David Lynch’s new single

Tuesday November 30th 2010

Problem?

The Tron: Legacy soundtrack is brilliant

Tuesday November 30th 2010

Seriously, I’ve started listening to it when I go to Tesco and pick up parcels from the Post Office and do stuff like that and it makes literally anything feel like the most dramatic, heart-pumping, body-popping 58.6 minutes of my life.

I’m off to see it in IMAX tonight and I’m not sure I’ve ever been so thoroughly pumped.

DVD Corner: The Hammer & Tongs Collection

Saturday November 27th 2010

Normally when I’ve been sent a check disc, I like to leave it on my desk for a week, then drop it down the back of the sofa, then wait until I get an e-mail saying ‘have you watched that check disc yet?’, then spend half an hour looking for it, and then finally watch fifteen minutes and review it.

But when The Hammer & Tongs Collection arrived yesterday morning, it quite literally went straight in the player.

Similar to but not technically part of Palm Pictures’ Directors Label series, the DVD collects together dozens of amazing music videos, short films and other nonsense from directing-producing super duo Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith.

And it’s got the fucking best menus I’ve ever seen:

Those stills don’t do them justice. They move and stuff as well.

But best of all is the half-hour ‘Home Movies’ segment, full of impossibly charming little behind the scenes videos from promo shoots, awards ceremonies, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Son of Rambow and more.

The DVD is available on Amazon for £13.99 and I recommend that you pick one up as soon as is physically possible. In the meantime, here’s what can only be described as one of the best music videos ever made in the history of ever-ness:

Burlesque

Friday November 26th 2010

If you thought there was too much camping in Deathly Hallows, just wait til you get a load of Burlesque. With a cast including Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming and Cher (as played by Edvard Munch’s The Scream), it’s already a certified camp classic before X-tina has even opened her mouth.

And open her mouth she does. From the spelling-heavy Express (“E-X-P-R-E-S-S, Love, Sex, Ladies, No Regrets”) to the grammatically-troubling Guy What Takes His Time, the soundtrack offers sex, glamour and an increasingly tenuous list of rhymes for ‘burlesque’. And above all, it gives Christina plenty of chances to do stuff like this:

or this…

and of course this…

So that’s the women and gays sorted. But, I hear you ask, what about us Shortlist-reading, Dave-watching mens’ men? Well never fear, because Burlesque has more implied female nudity than any movie I’ve ever seen ever. Even on the internet.

Of course, you never actually see any naughty portions, but what do you expect from a 12A? Pervert…

At the end of the proverbial day, Burlesque outstays its welcome and sags in the middle [insert slightly unfair Cher reference here] but as a winningly knowing exercise in ludicrously OTT extravagance, it’s hard to fault.

After all, how many other movies can claim to offer the sight of Alan Cumming lying on a stage with a partially-clothed vagina up in his grill? Not many, that’s how many.

Another reason to love The D-Rad

Thursday November 25th 2010

I don’t think it would be physically possible for me to love Daniel Radcliffe any more than I do right now.

2:07 for the absolute win.