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Welcome Back To Hell

A recent Paris mission resurrected old chimp favourite Welcome To Hell back to the top of the skate video pile. Great Artwork + Cool Hooded Tops + Black Sabbath remains a career goal.

It certainly can't be legit, but Google Video has the whole film, including an iPod download....

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Trailer Park: The Rocker 'n' Rolla

Early word on Guy Ritchie's new movie Rock 'n' Rolla has been surprisingly positive, after his last chimp hq related effort sunk slowly and painfully. Doesn't look that different to his previous movies to me (not a diss), with Jeremy Piven, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton, Gerard Butler and new Bond girl Gemma Arterton amongst the cast this time. HD trailers on the website.

After this, Ritchie's moving on to a gangland Sherlock Holmes re-working, with RDJ wearing the new-era deerstalker.

Full Monty man Peter Cattaneo also has a new movie involving the 'R' word - The Rocker tells the story of a 'Fish" (no, not that one) drumming his way into a comeback, 20 years after being booted out of his band.

Released in the UK 17th October 2008.

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Tunecore

The tide seems to be turning with internet music sales, as bands take control of their assets and start making the descisions themselves. Following on from our article about distribution platform Top Spin, check out Tunecore, which offers artists the opportunity to get their music onto all the major platforms (iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, Amazon etc).

They charge incredibly reasonable fees per track/album, leading the the astounding fact that Trent Reznor must have paid Tunecore $56.61 to distribute his Ghosts I - IV album via Amazon.

Meanwhile, Amazon's MP3 store hits the UK soon, while Yahoo Music has gone the way of the dodo - potentially leaving music fans with a ton of unplayable, DRM 'protected' music.

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There Will Be Half-Blood

Trailer up for Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. As noted on AICN, they seem to be handling the fallen protege angle much better than Lucas ever could...

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Brand: New

I'm pretty sure I've covered the Brand: New website over the years somewhere - educated examinations of minor and major tweaks that big name brands make to their identites.

The Minnesota Timberwolves and Phillips make for pretty good pretty good examples.

Anyways, today they're linking to a homage, drafted by blog Adventures In Urban Living, which covers the re-branding of the Dharma Initiative in the coming months (or years, or the past - who nows?).

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Lucas vs Spielberg

The Times have an interview up with George Lucas, discussing the new Clone Wars movie and future Indy movies amongst other things. Bottom line is Lucas felt like he had to accommodate Spielberg with Crystal Skull, which maybe stopped the movie from being everything he's hoped for. I dread to think.

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Amie Street

New album out from Chimpovich favourites The Walkmen, and you can get it over at Amie Street - who also have an interview with the band. Haven't got much data on this site, but price wise there's plenty to write home about. $5 secures you The Walkmen album, and all that goes to charity - but beyond them there's bigger bands like Thom Yorke ($8.82) and Blonde Redhead ($6.55) and older stuff by the likes of GBV ($3.61) and even David Axelrod ($1.73). It seems like the majors aren't on board, but who's counting these days.

It's built on a Social Networking backbone, with pricing set by demand:

Amie Street uses an algorithm to determine song prices based on demand. The price for a track starts at zero when a song is uploaded onto the site. It then rises according to the increased demand and purchase of the song. The maximum price any song will rise to is 98¢.

Nice idea, but surely the better something is selling the cheaper the price should be? Otherwise it'll end up like the White Album in the HMV sale. 50% off! £19.99!

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How Much For Your Internet?

Probably not the $1131.20 pcm you'd be paying for a basic connection out of the Beijing Olympic Village Media Centre. Yowzers.

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W

There's plenty of Bush online, if you know where to look. Sorry.

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Madder Men

"Best TV Drama" Golden Globe winner Mad Men kicked off season two last night in the US. Not quite sure where they're going to take it after the last season, but looking forward to more from the understated show.

Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe®-winning series for Best TV drama and actor will continue to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. The world of Mad Men is moving in a new direction -- can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?

Makes Don Draper sound like an advertising Super Hero.

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Get Your War Back On

Get Your War On has been running for about the same length of time as Chimpomatic itself, kicking off as a backlash to the fast evolving War On Terror. To keep the strip alive, it's now been commissioned as a weekly animated skit on 23 / 6, which should starting soon.

Song Of The Day: Volume V

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Let The Dogs Out

The UK seems to be mooting the ridiculous idea of a 'tax' for downloaders, to cover the rampant piracy that is apparently killing the music (when they aren't using it to their advantage that is) and movie (record opening day anyone?) industries.

