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Short Attention Span Theatre: Secret Identity
Touching riff on superheroes and memories, starring Lee Meriwether (aka Catwoman from the 1966 Batman movie). Via @aintitcoolnews
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Trailer Park: Spike Island
More Stone Roses nostalgia on the way…
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Trailer Park: The Wolf Of Wall Street
Scorsese and DiCaprio on rampaging dollar-bill chucking form in this stockbroker drama. Written by Terence “Boardwalk Empire” Winter, based on the autobiography by Jordan Belfort.
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Iron Maiden-The Trooper (Bossa Nova Version)
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Trailer Park: In A World
Meta-trailer for Lake Bell’s highly enjoyable comedy about a voice-over artist working in a world where LA’s movie trailer voice-over industry is dominated by men.
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Apocalypse, NOW!
Hollywood’s really in an end-of-days mood at the moment. There’s This Is The End (Seth Rogen and his stoner pals hang out at the end of the world); The World’s End (Simon Pegg and his mates do the same thing on a pub crawl); Rapture-Palooza (Craig Robinson comes back from This Is The End only this time - he’s got horns); and there’s World War Z (a global zombie showdown), Pacific Rim (giant monsters v giant mechasuits), even Man Of Steel gets to fend off some serious intergalactic architectural destruction. Plus there was last year’s Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World; not to mention the planet-wars in Eylsium and Ender’s Game, and then Oblivion and After Earth which fast-forward to look at what the planet’s like after everything’s been wiped out. Are they trying to tell us something?
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Promo Promo: Kurt Vile - KV Crimes
Kurt Vile plays out his own version of Game Of Thrones in this video. Loving this album.
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Promo Promo: Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead
Empty landscapes and lens flares? Yes, there’s a new Boards Of Canada album out, and here’s a video for one of the tracks.
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Trailer Park: Paranoia / The Family
A double-bill of older icons: first up, Harrison Ford gets a close shave to play a corporate raider wrangling with long-standing rival Gary Oldman via young bridge’n’tunnel hitech wizzkid Liam Hemsworth in Paranoia. Below, Michelle Pfeiffer is married to mobster Robert De Niro and finding The Family are getting bored with a life of witness protection, even when they’re hiding out in France. Directed by Luc Besson.
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#Promo Promo: Joe Goddard Ft. Mara Carlyle - She Burns
Can’t think of many other songs that use the word “goose”. Out on Greco-Roman later in the year.
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Breaking Bad: All Bad Things
Poster for the end of the series… Almost wish they’d never show the last lot. Almost.
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Short Attention Span Theatre: Amblin’
Something a little different for SAST today: Steven Spielberg’s 35mm short from 1968, a hippy love story/road trip, filled with a groovy soundtrack and zero dialogue. Probably better known as the film he named Amblin’ Entertainment after. Here’s Spielberg taking a look back at the poster in 2008.
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Trailer Park: The Americans
What’s this? A US show on ITV1 on Saturday night? Heard good things about this drama following a pair of KGB spies living undercover in Washington in 1981.
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Trailer Park: A Band Called Death
Interesting looking doc on the cult band described as being “punk before punk”.
“Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early ’70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family chronicle, the story of Death is one of brotherly love and fierce, divinely inspired expression.”
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