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Trailer Park: To The Wonder

Terence Malick is knocking them out at the moment... Although Javier looks like he could be piling on the jamon as usual in this one. Via @thefilmstage

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Trailer Park: Welcome To The Punch

Trailer up for Welcome To The Punch, from that guy that made Shifty. Exec produced by Ridley Scott and starring a bunch of the usual UK crime suspects.

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The Big Picture: 2012 Part 1

The @Big_Picture have the first part of their 2012 round-up online. Keep 'em peeled for 2,3,4.

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18th Dec 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

12 For 2012

In alphabetical order, here's 12 things I enjoyed in 2012...

Argo
Ben Affleck turns in another great actor/director turn as a CIA agent heading to Iran to rescue hostages during the 1979 revolution with the flimsiest of bad cover stories: a fake Hollywood studio looking to shoot a Star Wars ripoff. Great beards, trenchcoats, 70s soundtrack - and it's all (pretty much) true. 

Breaking Bad S5
Magnetic, bitches! Can't wait for the second half. S4 was possibly tighter, but watching Walt's turn to the baaaad side was pretty compelling. 

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Fresh take on modern R&B, adding Sly Stone psych jams to the digital mix.

Game Of Thrones S2
Adding more families, more magic, more dastardly plots and more blood/guts/sexposition to an ever-expanding world.

Girls S1
Cue a stream of "new Sex And The City" / "they're so shocking" / "why is their NY so white?" articles - all interesting points, but it's easy to get sucked up in the phenomenon and lose sight of just how well written this is. Makes up for HBO canning How To Make It In America. Kind of.

Fables
Bill Willingham's ongoing Vertigo series is like Game Of Thrones for fairytales. A great graphic novel drama/thriller/comedy/soap opera.

The Killing III
Focused finale for Forbrydelsen, with Sarah Lund finding love in a hopeless place (another dark room in Denmark where the lights don't work but it's OK because she's got her torch. And Borch).

Lincoln
Total Oscar-bait, will be v surprised if anything manages to beat this when they're dishing them out. Spielberg back to his epic best, showing the mechanics of US government during the Civil War as Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) charms, cajoles and tricks his way to the abolition of slavery.

Tame Impala - Lonerism
Aussie psychedelia with bags of personality and tunes.

Toy - Toy
Two tracks pushing beyond the 7 min mark, tight Krautrock beats and Chameleons-style riffing - a promising, solid debut in a post-Horrors space that had multiple repeats at Chimp Towers.

The Walking Dead S3
Zombie action ramped up, more plots, more characters, less time to think "hey, what about..?"

Also CONSUMED & ENJOYED
Modern Family S4, Boardwalk Empire S3, Homeland S2, The Fear, Fresh Meat, Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes, The US Office, Nurse Jackie S4 (another standout performance from Bobby Cannavale - almost as crazy as Gyp Rossetti), Skyfall.

THE STUPIDO DAMN YOU WHY WHY pile
Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises

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17th Dec 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

New Studio Ghibli Double Bill For 2013

Studio Ghibli animators Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away) and Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, My Neighbors the Yamadas) will both be releasing films in summer 2013: Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) and Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter).

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Trailer Park: Sound City

Dave Grohl puts on his director's hat for this doc about Sound City, an analogue recording studio in San Fernando Valley that produced classic albums from Tom Petty (Southern Accents), Fleetwood Mac (Rumors), Neil Young (After The Gold Rush), QOTSA (Queens of the Stone Age) and Nirvana (Nevermind). Comes with a new album - including that Paul McCartney / rest of Nirvana song they've been playing recently (so that's what brought them together in the first place).

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Kim: Still Wilde

Kim Wilde rocking out on the train on her way home from a Magic FM Christmas party. via @popjustice

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When Billboards Rocked

70s billboards featured in a new book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip by Robert Landau, via Creative Review

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Short Attention Span Theatre: Ton Eighty

Nice short after a year of sporting glory. Dir Sam Huntley @zoomerfilm

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How It Should Have Ended: The Dark Knight Rises

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Trailer Park: Pacific Rim

Another expectation-lowering trailer - this time for Guilermo Del Toro's monsters vs robots flick Pacific Rim. Looks more like CGI Overload vs Bad American Accents, complete with Inception-esque vuvuzela.

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Disney's Looper

File under 'stupido'. Via pophangover.

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It's A Bad Brains Christmas, Charlie Brown

a moment of sanity from Tad Was Here before you get bogged down in "12/12/12 mic check day" jokes... via Shepherd Fairey:

think yule dig this. This video uses “Pay To Cum” the first Bad Brains song I ever heard in late 1983. The song rules and so does this Peanuts mash-up. This video provided more sheer joy than I’ve felt in a while. Now that I have kids who love Sponge Bob and The Ramones this kind of thing makes me very happy. Watch it and forget that you’re a cynical asshole for a minute or two(literally). Peace together, not a piece apart. Happy holidaze.

-Shepard Fairey

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