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Trailer Park: Blood Ties

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:46:59 +0100

Tell No One helmer Guillaume Canet makes his English-language debut with this 70s brothers-on-the-slide NYC thriller starring Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts and James Caan. Remake of French thriller Les Liens Du Sang by Jacques Maillot.

Trailer Park: A Field In England

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:28 +0100

Heard promising reports for this tripped-out English Civil War psychedelic thriller from Kill List director Ben Wheatley, which is getting an interesting simulatenous release on cinema screens, Film4, Blu-ray & DVD, Video On Demand, all from 5th July. With Michael Smiley (Kill List), Peter Ferdinando (Tony), Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh), Richard Glover (Sightseers) and Ryan Pope (Ideal).

Short Attention Span Theatre: 12 Years Of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:56 +0100

Talking through the DFA label's history, with James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Holy Ghost!, The Juan MacLean, Shit Robot, Sinkane, YACHT etc

Trailer Park: The Congress

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:55:35 +0100

Offbeat offering from Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman: Robin Wright gets scanned by a mysterious company, ends up in a string of trippy cartoons... More at Slashfilm

Trailer Park: The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:50:43 +0100

The Shane Meadows doc is coming soon, with the resurrected Roses playing some more gigs this summer. That opening guitar riff for Made In Stone is still amazing.

Trailer Park: Arrested Development S4

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:28:28 +0100

All new eps up on Netflix May 26

Trailer Park: Gravity

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:15:04 +0100

George Clooney and Sandra Bullock are lost in space in the new one from Alfonso Cuarón

Promo Promo: The National - Demons

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:15:02 +0100

The National are back with a new album Trouble Will Find Me out 20 May

RIP: Ray Harryhausen

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:08:17 +0100

Skeleton warriors will never battle stop-motion dinosaurs again. RIP Ray Harryhausen

New Mac

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:05:18 +0100

not Apple - Fleetwood... They're back with four new tracks, under the inspiring title Extended Play EP

Short Attention Span Theatre: Building A Human

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:35:13 +0100

An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth). By @RobertPopper and Peter @Serafinowicz.

Promo Promo: Black Sabbath - Together Again

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:38:35 +0100

They're back (in black). "The whole thing's been memorable. I'll probably forget it next month..." Feat. Rick Rubin as rock's OG Ben Gunn.

Short Attention Span Theatre: Act Of Terror

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:30:51 +0100

From @FatRatFilms

While filming a routine stop and search of her boyfriend on the London Underground, Gemma suddenly found herself detained, handcuffed and threatened with arrest.
Act of Terror tells the story of her fight to bring the police to justice and prevent this happening to anyone else, ever again.
Official Website: ActOfTerrorDocumentary.com

Long Live Southbank

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:05:02 +0100

The Gonz has joined the #SaveSouthBank campaign

Promo Promo: Jon Hopkins

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:44:44 +0100

Stylish, dystopian promo for the new @Jon_Hopkins_ track Open Eye Signal.

Trailer Park: The East

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:19:50 +0100

Longer trailer for this eco-activist undercover FBI agent drama.

Amazon TV Pilots

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:58:29 +0100

Amazon are jumping into the "I'm a TV studio too" game with 8 new comedy pilots - Alpha House, starring John Goodman as a US senator with cameos by Bill Murray and Stephen Colbert; musical Browsers starring Bebe Neuwirth; Onion News Empire, starring Jeffrey Tambor; teachers toon sitcom Those Who Can’t; Dark Minions, written by Big Bang Theory co-stars Kevin Sussman and John Ross Bowie; toon Supanatural about some superpowered divas; Betas, starring Ed Begley Jr and Jon Daly; and Zombieland - a spin-off from the movie. One of them's got to be ok, right? Vote them in or out right on the Amazon/Lovefilm interface.

Trailer Park: RIPD

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:16:27 +0100

More Hollywood maths at work here: The Dude + Men In Black x Ghostbusters / CGI = RIPD

RIP Storm Thorgerson

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:05:37 +0100

The acclaimed album art designer Storm Thorgerson has died. Obit here.

