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Geostorm

Sub Roland Emmerich swill, with Gerard Butler saving the world from crazy weather.


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13th Jul 2018

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Bad Moms

B-list, mis-cast, low-ball girl gang comedy. Weak.


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19th Jun 2017

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Lethal Weapon

Potentially forgettable buddy cop pic, elevated by a killer script and live wire performances.

Halliwell says: Extremely violent policier which caters to the Rambo crowd but has enough pizazz to recommend it to most classes.*


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1st Feb 2017

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Hunt For The Wilderpeople

Accomplished, charming NZ indie comedy that wears its influences well.


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1st Feb 2017

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Boiler Room: Matthew Herbert

#brtv A good piece of radio on the TV - Herbert playing a tiny selection of the British Library's vast sound library (possibly the first Boiler Room without any sweaty ravers trying to get in shot).

Matthew Herbert will be working through the British Library's Sound Archive, creating a playlist from a selection of digitised music, sound and spoken word taken from the Library's collection of 5 million unique sound recordings, 1.7 million physical carriers and more than 40 formats. The show will be presented from the Sound Archive's transfer studios at the British Library in London. The recordings heard on the show are accessible on the Library's http://sounds.bl.uk/ website.

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16th May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Gracepoint / The Last Man On Earth

Two new Fox shows - the US Broadchurch remake Gracepoint, starring David Tennant doing an American accent, Anna Gunn, Jacki Weaver and Nicke Nolte; and The Last Man On Earth a new goofball post-apocalypse comedy: "Phil Miller (Will Forte) was once just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank — now he’s humanity’s last hope. Will he ever find another person alive on the planet? Would hoping that she is a female be asking too much?"

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13th May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Meet The New Star Wars Stars

The old gang are back too, but here's the new kids on the Jedi block: John Boyega (Attack The Block), Daisy Ridley (Mr Selfridge), the awesome Adam Driver (Girls) and Domhnall Glesson (Fred Weasley in Harry Potter, that Richard Curtis time-travel romcom you haven't seen on a plane yet).

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29th Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

The World's End

Another remake of that one @simonpegg / @edgarwright movie. This one's like Dr Who with swearing.


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8th Dec 2013

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Alex Cross

Dismal cop movie. Weak script, poor direction, bad casting and shocking acting. I couldn't stop watching.


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13th Oct 2013

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Skate or Die: Fallen Footwear

Loving this. Koyaanisqatsi meets Welcome to Hell with @jamiethomas and the heavy beards of @fallenfootwear. "Road Less Travelled" is online in chunks at @transworldskate, or get the whole thing on iTunes.

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1st Oct 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

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22nd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Mudhoney

Vanishing Point

It was 1988 when Mudhoney put their super fuzz and big muff pedals together for first single 'Touch Me I'm Sick'…a cocky, snotty finger to the man, casting the band as full-time, half-cut losers just in it for the rock n roll. 25 years and 8 albums later, who would have guessed that they would be one of the last survivors in an industry more disposable than ever?

Since 2002 they've been back on Sub Pop, where it all began, and Vanishing Point keeps the finger raised and flag flying for noisy distortion and punk rock riffs. Drummer Dan Peters kicks off opener Slipping Away, with a reminder as to why he once kept Nirvana's drum stool warm for Dave Grohl. His pounding rolls are soon joined by Steve Turner's drunken lead and the unmistakable whine of Mark Arm. A sound perfected in '88 and not tweaked since.

On first single I Like It Small, Arm sings of the ambition that never saw them scale the heights "I've got big enough balls to admit I like it small" but is probably the reason they are still together and making music. Chardonnay is a 90 second love/hate song to "The crate that launched a thousand strippers" and I Don't Remember You is a fuck you to faces from back in the day. A day that Mudhoney, unlike most of their peers, survived. That they did so without changing their attitude or sound along the way is a small victory for those of us that don't feel that different from how we did 25 years ago either.

Killer Track: The Only Son of the Widow From Nain.

