Friday 27 June 2008
Dagda
Artist: Dagda
Genre(s):
Celtic
New Age
Discography:
Sleeping With The Gods Of Love
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Underworld
Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Celtic Trance
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Hibernia: The Story of Ireland
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
Hibernia
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
CeltTrance
Year:
Tracks: 14
Danceable rhythms overlaid with string arrangements and swinging Celtic melodies compose the intelligent of Ireland's Dagda, the corporate sobriquet for producers Red Keating and Phillip O'Rely. Their album Celtic language Trance was released in 1999. Underworld followed a year later.
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Tuesday 24 June 2008
The best films on the box: June 24-30
Film and television critic Philip Wakefield assesses the best movies on offer on the box this week, for Tuesday, June 24 to Monday, June 30.
Tuesday, June 24
Firewall
2006, AO, 8.30pm, TV2
Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code) makes life hell for bank boffin Harrison Ford in this hi-tech thriller: his gang holds the IT guru’s family hostage until he helps them to steal $100 million using little more than a fax scanner and an iPod. It’s far-fetched but fun and enthralling. 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub and Virginia Masden co-stars; Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon) directs.
Wednesday, June 25
High School High
1996, AO, 8.30pm, Prime
Jon Lovitz stars in the kind of blackboard bungle comedy that his character in the mid-90s ‘toon, The Critic, would have given the thumbs-down. Two of the team behind The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, David Zucker and Robert LoCosh, wrote the screenplay.
Thursday, June 26
The Wrong Man
2006, AO, 8.40pm, Sky Movies 2
Released internationally as Lucky Number Slevin, this fractured, atmospheric underworld thriller eschews the usual genre suspects to ingeniously peel back the bewildering layers of a Tarantino-esque turf war with a mistaken identity twist. It may revel in one too many red-herring revelations but the sleight-of-hand artistry is breathtaking. Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis star.
Friday, June 27
What Women Want
2000, AO, 8.30pm, Vibe
Mel Gibson plays a chauvinistic ad executive who thinks he’s God's gift to women - and turns out to be just that after a freak accident leaves him able to read women’s minds. Initially he exploits this for his own benefit but ultimately uses it to do good, including advancing the career of his chief rival (Helen Hunt). It would have been funnier had the script played up the playboy angle but Gibson and Hunt largely deliver what undemanding viewers want.
Saturday, June 28
She's The Man
2006, PGR, 7.30pm, TV2
Amanda Byrnes comedy about a teenage girl who disguises herself as her twin brother to make the boys’ soccer team - only to fall for a guy who’s fallen for another girl who’s fallen for her in her new guise. Step Up’s Channing Tatum and The Covenant’s Laura Ramsey co-star in a middling teen twist on Twelfth Night.
Big Momma's House 2
2006, PGR, 7.30pm, TV3
Chuck’s Zachary Levi joins Martin Lawrence in a cross-dressing, saving-the-world sequel that’s even more feeble and fatuous than the first FBI agent-in-drag drag.
Pleasantville
1998, PGR, 8.30pm, TV One
The Truman Show meets Peggy Sue Got Married in this charming comedy about two 90s teenagers time-warped into a 50s sitcom where everything is black-and-white. The result is a humourous, hard-hitting mix of politics, pop culture, sweet romance and ingenious imagery that’s the stuff of must-see TV. Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, William H Macy, Joan Allen, JT Walsh and Don Knotts star.
40 Days and 40 Nights
2002, AO, 9.30pm, TV3
Crass romantic-comedy about a young man who decides to abstain from sex for Lent - only to meet the woman of his dreams. Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon are charming but can’t save what Village Voice memorably dubbed a "squeamishly risqué teen sexcom".
The Talented Mr Ripley
1999, AO, 9.40pm, TV2
Matt Damon's impoverished Mr Ripley would rather be a fake somebody than a real nobody, so through circumstance and deceit he befriends the revoltingly rich (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law). An ability to absorb detail and expertly mimic those whom he yearns to be is what makes Mr Ripley so talented - and deadly. When he seems doomed to lose his ticket to high society, murder results and he stumbles upon a chilling new identity: that of an increasingly nimble serial killer who slays not for pleasure but to cover up one desperate lie after another ...
Alfie
2004, AO, 11.30pm, TV3
The signature line isn’t uttered until the innovative closing credits of this redundant re-make but by then you won’t give a toss about Alfie. As played by Jude Law, and relocated to Manhattan, the Vespa-riding womaniser is a Son of Alfie cliché stranded in a much more sophisticated sea of sexual politics. Omar Epps, Marisa Tomei and Susan Sarandon co-star; Charles Shyer directs.
Sunday, June 29
Poseidon
2006, AO, 8.30pm, TV2
The killer wave can’t come quick enough in this lame duck of a disaster movie that’s a technical tour-de-force but a damp squib dramatically. It completes director Wolfgang Petersen’s so-called “water trilogy” yet sails perilously close to being his Waterloo in the wake of Das Boot and The Perfect Storm. Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss and Emmy Rossum star.
Universal Soldier
1992, AO, 8.30pm, C4
A crude concoction of ugly violence, slapdash special effects and flagrant plagiarism, this shoot-‘em-up schlock stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as rival Vietnam grunts who kill each other, only to be re-animated 23 years later as the Government’s secret weapons in the war against terrorism. 10,000 BC’s Roland Emmerich directs.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2005, AO, 11.30pm, TV3
Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie try to save the world in this novel blend of Flash Gordon gung-ho heroism and computer animation rooted in the Metropolis of nearly 80 years ago. The art deco visuals dazzle with their virtuosity, the special effects are fabulous and the corny but never campy dialogue is peppered with delights like “Good luck, Skip” and “Alert the amphibious squadron!” The performances are pitch-perfect, too, but the feeble plot betrays Sky Captain’s origins: a six-minute labour of love that writer/director Kerry Conran took four years to create on his Apple Mac.
Monday, June 30
Get Shorty
1995, AO, 8.30pm, Sky Movies Greats
Colourful black comedy starring John Travolta as a starry-eyed gangster who helps to keep the Mob from sleazy filmmaker Gene Hackman's door in return for getting to make his own movie. So unfolds an intricately plotted and slyly funny comedy. Danny DeVito, Rene Russo and Dennis Farina co-star.
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Wednesday 18 June 2008
The Isley Brothers
Artist: The Isley Brothers
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
The Definitive Collection
Year: 2007
Tracks: 17
The Essential Isley Brothers (CD2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
The Essential Isley Brothers (CD1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Collection (CD 3) - 3+3
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Collection (CD 2) - Harvest For The World
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Collection (CD 1) - The Heat Is On
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Smooth Sailin'
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
Go For Your Guns
Year: 1977
Tracks: 7
Eternal
Year:
Tracks: 14
 
