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Vetiver

The Errant Charm

Hazy 70's vibes and a laid back style cement Vetiver's place in the modern-retro camp.


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22nd Jun 2011

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Metallica Machine Music

World's most unlikely team-up? Lou Reed and Metallica are recording together...

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Waiting For The Sandman

And Justice For All Tomorrow's Parties

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Twin Shadow

Forget

Relatively ambitious, 80's tinged indie disco. Like Elbow on drugs.


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21st Jun 2011

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Sky Go

update to the Sky Player coming Jul 6 - Sky Go, sounds like it's more iPad friendly etc

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RIP: Jackass Ryan Dunn

Jackass' Ryan Dunn has died in a non-stunt related car crash in Philadelphia. Always one of my favourites on the show, and a totem for beard appreciators everywhere.

Via BBC

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Neil Young

A Treasure

Unremarkable, newly unearthed, country-tinged live album from a mid-80's Neil.


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20th Jun 2011

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Skate or die: HD

Skateboarding has always been a fertile culture for creative types. My first films were inspired and based around the sport and the art/photo/film output of skateboarders never ceases to amaze me.

Things have come a long way since the VHS-C cameras of the 80's however. Check out Nike SB's (Nike? Skateboarding? Bah!) Debacle film above and check out a slow-mo skate clip shot on the new Scarlet 3K Red Camera below.

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Philadelphia

Dated and bizarrely directed Jonathan Demme landmark courtroom drama that still packs a punch.


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19th Jun 2011

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My Summer of Love

Accomplished Brit indie flick for the Goldfrapp generation.


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19th Jun 2011

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Shanghai Express

Total class from 1932. The camera loves Marlene Dietrich & Anna May Wong in this trainbound romance.

Halliwell says: Superbly pictorial melodrama which set the pattern for innumerable train movies to come, though none matched its deft quality and few sketched in their own characters so neatly. Plot and dialogue are silent style, but refreshingly so.***


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19th Jun 2011

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The Crimson Rivers

Decent French crime mystery, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel on grizzly form. Bonus Street Fighter nod.


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19th Jun 2011

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Trailer Park: Moneyball

Trailer up for stats-based baseball movie Moneyball, where number cruncher Jonah Hill helps Brad Pitt objectively pick the most efficient baseball team. Based on a true story. According to the trailer.

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The Tree Of Life

Even further out Malick. A giant arthouse home movie for the meaning of life. Douglas Trumball bits: 2001+.


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18th Jun 2011

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The Terminator

Well-paced suspenseful original as Arnie's relentless cyborg hunts its target, spawning a franchise.

Halliwell says: Slick rather nasty but undeniably compelling comic book adventures.*


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17th Jun 2011

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Google Chrome OS

With the impending release of Google's online-only Chrome OS netbooks, they seem to be attempting to get us into the concept with a free Angry Birds plug-in for anyone using the Chrome Browser. Bizarrely, it also works fine in Safari. The only advantage to using Chrome seems to be that you can play .....offline.

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