Sounds like another mis-step from the dinosaurs that misses the point yet again. Why not just train more anti-piracy hounds?

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Song Of The Day: Volume V

We're all over Port O'Brien at Chimp HQ today. Their debut album All We Could Do Was Sing is finally getting a UK release on August 4th, and our review is up on Monday.

Close The Lid is the killer track.

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Don't Eat The Yellowcake

The WMDs might have never turned up, but the US has just completed a mission to ship 550 tonnes of Yellowcake concentrated Uranium out of Iraq for re-processing in Canada. The Canadians will be reprocessing it into nuclear fuel, but the possibility was always there for the material to head in a more sinister direction. The Tuwaitha facility where it was shipped from was one of the hubs of the old regime's nuclear ambition, resulting in an Israeli bombing raid in 1981.

Shipping the Yellowcake out by sea was looking risky - either trekking it through the less stable south, or risking an excursion out through the Hormuz Strait and risking a run-in with the Iranians - so it was eventually shipped out in a monster airlift to Diego Garcia.

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Schneider vs Gibson

We're more than a little late on this one (try 2 years), but I just ran across this old chestnut from drunken-tirade-era Mel Gibson. Touche.

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Still Journeying To The West

The Journey To The West marathon continues..... now there's an album coming out.

Created by the team behind Gorillaz (Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn), Journey to the West is performed by both European and Chinese musicians and singers and produced by Damon Albarn.

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TV Back On The Radio

Chimp favourites TV On The Radio are back in action, with new album "Dear Science," out Sept 22nd on 4AD.

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Ad Nauseum: Cactus Kid

Not quite sure what untouchable, reclusive director Terrence Malick would make of the current 'homage' to his film Badlands - which is designed to make Coca-Cola-owned juice brand Oasis 'famous'. By 'irreverent' humour, I assume the article means the current glut of off-hand, sarcastic, post Vic-and-Bob stupidity that seems to grace T4 on a weekly basis. Grrr.

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How To Lose Friends And Alienate Viewers

Trailer up for Curb/Marx Bros supremo Robert B. Weide's upcoming comedy How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, with Simon Pegg. Trailer makes it look like a guy version of The Devil Wears Prada. Let's hope there's more to it than a guys' version of The Devil Wears Prada.

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Top Gun: Part Deux?

File under WTF. Hardly coming from the most reliable of sources, but there are reports that Top Gun 2 is ready to fly and the producers are just waiting for Tom Cruise to climb on board.

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Comic Book Overload? Pow!

In case you haven't had enough of Iron Man, The Hulk or Batman - check out this round up of forthcoming comic-book movie projects. Antman anyone?

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Reverse Flash-Forward

Having trouble keeping up with Lost? I'm not surprised. Luckily some intrepid fan has edited his own easy to watch version, putting all those funky flash-forwards into the right order. NYMAG has the scoop, but you can watch below. Maybe Jack's beard was real after all?

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She & Him

Volume One

Domino

This unusual project pairs together Portland guitarst/producer M. Ward and actress (and friend to the elves), Zooey Deschanel - who I've always taken a shine to after assuming her parents were J.D. Salinger fans. After being paired together for a duet over the closing credits of the movie The Go Getter, the unlikely pair formed a developing bond, which led to Deschenal sending her demos to Ward, who suggested recording together. An internet relationship blossomed, ending with the recording of the album which was then mixed by Bright Eyes alumni Mike Mogis - who also plays on the album. It's been out for a while on Merge in the US, but thankfully Domino has seen fit to release this intriguing project in the UK.

Charming opener Sentimental Heart sets the tone, sketching a nostalgic 50's-style tale of teenage angst. Deschanel's crooning voice is effortlessly and infinitly charming, giving the album an instant appeal, while restrained instrumentation backs up the vocals, building slowly into a bombastic ochestral finale. M. Ward makes only the briefest of vocal appearances on the album - dropping in some backing vocals here and there - but he is ever-present and his guitar work adds some magical touches on several occasions. I suspect he's also in charge of what sounds like a kazoo and a touch of whistling.

The album also gives Ward plenty of room to demonstrate his production talents - building up the perfecty positioned retro sound of the album, which manages to show considerable restraint with so many opportunities to break out the brass section - especially next to this year's far less restrained 50's/60's throwback, The Last Shadow Puppets. The sweeping slide guitar of down trodden-broken-hearted-country-ballad Change Is Hard is magical and the Carole King-esqu Thought I saw Your Face builds to a soaring finale, while I Was Made For You finds Deschanel providing her own do-wop backing vocals.

