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Matador at 21 = GBV Reunion
Matador Records are celebrating their 21st birthday in style - with a 3 day blow out at The Palms in Las Vegas. Highlights include a Guided By Voices reunion ("The classic '93-'96 line up"), Superchunk, Spoon, Chavez and Kurt Vile.
I'll be honeymooning in LA at the time, so will see if I can trick Mrs CSF into attending.
Update: The tour is expanded, and GBV will be playing in LA. Too tempting.
30th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Cast Away
Tom Hanks' solitary performance lifts this Hollywood take on Robinson Crusoe out of the ordinary.
30th Jun 2010
Read more 3.5 star reviews#Spotted: Big from Sex & The City as not-Tom Hanks in Cast Away.
30th Jun 2010
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Randall Wallace's ambitious start-of-the-Vietnam-war movie promises much but delivers cliches.
29th Jun 2010
Read more 2.5 star reviewsMr. Fusion
OK, it's not quite on a par with Doc Brown's banana skin eating Mr. Fusion, but Gucci web-developer-turned-physicist Mark Suppes has built his own fusion reactor in a workshop in Brooklyn.
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29th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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I imported 10 bars of Cote D'or chocolate on this weekend's Paris field trip, then promptly left it on a train bound for Croydon. Mon dieu!
28th Jun 2010
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Charming and touching tale of Japanese kids left at home alone. Even if it is torturously long.
28th Jun 2010
Read more 3 star reviewsMoon
Interesting and original - if not totally successful - sci-fi, with great performances from Sam Rockwell.
26th Jun 2010
Read more 3.5 star reviewsStumbled across secret radiohead gig at \#glasto \#quitehappyrightnow
25th Jun 2010
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Promo Promo: Black Mountain - Old Fangs
Black Mountain's psyco-delic promo for Old Fangs is not all together surprising. Nice rims.
23rd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Every time I ride the new East London Line there are trainspotters on board. Feigning disinterest, with their cameras and notebooks....
23rd Jun 2010
Read on TwitterTesco's late entry looking like one of the best deals for an iPhone: http://bit.ly/cdTZGt \#iPhone4
23rd Jun 2010
Read on TwitterArgentina looking good. I could imagine Maradona in a Guy Ritchie movie. \#worldcup
22nd Jun 2010
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Trailer Park: The Green Hornet
Michel Gondry + Seth Rogen = The Green Hornet. What coud possible go wrong? See for yourself here.
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22nd Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Let The Right One In
Subtle, slow, stylish, Swedish, subtitled.
21st Jun 2010
Read more 3.5 star reviewsNorth Korea fail to get revenge for their 1966 defeat at the hands of Portugal. 7-0! http://bit.ly/cjqF5G \#worldcup
21st Jun 2010
Read on TwitterChimpomatic Vuvuzela
have you been wondering during this world cup what your favourite chimp/space/rock/tech site would look like if it was powered by vuvuzelas? wonder no more!
21st Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Incredible goal from Brazil.... Got to get our fix somewhere. \#worldcup
20th Jun 2010
Read on TwitterThe Punisher: War Zone
One of the thinnest plots I've ever seen. Like Neighbours does superheroes.
20th Jun 2010
Read more 1.5 star reviewsJust got sucked into Raiders, as Indy climbs onto the Nazi sub. Spielberg's storyboarding is incredible.
20th Jun 2010
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Angels & Demons
Surprisingly watchable science vs religion hokus pokus sequel/prequel from Tom Hanks and Ron Howard.
19th Jun 2010
Read more 3 star reviews#Spotted: Jimmy McNulty from The Wire hamming it up as Jigsaw in 'The Punisher: War Zone'
19th Jun 2010
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Casualties of War
A harrowing subject, rendered in a cliched and dated way - under the long shadow of Platoon.
Halliwell says: Simple minded, melodramatic account of a true incident.*
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19th Jun 2010
Read more 3 star reviewsThere's a Vuvuzela backlash brewing: http://onion.com/aV1Wd1 \#worldcup
19th Jun 2010
Read on Twitter#Spotted: Mr. friendly from Lost as Boyd's Daddy in 'Justified'.
19th Jun 2010
Read on TwitterThat expensive Carlsberg team talk ad is just embarrassing after last nights performance.
19th Jun 2010
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Ad Nauseum: Flake
It might not sell a lot of chocolate, but it caught my attention. Sure, Cadbury's new ad from agency Fallon is a total re-make of the film from Alexander McQueen's A/W 2006 catwalk show, which projected a Kate Moss version of the film in front of the audience - but it's made by the same director (Baillie Walsh), so it gets a pass.
18th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Solitary Man
Trailer up for Michael Douglas' once-a-decade come back movie - Solitary Man. With added Danny DeVito.
18th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
An attempt to play Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene ended by inadvertently listening to his 2007 album Teo & Tea. Oh dear. Break-beats gone mad.
18th Jun 2010
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Kids in the Hall - Death Comes To Town
Death Comes To Town sees the welcome return of 90's comedy legends Kids In The Hall, as the canuckian comedians eschew their traditional scetch show format for a narrative based comedy 'drama'.
Of course it's not that straightforward. The five kids play 90% of the characters in the backwater town of Shuckton, where death has literally come to town. In fact, he's staying at the the No-tell Motel. As the story evolves, we move between a handful of story lines - all revolving around murder in the town. We follow the trial of a 1/16th native suspect, the ascension of the mayors wife, rivalry in the local news crew and sofa-bound former hockey hero Ricky's dodging of death as he's compelled to solve the crime.
There may not be the screaming highlights of the show ("My pen!", Girl Drink Drunk), but it's all solid and full of laughs. Fat, thin, male, female - it makes no difference as the Kids seamlessly blend in and out, building a convincingly ridiculous picture of the intricacies of small town life.
"What's heaven like?"
"It's like Calgary. In the 60's."
18th Jun 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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