The Kills played the Amphitheatre Stage on Friday afternoon at Australia’s monstrous Splendour in the Grass festival. I was there and will be posting photos and a full review soon. During their visit, Alison and Jamie stopped by Triple J radio station and performed a lovely cover of Marilyn Munroe’s ‘One Silver Dollar’ from the 1954 film …
The Ides of March is the latest directorial effort from George Clooney who previously directed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Good Night, and Good Luck, both of which I loved. Clooney stars alongside Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jeffrey Wright, which could easily be confused with a list of Best Actor Oscar nominees! Add …
DJ Sures has built a real life, functioning WALL-E robot and all I can say is: WANT! The talking and dancing robot might not be able to erect monumental skyscrapers out of garbage, but it can recognize voices and faces, move on command and get sad when you take a ball away. Take that, kitten …
The full trailer for Cameron Crowe’s (Singles, Almost Famous) retrospective Pearl Jam documentary Pearl Jam Twenty was released today, and it looks promising. It features Chris Cornell, David Lynch (!) and a tonne of old footage. Reportedly the film will also have Neil Young and Kurt Cobain interviews.
Björk and Michel Gondry have teamed up again on the video for ‘Crystalline’, the excellent first single from her much-hyped new album Biophilia which is set to be released on September 27. Gondry has of course directed many of Björk’s classic videos, including ‘Human Behaviour’, ‘Bachelorette’, ‘Hyper-Ballad’ and ‘Declare Independence’.
John Goodman has signed on to play the vice dean of Greendale Community College’s School of Air Conditioning Repair in Season 3 of Dan Harmon’s brilliant show Community. Goodman was most recently seen on David Simon’s Treme. Speaking of David Simon, another of his ex-cast members has also recently joined Community: Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar Little …
Project Nim is the latest documentary from James Marsh, director of the Academy Award-winning Man On Wire. In each film Marsh takes a well-known, media-friendly event from the ’70s and gives it context with a meticulous and impressive mix of archival footage, interviews and dramatic re-enactments. The film is based on the book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would …
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