Patsy Cline, Dusty Springfield, Carole King - the reference points span far and wide, but still this album manages to maintain a surprising air of originality. Solid pop with a bit of depth, the songs are never too long - making for a concise, cohesive, continually entertaining album, tied together mostly by the attidude of delivery, which even when potentially maudlin seems continually upbeat.

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Terminator: Salvation

Teaser trailer for Terminator: Salvation online over at Yahoo movies. Man-of-the-moment Christian Bale stars as the future John Connor, with Judgement Day now in the past and Skynet kicking ass like AOL in the 90's. No word on a possible role for the Governator as yet.

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My Morning Jacket

The Forum, Kentish Town, London

After a European tour and a spell at various festivals, My Morning Jacket were back in London to round things off with a show at the Forum, before heading to Benicassim and then back for a US tour, culminating in a headlining spot at Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve.

After the disappointment of the recent Evil Urges album, I was hoping that mis-step would would have little effect on My Morning Jacket's legendary live shows - but unfortunately it's repercussions haven't stopped there. Title track Evil Urges made for an untypically muted opening, but some older favourites plugged the hole - and with the heavy groove of Off The Record the show started to pick up, finding it's stride with Gideon and old time classic The Way That He Sings.

Unfortunately, a trio of new songs (Two Halves / Sec Walkin' / Thank You Too) then slowed the show to a crawl, as even through they make are some of the more conventional recent tracks, they just don't have the emotional clout of previous classics. Even the band seemed less enthusiastic with this newer material, ham-stringed by the fact that for the most part they eschew the band's most obvious weapon - Jim James stellar voice. Attempts to beef up the tracks with extended work-outs just made things worse, and it took Lay Low to get things back on track. Any performance that requires strapping on an extra guitar half way through deserves accolade, and the band whipped the audience into a hairy rock frenzy. Like a mad Mick Hucknall, James even had a "cape roadie" to assist him when his victorian outer-garment slipped of in the chaos.

Playing out in much the same way as the recent album, the gig may have been slow to get going but was ultimately rewarding. By the time of Smokin' From Shootin' and Touch Me Part 2, the band were back to their old ways - huddled around the drum riser for a more impassioned and suitable guitar work-out.

Like a re-release with a bonus live EP, the show moved on from the Evil Urges-heavy set-list and back to the MMJ we know and love. James was back on stage solo for an acoustic run through of Golden and into an encore that found the band revving up for awesome work-outs of Phone Went West, Dondante, Anytime and a monster finale from One Big Holiday. All in all, plenty to write home about, but for a band capable of 'unbelievable' we had to settle for just 'pretty awesome'.

See more photos on our Flickr page.

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Concrete and Glass

With the festival calender close to morbid obesity this year, Concrete and Glass looks to be providing a slightly more slimline tonic. Based in and around Shoreditch ("within 9 minutes of Brick Lane"). Mixing music and art, the exhibition end of things has been organised by Flora Fairbairn and Paul Hitchman and includes the likes of Gavin Turk and Gerry Fox.

Tapping into the unique infrastructure of spaces in the east end, the art strand will feature over 30 projects in disused warehouses, outdoor spaces and empty shops in collaboration with curators, artists and galleries. Heart of Glass, a show of new, site-specific work by 25 artists in Shoreditch Town Hall’s basement, is the hub of the arts projects.

Only catch is, the music has yet to be announced - but Eat Your Own Your Own Ears are in charge, who have recently been responsible for the Field Day festival, as well as the recent Summer Sessions, which included the Justice show. Hosts for the music events include Rough Trade East, Young Turks, Drowned In Sound, Fence Collective and Wichita Records amongst others.

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Atomic Birthday

It's the birthday of the atomic bomb today - as the first test was carried on on June 16th 1945 at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Check our the gallery at Wired for more info.

While the Raymond Briggs-style threat of nuclear war seems to have subsided for now, the threat of a nuclear explosion seems more real than ever.

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Don't Try This At Home

Levi's has snuck a couple of virals out recently, as part of their tireless quest to remain current. It's working, where can I get some?

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Mugison

Mugiboogie

Taking it's lead from the Blues, Mugison's third album finds him re-working many well-travelled lyrics (shaking hips, making sweet love) and giving them a new, Icelandic twist. The signs of a transition away from the bedroom electronics of earlier records had started to appear on 2004's Mugimama Is This Monkey Music, with the awesome highlight track Murr Murr - and here that sound has grown even bigger, enlisting a full band to enhance the quirky front man's bone crushing cacaphony.

