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The Fantastic Mr Fox
Clever old school animation from Wes Anderson brings Roald Dahl's cheeky chap to life.
25th Dec 2010
Read more 3.5 star reviewsIt's Complicated
Promising romcom for grown ups ...which isn't that complicated.
24th Dec 2010
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#Spotted: Sue Sylvester from Glee in a pre-eccentric role as a helpful doctor in 'The Fugitive'.
23rd Dec 2010
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The Fugitive
Impeccable writing and direction, plus a near-career best turn from Harrison Ford. Flawless.
23rd Dec 2010
Read more 5 star reviewsRT @thecoldvein: My wife's cousin Danny is 4 yrs old. "What do you want from Santa Danny?"...."A laptop"...hmmmmm
23rd Dec 2010
Read on TwitterTypical. Just when I'm about to switch of the Dukes there's a General Lee chase round Hotlanta, soundtracked by a megamixed ZZ Top and AC/DC
21st Dec 2010
Read on TwitterSpotted Mr. Friendly from 'Lost' as Rosco P. Coltrane in the 'Dukes of Hazzard' movie.
21st Dec 2010
Read on TwitterWho'd have imagined that Lethal Weapon would take such a regular spot in the Christmas schedule? No doubt next up on ITV4, Die Hard 1.
21st Dec 2010
Read on Twitter@big_picture's best of 2010, part 3 ...in case you missed it: http://bit.ly/eWiiq4
21st Dec 2010
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The Babelfish is here...
...but only in Spanish for now. Amazing video of an augmented reality app that converts written text between English and Spanish. In reality it's apparently not quite as slick as the video, but not far off.
Via Engadget
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Great Goodfellas-inspired episode of Community thus week, studying the effects of chicken pushing.
21st Dec 2010
Read on TwitterMe and Orson Welles
Slight, but amiable historical comedy - from a deep undercover Richard Linklater.
20th Dec 2010
Read more 3 star reviewsCaptain Beefheart dies aged 69
Avant garde musician and visual artist Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, has died aged 69.
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Love: Finishing a tough week with a blissed out, full volume Late Night, Maudlin Street by Morrissey. That's how to do it. Peace and I'm out
17th Dec 2010
Read on TwitterWorth noting: @_blackmountain_ feature on the Weirdsville soundtrack.
15th Dec 2010
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Weirdsville
Amusing Canadian indie stoner comedy. With dwarves.
15th Dec 2010
Read more 3 star reviews@thecoldvein His batting average is 4 for 4 - although you're right, that isn't a lot. Number 5 is filming already though.
15th Dec 2010
Read on TwitterTrailer Park: Tree of Life
I rate him as one of the greatest living directors alongside Peter Weir, so you can imagine how excited I was when the trailer for Terrence Malick's Tree of Life came online today. I already watched a hooky bootleg last week, but now it's in glorious 1080p over at Apple.
Looks great, but still no real expalnation of what it's about ...with a retro life story seemingly juxtaposed with some sort of sc-fi element. I love movies.
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UPDATE: Part 2 of 3 of @big_picture 's annual round up is online: http://b.globe.com/eEZg57
15th Dec 2010
Read on TwitterThis Year's Biggest Pictures
As the end of the year approaches, The Big Picture have curated part one of their annual pictures of the year article. Some great photos as usual.
It's not all chimp friendly vistas of Hong Kong skylines and snowboarding however, with earthquakes dominating this year's selection.
UPDATE: Part 2 of 3 can be found here.
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The Wolfman
The 71m 1940's 'classic' original gets an over-stylized, under-developed re-hashing. Thin.
15th Dec 2010
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"Sharon Stone's boobs are like Cheech & Chong. Not as high as they used to be." @joan_rivers Fashion Police must be the funniest show on TV.
14th Dec 2010
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The Assassination of Yogi Bear, by the Coward Boo Boo
Great Yogi Bear / Jesse James mash-up online at YouTube, giving the bears some real emotion.
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NBA UFO sighting
San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili spotted something in the sky
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Monsters
Masterfully handled low-budget sci-fi. Easily the best film I've seen in a while.
11th Dec 2010
Read more 4.5 star reviewsLots of embarrassing drunk acting in this week's 'Walking Dead'.
11th Dec 2010
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Promo Promo: Sour Mirror
Another incredible HTML5 video, not unlike Arcade Fire's recent effort - but actually a bit cleverer.
As with all these smart ass things though, it won't work on phones or ipads - and you need to allow pop up windows.
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In a seminar on Japanese culture and learnt the word for Truth is Honne. Just wanted to shout 'show me the Honne.'
10th Dec 2010
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14 Actors Acting
Nice photo + video piece over at The New York Times, with 14 Hollywood A-listers playing 14 classic film archetypes. James Franco comes out well as usual, but so do Michael Douglas, Tilda Swinton and others.
Shot by photographer Solve Sundsbo, on the forthcoming Red Epic digital cinema camera.
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Mad Men: Starring You
We're a little off the bleeding edge with this one, but here's a great lazy greetings card template for you: Mad Men starring YOU.
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The All-new Beastie Boys
Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride will play the Beastie Boys in MCA/Nathanial Hornblower's short film "Fight for Your Right Revisited", which will debut in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Details are thin at the moment, but it appears the film will address all those unanswered questions of what happened following the original video....
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Gorillaz Advent
enjoying the Gorillaz advent calendar (almost as much as Christmas Angry Birds)
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Lakeview Terrace
Tense and well handled suburban thriller from Neil LaBute, with Samuel Jackson and Patrick Wilson.
7th Dec 2010
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