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Trailer Park: The Other F Word

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10th Oct 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Everything is a remix

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8th Oct 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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I Am Your Father!!!

Brilliant video capturing a son's reaction to the brutal truth.

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3rd Oct 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Being Elmo

Documentary about Kevin Clash, the man behind (inside) Sesame Street's Elmo [SHOULDN'T THIS COME WITH A SPOILER ALERT? ED]

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27th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Star Status: Peter Weir

How does Peter Weir rate in the Chimpomatic Star Status Movie Maths Generator?

It's 10 points for a Hit, 5 for a Maybe and 1 for a Miss... No TV movies or shorts, just cinema releases to date.

After re-watching Dead Poet's Society recently, for the first time since its release, I was struggling to think of a non-spectacular film by Australian director Peter Weir.

A quick disclaimer: I haven't personally seen early efforts Three To Go or The Last Wave but IMDB rates them 8.2 and 7.1 - so I've erred on the side of caution (due to their enthusiastic rating) and rated them Hit / Maybe here.

The Way Back (2010) MAYBE
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) HIT
The Truman Show (1998) HIT
Fearless (1993) HIT
Green Card (1990) HIT
Dead Poets Society (1989) HIT
The Mosquito Coast (1986) HIT
Witness (1985) HIT
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) HIT
Gallipoli (1981) HIT
The Last Wave (1977) MAYBE
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) HIT
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) MAYBE
Three to Go (1971) (segment "Michael") HIT

HIT 11
MISS 0 
MAYBE 3 

Another disclaimer: No generosity applied to these ratings, with the possible exception of The Year of Living Dangerously, which is perhaps merely 'good'.

So that's 125 points out of a possible 140.

Peter Weir: you have scored an unbelievable 89.3%

If you dare make a purchase (and, er I think you should), you can do so here, allowing Chimpomatic to profit from his success. Check back soon for more Star Status movie maths. Same Chimp Channel, same Chimp Time...

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23rd Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

fuller trailer up for David Fincher's upcoming English language version: looks like Wallander with more goths

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23rd Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: J Edgar

Trailer up for Clint Eastwood's new movie, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the titular law-enforcer.

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21st Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Terrence Malick breaks cover

The picture above left has served as one of the only publicly available images of reclusive director Terrence Malick for a couple of decades - but last week he popped along to the Austin City Limits Music Festival, with Christian Bale and a camera crew.

Bale must have gotten a hall pass from the still-shooting Batman sequel, as he was swanning around around the festival playing some sort of rockstar type - check out the fascinating video here. It had been announced that Bale was cast in a Malick film, set to shoot in 2012, so this shoot may have only been a test - or just grabbing the opportunity to film at a large event like this - but a possible project could be something based around the life of Jerry Lee Lewis that Malick has been working on, which would tie in with the casting of the much-younger-than-Bale Haley Bennett as the other lead. More pics and info here, here and here.

Probably the most surprising thing about all of this is that Malick still looks exactly like that archive photo, right down to the hat.

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20th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Big ET News

Behind The Scenes Pic of the Day is a great series of photos run by Quint over at Ain't It Cool, which frequently features attention-grabbing pics from the world of film making. This one in particualr grabbed my attention ....as I always wondered where in LA they shot this scene from ET. I've been robbed.

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12th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Malkmus vs Explosions In The Sky

Not collaborating unfortunately, but they both have new videos out featuring animal/monster type things. Malkmus up top, EITS below.

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11th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Birdcage

Jamie Jones' excellent short just won Film London's 90 second film competition. It's great. Watch it here.

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10th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Jim'll Fix It: Galactic Picnic

Someone has unearthed a borderline creepy episode of Jim'll Fix It, where a young kid gets to visit Luke Skywalker on the set of Dagobah.

I love Empire as much as the next guy, but looking back at it from this perspective there's a lot of goofy comedy in there. Just sayin'....

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9th Sep 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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Self-lacing Nikes

Since Back To The Future 2 premiered in 1989, I'm pretty sure every male that saw it has dreamed of one day owning a pair of self-lacing Nikes. Now's your chance, as Nike are producing 1500 pairs of the shoes for a special auction to raise money for Michael J Fox's Foundation for Parkinson's Research. Possibly the single best thing Nike have ever done and a possible reason to break my 20 year hiatus from buying their products.

More info here and here.

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8th Sep 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet