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Video View: Ladyhawke, Delays and Roisin Murphy
Encoded | 02 May 2008
Nate Lanxon's back with the latest music videos once again, and in this episode it's as if he stepped back in time as we're treated to big hair, smoke machines and synth lines a-plenty with New Zealand's answer to Berlinda Carlisle, Ladyhawke, and her latest single 'Back of the Van'. Next up is Delays with 'Everything's the Rush', the video to which was directed by Lee Lennox, who did a brilliant video for The Presets last year; and finally we round off with some chart-friendly pop with Roisin Murphy's 'You Know Me Better'.
CNET TV: LIVE | 01 May 2008
French-born duo John & Jehn are a pure, intense blend of raw passion and sexual tension, evident throughout their electrifying live performance. In this CNET TV: Live session, recorded just days before the release of their debut self-titled album, they treated us to five tracks from the album, including Fear Fear Fear, Sister and their latest single 20l07...
Reel Weekend | 25 April 2008
Based on a graphic novel, the beautifully hand-drawn, black-and-white Persepolis is an autobiographical story of Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian woman who spent the first decade of her life living a relatively happy childhood in Tehran, before being packed off to Vienna by her liberal parents. The film is a masterclass in economic story-telling, effectively condensing many years into just over 90 minutes, and Satrapi and writer-director Vincent Paronnaud manage to find verbal and visual humour in even the darkest of situations.
Reel Weekend | 25 April 2008
Horror flick The Eye is directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud, who proved last year that they could deliver the scary goods with the French shocker Them. Unfortunately they seem to have left everything that made that film so successful in their homeland because The Eye is about as generic as Hollywood horror gets. The movie plays like a Frankenstein's monster of recent horror hits, and the scriptwriters are so aware that this material is utterly derivative that they even include a jokey reference to The Sixth Sense in the dialogue.
Album Focus: Crystal Castles – 'Crystal Castles'
Encoded | 24 April 2008
In this episode of Encoded's Album Focus show we take a look at Canadian electro duo Crystal Castles, whose eponymous self-titled debut came out this week. The band is producer and programmer Ethan Kath, who plays and wrote all of the music on the album, alongside vocalist Alice Glass, who shrieks and yelps her teenage poetry into a fuzzy microphone with increasingly distressing urgency.
Episode 3.7: Place your bets on IBM's Racetrack
Dialogue Box | 23 April 2008
In this episode of ZDNet.co.uk's Dialogue Box, Rupert Goodwins and Charles McLellan dig out their binoculars and unleash the "could-o-meter" as they investigate IBM's Racetrack memory, and take their finest pointing sticks to the bigger and even better Asus Eee PC 900, which now has more memory, a bigger screen and iPhone-like finger-glide technology.
Video View: Goldfrapp, Death Cab For Cutie and Hadouken!
Encoded | 23 April 2008
In this episode of Encoded's Video View we've got the new video from Goldfrapp, whose latest single 'Happiness' came out last week; Death Cab For Cutie's 'I Will Possess Your Heart', which is the first single from their new album Narrow Stairs; and finally Hadouken and their latest cheery single 'Declaration of War', which comes out at the end of April.
Smart ED: Electric ninja-mobile
Car Tech | 22 April 2008
Meet the Smart ED, an electric car that's set to revolutionise – or at the very least shake up – the way people get around. It's just like an ordinary Smart ForTwo: quirky-looking, easy to park and nimble, but with a couple of crucial differences. The Smart ED doesn't use any petrol and doesn't emit any nasty, toxic poison into the atmosphere. You simply charge it up over the mains, hop in and off you go.
Reel Weekend | 18 April 2008
Acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh's debut feature In Bruges is probably the first hitman movie to be set in Belgium, a country better known for worryingly fruity beer, Poirot and Jean Claude Van Damme than a violent criminal underworld. The hitmen in this case are a pair of Irishmen, played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, who come to the quaint medieval town of the title to cool off after a hit back in London goes wrong...
Album Focus: Blood Red Shoes – 'Box of Secrets'
Encoded | 18 April 2008
Blood Red Shoes' debut album Box of Secrets is so good we've made them band of the week in Encoded's Album Focus show. Although they've been around for quite some time, it's clear from album opener Doesn't Matter Much that their frenetic clatter hasn't been dulled by the passage of time, smacking just as hard as it does live, and introducing the band in a manner befitting a returning hero...
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