Promo Promo: Biting Elbows

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:30:20 +0100

Bit slow on the uptake with this fun, ultra-violent POV promo for Russian band Biting Elbows. #NSFW

Trailer Park: The Bling Ring

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:06:09 +0100

Sophia Coppola's latest, with a shoplifting Emma Watson

Trailer Park: Man Of Steel

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:09:39 +0100

Yet another trailer for Man of Steel. This one offers a brief reprive from the wackness of the Zod Facetime viral and claws back some of the Terrence Mallick vibe from the teaser ...but this tenpole's on thin ice.

Breaking Bad: S5 Finale Interviews

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:30:39 +0100

BB Creator Vince Gilligan and Bryan "Heisenberg" Cranston talk to @Collider about shooting the final season - spoilerific if you're not up to date.

Time Travel Movie Flowchart

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:00:24 +0100

Useful diagram for negotiating flux capacitor problems. (via @LaughingSquid)

Short Attention Span Theatre: Obey The Giant

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:05:51 +0100

Andre the Giant has a posse - and a film. Here's Shephard Fairey: the college years. Decent biopic short looking at how the @ObeyGiant leader got his start. For more background on the short's production head over to Short of The Week

A Special Branch production
Director: Julian Marshall
Producer: Andrew Gisch
Director of Photography: David Vollrath
Writer: Alex Jablonski

Message From Zod

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:55:33 +0100

No HD for Kryptonian Facetime then.

Promo Promo: Grim Towers - Reign Down / Lighting Dust - Diamond

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:40:46 +0100

Been hoping there would be some new Black Mountain Army activiity soon - and look - here's two side projects on the horizon... Grim Tower finds Stephen McBean on a freaky "New Acoustic Death Folk" trip in the snow with Imaad Wasif. Album Anarchic Breezes is out May 21. "Let the free ride the breeze"? Right on, snow bros. Meanwhile Black Mountain's mellower wing Lightning Dust (Amber Webber and Josh Wells) are heading into Fleetwood Mac territory with Diamond, the first one from their new album Fantasy - out June 25. Various pre-order download options available. Should just about tide us over while we wait for a new Stormy High to finish off the giant mecha-smackdown playlist.

Promo Promo: Parquet Courts - Stoned And Starving

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:15:39 +0100

Big news at this year's SXSW by all accounts. Most of the tracks on Light Up Gold don't get past the 2 min mark, so this one's clearly their Sister Ray. File under Pavement/Sonic Youth/Etc

On The Couch: The Simpsons Meets Breaking Bad

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:00:59 +0100

Feat. Heisenberg Homer

Arrested Development: Netflix Date

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:07:27 +0100

Next time on... The all-new series of Arrested Development has got an "air" date: 26 May, with all 15 eps going live at the same time on its new home Netflix.

Promo Promo: Chochukmo - Good Night

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:05:36 +0100

Some Cornelius/Aztec Camera/Phoenix/Primus nods from @Chochukmo - Hong Kong indie kids. New album A Tragedy Your Majesty out soon.

Trailer Park: Behind The Candelabra

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:26 +0100

Steven Soderbergh's "last" directing job: Michael Douglas as Liberace, Matt Damon his secret lover. Coming to HBO May 26 / Sky Atlantic soon after hopefully.

Trailer Park: Elysium

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:23:44 +0100

New sci-fi from Neill Blomkamp, who made District 9 and the awesome Alive In Jo'burg short. Looks big.

New QOTSA

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:10:15 +0100

Back, still on a desert road apparently.

RIP: Carmine Infantino (1925-2013)

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:05:17 +0100

Good obit over on @AICN for the DC comics artist.

“There are few people in this world that have had as much of an impact on the industry as Carmine,” added DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Dan DiDio. “He bridged both the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, shepherding in some of the most successful periods in our history and setting the course of our characters that is still seen today. He will be greatly missed, but his legacy will remain forever.”