With his departure from Matthew Herbert's Accidental Records, the transition to fully fledged rockstar is complete - the crunching guitars and hammond organ of title track Mugiboogie, the dirty guitar solos, the handpicked sound of The Pathetic Anthem - this is an album that is much more organic than his previous work, electric, rather than electronic, raw and energetic. Mugison's status has also grown considerably since the last album, releasing records through Mike Patton's Ipecac label in the US and touring with the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age. Even the cover has a rock star touch, embossed in gold over faux leather.

While in some ways things are more straightforward here than his previous efforts, to a newcomer this will still undoubtedly seem eclectic and unhinged. The schizophrenic Death Metal of Two Thumb Sucking On A Boyo is a little hard to deal with and the hopolong country of The Pathetic Anthem drags on a bit. Harry Nillson meets Napalm Death might not sound like a recommendation, but there's plenty to write home about. The Great Unrest is a particluarly moving highlight, while Deep Breathing is reminiscent of another Mugimama stand-out, 2Birds.

I insist that you make the effort to see Mugison live, as more than anything his recorded work serves as an exhillerating document of his enthraling live shows, joyfully reminiscing over all of the captivating highlights.

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House of Cards

Radiohead's much vaunted camera-free video for House of Cards is finally online - hosted by Google with a whole bunch of extra data.

It's pretty spooky, spectacular and adventurous - but what did you expect? Check it out below, or head over to the Google page for a making-of, some explanation of the process and a great demo - as well as the opportunity to download the data files used in the promo and create your own video version.

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Lunar Round-up

Tons of cool Space News for you today. While trawling an old "stuff to put on Chimpomatic folder" I just came across this WIRED story about broadcasting video back from the moon, as well as links to the mentioned panoramic photos, which are stunning. They are hosted by the excellent Panoramas.dk, which we have previously reported on.

On top of that, The Big Picture have run a feature on Moon photography, pulling together a set of nice big images, many of which featured in Michael Light's excellent excellent Full Moon exhibition.

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American Beer Gets A Bit Stronger

Urban legends of gnat's piss strength American beer might be on the way out, as Stella Artois owner InBev has taken over Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch at $70 a share - totaling a whopping $52 Billion.

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Will It Blend 3G

One explanation has appeared for the worldwide shortage of iPhones:

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Albert Hammond Jr.

?C?mo Te Llama?

Rough Trade

While The Strokes seem to have faltered in preparation for a follow up to 2006's excellent First Impressions Of Earth, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr has managed to put out debut solo album Yours To Keep in late 2006 and now followed it up with a second album - ¿Cómo Te Llama?

There are still echos of The Strokes sound - the rolling guitars of Victory At Monterey, the pounding bass line of Borrowed Time - but this is very much a solo album, and as such has a much more small-scale vibe than one of the band records. There's a bedroom-studio attitude thoughout, even if that bedroom might be lavishly kitted out, and the DIY vibe of bands like Guided By Voices even pops up here and there - which doesn't surprise me, star spotters, as I once spotted the man himself at one of the NYC shows of GBV's Electrifying Conclusion tour.

Having said all that, the record is infinitly more fleshed out than Yours To Keep, with Hammond backed by a more consistent band, as well as guest appearances from the likes of Sean Lennon. Moving beyond the ditties, things really have some meat on them with tracks like the Lennon-esqe, Bargain Of The Century (John, not Sean) or the crunching guitars of The Boss Americana. The releatively light-hearted sound of Hammond's solo work lifts some of the weight of expectation faced by the ever-hyped Strokes, and here we have the sound a productive songwriter getting a few things out of his system, working on ideas and generally letting things grow and develop. While Hammond doesn't have a classic voice as such, it has a character of his own and serves nicely to float over the wide range of musical ideas explored here - from the military drums of Rocket, to the reggae-tinged Miss Myrtle, or even the Miss Marple-tinged tinkles of charming instrumental Spooky Couch.

There's a fast and loose vibe to this summery album - which focuses on the good times in life and makes for a refreshing change. Due to its marked difference in style, it would be misleading to suggest that this album will fill the gap while you wait for a new Strokes album - but it is a good listen in its own right and provides clear evidence that at least a certain percentage of the engine behind that band is still ticking over nicely.

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Promo Promo: Fleet Foxes - Winter Hymnal

There's a nice old-school stop-frame video up for Fleet Foxes excellent Winter Hymnal.

