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Douglas Trumbull: UFOTOG
Short looking at FX legend Douglas Trumbull's plans to get some HD UFO footage. Good idea. More details of a feature-length drama he's planning (about a man who wants to film some UFOs) over at THR - shooting in 4K 3D at 120 frames per second. He's also developing "a sci-fi epic that takes place about 200 years in the future”. We're in.
UFOTOG, an acronym for UFO photography, is “based on a longer screenplay that I have” that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph an alien spacecraft. “He’s very smart, a serial entrepreneur, like Elon Musk. So he has the wherewithal to get a really good camera and build a system on a mountaintop.” The photographer is played by actor Ryan Winkles.
19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Anchorman - The Legend Continues
It's kind of a big deal...
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Short Attention Span Theatre: Secret Identity
Touching riff on superheroes and memories, starring Lee Meriwether (aka Catwoman from the 1966 Batman movie). Via @aintitcoolnews
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18th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Trailer Park: Spike Island
More Stone Roses nostalgia on the way...
17th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Wolf Of Wall Street
Scorsese and DiCaprio on rampaging dollar-bill chucking form in this stockbroker drama. Written by Terence "Boardwalk Empire" Winter, based on the autobiography by Jordan Belfort.
17th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: In A World
Meta-trailer for Lake Bell's highly enjoyable comedy about a voice-over artist working in a world where LA's movie trailer voice-over industry is dominated by men.
13th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Apocalypse, NOW!
Hollywood's really in an end-of-days mood at the moment. There's This Is The End (Seth Rogen and his stoner pals hang out at the end of the world); The World's End (Simon Pegg and his mates do the same thing on a pub crawl); Rapture-Palooza (Craig Robinson comes back from This Is The End only this time - he's got horns); and there's World War Z (a global zombie showdown), Pacific Rim (giant monsters v giant mechasuits), even Man Of Steel gets to fend off some serious intergalactic architectural destruction. Plus there was last year's Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World; not to mention the planet-wars in Eylsium and Ender's Game, and then Oblivion and After Earth which fast-forward to look at what the planet's like after everything's been wiped out. Are they trying to tell us something?
12th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Kurt Vile - KV Crimes
Kurt Vile plays out his own version of Game Of Thrones in this video. Loving this album.
11th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
Empty landscapes and lens flares? Yes, there's a new Boards Of Canada album out, and here's a video for one of the tracks.
10th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Paranoia / The Family
A double-bill of older icons: first up, Harrison Ford gets a close shave to play a corporate raider wrangling with long-standing rival Gary Oldman via young bridge'n'tunnel hitech wizzkid Liam Hemsworth in Paranoia. Below, Michelle Pfeiffer is married to mobster Robert De Niro and finding The Family are getting bored with a life of witness protection, even when they're hiding out in France. Directed by Luc Besson.
6th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Joe Goddard Ft. Mara Carlyle - She Burns
Can't think of many other songs that use the word "goose". Out on Greco-Roman later in the year.
5th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Breaking Bad: All Bad Things
Poster for the end of the series... Almost wish they'd never show the last lot. Almost.
5th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: Amblin'
Something a little different for SAST today: Steven Spielberg's 35mm short from 1968, a hippy love story/road trip, filled with a groovy soundtrack and zero dialogue. Probably better known as the film he named Amblin' Entertainment after. Here's Spielberg taking a look back at the poster in 2008.
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28th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Americans
What's this? A US show on ITV1 on Saturday night? Heard good things about this drama following a pair of KGB spies living undercover in Washington in 1981.
28th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: A Band Called Death
Interesting looking doc on the cult band described as being "punk before punk".
"Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early ’70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family chronicle, the story of Death is one of brotherly love and fierce, divinely inspired expression."
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24th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Lightning Dust - Diamond
First video from the new Lightning Dust album Fantasy out June 25. MPfree here
22nd May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Blood Ties
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.
21st May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: A Field In England
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).
21st May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: 12 Years of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic
Talking through the DFA label's history, with James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Holy Ghost!, The Juan MacLean, Shit Robot, Sinkane, YACHT etc
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15th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Congress
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
14th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone
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.
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13th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Arrested Development S4
All new eps up on Netflix May 26
13th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Gravity
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock are lost in space in the new one from Alfonso Cuarón
10th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The National - Demons
The National are back with a new album Trouble Will Find Me out 20 May
10th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Ray Harryhausen
Skeleton warriors will never battle stop-motion dinosaurs again. RIP Ray Harryhausen
7th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Mac
not Apple - Fleetwood... They're back with four new tracks, under the inspiring title Extended Play EP
30th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: Building A Human
An instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth). By @RobertPopper and Peter @Serafinowicz.
30th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Black Sabbath - Together Again
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.
30th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: Act Of Terror
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
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29th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Long Live Southbank
The Gonz has joined the #SaveSouthBank campaign
28th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Jon Hopkins
Stylish, dystopian promo for the new @Jon_Hopkins_ track Open Eye Signal.
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26th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The East
Longer trailer for this eco-activist undercover FBI agent drama.
25th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Amazon TV Pilots
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.
24th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: RIPD
More Hollywood maths at work here: The Dude + Men In Black x Ghostbusters / CGI = RIPD
22nd Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Storm Thorgerson
The acclaimed album art designer Storm Thorgerson has died. Obit here.
19th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Biting Elbows
Bit slow on the uptake with this fun, ultra-violent POV promo for Russian band Biting Elbows. #NSFW
18th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Bling Ring
Sophia Coppola's latest, with a shoplifting Emma Watson
17th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Man of Steel
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.
17th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Breaking Bad: S5 Finale Interviews
BB Creator Vince Gilligan and Bryan "Heisenberg" Cranston talk to @Collider about shooting the final season - spoilerific if you're not up to date.
16th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Time Travel Movie Flowchart
Useful diagram for negotiating flux capacitor problems. (via @LaughingSquid)
16th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: Obey The Giant
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
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15th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Grim Towers - Reign Down / Lighting Dust - Diamond
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.
13th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Parquet Courts - Stoned And Starving
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
12th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
On The Couch: The Simpsons Meets Breaking Bad
Feat. Heisenberg Homer
12th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Arrested Development: Netflix date
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.
11th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Chochukmo - Good Night
Some Cornelius/Aztec Camera/Phoenix/Primus nods from @Chochukmo - Hong Kong indie kids. New album A Tragedy Your Majesty out soon.
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11th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Behind The Candelabra
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.
10th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet