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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.

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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.

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5th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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2 Days In New York

Noisy, amateurish comedy that occasionally manages to be charming.


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3rd Jun 2013

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Shadow Dancer

Stylish but slight IRA informant drama, that seems to suffer from being based on a true story.


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31st May 2013

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The Snowtown Murders

Stylish, intense, gruesome Australian drama that you won't watch twice.


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30th May 2013

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Girl Most Likely

Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening & Matt Dillon wasted in an unlikely string of misfired life crisis gags.


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30th May 2013

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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. 

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Magic Mike

Fun moments and solid performances save an otherwise drawn out drama-lite.


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25th May 2013

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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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Total Recall

Blade Runner-esque production design tops the original, but it's all undermined by a sense of deja vu.


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23rd May 2013

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The Great Gatsby

Cold, empty adaptation with a few good Leo & Carey moments in a wash of flashy mega-trailer set pieces.


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23rd May 2013

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Promo Promo: Lightning Dust - Diamond

First video from the new Lightning Dust album Fantasy out June 25. MPfree here

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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.

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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).

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Bends

An engrossing Hong Kong tale of the class divide, hampered by inexperienced direction and average performances.


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19th May 2013

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Jimmy P (Psycho therapy of a Plains Indian)

Amateur direction and abysmal acting sink this painfully slow turkey.


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18th May 2013

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Heli

Boring, drawn out drug cartel anecdote, with occasional ultra-violence.


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18th May 2013

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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

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14th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Outsiders

The Complete Novel

Despite Coppola's tinkering, this melodramatic 80s classic still stands up well.

Halliwell says: Oddball youth melodrama, a curious choice for a director with big successes behind him.


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13th May 2013

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