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11th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet

Back From The Dead

Gotta love this list of 15 Things Wired Pronounced Dead Prematurely, airing as part of their 15th anniversary. Web Browsers? They might be de rigeur in 1997, but we'll be all about Push Media in no time.

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Gawker Stalker

Spotted anyone famous today? Send the details over to Gawker and they'll map it onto their stalker map ....although I know marmot wouldn't be impressed by a sighting of Trey Anastasio.

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Creepier and creepier

If Prince's recent attempt to cover Radiohead's long-shunned classic Creep didn't do it for you, try this harmonious effort from Weezer and a room full of trainees. Prince has had his effort removed from YouTube (to Thom's disdain), but you can still check it below.

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App(le) Store

iTunes has been updated with the App Store, ready for tomorrow's iPhone 2.0 launch. Plenty of interesting looking bits and pieces on there, such as an Apple remote for controlling music around the house, Twitter clients, Facebook, Flickr uploaders, language translators, games etc. Plenty of them are free too - which should boost the popularity of both the iPhone and iPod Touch.

My old phone contract just expired, so I'm officially on the market.

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Sonic Boom!

NASA has unveiled their new Blackswift jet (or HTV-3X if you want the official name) - a Pulse Detonation Engine powered jet that will be able to rocket to six times the speed of sound. It's built mainly at the covert and awesomely named Skunk Works, run by of Lockheed Martin.

Simulation video here. Data here.

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Zoomii

Sick of online shopping? Check out Zoomii.com, an online mash-up that let's you browse Amazon as if it was a real bookstore.

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Rescue Dawn

(dir. Werner Herzog)

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German-American Dieter Dengler (no relation to Mark Wahlberg's character in Boogie Nights) likes to fly. So much so, that he joins the US Airforce and finds himself flying covert missions over Vietnam and Laos as the Vietnam War starts to escalate. After being shot down, he is captured by Pathet Lao guerillas and taken to a POW camp, where he meets long detained Americans and Air America 'employees'. Determined to escape, the group hatch a plan - but once they are out of the prison, the jungle proves to be an even more ruthless captor.

German marverick Werner Herzog remakes his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly with mixed results. Well known for never using storyboards, Herzog brings his documentary-style film making to the project, which coupled with the average cinematography gives the movie an 80's TV movie feel. In fact, if it wasn't for the thrilling story you could occasionally be forgiven for thinking you were watching an episode of Tour Of Duty. With an improvised script.

That improvisation leads to some limitations on the editing - which often seems to work around a scene, rather than present it as well as possible - as well as providing some shockingly jarring special effects (Herzog's first). In turn, the direction does some disservice to what could easily have been a world class performance from Christian Bale, who clearly put everything he had into the role - no doubt studying Dengler's mannerisms in detail from the original documentary. Showing a shocking loss of weight throughout the story, Bale method eats his way through the film - literally devouring a plate of maggots and a snake in the process. Steve Zahn and the ever twitchy Jeremy Davis provide additional support with the cameraderie between the malnourished prisoners varying from intense to downright maniacal - occasionally seeming more like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest than The Great Escape.

Engrossing despite itself, this is a remarkable story that is well worth taking the time for. You cannot fail to be drawn into the desperation of the situation and the relief and euphoria at the end is simply overwhelming.

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Is That Murray Per Chance?

Check out third Conchord Rhys Darby in this Nike ad with Roger Federer.

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On The RZA

RZA himself looks to be stepping behind the camera to make a kung-fu movie now, thanks to studying directing with Tarantino (uh-oh). Production is to be handled by Eli Roth (uh-uh-oh). The Man With The Iron Fist is the name of the project. Aint It Cool has the scoop, via CHUD.

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Courtside With MCA

Interesting interview online over at Aint It Cool with joint-third-favourite Beastie Boy, MCA. He's talking primarily about his well received documentary Gunnin' for That #1 Spot, but also mentions that the Beastie Boys are recording for a new album - due "probably early next year, something like that".

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Klaatu Reeves

The ever expanding range of Hollywood favourite Keanu Reeves continues, with a trailer online for his role as Klaatu in the remake of the 1960's sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Luckily Will Smith Jnr also stars, so there might be some decent acting in it.

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Inglorious Tarantino

Does he never learn? Apparantly not, as Quentin Tarantino is ignoring the mixed reviews for Kill Bill 1 & 2 - not to mention the woeful Grindhouse effort - and forging ahead with his Inglorious Bastards remake, except he's decided it's too epic for one film and needs to be split in two....

UPDATE: More info here ....and it looks like I'm not the only hater out there.