Daily Archives: July 18, 2011

I’ll Sample YOU In A Minute *shakes fist*

  By Lisa McInerney | July 18, 2011 - 4:18 pm | The Culch
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Well now. A spectacular splat of mud-splaying has been playing out this past week between dance heavyweights Ministry Of Sound and easy-listening-crud heavyweights Syco (Simon Cowell’s company. See what he did there?). Ministry Of Sound have signed young dance sensation Avicii, a.k.a Tim Berg, a Swedish DJ/producer who’s tipped to be the next David Guetta, though I don’t remember putting in a repeat order. Anyway, clearly somebody did, as Avicii’s been making waves with his track Fade Into Darkness, formerly known as Penguin. It’s an undemanding piece of popshine, pretty much perfect for mass consumption. According to Ministry Of Sound, while Penguin was notching up the radio play from the likes of Pete Tong, Annie Mac and Scott Mills, they had been working with Avicii in order to develop the track from a cheerful instrumental (Penguin) to a smash hit vocal (Fade Into Darkness). In the course of MOS’s seeking out … There’s more →

Dallas Brought Back

  By Ronan | July 18, 2011 - 12:42 pm | Featured Post, TV
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Four years ago, Justin Lee Collins tried to resurrect another classic TV show (his A-Team one was legendary), with Bring Back Dallas. Little did he know, that five years later, JR, Bobby and the rest of the gang (plus the dude from Desperate Housewives that went out with Nadine) would be coming to our screens. Last week, TNT released the first trailer and official photos for the new show, which is to air in summer 2012. It’s already looking better than that horrid 90210 remake, with the old cast and new cast blending in perfectly. I have to say though, JR looks ancient. But Bobby, now that’s a grey fox! Jesse Metcalf will play Bobby and Pam’s son Christopher, fellow Desperate Housewives star Josh Henderson is J.R.’s son John Ross, while the Fast and the Furious’s Jordana Brewster is set to play the girl caught between the two guys in … There’s more →

Review: A Better Life

  By Tony McD | July 18, 2011 - 12:00 pm | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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Chris Weitz is a name you probably don’t know, and this has all the hallmarks of an art-house film with indie roots. It’s about immigrants. It has no Hollywood stars. It’s on limited release in the IFI and it has had next to zero marketing. But Chris Weitz is a director whose films have grossed over $1 billion dollars worldwide. He’s part of the mastermind brotherhood that created American Pie, he directed and adapted About A Boy and Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, and most recently he was at the helm of Twilight: New Moon. The success of this last venture essentially allowed him to write his own cheque as regards his next project, and the result is A Better Life, a story-driven relationship piece about an illegal-immigrant father and his ungrateful son in modern LA. Certainly a change from the father-son dynamic in American Pie. The story follows Carlos … There’s more →

The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala.

  By Lisa McInerney | July 18, 2011 - 9:00 am | Music, The Culch
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It’s not a random word generation or an epic fail from Google Translate; it’s the title of the new single from the Arctic Monkeys*, the second from Suck It And See. Here, have a shimmy at the video, directed by the Focus Creeps. It’s got a catsuit-wearing bird in who swoons a bit in a corridor. The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala is released on August 12th. Christ. Sounds like a threat from a psychotic zookeeper, doesn’t it? *Anyone else wish they were called the Artic Monkeys? Imagine articulated monkeys. Hoho! What larfs!