Short reviews of different movies and music albums and singles from the past weeks:
Disturbia: Bad actors, bad screenplay, nothing new, don’t waste your time.
Zodiac: Way too long, but some nice and creepy moments. Three-out-of-five.
Transformers: Much worse than I expected. More and worse humour than in Independence Day. At it’s best this could have been very dark sci-fi thriller – now it was a blockbuster family movie with some robots in it. And yeah, what comes to music – did you notice the similarity to Terminator2 theme on the first combat scenes?
Knocked Up: Do they do good comedies these days anymore? :P
Ocean’s 13: Was ok, but the worst of the three.
Bourne Ultimatum: See above.
Shooter: Was a horrible film without a hint of a surprising plot. Don’t bother.
Sunshine: Was surprisingly good. The description made me wait for an Armageddon remake, but it was more like Solaris or Space Odyssey 2001. I hoped they could have left off the totally useless action and chase scenes. Anyway – not a superb movie, but pretty good sci-fi – recommended.
Have I just been very unlucky with my choices or where are all the good films? I’d be happy to get some good recommendations.
Then, let’s get to music.
Justice – Cross. I finally got my hands on this. You’re probably heard this is THE dance album of the year so I won’t say more. Amazing album.
Tuomo – My Thing. I’m soooo late with this one, too. Hyped, hyped, hyped. And I’d hype more if you hadn’t heard it all already. Probably some of the most original Finnish albums I’ve heard in a long long time.
Radiohead – In Rainbows. Had to buy this just to support Radioheads idea of selling their album online for a price you choose. You can pay 1£ or 1000£, whatever you prefer. I paid 4,5£. And it turned out to be a very good album. Try it.
Tom Middleton – Lifetracks. Probably one of the best chill-out albums in a year or two. It contains some older tracks, too, but they haven’t worn out at all. The album was only 5,94e on iTunes still a couple of days ago but they’ve raised it back to 9,99e.
nrnet – Music For Sunrise. I got very inspired by nrvnet’s chill-out mixes which are available for download on his blog. I recommend especially Music For Sunrise. I bet you’ll hear more soon on my podcast.
Aril Brikha – Ex Machina. Aril Brikha’s sound is fascinating and very original – the earlier singles were highly supported on my DJ sets and the full lenght album is nothing but the same at its best. Definitely the best melodic techno/electronica album of the year.
BT is giving out his track 1.618 from his last album for free on Last.fm. Download it here. See the video of 1.618 (so awesome!).
Underworld – Oblivion with Bells. I listened the samples of the new album and it seemed to be a huge disappointment (if you don’t count Crocodile, which is excellent:). Has anyone had a closer look?
To find some of the articles mentioned above, try Beatport, iTunes Music Store or Play.com.