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Short Attention Span Theatre: R'ha
V accomplished SFX in an intriguing alien v robot showcase from Kaleb Lechowski - a 22-year old animation student according to this interview
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Skate Or Die: Raindrops
Boards, jumpsuits, Red Epic slow mo...
Directed by: LAMAR+NIK
Song: Monster Rally & Rumtum "Raindrops" (via @mashkulture)
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Oscars 2013: The Truth
What if movie posters were a bit more honest?
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito Teaser
The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record looks like ↑ and sounds like ↓
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Trailer Park: Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III
An introduction from Charlie Sheen to his new Roman Coppola film
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New Devendra B
New album from the Laurel Canyon fan, first single over at Pitchfork
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Trailer Park: Trance
Danny Boyle's back, with a sci-fi-ish thriller following amnesiac James McAvoy
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Tarantino Unchained
Two sides to QT's promo rounds for Django Unchained (which early reports are suggesting is pretty good) - here he is on C4 news "shutting" Krishnan Guru-Murty's "butt down", and then he's a bit more calm discussing his overall film career on Film 2013 (sounds like he's looking forward to the Tarantino Greatest Hits Boxset).
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Trailer Park: Fairhaven
Chris Messina, Rich "Harry Crane" Sommer and Sarah Paulson in a smalltown drama about three old friends getting back together for a funeral.
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3D Printer Vinyl / Ice Record
3D printer tech continues to get more and more interesting - here's a very lo-fi experiment in printing a record. And a bonus record made of ice below... Details at createdigitalmusic.com, via @ian_vine
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Trailer Park: Utopia
Ep1 of this stylish new conspiracy thriller is v good. Starts 15 Jan, C4
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Trailer Park: Thale
"No Shit Cleaning Service?" More Nordic folklore horror
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Promo Promo: David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
Happy Birthday David Bowie... He's back, with a new single, album on the way. Really thought he'd retired for good. Vimeo needs a bit more data though...
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Board To Death: Montreal Urban Snowboarding
Pretty sure I played this level in SSX Tricky years ago... Seb Toots takes advantage of a heavy Montreal winter in this short, shot with a Red Scarlet. Via @mashkulture
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Trailer Park: The Grandmaster
Kung fu in the snow from Wong Kar Wai. Stars Tony Leung as martial arts legend Ip Man, with Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen.
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Chimps. Let it snow.
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The Big Picture: 2012 Part 3
Here's part 3 of the The Big Picture's 2012 round up.
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Trailer Park: This Is The End
Topical end-of-the-world comedy from Seth Rogen, with the novelty of many stars playing themselves.
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The Big Picture: 2012 Part 2
Here's part 2 of The Big Picture's 2012 round up.
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Trailer Park: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Steves Carrell and Buscemi goofing it up as a pair of illusionists who've lost that magic feeling
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Trailer Park: Zero Dark Thirty
Final trailer up for Kathryn Bigelow's hunt-for-Bin-Laden movie Zero Dark Thirty - currently getting a lot of Oscar buzz, while holding a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Trailer Park: Man of Steel
New trailer up for Zack Snyder's Superman three-boot ....and my expectations just came down a few notches, after a momentary high following the awesome, restrained Terrence Mallick-esqe teaser (below).
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Trailer Park: The Lone Ranger
New trailer up for The Lone Ranger. Looks more stupid than it did at first.
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Kraftwerk Tate Modern Edition
Tickets for Kraftwerk's residency at Tate Modern (cunningly called Kraftwerk – The Catalogue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) on sale Weds 12 Dec
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Short Attention Span Theatre: Eugene
New short up from Hesher director Spencer Susser. Warning, paid for by The Man. More here.
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RIP: Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore has died, aged 89. One of the stalwarts of the BBC, Moore's 50 year stint as presenter of the Sky At Night remians a world record, as well as providing hours of chill-out viewing.
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A Day at the Airport
Bit slow off the mark posting this one ....here's a video of every plane that landed at Sand Diego airport in a single day.
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Trailer Park: Downloaded
Alex (Bill not Ted) Winter's new doc looking at Napster... funny how olde world it all looks now
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Short Attention Span Theatre: Table 7
tight short from Marko Slavnic
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Trailer Park: Only The Young
Promising first-crush story about a couple of teenage skaters in a SoCal desert
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Trailer Park: Upstream Color
Super abstract promo for the new one from Shane Carruths, the director of chimp-fave Primer
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Skate or Die: Richie Jackson
Despite skateboarding getting more and more dominated by The Man (check out @Jenkemmag 's thoughts), it's always been unusual to see any skater who doesn't somehow fit the stereotype. Australian Richie Jackson is one such dude, channelling his inner Wolfmother while still pulling insane tricks ...many of which he pioneered.
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Trailer Park: A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III
Roman Coppola's new comedy looking very much in the Wes Anderson school of goofy cool
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A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III
Some posters for Roman Coppola's latest oddball comedy; more details and a clip in Italian over at Collider
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