would know that AFI performed at Toronto's Edgefest on Saturday.

What's in a name? Quite a lot, if your father is David Bowie and you happen to have been born Duncan Zowie Haywood-Jones. Moon harks back to more cerebral science-fiction classics Now, though, Duncan Jones is making a different name for himself: not as the son of a British music legend, but as a debuting feature film-maker. Having cut his teeth on ...

Labyrinth is headed to Blu-ray Disc on 1 September from Sony. This classic Jim Henson/David Bowie creation will arrive with a 1080p transfer and a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 sound mix, though bonuses have yet to be formally announced.

I bet M.C. Escher is owed mounds of money in royalties ... so pay up, Pussycats.

This image from the University of Colorado at Boulder shows a reconstructed view of the Shalbatana lake on Mars as it may have looked roughly 3.4 billion years ago.

My first reported word was "Piggy." This was by no means a shallow judgment on my parents, or some infantile attempt at self-deprecating humor.

Moon , directed by British advert tyro Duncan Jones, is a modest science fiction film with major aspirations.

The hippies are long gone, but you'd never know it from The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side , now playing at P.S. 122.

Though he grew up in the orbit of Mr. Space Oddity himself, first-time director Duncan Jones didn't hesitate to venture across the universe for his debut feature film.

Considering his itinerant childhood, and famously fanciful father, Duncan Jones could be excused for being a bit eccentric.