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RIP: Elmore Leonard
Legendary author Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. As well as being an author, Leonard has penned many film scripts all the way back to the 50s - including Joe Kidd and Mr. Majestyck. He saw a bit of a revival in the 90s with movies like Out of Sight, Jackie Brown and Get Shorty being made from his material. Recently he's seen a lot of success as the creator of Justified's leading character - Raylan Givens.
Do yourself a favour and read a copy of Tishomingo Blues.
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20th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
MPFree: Midlake - Antiphon
They've lost their singer, but Midlake are ploughing on.
19th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Superlab Playset (AKA Breaking Bad Lego)
Only $250!
Bummed out that your favorite show is going off the air? Well soothe yourself with the Citizen Brick Superlab Playset. Who knows what fun you’ll cook up with this deluxe set, chock full of realistic details, and three exclusive minifigs! Over 500 parts!
Please note: Due to the sheer awesomeness of this building set, please allow added time for delivery. Sets ship approximately 2-3 weeks after time of purchase.
This set is a product of Citizen Brick, and is not sponsored, authorized or endorsed by the LEGO Group, owners of the registered LEGO(R) trademark.
19th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Promo Promo: Volcano Choir - Comrade
New one from Bon Iver's other project, album out in September
16th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Ikarie XB 1
Second Run DVD are delighted to announce that our next release will be JindÅ™ich Polák’s pioneering 1963 Czech sci-fi film IKARIE XB 1 on September 23.
JindÅ™ich Polák's much-imitated feature is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. Adapted from StanisÅ‚aw Lem's 1955 novel The Magellanic Cloud, and predating Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek and Kubrick's 2001, Ikarie's influence can be seen on both
16th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or Die: Bob Burnquist
Amazing mega-ramp video up for Brazialian vert skater Bob Burnquist. This is what happens when you make a lot of money and have land to build your dream ramp on.
9th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
New TV On The Radio - Mercy
New TVOTR track, out on Dave Sitek's own label, Federal Prism.
31st Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Breaking Bad: S5 Finale Gets a proper UK transmission
Finally! Netflix UK are going to be showing the second half of Breaking Bad's final season (5B or whatever it's called) a day after the US TX - starting Monday 12 August.
26th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Dennis Fuckin' Farina
Michael Mann stalwart and all round mob boss or tough cop character actor Dennis Farina has died, aged 69.
Via BBC.
23rd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tici Taci
Chimpomatic alumni Duncan Gray has a new musical project on the boil - a label called Tici Taci.
"My recent sets have become something of a Tici Taci megamix"... Andrew Weatherall
22nd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Cassette
Tape it! Cassette is a feature-length documentary about the history and continued use of the audiotape. Coming Early 2014. Directed by Zack Taylor, Created by Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot. cassettefilm.com
12th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Oldboy
Spike Lee's remake is looking a lot like the original...
11th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Matthew Herbert: The End Of Silence
New Herbert album available on Bandcamp.
Following on from Matthew Herbert’s ‘One’ trilogy - One One, One Club and One Pig - ‘The End Of Silence’ takes the idea of a single sound source to its logical conclusion by utilizing only one five second audio recording as the sole source for the whole album.
Matthew was emailed a recording made by photographer Sebastian Meyer during the battle of Ras Lanuf in Libya on 11th March 2011. In the brief recording, a pro-Gadaffi plane can be heard approaching, a whistled warning, a shout and then, as if from nowhere, a bomb. It is this recording that makes up the entirety of this record.
10th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
First Poster For Spike Lee's Oldboy
Josh Brolin is on octopus-eating duties in this upcoming remake.
10th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Calvin Klein vs David Fincher
New David Fincher ad, starring Rooney Mara. Shot by David Devlin for that Rumblefish vibe. Music by YYYs.
9th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Reminder: A Field In England
Just in case you've missed @Film4's season of Ben @mr_wheatley films this week, here's a reminder that the premiere of A Field In England is Friday night, 10.45pm. Kill List is tonight (Thursday).
