The first full trailer is now online for Gareth Evans’ The Raid 2
(Indonesian title, The Raid 2: Berandal), the sequel to the wildly
popular international hit The Raid (aka The Raid: Redemption). The film
reunites writer/director Gareth Evans with actor Iko Uwais, who will be
reprising his starring role. In addition to Uwais, the international cast includes Tio Pakusadewo,
Putra Arifin Scheunamann, Julie Estelle, Alex Abbad and Roy Marten. Immediately following the events of the original, “The Raid 2″ tracks
Officer Rama as he is pressured to join an anticorruption task force to
guarantee protection for his wife and child. His mission is to get
close to a new mob boss, Bangun, by befriending his incarcerated son,
Uco. Rama must hunt for information linking Bangun with corruption in
the Jakarta Police Department while pursuing a dangerous and personal
vendetta that threatens to consume him and bring his mission–and the
organized crime syndicate–down around him. Check out the teaser trailer below. The Raid 2 is set to hit theaters on March 28, 2014. (latino-review)
A new attraction for thrillseekers has just opened in the French Alps. Called "Step Into the Void”,
this is the tallest attraction in Europe, it is located on the peak of
Aiguille du Midi (Europe's highest mountain peak). The death-defying
attraction consists of a glass box suspended over the yawning void,
3,395 feet above the ground. It takes visitors almost 20 minutes to get
to by cable car, but if you´re brave enough to enter the cube, you´ll be
rewarded with one of the most breathtaking 360° views in all of the
world - of the French, Swiss and Italian Alps. (blessthisstuff)
Here is Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings cover of "Goldfinger" as heard in the 'Wolf Of Wall Street." The new Dap-Kings album Give The People What They Want is out 1/14 on Daptone, and the “Goldfinger” cover is out now at iTunes.
The Digital Bolex D16 is a super16mm digital cinema camera that shoots uncompressed raw with a cost starting at $3,299.99. Other niceties include a 2.4-inch digital viewfinder, stereo audio
recorder with an XLR input, HDMI output, interchangeable lens mount, and
a removable pistol grip.
Both the trailer and the poster for Stephen Chow's (Kung Fu Hustle) latest, Journey to the West, are now online and can be viewed below. Based on the classic tale from Chinese literature, Journey to the West
takes place in a world plagued by demons, who cause its human
inhabitants unspeakable suffering. Young demon hunter Xuan Zang,
fearlessly guided by his belief in “giving himself for the greater
cause”, risks his all and conquers a water demon, a pig demon and the
demon of all demons, Sun Wukong. He embraces them as his disciples, and
melts them with love. Meanwhile, Xuan Zang discovers the true meaning of
Greater Love himself. In order to atone for their own sins and save the
common people, the four of them embark on a journey to the West that’s
full of challenges… Journey to the West will see a domestic release on March 7, 2014, when it is set to hit both theaters and iTunes. (comingsoon)
Philadelphia punk band Duffys Cut have premiered a video for their song L.O.S.E. The track is taken from their self titled 7 track album due to drop on January 1st 2014 via Oi! The Boat Records.
Visual effects studio Cinesite made a mock commercial for fictitious product called ‘Haynes Baked Beans’. The animated video shows a dramatic encounter between astronauts and an alien monster on the Moon…
Brooklyn Punks Cerebral Ballzy have a video up for their track ‘Better In
Leather’, out now on Cult Records. The band are to release ‘Jaded and
Faded’ through Cult early next year. It will be the band’s first
full-length album since their 2011 self-titled LP.
Following the two teasers and a viral video, Warner Bros. Pictures has brought online the full trailer for Wally Pfister's directorial debut, Transcendence,
starring Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cole
Hauser and Morgan Freeman. It is officially described as follows: Dr. Will Caster (Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of
Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that
combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the
full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have
made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of
anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the
catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own
transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Hall) and best friend Max Waters
(Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but
if they should. Their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves
into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown.
The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no
way to stop him. Transcendence opens in theaters and IMAX on April 18, 2014. (comingsoon)
“Originally built by O. Ray Courtney in 1936 based on a 1930 K.J Henderson, restored by Frank Westfall from Syracuse, NY”.Henderson produced 4-cylinder motorcycles from 1912
until 1931. They were the largest and fastest motorcycles of their time,
and appealed to sport riders and police departments. Police favored
them for traffic patrol because they were faster than anything on the
roads. Henderson was a Chicago brand and one of the American ‘Big Three‘
(with Harley-Davidson and Indian). The company began during the golden
age of motorcycling, and ended during the Great Depression.
Hungarian animation studio Delov Digital has created a CGI holiday parody of the popular epic split ad for Volvo performed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. The parody features Chuck Norris doing the splits between two Air Force cargo planes while 11 soldiers stand on his shoulders.
Lamborghini announces the replacement for the 10-year-old Gallardo, the
Huracán LP 610-4. Named after a fighting bull from 1879, the baby Lambo
packs a 5.2L V10 with 610 hp, 413 lb-ft of torque, and is capable of a
0-60 time of 3.2 seconds and top speed of 201 mph. Other features
include a 12.3" TFT instrument panel, full LED headlights, 7-speed dual
clutch transmission, and all-wheel-drive.
