Chimpomatic

Steven Soderbergh has another movie in the can - The Informant! stars Matt Damon and former time-traveller Scott Bakula - and plays like a comedy Insider.

And then ....coming to the back of an airline seat near you, Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman and Jon Favreau star in the comedy Couples Retreat about a bunch of couples who head out to a retreat to work on their marriages.

Plus, Donnie Darko's R-Kelly (Richard, that is) has a third attempt to fulfill his potential - The Box.

Nice ads for VW here, featuring a nihilist.

Via: La Calidad

Michael Mann interview up at Aint It Cool. Not catching Public Enemies until next week, but looking forward to it.

Excellent Glastonbury round up posted over at The Big Picture. 

Looks like Jim James Yim Yames might be outgrowing the traditional roots of his old band. Maybe they just aren't wacky enough.

In addition to the previously announced Monsters of Folk album, the newly re-christened front man has a solo EP of George Harrison covers on the way, entitled 'Tribute Too'. Recorded on 8 track in 2001, they are now being dusted off and are available to buy from 7th July - although you can sign up and download Behind That Locked Door now.

Yimyames.com also mentions that a 'full length solo record' is 'coming soon'.

The craziness continues.

Indie moviemaker site Shooting People don't seem impressed by the contents of the video shelf on the International Space Station - which is disclosed here. Regarding classics such as Beverly Hills Cop (an easy 5 stars IMHO) as inferior, they are running a poll to select more suitable 'highbrow' titles to suggest.

We're half way through 2009 and this quick recap shows it's been a pretty strong 6 months so far. Some of the best songs have come from debuts with Titus Andronicus and Japandroids particularly doing it for me this year. Let's hope the next half holds as much promise.

Listen to this playlist of Spotify.

Nicely shot promo up for the new Dirty Projectors single - Stillness Is The Move.

Directed by Matthew Lessner, the video was shot on location out in Vermont and 'features siberian huskies and rare llamas'.

Entourage kicks off season six this Sunday - in the US at least. Sure, it's as mindless as they say - buy what's wrong with a little lifestyle envy? SUIT!

Looks like the Pirate Bay are making out like ...bandits.

With a £2.4m fine to pay, they have sold the Pirate Bay to a Swedish investor - for £4.7m. Not sure where that leaves the recently launched Video Bay.

More info on Wired and BBC News.

Check out Marco Brambilla's art installation in the new Standard Hotel in New York - a video piece that takes lift passengers from hell up to heaven.

Headline and tip-off nabbed from VSL.

With the 20th Anniversary of it's release upon us, the Pixies are touring pre-grunge indie-classic Doolittle in it's entirety - plus b-sides.

Tickets on sale Friday.

OCTOBER
Thursday 1st - Olympia, Dublin, IRE TICKETS
Friday 2nd - Olympia, Dublin, IRE TICKETS
Sunday 4th - SECC, Glasgow, UK TICKETS
Tuesday 6th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Wednesday 7th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Thursday 8th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Friday 9th - Brixton Academy, London, UK TICKETS
Sunday 11th - Jahrhunderhalle, Frankfurt, DE TICKETS
Tuesday 13th - Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, NED TICKETS
Wednesday 14th - Forest National, Brussels, BE TICKETS
Thursday 15th - Zenith, Paris, FR TICKETS

??? Who's it going to be?

Nice little video up to promote the Shepherd Fairey-centric edition of Arkitip magazine, with the Obey mastermind knocking up an artwork in his studio.