http://www.cnettv.co.uk/ Latest videos from CNETTV.co.uk en Fri, 02 May 2008 10:49:01 +0100 CNET Networks UK http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-ladyhawke-delays-and-roisin-murphy-10000315.htm 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'. Fri, 02 May 2008 10:49:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-ladyhawke-delays-and-roisin-murphy-10000315.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/cnettv-live/john-jehn-10000314.htm 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... Thu, 01 May 2008 11:33:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/cnettv-live/john-jehn-10000314.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-persepolis-10000313.htm 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. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:24:02 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-persepolis-10000313.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-the-eye-10000312.htm 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. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-the-eye-10000312.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/album-focus-crystal-castles-crystal-castles-10000311.htm 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. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:34:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/album-focus-crystal-castles-crystal-castles-10000311.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/dialogue-box/episode-3-7-place-your-bets-on-ibm-s-racetrack-10000310.htm 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. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:33:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/dialogue-box/episode-3-7-place-your-bets-on-ibm-s-racetrack-10000310.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-goldfrapp-death-cab-for-cutie-and-hadouken-10000309.htm 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. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:10:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-goldfrapp-death-cab-for-cutie-and-hadouken-10000309.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/car-tech/smart-ed-electric-ninja-mobile-10000308.htm 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. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:12:02 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/car-tech/smart-ed-electric-ninja-mobile-10000308.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-in-bruges-10000304.htm 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... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:01:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-in-bruges-10000304.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/album-focus-blood-red-shoes-box-of-secrets-10000303.htm 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... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:44:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/album-focus-blood-red-shoes-box-of-secrets-10000303.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-protege-10000302.htm 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. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:56:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-protege-10000302.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/crave-tv/sony-s-pfr-v1-headphones-out-and-about-in-london-10000305.htm 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. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:30:00 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/crave-tv/sony-s-pfr-v1-headphones-out-and-about-in-london-10000305.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-botched-10000301.htm 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. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:02:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-botched-10000301.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-bjork-example-mgmt-10000300.htm 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. Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:24:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-bjork-example-mgmt-10000300.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/dialogue-box/episode-06-intel-development-forum-debrief-10000306.htm 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. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/dialogue-box/episode-06-intel-development-forum-debrief-10000306.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-the-banquet-10000299.htm 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. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:58:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-the-banquet-10000299.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-21-10000298.htm 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. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:25:02 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-21-10000298.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-rec-10000297.htm 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. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:01:02 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-rec-10000297.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/dialogue-box/episode-3-5-return-of-the-axis-of-awesome-10000296.htm 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. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:05:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/dialogue-box/episode-3-5-return-of-the-axis-of-awesome-10000296.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-black-kids-dan-le-sac-vs-scroobius-pip-and-young-galaxy-10000295.htm 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. Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:19:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/encoded/video-view-black-kids-dan-le-sac-vs-scroobius-pip-and-young-galaxy-10000295.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-report/behind-the-scenes-quantum-of-solace-10000293.htm An early look behind the scenes on the latest James Bond movie Quantum of Solace, due out in late 2008. In this short video Reel Report gets a peek at what we can expect in the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Casino Royale, from locations in Panama to low-flying planes in the desert. We can't tell too much about the plot from this short featurette but Quantum looks set to deliver the requisite amounts of action, drama and Daniel Craig in a tux. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:35:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-report/behind-the-scenes-quantum-of-solace-10000293.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/gadget-reviews/nokia-8800-arte-10000294.htm From the moment you take it out of its flashy box, you know the Nokia 8800 Arte fashion phone is something special. Building on the original 8800, it sets its sights on the luxury end of the market. With a 3.2-megapixel camera and a Web browser, is it worth its premium price? Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:00 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/technology/gadget-reviews/nokia-8800-arte-10000294.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-funny-games-10000292.htm Anyone who goes to see Funny Games at the cinema expecting a raucous night out is going to be in for a nasty shock - this film is far from funny. Director Michael Haneke's 2008 English-language version is almost a shot-for-shot remake of his original 1997 German-language version, with the same levels of kidnap, brutal torture and murder. The only real addition to this recent version is Naomi Watts, who spends a lot more time in her underwear than the original actress had to. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:18:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-funny-games-10000292.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-i-m-a-cyborg-but-that-s-ok-10000291.htm Chan-wook Park's I'm A Cyborg is not your typical romantic comedy. It opens with a woman cutting her own wrists, and proceeds to tell the story of Young-goon, a mentally ill girl who is convinced she is a killer android and has violent fantasies about massacring a bunch of doctors. Unlike Park's previous film Oldboy, there's no octopus gobbling, but fans of Asian splatter will still lap up the scenes of robotic mayhem. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:13:02 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/film-and-tv/reel-weekend/movie-review-i-m-a-cyborg-but-that-s-ok-10000291.htm http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/music-videos/young-galaxy-come-and-see-10000290.htm Young Galaxy's eponymous debut album was released last year on Arts & Crafts, and this track, 'Come and See', from the album, is out as a single next month. The video was directed by fellow French Canadians Felix & Paul, whose other work includes ad campaigns for Adidas, as well as other French music videos. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:01:01 +0100 http://www.cnettv.co.uk/music/music-videos/young-galaxy-come-and-see-10000290.htm