L.A. remixer Revolucian has put a donk on Christian Bale's delightful tirade from the set of Terminator:Salvation and it's actually not that offensive to the ears...
We're going to be playing it at the next Straight To Video night in London (Saturday 28 February at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, with special guest Phill Jupitus).
If you come to a Straight To Video night (and come you should), you'll notice a distinct lack of music from Grease. That's because the thought of drunk people singing Summer Lovin' is too hideous to imagine. It's not a hen night, people.
The only Grease track allowed anywhere near our CDJs is 'Born To Hand Jive' by Sha Na Na. Because it's amazing.
In order to dance in the correct fashion to this particular song, you will need: • 2x hands (1x pair of hands will probably do though) • this song:
Instructions: 1. Pat your hands on your thighs twice
2. Clap your hands twice 3. Criss-cross your hands; right hand above, then right hand below 4. Making two fists, hit your hands together twice with the right hand on top and twice with left hand on top (also known as the mashed potato) 5. Make a thumbs-up sign with your right hand and point backwards over right shoulder twice, as if you were hitchhiking, then do the same with your left hand. 6. Repeat all steps until you run out of music
So there you have it. Once you've got that down, you can start freestyling like Cha Cha DiGregorio...
He's Just Not That Into You, the movie based on the internationally best selling book by Sex & The City writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo, is released in the UK next week (6 Feb).
I've been looking forward to this film for the following reasons:
I love a rom-com/chick flick, but only if they're well made. I draw the line at something like Coyote Ugly, because it was utter shit.
Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo are responsible for writing some of the wittiest and most original dialogue to appear on television (for Sex & The City).
The book was mildly amusing.
All-star ensemble casts are my favourite - this one includes Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Connolly.
By the looks of it, we're in for a well-acted, well-written treat, which won't be stretching my grey matter or bothering awards voting academies any time soon (that's a good thing by the way - there's only so much earnest cinema one can take, surely)
He's Just Not That Into You trailer:
BUT the soundtrack looks dire. The tracklisting reads like a dreadful compilation aimed at those who buy their music in Asda. Corinne Bailey Rae... Maroon 5... James Morrison... Keane...The worst Cure song ever recorded... Oh, and a bit of The Ting Tings and Lily Allen shoehorned in to give it some 'edge'. As if all that wasn't bad enough, someone told Scarlett Johansson she was allowed to sing again.
He's Just Not That Into You - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1. Corinne Bailey Rae - I'd Like To 2. My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed 3. The Human League - Don't You Want Me 4. R.E.M. - Supernatural Superserious 5. Tristan Prettyman - Madly 6. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) 7. The Black Crowes - By Your Side 8. Wilco - I Must Be High 9. James Morrison - You Make It Real 10. Maroon 5 - If I Never See Your Face Again 11. The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait 12. The Ting Tings - Fruit Machine 13. Lily Allen - Smile 14. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know 15. Erin McCarley - Love, Save The Empty 16. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love 17. Scarlett Johansson - Last Goodbye
This week's (Sound)Track Of The Week is from Michael Cera's latest offering, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (released in the UK this Friday).
Once again, iTunes are only letting you buy the album as a whole. But you can buy 'Very Loud' as a separate track from their brilliant album, Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (one of the best albums of 2005) here:
Having said that, the whole soundtrack (which features We Are Scientists, Devendra Banhart and Vampire Weekend, among others) is definitely an album worth having in your collection.
Christ knows what The Dead 60s are doing on it though. They're quite possibly the worst band ever allowed near a recording studio.
Straight To Video had the pleasure of interviewing Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz writer/director, Edgar Wright, on this very dreary London Sunday. It's for a special project we've got coming up.
1) Edgar is A Very Nice Man. 2) We're very excited about his next film, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, with Michael Cera.
That's all we can tell you right now. All will be revealed in due course...
Canadian troupe Arcade Fire have been enlisted by Donnie Darko writer/director, Richard Kelly, to score his next film – The Box staring Cameron Diaz and Frost/Nixon’s Frank Langella - with 80 minutes of original music.
Kelly went backstage in 2007 to hand-deliver the script to Arcade Fire’s frontman, Win Butler.
"They're just, like, my favorite band, period," he said. "I saw the Neon Bible tour. I went to, like, four shows. And I just have always felt that their stuff was really cinematic. They're really political and I think with The Box, it's a morality tale, and it takes place in 1976, but conceptually, there's a real message to the film in terms of what it has to say about the nuclear family, and about greed, or about what everyone is willing to do to achieve a certain level of happiness in their life."
Kelly adapted the script from a '70s-era short story by Twilight Zone writer Richard Matheson. The film follows Diaz as one half of a miserable suburban couple (James Marsden is the other half) who are approached by a mysterious stranger (Langella) with a proposition… press the button on this box and you'll receive $1 million, but someone on the planet will die as a consequence.
“The band's focus was on a Russian style of composition," explains Kelly. "The strings being really raw and emotional. I think they were able to create a score that feels like it's from another era. It's kind of like [Psycho composer] Bernard Hermann on acid, what they did. It's very lush, and kind of a very bombastic, emotional score. And kind of Hitchcock. It feels like a score from the 1970s. I just feel really blessed that they were willing to score the film. I'm really excited for people to hear what they've come up with.”
The Box is set for theatrical release towards the end of this year.
If you've been living under a stone for the last few years and you haven't had the glorious pleasure of Arcade Fire's two majestic masterpieces in your ears, we implore you to rectify this immediately.
If you come to a Straight To Video night (and come you should), you'll notice a distinct lack of music from Grease. That's because the thought of drunk people singing Summer Lovin' is too hideous to imagine. It's not a hen night, people.
He's Just Not That Into You, the movie based on the internationally best selling book by Sex & The City writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo, is released in the UK next week (6 Feb).
