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Reel Weekend | 18 April 2008
Protégé is a gritty new Hong Kong thriller that's been a massive hit in its homeland. It's a hard-hitting anti-drugs tale in which a cop called Nick has spent seven years infiltrating a heroin gang, run by grey-haired Lin Quin (Andy Lau). It manages to mix some old-school cop high-jinks with a tough addiction drama, and although you've seen it before, the cat-and-mouse game between gang boss and undercover rozzer is grippingly told, with some first-rate acting from upcoming star Daniel Wu, as well as veteran Lau.
Sony's PFR-V1 headphones out and about in London
Crave TV | 18 April 2008
Sony's unusual PFR-V1 headphones are without question one of the most obscure personal audio products we've seen in a long time. They've seen a fair bit of coverage over on CNET.co.uk recently, but we thought we could go one step further and gather the opinions of London's gadget-loving young popinjays on video.
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.
Video View: Bjork, Example, MGMT
Encoded | 16 April 2008
We have three visually stunning videos to tickle your ear-buds this week. Wanderlust is a collaboration between Bjork and production team Sean Hellfrisch and Isaiah Saxon, and is a mixture of large scale puppeteering, miniatures, and CG, Fulham rudeboy Example's latest shows what can be achieved on a much smaller budget, and MGMT's Time To Pretend has a zebra holocaust and hundreds of badly animated dolphins.
Episode 06: Intel Development Forum debrief
Dialogue Box | 15 April 2008
What do the Atom processor, MIDs, a bio-sensing chip, fuel cells, Shanghai's traffic and a revolution in photography have in common? ZDNet.co.uk's Rupert Goodwins and Charles McLellan investigate as they bring you a rundown of Intel's recent Development Forum.
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.
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Reel Weekend | 11 April 2008
It made a lot of money back in 1998, but it seems to have taken an entire decade for The Blair Witch Project to have a proper influence on genre cinema. In the past couple of months we’ve had Cloverfield and George Romero’s Diary Of The Dead shaking their handheld cameras in our faces, and now Spanish shocker [Rec] joins the club. One night a fire crew is called to an apartment building where an old lady is apparently trapped in her apartment. Unfortunately the poor dear has turned into a demented contagion-ridden zombie, and when the authorities seal off the entire building our survivors must find another way out.
Episode 3.5: Return of the Axis of Awesome
Dialogue Box | 08 April 2008
The Axis of Awesome is back! Rupert Goodwins and Charles McLellan get their hands on some recently released mobile gadgets and debate their coolness and usefulness. Can an Apple iPhone stand up to the likes of a military-grade rugged laptop? How cool is a solar panel that will charge your mobile phone? And why does an Etch-A-Sketch get a look in? Find out all the answers in the latest episode of Dialogue Box.
Video View: Black Kids, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and Young Galaxy
Encoded | 08 April 2008
This week music video fans we've got three little beauties for you. First up is the debut video from Black Kids, one of 2008's most exciting new bands, whose first single, I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You comes out on 7 April. This is followed by the twin pioneers of electronic preaching and exceptional facial hair, Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip, with their video Look For The Woman; and bringing up the rear are Young Galaxy, whose track Come And See is out as a single next month. Enjoy.
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