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1st Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Witness

Brilliantly written and directed thriller that weaves through many classic tropes, plus carpentry.

Halliwell says: As much about the meeting of cultures as about cops and robbers, this is one of those lucky movies which works out well on all counts and shows that there are still craftsmen lurking in Hollywood.***


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28th Feb 2013

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Short Attention Span Theatre: C (299,792 km/s)

Like the retromania science clips in this Kickstarter-funded short - reminiscent of Leonard Nimoy's finest work (In Search Of...). More details on the combination of digital cameras and old school non-CGI FX work in this Wired piece.

"C is the story of Lieutenant Commander Malleck, and her radical act of mutiny aboard the
KESTROS IV. With the help of her co-conspirators, she attempts to harness this weapon of mass destruction for a grand new purpose. But when a contingent of ground crew led by Second Lieutenant Kai threatens her master plan, Malleck must use the ship against them in order to succeed.

To build the future, we looked to the past. No CGI or greenscreen was used in the making of the film; all our sets and props were built by hand and filmed in-camera. Combining new advances in digital camera technology with traditional special effects, we sought to create a unique look through lighting design, camera tricks, miniature photography, split-screen, and stop-animation. We believe that this approach allowed us greater creative possibilities on a low-budget science-fiction film."

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19th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: The Company You Keep

Good looking trailer up for Robert Redford's new thriller The Company You Keep, about 60s radicals The Weather Underground. It's star studded, but not to be confused with Raymond Pettibon's similarly star studded art flick The Whole World is Watching - Weathermen '69.

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15th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: The Asphodells - Beglammered

Like the old-school stock footage feel to this video for Andrew Weatherall's new project

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8th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Buried

Tense and inventive one-man thriller that piles on the suspense, but wears a little thin as you might expect.


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1st Jan 2013

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The Cabin In The Woods

Silly post-modern mash-up of Scooby Doo and The Truman Show. Wears thin pretty quickly.


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24th Sep 2012

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Sound & Vision X Shepard Fairey X London

The @Obeygiant head honcho is back with a Bowie-inspired show at Stolen Space Gallery in London's Truman Brewery 19 Oct.

The Sound and Vision art show includes mixed media works on canvas weaving my social commentary with inspiration from a range of musicians, including the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Gang of Four, the Clash, the Circle Jerks, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy, Neil Young, and Metallica. Sound and Vision will also include an installation of a record store environment, with customized vintage turntables and a portion of my own record collection for public listening. The record store space will also showcase over 80 12″x12″ images I’ve created as tributes to the 12″ LP sleeve. A comprehensive variety of other works will be featured, including screen prints on wood, metal, and paper; rubylith cuts; and retired stencils.
- Shepard

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5th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Cloud Atlas / Life Of Pi

Ready for a new round of films based on mega-blockbuster books? Here's Cloud Atlas from the Wachowskis and Life Of Pi from Ang Lee. Cloud Atlas has an epic cast - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, Jim Broadbent, James D'Arcy, Doona Bae; Pi's got a tiger

UPDATE: here's the full Quicktime HD Cloud Atlas trailer

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26th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Breaking Bad, Mad Men & Luck in the same room

Interesting GQ piece with showrunners Matthew Weiner, Vince Gilligan and David Milch talking TV, the writer's room and Bryan Cranston in his underwear

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25th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Safety Not Guaranteed

Love a good riff on time travel, and this Sundance comedy looks promising. With Aubrey "the sarky one from Parks And Rec" Plaza and Jake "that dude from New Girl" Johnson. Like the set up - three magazine reporters decide to investigate this ad:

"Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before." 

More on the inspiration - a real life ad - here

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Cornelius for Uniqlo Wake Up

New alarm clock app from Uniqlo, with custom wake-up music and weather data from @CorneliusJapan and Yoko Kanno. might make you feel like you've woken up playing Outrun ... More Cornelius news:  his salyu x salyu project is coming to London, 15 June at the Jazz Cafe, and Barcelona for this year's Sonar Festival 16 June

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