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Cinemash: Sid & Nancy / Zooey & Joseph
500 Days Of Summer (the latest indie romcom by numbers) stars Zooey Deschanel and Joesph Gordon Levitt have a go at Sid & Nany
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Seinfeld Map
It may have been filmed mostly in LA, but Sony have still managed to put together a Google Map of Seinfeld 'locations'.
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Just catching up with the BBC's credit crunch drama 'Freefall' on iPlayer. Very good.
16th Jul 2009
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We'll Always Have Casablancas
Still no word on a fourth Strokes album, but lead singer Julian Casblancas is bridging the (possibly endless) gap with a solo record. Phrazes For The Young will arrive this autumn on Rough Trade, and you can hear a preview right now - over at julaincasablancas.com
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Brett Ratner v Hong Kong Phooey
now Brett "X3" Ratner's going to remake Hong Kong Phooey... Is nothing sacred?!
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I'm Not Here To Make Friends
no-one wants to make friends in reality TV land...
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New Thom Yorke Song
.... streamed over at Stereogum from the forthcoming 'Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy'.
Enjoy.
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Cheech & Tron
Cheech & Chong Tron mashup that's also a handy guide to the current economic situation
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MCFC.co.uk
They may not be top of the football league, but Manchester City are streets ahead in the website league - with a new site developed by Poke. Creative Review has more info.
16th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Secret Jane's Addiction show in London tomorrow. @davenavarro6767 for data.
15th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterGiving Tombstone a re-run tonight, with the kind of gunfight that Public Enemies was sorely missing. Locke and The Cowboy amongst the cast.
15th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterAt the Dome to see Jane's Addictipn supporting NIN. There's a lot of black hair dye amongst the art school emo crowd.
15th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterPromo Promo: Death Cab For Cutie
Interesting story from Atlantic Records regarding the new Death Cab For Cutie promo for - Little Bribes.
The film was put together as a time-lapse showreel piece for film maker Ross Ching, who included a 'looking for work' note on his Vimeo page. Death Cab saw the video and liked it so much they decoded to use it as their official promo.
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V-boot Trailer
Coming to a low-rent channel near you, the no doubt soon-to-be-cancelled reboot of 80s Sci-Fi 'classic' V.
Julliet from Lost takes one for the team.
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Shoot 'Em Up
(dir. Michael Davis)
New Line
The clue is in the title here, in fact most of the script is even in the title. Lone gunman Clive Owen attempts to save a baby from a well-armed arms dealer, as a series of set-pieces run one after another - seemingly contrived around the simplest of premises. Scene 2: gun drops in toilet before hand dryer heats bullets just in time to shoot bad guy. Scene 14: bad guys interrupt Clive getting jiggy, so he keeps at it by multi-tasking. Monica Belluci also stars - dressed down as a lactating wet-nurse hooker. Don't ask.
The plot is thinner than a video game and the action even more pointless. Characters can be a crack shot one minute then run through a hail of bullets unscathed the next. With Paul Giametti hamming it up more than Groucho Marx, and Clive Owen doing little to overcome his one-dimensional reputation, the action is all that's left to sell this film and unfortunately that's not exactly deftly handled.
While John Woo or Xiang Zimou might use too much balletic slow motion, there's at least some thought behind it all - where as this is just a blurry mess. Like a Van Damme movie without 'plot' and Clive Owen in the driving seat, 'Michael' Owen could have done a better job saving this turkey.
Soundtracked like an installment of Guitar Hero, the likes of Wolfmother, Motorhead and Nirvana make up the never-ending stream of rock music (the baby loves it apparently), which attempts to smooth out the faux emotion and misogynistic, sexist, shocking, dull, cartoon violence.
15th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Read more 1.5 star reviews#Spotted: Jacob the demi-god from 'Lost' as one of the rug pissers in The Big Lebowski.
14th Jul 2009
Read on Twitter"It's Knox Harrington! The video artist!" - Big Lebowski now screening on Sky Modern Greats.
14th Jul 2009
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BNP = Bad Graphics
Charlie Brooker asks why the BNP cant get themselves a decent graphic designer.
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Instapaper
Click read later, and website articles can be added to your Instapaper account, then compiled for iPhone reading at a later date.
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Sacha Baron Cohen on Finding Terrorists
Letterman gets a non-Brüno interview
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Cinemash
Cheech & Chong do Tron? 500 Days of Summer vs Nancy & Sid? Cinemash tries them all.
14th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Blast Radius
Think we already covered this way back when, but there's now an updated blast radius calculator available - to let you work out just how vapourised you would be in the event of a nuclear attack. Lucky for us, the bad guys are only suspected of packing low-kiloton weapons at the moment.
14th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Real Megabots
Gizmodo has some data on the mega-robots that have been surfacing in Japan recently here and here.
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Promo Promo: Beck's Record Club - Sunday Morning
Beck's got a new project - re-recording his favourite albums in 24 hours with his pals - more here
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Boom! Entourage is back with season 6. Keep up to date with your snacking options at www.eatlikethem.com
13th Jul 2009
Read on TwitterHitchcock App
The forthcoming iPhone App Hitchcock sounds like it could be fun and even useful, allowing for easy storyboarding of your potential film projects.
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Promo Promo: Jonathan Glazer vs the Dead Weather
Promo legend Jonathan Glazer has been back in action, with a new promo for the Dead Weather's single Treat Me Like Your Mother.
More info at Creative Review.
13th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Flashy Handbag
Love this anti-paparazzi handbag, which has a slave flash inside and a glittering facade. Any pap flash guns cause the bag to instantly respond, ruining any potentially embarrassing photos.
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Solved: Crop Circles
One of life's mysteries seems to have been solved - in Australia at least. Turns out Wallabies like nothing more than smoking a bowl and then heading out to make some crop circles.
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My MAD mentor
Terry Gilliam explains the genius of Harvey Kurtzman, who as creator of MAD magazine, inspired a generation of satirists.
13th Jul 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
