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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.
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...
Reel Weekend | 18 April 2008
Kit Ryan's Botched is an Irish-funded but Russia-set movie that begins like any other heist flick – a veteran thief is forced to do one last job by mobsters after a diamond robbery goes badly wrong. Unfortunately for our hero (played by Colin Farrell), but luckily for the audience, this job ends up involving gun-toting nuns, exploding rats and a psychotic killer who believes he is the reincarnation of Vlad the Impaler.
Reel Weekend | 11 April 2008
William Shakespeare might be the world's greatest ever playwright, dealing with all facets of the human condition, but if he'd been around today he's almost certainly be working in movies. Probably churning out scripts for Adam Sandler vehicles. But since we don't have the man himself, his plays continue to provide rich source material for the cinema screen. The Banquet is the latest movie to take inspiration from the bard, in this case Hamlet. This is the classic tale of murder, revenge and royal power struggles, as relocated to 1st century China.
Reel Weekend | 11 April 2008
The week’s biggest release is the No.1 American box office hit 21. This isn’t the fourteenth sequel to Seven, or an early film in the epic series that finished with 2001, but a Vegas-based gambling about six young maths geniuses who used their numerical prowess to score big on Vegas’s blackjack tables. Although supposedly based on a true story, this tale has been seriously Hollywoodised, with hunky maths geeks, gorgeous maths girls, cheesy romantic subplots and sleazy college professors who look a lot like Kevin Spacey.
Behind the scenes: At home with Indiana Jones
Reel Report | 03 April 2008
In the first of our behind-the-scenes looks at the eagerly anticipated Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, we take a tour of Indy's house and see how the production design team has set about linking the environment of the new movie with the earlier movies in the series.
Top 5 | 02 April 2008
The obvious winners of the Top 5 Beards of Rock are ZZ Top, but because of that, they're disqualified from this awesome contest. Stroke your chin and ponder who we've deservedly voted into the Top 5 this week, and then click the player above and see the marvellous growths for yourself. We'll be back soon for more Top 5 goodness so watch this space, and let us know below which Top 5s you'd like to see on CNET TV.
Episode 8: Mass Effect for PC, Saints Row 2 and a record-breaking cosplay event
Start/Select | 28 March 2008
In this episode of Start/Select, we talk with BioWare's Matt Atwood about the just-released PC version of the hugely popular action role-playing game Mass Effect; we catch up with Greg Donovan, the producer of Saints Row 2, about the development of the sequel; and we swing by London's Millennium Bridge, which recently saw the largest-ever gathering of cosplayers.
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.
Video View: Elbow, Guillemots and Neon Neon
Encoded | 13 March 2008
We've lovingly picked our top three music videos of the week and, once again, with the help of Nate Lanxon, packed them into a tight little video jam jar, ready for you to view at your leisure. First up is 'Grounds For Divorce', the cheerfully named new single from Elbow, the video to which sees the band gigging in a classic 70s-style British boozer; 'Get Over It' is next on our list – it's the latest offering from experimental Scottish popsters Guillemots; and finally the amazing video for Neon Neon's 'I Lust U', which documents the tragic events at a jellyfish competition, had us transfixed. What are your thoughts on these? Let us know in the comments sections below.
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