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Want To Stay Together
Despite having recently bought a new pad in Beverly Hills worth $35 million (£17.5 million), the family will be relocating to the Big Apple when the show opens in October.
Producer Eric Falkenstein reveals that getting Katie to commit to the Arthur Miller play took four months because she needed to sort out her personal arrangements.
He reveals: "It took time - about four months - to work out. There were family issues. She and Tom are committed to keeping the family together, so they have to get an apartment here."
He also insists Holmes wasn't hired because of her celebrity name: "Katie's not really a celebrity type. She's done brilliant work in films like Pieces of April and The Ice Storm and is perfect for the role.
"(Her character is) a natural sweetheart who can sniff out phonies; Katie basically has that exact moral fibre."
Oscar winner Stan Winston dies
Won four Academy Awards for visual effects
Winston died peacefully and surrounded by family at his home Sunday evening, after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma, a Stan Winston Studio spokesperson said.
Winston was a collaborator with such leading filmmakers as James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, and he worked on some of his generation's most memorable films.
He won four Oscars, for the VFX in "Titanic," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Aliens"; and for the makeup on "T2." His earned additional Oscar nominations for his work on "AI: Artificial Intelligence," "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," "Batman Returns," "Edward Scissorhands," "Predator" and "Heartbeeps."
Winston's Stan Winston Studio created characters, creatures and monsters for motion pictures and TV.
He was one of the original founders of VFX house Digital Domain, though he was no longer with the company at the time of his death.
In 2001, he earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Toires and Natacha Atlas
Artist: Toires and Natacha Atlas
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Sanati
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
 
Dita's Act Once Again for the Birds
San Juan Music Group
Artist: San Juan Music Group
Genre(s):
New Age
Easy Listening
Discography:
Kundalini Effect
Year: 2002
Tracks: 7
Colours Of Lounge (Red Sessions)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Asian Oriental Lounge
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
 
Adamski
Artist: Adamski
Genre(s):
Electronic
House
Rock
Discography:
Adamski's Thing
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Naughty
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Get Your Body
Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
Killer CDS
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Killer
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Dr. Adamski's Musical Pharmacy
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
Doctor Adamski's Musical Pharmacy
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
Liveandirect
Year: 1989
Tracks: 13
Born in the late '60s, Adamski (born Adam Tinley) appeared to have reached the perfect age for transcription xX eld afterward, square in the middle of Britain's acidulous menage boom. In fact, he had made his chart debut a decennium earlier with the adolescent goon band the Stupid Babies. (The radical, which as well included his five-year-old chum Dominic on vocals, hit number trey on the indie charts with Baby Sitters and fifty-fifty recorded a radiocommunication session for John Peel.) Also a appendage of the post-punk rap music band Diskord Datkord during the mid-'80s, Tinley became interested in menage music by the remainder of the decennium. After get together Chicagoan Jimi Polo, Adamski was introduced to many major figures in house, including Marshall Jefferson and Adonis. He knowledgeable the bedrock of the sequencer from Polo as well, and began playing bouncy at storage warehouse parties and raves about London.
He sign-language with MCA by the end of the decade and debuted with "N-R-G," a issue 12 off in the U.K. (He was later forced to change state over some royalties due to a conflict with lawyers, world Health Organization contended that the track hoisted a TV commercial tonal pattern.) His subsequent single, "Sea wolf," sagely forestalled the (recognizable) samples and run into number one -- though thanks may too be imputable to its vocalist, Seal. His debut album Liveandirect made a bit of an impression, with mixes of both "N-R-G" and "Slayer" to commend itself, and his late-'90 individual "The Space Jungle" hit the Top Ten as well. As was far from surprising with the British mouth off movement, however, Adamski disappeared from the charts after 1992, when his third album Racy was released. Six age later, he resurfaced on ZTT with Adamski's Thing.
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Banabila and Saka
Artist: Banabila and Saka
Genre(s):
Electronic
Discography:
Nightmirror
Year:
Tracks: 14
 
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