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Movie Review: Diary of the Dead
Reel Weekend | 07 March 2008
Veteran horror filmmaker George A. Romero may not have invented zombies, but he pretty much invented the zombie movie as we know it back in 1966, with his undead classic Night of the Dead. George's now back with the latest in the Dead line of movies, Diary of the Dead. Luckily this isn't the tale of a lovesick, 30-something PR zombie keeping track of how many brains she's eaten in her secret diary – it's a low budget, handheld account of the outbreak of the zombie plague from the point of view of a bunch of irritating students.
Album Focus: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – 'Real Emotional Trash'
Encoded | 07 March 2008
For this week's Album Focus show, we've hand-picked Stephen Malkmus' new release, Real Emotional Trash, which is his fourth solo album since leaving Pavement, and came out on Domino Records last week. Like his previous band's releases, no two Malkmus albums are the same, and where on his last solo outing he delivered a collection of short, sweet, catchy pop songs à la Pavement's Wowee Zowee, Real Emotional Trash sees him return to the stoner retrospection of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.
Reel Weekend | 07 March 2008
Pete Travis' Vantage Point is very much a post-24 action thriller, with jerky handheld camera work, sweaty FBI agents running around and a real-time urgency to the plot. It focuses on the attempted assassination of the US president, played by William Hurt, at an anti-terrorism summit in Spain, and we see it from the perspective of eight individuals, including Dennis Quaid's secret service agent, Sigourney Weaver's newswoman and Forest Whittaker's camcorder-wielding tourist...
Ford Focus CC-3: Voice-controlled car-bot
Car Tech | 06 March 2008
Meet the Ford Focus CC-3, the Optimus Prime (well, maybe Bumblebee) of cars you can actually buy. Not only does it transform from coupe to convertible like some crazy metallic origami gadget on wheels, but pretty much everything inside it can be controlled by your voice. Want to skip CD tracks, change the radio frequency or set the precise temperature in the cabin? Just hit the voice-activation button, say the words, and the Focus CC does the rest...
Encoded | 05 March 2008
In Encoded's Live Listings show this week we've got some dates for the former Beach Boy Brian Wilson's just-announced tour; details on the Summer Sundae Weekender at De Montfort Hall in Leicester in August; news on the oh-so-trendy Hox to Dot Festival, which will funnily enough be held at various places in London's hip Hoxton; and info about REM's European leg of their forthcoming tour. Make sure you stay tuned for more gig news next week.
Episode 6: Real-life combat with Warfighters
Start/Select | 05 March 2008
In the latest episode of Start/Select, GameSpot UK's Guy Cocker ditches the console and fires some real-life rounds in a Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 combat experience day at Warfighters, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and The Answer get a party rocking and Luke Anderson attends a video game world record attempt.
Movie Review: Margot at the Wedding
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
Margot at the Wedding, starring Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a dark comedy written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose previous movie The Squid and the Whale proved a breakthrough indie hit in 2005. Kidman plays Margot, a successful writer but emotional wreck who comes to visit her estranged sister Pauline after she hears she is about to marry a deeply unsuitable man she has only just met...
Video View: Vampire Weekend, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly and Mystery Jets
Encoded | 29 February 2008
Nate Lanxon's back with this week's pick of the latest music video releases. Vampire Weekend are first up with their new single 'A Punk', which was directed by Hammer and Tongs, the guys behind 'Coffee and TV' by Blur and 'Pumping on your Stereo' by Supergrass. Also making the grade is Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's new video for 'Find The Time' and the Mystery Jets with their latest single 'Young Love'. Have you seen any contenders? Let us know in the comments box below.
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
David Cronenberg has brought us many horrifying images over the years – from James Woods inserting pulsating video cassettes into his stomach to Jeff Goldblum transforming into a gloopy insect. But few are as disturbing as the sight of Viggo Mortensen's bits flapping around during the much-discussed bathhouse fight in Eastern Promises, which hits DVD shelves this week. This is the Canadian director's follow up to A History of Violence, and like that film, mixes a mainstream thriller plot with his own distinctive style.
Movie Review: The Boss of it All
Reel Weekend | 29 February 2008
The Boss of it All is definitely a comedy, but director Lars von Trier goes out of his way to subvert the genre. The first thing we hear is the director's voice, telling us exactly what kind of film we're going to be watching, and he pops up a bit later to inform us when we're at the halfway point. He also directs using a process called Automavision, in which a computer randomly chooses the camera angles, meaning that at any point, characters will disappear out of frame and sentences will be cut off in mid-flow. Police Academy this ain't...
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