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Film links. KUNG FURY!

28 July, 201528 August, 2016 Film, Links 0

How to make Zardoz make sense, automated iPhone music video making, geolocking, racism and Kung Fury.

Based on the trailer, it is blindingly obvious that everyone must watch the hell out of Kung Fury.

25 April, 201528 August, 2016 Film 0

A kung fu cop film from the television ’80s. Here is the trailer. And here is the Wikipedia article. And here is the theme

The Cramps’ long-lost video for “Human Fly” found.

24 April, 201528 August, 2016 Film, Punk 0

An item alluded to in epic-nerd-level Cramps coverage, but so rare nobody was even known to have a full copy. Here in the astounding

How comprehensively fucked Hollywood is, in detail.

3 January, 201528 August, 2016 Film 0

The Sony hack revealed that even the execs are sick of the latest Adam Sandler vehicle. Mark Harris at Grantland sets out the next

Danny Says: a documentary about Danny Fields.

29 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Punk 0

Danny Fields was there before the birth of punk rock in the US: he’s the guy who signed the Stooges and the MC5 to

Nick Cave: 20,000 Days On Earth and Q&A session

19 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Post-Punk 0

At a special screening at The Astor, the Nick Cave documentary 20 000 Days on Earth was screened, with Nick present for a Q&A

Sony Pictures hack: how to save a bundle of cash through wilful negligence.

13 December, 201428 August, 2016 Film, Industry 2

Sony Pictures’ computer network got comprehensively pwn3d recently, with huge amounts of confidential data being dumped to the world. Because everybody hates Sony, for

Archive: Axiom (2014)

20 August, 201429 March, 2017 Film, Industrial, Prog, Record 0

Archive are a pretty superb combination of electronica, trip-hop, with progressive elements, something like a fusion of 65daysofstatic and Portishead. To say that they’ve

Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay: documentary film later this year.

16 March, 20146 May, 2017 Film, Industrial 0

Now this is an interesting thing. Amélie Ravalec and Travis Collins (the one from RTR) track down the conceptual origins of 1970s and 1980s

Kim Jong-Il was the North Korean Roger Ebert.

9 January, 20146 May, 2017 Film, Writing 0

Amongst his stupendously many literary achievements, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il was an accomplished film critic. LET US CREATE MORE REVOLUTIONARY FILMS BASED ON SOCIALIST

The Manual, Hollywood edition.

19 July, 201312 April, 2017 Film 0

There is a Manual for film that sets out precisely what is to happen as closely as The Manual did for pop music. But

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

15 July, 20136 May, 2017 Film 0

Must be movie week at Rocknerd. So I was reminded of The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), a thoroughly enjoyable piece of cheese starring

Nick Cave’s ridiculously over-the-top rejected script for Gladiator 2, for your reading pleasure.

12 July, 20136 May, 2017 Film 0

Russell Crowe wanted a followup to Gladiator. So, of course, he called Nick Cave. ‘Cos that’s obviously the first thing you do.

How the B-movie industry works these days.

12 July, 201326 January, 2017 Film 0

A look into Asylum, assembly-line producers of such instant classics as 2-Headed Shark Attack. This century, the market for B-movies is Netflix and the

Dogs In Space by the Quietus.

9 July, 20139 May, 2018 Film 0

Someone outside Australia notices Dogs In Space, specifically Anthony Nield at the Quietus. And of course, you can get the soundtrack album for less

No, film is not in unique need of blockbusterism.

8 October, 201229 September, 2016 Film 1

Here’s something instructive: YouTube: A Dinosaur Story. That’s a three-hour movie done by two kids in their loungeroom with toy dinosaurs. Ridiculously low production

Music industry whining has a long and venerable history.

25 February, 20127 May, 2017 Film, Industry 0

Today’s is from the advent of the evil talkie in the cinemas. The obvious solution is to ban soundtracks on moving images. Playing YouTube

Why movies right now suck more than music.

8 March, 201112 April, 2017 Film 3

The Internet has set off a desperately-needed nuclear viral cancer bomb under the music industry. The majors are going down the tubes, the distribution