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Reel Weekend | 20 March 2008
The Orphanage is very much in keeping with producer Guillermo del Toro's brand of chiller, which blends visceral shocks with moving character-based drama. It's the story of a couple who decide to reopen an old orphanage, but find their lives torn apart when their adopted son goes missing. In general it relies on a build-up of tension and uncomfortable psychological anguish rather than traditional shocks, however it does contain one of the single best jump-out-your-seat frights since Carrie decided that being buried wasn't much fun after all...
Album Focus: Neon Neon – 'Stainless Style'
Encoded | 20 March 2008
This week we get shiny, bright and super non-stick with Neon Neon, whose debut album Stainless Style has just been released. Neon Neon is a collaborative project between Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys and electro pioneer Boom Bip, who first hooked up a couple of years ago when Gruff provided the vocal for Boom Bip's track 'Dos and Don'ts.' Now they've decided to do a whole album together and roped a load of their pals in to help, and the result is one of the most infectious, accessible and ultimately poppy albums that you'll hear this year.
Movie Review: Meet the Spartans
Reel Weekend | 20 March 2008
Meet the Spartans is, without doubt, the worst film we've reviewed on Reel Weekend to date. It's the latest in a line of comedies that began with Scary Movie and can only end when the likes of Friedberg, Seltzer and the Wayans brothers are publicly hanged. Like its predecessors, it has a habit of replacing actual jokes with irrelevant references to recent pop culture, and to top it off, finds it necessary to explain those references seconds after they've been screened...
Start/Select | 19 March 2008
GameSpot UK's Guy Cocker is joined once again by his trusty panel of avid gamers – Luke Anderson, Rory Reid and CNET.co.uk's Mobile Phone Editor Andrew Lim – to discuss the new Nokia N81 and the N-Gage platform, and find out whether Rock Band is the best party game ever made...
Video View: Santogold, Tiny Masters of Today and Late of the Pier
Encoded | 18 March 2008
In this week's episode of Encoded's Video View, we take a look at the latest release from eccentric popster and friend of the stars Santogold, whose video for 'LES Artistes' features a random horse; check in with those wee whippersnappers Tiny Masters of Today, and their new video 'Hologram World', starring zombie parents; and wonder what on earth is going on in Late of the Pier's 'The Bears Are Coming', which takes us on a dark journey into the forest, with badgers and owls and stuff... All, frankly, quite weird.
Episode 3.2: Why the wait for solid state?
Dialogue Box | 18 March 2008
In this episode of ZDNet.co.uk's Dialogue Box, Rupert Goodwins and Charles McLellan revisit solid-state memory a year on from the last time and ask 'Where are our 64GB drives?'. They explore the reasons why solid-state drives are not yet available and show the differences between standard flash memory drives and multi-level cells. Do they find the answer to their question? Click the player above and find out...
Jaguar XKR Portfolio: Who's in control?
Car Tech | 14 March 2008
Ladies, geeks, petrolheads – we're proud to present a video of the most technologically advanced car we've ever driven. Meet the Jaguar XKR Portfolio edition, which literally drives itself. Just point it in the right direction and its Adaptive Cruise Control will automatically brake and accelerate for you. Not only that but its sound system is also the best we've heard in any non-modified car. And boasting 0-60 in just 4.9 seconds and a top speed of 200mph, it doesn't hang around either. All this for a mere £75,597...
Reel Weekend | 14 March 2008
The Cottage, directed by Paul Andrew Williams and starring none other than Brookside's Jennifer Ellison, is a worthy entrant to the splatter comedy genre. It fuses broad comedic farce with gory horror thrills, with plenty of limbs getting lopped off, farm implements being put to inappropriate use and shovels through faces. It manages to be a whole lot of fun once it hits its stride...
Reel Weekend | 14 March 2008
Director Brian De Palma returns to his low-budget roots with Redacted. The film was shot on high-def video for an American cable channel and looks at life in Iraq for a squad of American soldiers in typically controversial style. It focuses upon the brutal rape of an Iraqi girl by out-of-control American soldiers, and while it's not exactly subtle and doesn't tell us much we don't already know, it's pretty powerful stuff.
Album Focus: Vincent Vincent and the Villains – 'Gospel Bombs'
Encoded | 14 March 2008
This week's band in focus is Vincent Vincent and the Villains, whose debut album, Gospel Bombs, came out on Monday. Grab your Brylcreem, tuck your fag packet under your t-shirt sleeve, and join Nate Lanxon on a journey back to the 1950s – the year Super Glue was invented!
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