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13th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Fix-It Felix

8-bit tie-in for Disney's new cartoon Wreck-It Ralph: a playable version of the Donkey Kong-style game that Ralph comes from/works at

12th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: HardFlip The Movie

because it's about time that skating got its own Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo

11th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol III

The excellent @GoshComics have got both Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill in for a signing to celebrate the release of the final chapter in their League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga* London, 23 June. Here's a few preview scenes from the final part of what's best described as a loopy psychedelic mystery, bringing the Victorian adventurers (well, whoever's left in the team) into 2009 to take on a magical child, terrorists with a nuclear sub and holy war. It's been a very enjoyable read so far, and from what Kevin O'Neill says in this video, there will be more LOEG stories to come - starting with a Jenny Nemo spin-off Nemo: Heart Of Ice later in the year Didn't expect to see Driveshaft or Fur Q making a cameo...

*if for some reason you've only heard of it because of that terrible Sean Connery film, well, trust in Moore's Law: bad film adaptations = great comics

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8th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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That's wifi coming to the Tube http://t.co/u4EAQLgi

2nd Jun 2012

Prometheus

(dir. Ridley Scott)

20th Century Fox

SPOILER ALERT: now in space no-one can hear you ... over the sound of that BOOMING soundtrack.

(check the comments section for the rest of this SPOILERISH review as we can't be bothered to install any of that invisotext code here)

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31st May 2012 - 1 comments - 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

22nd May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

L'Immortel

Clunky French revenge actioner, with Jean Reno hunting down les mobsters that put 22 bullets in him.

20th May 2012

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\#Spotted: That big Werewolf guy from True Blood, as Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's 'Spider-man'. http://t.co/dIZJjI8C

20th May 2012

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Me too, but it has not aged as well RT @rav2999: @chimpomatic I used to love that film, like the Sure Thing!

20th May 2012

Donnie Darko

Post modern, post @DougCoupland time travel flick that favours style over substance.

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19th May 2012

Class

80s derivative of The Graduate - that hasn't held up too well, despite the early brat pack connection.

Halliwell says: Ghastly travesty of The Graduate which aspires to every kind of sophistication it can think of but ends nowhere.

19th May 2012

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Keidis is getting that some serious mileage. Should've registered for Airmiles. RT @OFFofficial: Hats OFF! to our hat http://t.co/nrWse0BT

18th May 2012

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On Rotation: "Operation Just Cause" playlist with US PsyOps-approved tracks that were blasted at Noriega in '89. http://t.co/niNBrc9r

17th May 2012

Super 8

Spielberg derivative that's more 'Goonies' than 'ET'. Not unsuccessful, but lacking the master's touch.

14th May 2012

Gimme The Loot

Engaging low-key indie drama debut about graffiti bombers in NYC that won at @SXSW.

11th May 2012

A Little Bit of Heaven

Weepy chick flick that plays like an animated @Pinterest page. Alan Dale plays a doctor.

4th May 2012

RIP: MCA

Absolutely gutted to hear that MCA has passed away, and I suspect Nathaniel Hornblower might have gone with him. As an 11 year old hip hop fan, the disreputable Beastie Boys were clearly going to be a one hit wonder as far as the parents of the world were concerned, but who would have thought they would have evolved to be so endlessly influential and culturaly significant. As a director, Adam Yauch put his hand to many of the Beasties inspiring videos - and more recently through his company Oscilloscope he has become a truly influential character in the world of indie film.

A true loss that hits hard, especially when he was taken so early. RIP.

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4th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Behind Enemy Lines

Surprisingly enjoyable pilot-on-the-run action flick that could've been made in 1986.

2nd May 2012

John Peel's Record Collection

Lovely website up documenting John Peel's record collection, with an interactive view of his studio, plus clickable racks of records with scanned covers and links to play on Spotify where available. It's just the first 100 A's for now, with a plan to upload the first 100 of a new letter every week. That's still going to be a tiny dent of the 24,000 LPs and 40,000 singles ...but it's a start.

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1st May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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It's only 5 years. Some bands take that long between albums RT @blackscore_: Never thought i'd see the day. @Grandaddy reunion tour.

18th Apr 2012

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@ITVLorraine has a live-by-satellite interview with the woman that trained @Rhianna to shoot guns for \#Battleship. Scoop!

12th Apr 2012

Trailer Park: Ted

Red band trailer up for Seth McFarlane's foul-mouthed comedy Ted. Mark Walhberg shows his hidden comedy side again. Or should that be "Mark-Lynn"....?

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10th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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\#Luck is sadly succumbing to the same pretentious script writing bullshit that plagued 'John From Cincinnati'.

4th Apr 2012

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Trailer Park: Total Recall

Colin Farrell steps into Arnie's shoes in a remake of the "hang on - is this Mars or what?" sci-fi blender. Bryan Cranston is in charge of the cops so it's got that going for it at least

28th Mar 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

Joan Baez

Poole Lighthouse

We were forewarned:- there were signs in the foyer that there would be no warm-up act and no interval, just a straight performance. And that was exactly what we got – just under two hours of Joan Baez. The years have been kind, and at 71 she walked on stage looking as slim and elegant as ever. The hair is now cropped and the colour is silver, but then that applied to most of the audience as well.

The stage was bare apart from a comfy sofa and a standard lamp, and she was accompanied for most of the evening by her son Gabriel Harris on percussion and the talented Dirk Powell on mandolin, accordion and just about everything else.

The atmosphere was relaxed and the songs were a mixture of old favourites and the not so old – Farewell Angelina, God On Our Side, House of the Rising Sun, and Diamonds and Rust, a reference to her relationship with Bob Dylan. We also got John Lennon’s Imagine and Donovan’s Catch the Wind, and the evening finished with The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Blowin’ in the Wind. Her voice is still haunting although she avoids many of the high notes now, and I did think that the tempo of some of the songs (particularly House of the Rising Sun) was a bit slower than it used to be. But she can certainly still sing. And she still believes in what she sings.

We went home happy, and although the singer is still a protester I wondered how many of the audience still are?!

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26th Mar 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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WTF is "Kre-O"? \#NotLego, that's what. http://t.co/cIofkTcJ

21st Mar 2012

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My new favourite \#BluesBrothers song: 'Rubber Biscuit'. http://t.co/ur30eQHJ â€¦."Say that again?" @dan_aykroyd

21st Mar 2012

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#Spotted: Larry David, in a B-Movie that Jerry is watching on TV in 'Seinfeld'. http://t.co/e2kR237G

15th Mar 2012

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Everyone's doing that Kate Moss thing: http://t.co/nfrZKdls â€¦at least there's hope for a happy marriage of Skating & Fashion. @simeonfarrar

12th Mar 2012

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#Spotted: Michael Shannon, banging Eminem's Mom in '8 Mile'. That guy's in everything. http://t.co/xYbVYjno

11th Mar 2012