29 April 2009

Music: Clocks performed by Eric Lewis


Now that's how to play a piano. More on the man here.

Films: The Goonies

The Goonies has everything you could want in a 1980s action-adventure-comedy: a gang of kids vs the mean grown ups, hidden treasure, pirate ghosts, and so on. In honour of Empire magazine's 20th birthday, the whole cast were reunited, including Josh 'Llewelyn Moss' Brolin, Sean 'Sam Gamgee' Astin, director Richard Donner and producer Steven Spielberg - you can read more here.

28 April 2009

Music: Despite What You've Been Told - Two Gallants


One of the best tracks from Chewi's favourite Americana alternative folk rock band (who are obviously named after a story in Dubliners).

26 April 2009

Photos: Anna and Paul get married

Congratulations... a selection of pictures from the big day.






21 April 2009

Music: Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl - Broken Social Scene


Few songs in the history of music have managed to be quite as good as this one. "This song is basically perfect," as someone going by the name 'batkins' says on SongMeanings.

Links: 10 Great Movie Posters

Total Film has put up a feature on 10 Great Movie Posters which you can find by clicking here... including Cloverfield (above) and The Dark Knight.

20 April 2009

Links: slow-motion video


I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

Photos: Gadget Show Live

Some snaps of our recent press trip to the Gadget Show Live courtesy of Wardey.

Playstation.

Virtual racing.

The Terminator.

On the move.

Sony.

PCs.

Red Arrow.

Old mobiles.

Gamers.

Films: Robin Hood

If you're kept awake at night wondering what Gladiator-making duo Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe would do with the Robin Hood legend, you'll only have to wait until next year to find out. Here's the first pic from the new movie, and you can read more about it at USATODAY.com here and Wikipedia here.

15 April 2009

Photos: a young Chris Martin

Welcome to number 1 in a series of 1 on VoH - 'Before They Were Famous'. Here's Coldplay crooner Chris Martin snapped nine or so years ago, around the time of the release of Parachutes. He's reading the arts supplement from the Durham Uni student newspaper and looking very youthful.

14 April 2009

Music: Shot In The Back Of The Head - Moby


Always good to see two of your favourite people getting together - here's the new single from Moby, with the video directed by David Lynch. Moby's 9th album Wait For Me is out in June.

13 April 2009

Films: Tell No One (2006)



Eight years after his wife is murdered by a serial killer, a doctor starts receiving emails that suggest she might be alive. And now the police think he killed her. And there are lots of people hanging around looking dodgy. Plenty of chases and twists and turns. IMDB

Photos: Sadie and Percy live at the Navi

Sadie and Percy entertain the crowds.

Encore 1: just Percy.

Encore 2: just Ryan.

09 April 2009

Music: I Am The Mob - Catatonia


Here are Catatonia to celebrate the start of the Easter weekend - surely one of the best songs of the 1990s? Not sure about the video though.

Links: Celebrity Wit

Interested in wisdom and wisecracks from the rich and famous? Click here to jump to Celebrity Wit which collects a ton of quotes together for your enjoyment.

Sample:
Drew Barrymore: I wish I was an octopus so I could hug ten people at a time!

03 April 2009

Links: Withnail & I behind-the-scenes

Fans of the classic British movie Withnail & I might enjoy some of the photos shown here, part of a new exhibition of behind-the-scenes photos by Murray Close.

"A pair of quadruple whiskies and another pair of pints."

01 April 2009

Books: Pride And Prejudice And Zombies

If you've always found the novels of Jane Austen to be a little tame, you might be interested in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies - it combines Austen's original story with tales of attacks from the undead. You can read the first three chapters here, which include reports of Darcy "having slaughtered more than a thousand unmentionables since the fall of Cambridge".