guardian.co.uk Film:
Tati (1907-1982) was the screen's most fastidious director of comedy and the greatest visual humorist since the silent days of Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd whom he revered, and this comic cornucopia contains all his feature films except Trafic (1971). The first four are increasingly ambitious masterpieces generally using onoma (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down: Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers an (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
It might have begun life as a ruthlessly efficient killing machine, but there's something incredibly depressing watching the soul get sucked out of the Terminator. Compared with the latest reanimation of this robotic corpse, Terminator Salvation (2009, 12, Sony), 2003's previously disappointing Rise of the Machines starts t (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Porn is all about instant gratification. A business reliant on bringing its customers the goods fast, this industry has always had a history of being on the forefront of new technologies as they emerge for better products and faster distribution. Revolutionizing porn and how its enjoyed with the adoption of the VHS home vi (Read More)
L.A. Times - Movie News:
Also: 'Angels & Demons,' 'Four Christmases,' 'Gomorrah' and more
Also: "Angels & Demons," "Four Christmases," "Gomorrah" and more
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observer.guardian.co.uk:
Some of today's comics are guilty not so much of being offensive, but of just not being clever, funny or flexible enough to do their jobs without being offensiveWhen did British comedians get so whiney? It's getting difficult to open a newspaper without coming across a comedian feeling "oppressed" by the "culture of fear", (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Willem Dafoe 54, actor, married, one sonI've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women. My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn't see either of them much. It was a sexual education, be (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Labiaplasties can be risky, yet the number carried out on the NHS rose by 70% last yearBefore she had even turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her. "I would look at other girls in the shower, and think, 'They don't have what I have,'" she says, and wearing a pair of jeans be (Read More)
New York Times:
Hanging out with the model Brooklyn Decker, who’s starring in Elle’s new “Make Better” series of fitness and beauty DVD’s.
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guardian.co.uk Film:
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fameThere is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours to promote his smash-hit low-budg (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Why does recession bring with it a thirst for dumb revenge dramas?Law Abiding Citizen, which I should say at the outset is a terrible, terrible movie – either the stupidest of the year so far or the most unintentionally funny – takes the urban revenge movie and grafts on to it certain depressing innovations from other genre (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, Robert Crumb confirms that God is a hell of a lot less fun than Fritz the Cat. "The first book of th (Read More)