4th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Goat - Dreambuilding
Managed to miss them at Glastonbury, but kept hearing good things about Swedish psych-freaks GOAT
3rd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Jim Kelly
"Bullshit, Mr Han man!" The Enter The Dragon star died at 67
3rd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or Die: Natas Again
Nice little film as Natas takes part in an artists' residency in Australia. Obligatory product shot at the end to let you know who's paying the bills.
25th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
John Goodman Loses His Shit
Supercut of Goodman freakouts from Flavorwire.
24th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: Dr Easy
Always up for a good robot.
WARP FILMS, FILM4 and SHYNOLA present Dr. Easy
Michael is a broken man with a gun. He is surrounded by armed police. A robot with medical training is dispatched to negotiate – but can it save him?
Dr. Easy is a prologue for a planned feature adaptation of The Red Men.
Written and directed by Jason Groves, Richard Kenworthy and Christopher Harding
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21st Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP James Gandolfini
What a gutter. The Sopranos star has died at 51, in Italy. Thanks for a great show Tony.
20th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Computer Chess
Really enjoyed this lo-tech gem at Sundance. Hope the arrival of this fuller trailer means it's getting a release soon.
19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Douglas Trumbull: UFOTOG
Short looking at FX legend Douglas Trumbull's plans to get some HD UFO footage. Good idea. More details of a feature-length drama he's planning (about a man who wants to film some UFOs) over at THR - shooting in 4K 3D at 120 frames per second. He's also developing "a sci-fi epic that takes place about 200 years in the future”. We're in.
UFOTOG, an acronym for UFO photography, is “based on a longer screenplay that I have” that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph an alien spacecraft. “He’s very smart, a serial entrepreneur, like Elon Musk. So he has the wherewithal to get a really good camera and build a system on a mountaintop.” The photographer is played by actor Ryan Winkles.
19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Anchorman - The Legend Continues
It's kind of a big deal...
19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Short Attention Span Theatre: Secret Identity
Touching riff on superheroes and memories, starring Lee Meriwether (aka Catwoman from the 1966 Batman movie). Via @aintitcoolnews
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18th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Spike Island
More Stone Roses nostalgia on the way...
17th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Wolf Of Wall Street
Scorsese and DiCaprio on rampaging dollar-bill chucking form in this stockbroker drama. Written by Terence "Boardwalk Empire" Winter, based on the autobiography by Jordan Belfort.
17th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: In A World
Meta-trailer for Lake Bell's highly enjoyable comedy about a voice-over artist working in a world where LA's movie trailer voice-over industry is dominated by men.
13th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Apocalypse, NOW!
Hollywood's really in an end-of-days mood at the moment. There's This Is The End (Seth Rogen and his stoner pals hang out at the end of the world); The World's End (Simon Pegg and his mates do the same thing on a pub crawl); Rapture-Palooza (Craig Robinson comes back from This Is The End only this time - he's got horns); and there's World War Z (a global zombie showdown), Pacific Rim (giant monsters v giant mechasuits), even Man Of Steel gets to fend off some serious intergalactic architectural destruction. Plus there was last year's Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World; not to mention the planet-wars in Eylsium and Ender's Game, and then Oblivion and After Earth which fast-forward to look at what the planet's like after everything's been wiped out. Are they trying to tell us something?
12th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Kurt Vile - KV Crimes
Kurt Vile plays out his own version of Game Of Thrones in this video. Loving this album.
11th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
Empty landscapes and lens flares? Yes, there's a new Boards Of Canada album out, and here's a video for one of the tracks.
10th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Paranoia / The Family
A double-bill of older icons: first up, Harrison Ford gets a close shave to play a corporate raider wrangling with long-standing rival Gary Oldman via young bridge'n'tunnel hitech wizzkid Liam Hemsworth in Paranoia. Below, Michelle Pfeiffer is married to mobster Robert De Niro and finding The Family are getting bored with a life of witness protection, even when they're hiding out in France. Directed by Luc Besson.
6th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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.
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.
5th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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.
28th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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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24th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Lightning Dust - Diamond
First video from the new Lightning Dust album Fantasy out June 25. MPfree here
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.
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).
21st May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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
14th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet