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Trailer Park: X-Men Days of Future Past

The X-men get into flares and kipper ties for next summer's time-travelling mash-up. The always epic Thin Red Line score gives the trailer some gravitas.

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29th Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: 3D On Jupiter

Beefy solo track from Massive Attack's 3D with Congolese musician Jupiter.

Says 3D: "In 2007 I went to the Congo with Africa Express. I was lucky to hang out and listen to some pretty amazing musicians, Jupiter among them.

"This track is built with an unknown modular synth from Munich, a Moog and a Vermona drum machine, with help from Euan Dickinson and Tim Goldsworthy. And mixes by Bruno Ellingham. I wanted to mirror the energy and message in the song without complicating it. The b-side is a more relaxed and melodic using a Prophet 5 and a jupiter 8.

It is the second release on the Battle Box label, which is made and distributed through The Vinyl Factory. Paul Insect has designed the covers and label art. Everything is screenprinted and limited in number."

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18th Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Foxygen - We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic

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17th Sep 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Last Days On Mars

In space, everyone can hear Ray Donovan mutter under his breath.

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17th Sep 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Arcade Fire: Reflektor

New AF album on the way (check the map here), with James Murphy manning the desk on the first single, Bowie on backing vocals (apparently), and some very LCD-sounding no-reverb drums. All starts dropping at 9pm US time tonight (9/9/9pm geddit)

UPDATE: here's the video from Anton Corbjin, and here's the iTunes link

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9th Sep 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Superlab Playset (AKA Breaking Bad Lego)

Only $250!

Bummed out that your favorite show is going off the air? Well soothe yourself with the Citizen Brick Superlab Playset. Who knows what fun you’ll cook up with this deluxe set, chock full of realistic details, and three exclusive minifigs! Over 500 parts!

Please note: Due to the sheer awesomeness of this building set, please allow added time for delivery. Sets ship approximately 2-3 weeks after time of purchase.

This set is a product of Citizen Brick, and is not sponsored, authorized or endorsed by the LEGO Group, owners of the registered LEGO(R) trademark.

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19th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Ad Nauseum: Calvin Klein vs David Fincher

New David Fincher ad, starring Rooney Mara. Shot by David Devlin for that Rumblefish vibe. Music by YYYs.

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9th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Short Attention Span Theatre: Dr Easy

Always up for a good robot. 

WARP FILMS, FILM4 and SHYNOLA present Dr. Easy
Michael is a broken man with a gun. He is surrounded by armed police. A robot with medical training is dispatched to negotiate – but can it save him?
Dr. Easy is a prologue for a planned feature adaptation of The Red Men.
Written and directed by Jason Groves, Richard Kenworthy and Christopher Harding

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21st Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Douglas Trumbull: UFOTOG

Short looking at FX legend Douglas Trumbull's plans to get some HD UFO footage. Good idea. More details of a feature-length drama he's planning (about a man who wants to film some UFOs) over at THR - shooting in 4K 3D at 120 frames per second. He's also developing "a sci-fi epic that takes place about 200 years in the future”. We're in.

UFOTOG, an acronym for UFO photography, is “based on a longer screenplay that I have” that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph an alien spacecraft. “He’s very smart, a serial entrepreneur, like Elon Musk. So he has the wherewithal to get a really good camera and build a system on a mountaintop.” The photographer is played by actor Ryan Winkles.

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19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Apocalypse, NOW!

Hollywood's really in an end-of-days mood at the moment. There's This Is The End (Seth Rogen and his stoner pals hang out at the end of the world); The World's End (Simon Pegg and his mates do the same thing on a pub crawl); Rapture-Palooza (Craig Robinson comes back from This Is The End only this time - he's got horns); and there's World War Z (a global zombie showdown), Pacific Rim (giant monsters v giant mechasuits), even Man Of Steel gets to fend off some serious intergalactic architectural destruction. Plus there was last year's Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World; not to mention the planet-wars in Eylsium and Ender's Game, and then Oblivion and After Earth which fast-forward to look at what the planet's like after everything's been wiped out. Are they trying to tell us something?

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12th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Kurt Vile - KV Crimes

Kurt Vile plays out his own version of Game Of Thrones in this video. Loving this album. 

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11th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Short Attention Span Theatre: 12 Years of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic

Talking through the DFA label's history, with James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Holy Ghost!, The Juan MacLean, Shit Robot, Sinkane, YACHT etc

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15th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: The Congress

Offbeat offering from Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman: Robin Wright gets scanned by a mysterious company, ends up in a string of trippy cartoons... More at Slashfilm

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14th May 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Jon Hopkins

Stylish, dystopian promo for the new @Jon_Hopkins_ track Open Eye Signal.

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26th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Elysium

New sci-fi from Neill Blomkamp, who made District 9 and the awesome Alive In Jo'burg short. Looks big.

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10th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP: Roger Ebert

America's Barry Norman, Roger Ebert has died aged 70. With presenting partner Gene Siskel, their show At The Movies ran a thumbs up/thumbs down system ...and generally got it right.

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4th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Beach Boys Shred - I Get Around

Pitch-perfect as always (via @popbitch)

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28th Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Private Eye

Interesting looking pay-what-you-like digital comic from Brian K Vaughan (author of the very enjoyable series Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina) and Marvel artist Marcos Martin.

Welcome to Panel Syndicate, where artist Marcos Martin and writer Brian K. Vaughan deliver original comics directly to readers around the world, who pay whatever the hell they want for each DRM-free issue. Our first new storyline is THE PRIVATE EYE, a forward-looking mystery we created with colorist Muntsa Vicente. Set in a future where privacy is considered a sacred right and everyone has a secret identity, The Private Eye is a serialized sci-fi detective story for mature readers. You can download our 32-page first issue right now, for any price you think is fair. 100% of your payments go directly into our greedy mitts and will help fund the rest of a story that we're both very proud of (we hope there will be around 10 issues total; an old-school "maxiseries!"), so thanks for reading...

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26th Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet