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Love: Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine getting a dust off. Brings me right back to my disaffected youth in leafy Surrey. Sure sounds good
25th Nov 2010
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Low signal thriller-by-numbers with Captain America and Jason Statham.
25th Nov 2010
Read more 2.5 star reviewsJust realised that Larry Cohen wrote 'Phone Booth', 'Cellular' and 'Messages Deleted'. I'm sensing a theme.
25th Nov 2010
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Wilco, Wil(coffee)
you are a target audience and you will(co)nsume with us
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Mrs CSF has a new favourite show: Married To Rock. @PerryFarrell looks so healthy it's ridiculous. He needs to get a workout DVD out. Stat!
22nd Nov 2010
Read on TwitterTrailer Park: Source Code
Groundhog Day meets Inception anyone? new WTF sci-fi from Duncan "Moon" Jones - Source Code. thanks to a top secret US government dept with some cool tech, soldier Jake Gyllenhaal can relive 8 minutes of someone else's life - is it long enough to find a bomber / fall in love on a speeding train?
22nd Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Love: Pitchfork's 10 rating for Kanye West new album. Got it but haven't heard it yet, but a 10? Really? Perfect? http://bit.ly/car7SN
22nd Nov 2010
Read on TwitterLaw Abiding Citizen
Gerard Butler romcom + Se7en + Saw = odd mix.
21st Nov 2010
Read more 2 star reviews\#Spotted: AC/DC's Brian Johnson among the many cameo's in 'Goal!'.
21st Nov 2010
Read on TwitterThe @Criterion Collection re-mastered Blu Ray of Chungking Express is the best it's ever looked. Fantastic.
21st Nov 2010
Read on TwitterNine
An endless stream of stereotypes and cliches. It's a musical. I was asleep after 10 minutes.
21st Nov 2010
Read more 2 star reviewsLooks like Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski is remaking another boring, flat 80's movie next - Black Hole. www.aintitcool.com/node/47524
20th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterSpeed Freaks: One of my fav parts ever RT @mikevallely: What were you doing in 1989? Here's what I was up to: http://bit.ly/cPuaO0
20th Nov 2010
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BFI Printstore
cool collection of posters from the BFI's online store
19th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Love: Pearl Jam's Black after a day of T Mobile music, like falling into a pool after hours of blistering sun. Bliss.
19th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterHate: I seem to be surrounded by chirpy, smug bullshit music that should be confined to the attic of T-Mobile or Apple ads. Driving me crazy
19th Nov 2010
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Plane Graveyard
Ever wondered where that airplane graveyard that looks so good in films and on TV is? It's here.
18th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer park: Cowboys & Aliens, Green Lantern
couple of new trailers up at Apple: yeehaw UFO tale Cowboys & Aliens with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford; and Green Lantern - aliens give Ryan Reynolds a magic ring;
18th Nov 2010 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Love: Just finished DBC Pierre's Lights Out In Wonderland. An epic and profoundly twisted tale of debauchery, highly recommended reading.
18th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterLove: New single from Japandroids. Heavenward Grand Prix., includes cover of PJ Harvey's Shame. This series of singles just gets better.
17th Nov 2010
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17th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterThe Beatles on iTunes
Bore me again. The Beatles are finally on iTunes, and as usual it's in their own rip-off style. £10.99 for each album, £17.99 (!) for the double disc greatest hits albums and the white album.
The Rolling Stones meanwhile are happy to stick to the standard prices that everyone else uses. You can even get Beggars Banquet for £4.99 or Hot Rocks for £8.99...
16th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
1080p is the VHS of the future
How's that 47", 1080p, Full HD-ready TV working out for you? Nice try, but it's already out-of-date. What you really want is a Super Hi-Vision plasma screen, capable of a resolution of 7680x4320 - 16 x better than 1080p.
OK there is a projector, but while the TV sets don't exist yet (you can use 4 x 4K sets together) the camera does - and the BBC and Japan's NHK just did a test broadcast of a studio session from The Charlatans. Not quite sure how that content decision came about.
The quality is so clear that a special lens had to be built to cope, and much like 3DTV, the format has dictated a shooting style of its own - with a single camera wide-shot being so big and clear that the viewer would be distracted by too much editing and can just cast their eyes around the screen instead.
Watch more at the BBC
16th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Muji Apps
With smart phones and iPads starting to replace old-school hardware like the notebook, Muji must have started to question the future of their cute little business. Luckily, they decided to digitalise their offerings and now have a range of iPad Apps out.
Muji Notebook
Muji Calendar
Muji To Go
Muji Apparel App
Muji Notebook could be fun, but at $4 I don't really need to find out. Calendar doesn't suggest it will work any better than Apple's own calendar, but Muji To Go sounds like fun ... and it might just help me to wear the right clothes for the weather. A problem I have never quite conquered.
15th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Arrrr! Real-life pirate-fighter
great story about Max Hardberger who takes back ships stolen by pirates. videos on his own website here
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15th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Paranormal Activity
The most profitable movie of all time. Creepy, but ultimately quite boring horror.
14th Nov 2010
Read more 3 star reviewsThe Ugly Truth
Romcom by numbers with Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl.
14th Nov 2010
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Trailer Park: Battle Los Angeles
Only the use of autotune seems to differentiate the trailer for Battle Los Angeles from Independence Day, but it might just be enough.
12th Nov 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Love: If There Is Something by Roxy Music, this is a perfect song. End of...
12th Nov 2010
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Intriguing but underdeveloped 90's arthouse, with Maggie Cheung bringing method to her cat burglar role.
12th Nov 2010
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Trailer Park: Blitz
The boys are back in town for this Jason Statham-led UK serial killer thriller, also starring Paddy Considine and that irish guy that's the mayor in The Wire ....who steals this trailer with one of his lines: "I want a lawyer and a sandwich. And I want to update my Facebook status."
11th Nov 2010 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Love: @NoAgeLA in session on Zane Lowe show. Listen now on iPlayer.
11th Nov 2010
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Ad Nauseum: Call of Duty Black Ops
BC and I spent a good amount of time shooting stuff with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and I doubt this update will be any easier to resist. Clever ad too.
All-digital trailer below.
10th Nov 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Love: The new London Sessions by LCD Soundsystem available with iTunes. Great live version of Get Innocuous!
10th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterJuat watched: My Blueberry NIghts. Beautifully shot clone of Chungking Express, but WKW's English debut can't hide dodgy accents. 3 stars
9th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterLove: Pure Violence by Abe Vagoda. Like a lost Cure belter this is a stand out moment on a great album.
9th Nov 2010
Read on TwitterHate: Mumford & Sons. Listening to this album is like having your TV broke on a particularly rubbish episode of Jools Holland. Irritating.
9th Nov 2010
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