Trailer Park: Ain't In It For My Health - A Film About Levon Helm

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:55:53 +0100

Doc about The Band's drummer.

Short Attention Span Theatre: Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:58:56 +0100

Short film starring Tom Hardy and directed by photographer Greg Williams, who just signed a deal to shoot a feature, also with Hardy..

RIP: Roger Ebert

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:05:49 +0100

America's Barry Norman, Roger Ebert has died aged 70. With presenting partner Gene Siskel, their show At The Movies ran a thumbs up/thumbs down system ...and generally got it right.

Trailer Park: Only God Forgives

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:05:25 +0100

New one from Nicolas Winding Refn; Ryan Gosling gets moody in Bangkok.

Trailer Park: Greetings From Tim Buckley

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:00:06 +0100

New rock bio about Jeff Buckley (looks like it's not starring James Franco after all)

Lando Of Arabia

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:53:23 +0100

Never noticed how much of Lando's style there is in Omar Sharif's character Sherif Ali in Lawrence Of Arabia.

Trailer Park: This Is The End

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:58:35 +0100

Apocalypse woah: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride etc get all "dude, it's the end of the world"

Mudhoney - Vanishing Point - 2013

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:22:48 +0100

It was 1988 when Mudhoney put their super fuzz and big muff pedals together for first single 'Touch Me I'm Sick'…a cocky, snotty finger to the man, casting the band as full-time, half-cut losers just in it for the rock n roll. 25 years and 8 albums later, who would have guessed that they would be one of the last survivors in an industry more disposable than ever?

Since 2002 they've been back on Sub Pop, where it all began, and Vanishing Point keeps the finger raised and flag flying for noisy distortion and punk rock riffs. Drummer Dan Peters kicks off opener Slipping Away, with a reminder as to why he once kept Nirvana's drum stool warm for Dave Grohl. His pounding rolls are soon joined by Steve Turner's drunken lead and the unmistakable whine of Mark Arm. A sound perfected in '88 and not tweaked since.

On first single I Like It Small, Arm sings of the ambition that never saw them scale the heights "I've got big enough balls to admit I like it small" but is probably the reason they are still together and making music. Chardonnay is a 90 second love/hate song to "The crate that launched a thousand strippers" and I Don't Remember You is a fuck you to faces from back in the day. A day that Mudhoney, unlike most of their peers, survived. That they did so without changing their attitude or sound along the way is a small victory for those of us that don't feel that different from how we did 25 years ago either.

Killer Track: The Only Son of the Widow From Nain.

Ad Nauseum: Prada Candy L'eau

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:00:03 +0000

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola bankroll their screen quirkiness with this Prada outing.

Trailer Park: Before Midnight

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:40:35 +0000

Round three: Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke walk and talk again.

False False Identity

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:19:46 +0000

Reading like a comment from @AdamBuxton's BUG show, I noticed this stickie tucked amongst the meticulously created false identies on one of the iPads in the Apple shop. It and must have taken the confused author quite a while to type out, unless it is sort of Apple strategy to appease the worries of potential buyers who weren't sure YOU HAVE TO PAY. MEAN SWOP PLUS PAY EXTRA.

CLICK FOR BIG ENLARGE NOW.

Beach Boys Shred - I Get Around

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:02:01 +0000

Pitch-perfect as always (via @popbitch)

MPfree: Kurt Vile

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:55:04 +0000

New @therealKurtVile freebie, another mini-gem of lazing-around-the-pool hazy vibes. Download, dream of the frost one day leaving London

Promo Promo: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:08:38 +0000

Epic, #NSFW video starring @LilyCole for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs track Sacrilege.

Trailer Park: The Wolverine

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:58:47 +0000

Two trailers for the upcoming Wolverine movie. Doesn't really look all that much 'harder and darker' than the last one or any of the X-Men movies....