Iron Reagan have released a music video for “Mini Lites,” which will be appearing on their recent split with Exhumed. Check it out below. The Iron Reagan/Exhumed split was released earlier this week. Iron Reagan last released “Worse Than Dead” on March 20th through A389 Recordings. (dyingscene)
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has brought online 9 minutes of nighttime gameplay from developer Techland's Dying Light, coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC in 2014. During the day, players will traverse an expansive urban environment
overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and
crafting weapons to defend against the growing infected population. At
night, the hunter becomes the hunted, as the infected become aggressive
and more dangerous. Most frightening are the predators which only appear
after sundown. Players must use everything in their power to survive
until the morning's first light. (comingsoon)
Vice's new electronic music channel, Thump debuted Erol Alkan's new "A Hold On Love". The short film was directed by Daniel Brereton, and was inspired by the
feeling of discovering the communal experience of dance music for the
first time. "A Hold On Love" features on Erol Alkan's "Illumination" EP,
which is available now on vinyl and download through Phantasy.
BMW has
released a new promotional video on YouTube that highlights the
advantages of the new laser headlight technology over conventional LED
units. The company will use the new technology in BMW i8 plug-in hybrid sports car, thus making it world’s first production car to feature laser headlight technology. According to BMW, laser headlamps will give monochromatic light that
is five times brighter than conventional light. It also provides twice
the visibility range, while using less than half the energy. BMW claims
the new laser headlamps will have an estimated reach off 600 meters,
double that of LEDs, reaching 600 meters. The new technology also
reduces strain caused to oncoming cars. Unlike conventional headlights, monochromatic light from lasers mean
only one wavelength is discharged rather than a spectrum, making it
extremely efficient and require less lighting diodes. In fact, the
length of laser diodes are just ten microns, one hundred times smaller
than square-shaped cells used in LED lights. The
BMW i8 will be on sale at a starting price of $135,925 when it enters
the market in spring 2014. It will be the world’s first production
car to feature laser headlight technology. The BMW i8 is slated to
compete against the likes of the Audi R8 and Porsche 911. However, the
i8 will stand apart as the only sports car in the category to achieve a
combined 50 mpg combined. The BMW i8 drivetrain features a turbocharged
and direct-injected 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine that is mated to an
electric motor. (imotortimes)
Giorgio Moroder has premiered the official video to his remix of Donna Summer’s classic Love To Love You Baby.
The track, featuring Moroder’s latest protege Chris Cox, appears on the new Donna Summer remix album, Love To Love You Donna, out now on Verve.
Fox has released the first trailer for next year’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” Film, set for release on July 11, 2014, is a sequel to 2011′s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” which starred James Franco. “Dawn” stars Gary Oldman, Andy Serkis (as head primate Caesar), Jason
Clarke, Judy Greer, Keri Russell and Kodi-Smit McPhee and is directed
by Matt Reeves.
Megadeth have performed a metal version of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' with Jenny Lewis. Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (December 17), the group soundtracked a sketch involving the band promoting their pretend Christmas album Thrashing Through The Snow: A Very Megadeth Christmas. Megadeth unveiled their 13th studio album Super Collider back in June.
Another Red-Band trailer has been released for E.L. Katz's thriller Cheap Thrills. Cheap Thrills stars Pat Healey (Compliance) as a man who attempts to drink his financial troubles away with an old friend (Ethan Embry), until the pair encounters a mysterious and wealthy husband and wife (David Koechner and Sara Paxton) who challenge them to increasingly dangerous dares in exchange for money. Cheap Thrills opens in limited release starting March 21, 2014.
Reverend Horton Heat
has just released a new song entitled “Spooky Boots” from their
upcoming album “Rev,” which is set to be released on January 21st
through Victory Records. You can listen to “Spooky Boots” and read about the song’s background here.
Magnet Releasing has released the official trailer for Grand Piano, the thriller starring Elijah Wood. In the March 7 release, Wood plays Tom Selznick, the most talented
pianist of his generation, who has stopped performing in public because
of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he
reappears in public for a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed
theater, in front of an expectant audience, Tom finds a message written
on the score: “Play one wrong note and you die.” In the sights of an
anonymous sniper (John Cusack), Tom must get through the most difficult
performance of his life and look for help without being detected.
A group of warriors confront that which stands between them and the
power to save their people in this rotoscoped animated fantasy short
created by Morgan Galen King's Gorgonaut studios. Starring Jon
Tomlinson, and featuring music by Strand of Oaks, Ice Dragon, and Jonn
Ollsin.
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals released a new video for the song “Ugly Mug” which has been part of the “Housecore Horror Film Festival EP”. This project is headed by Phil Anselmo himself, the legendary frontman of Down and the groove metal band, Pantera. The track can also be downloaded for free at this link.
Check out the restricted trailer for the sequel
to 21 Jump Street, the blockbuster comedy starring Jonah Hill and
Channing Tatum. The film also stars Ice Cube, Amber Stevens, Jillian Bell, and Craig Roberts. 22 Jump Street opens June 13, 2014.
Chloe Howl has premiered her new music video online. The
singer will release 'Rumor' on March 10 as the latest single to be
lifted from her forthcoming debut album, which is due out in 2014.
ICON, the motorcycle riding apparel maker, needed a new custom bike to be featured in its 2014 premium ICON 1000 brand Spring catalog. "She was an accident waiting to happen. 600 pounds of American coke fired
iron, riding on weather-checked English rubber. Cracking femurs or
rupturing internal organs were her specialties, and she had done so on
more than one occasion. The Iron Lung, a 1991 Harley Sportster
road-racer, was a vision of what never was, in response to a question
that was never asked."
Paramount Pictures has revealed the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Trilogy director Christopher Nolan's Interstellar which you can watch in the player below! The trailer is also playing in theaters with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Hitting theaters and IMAX on November 7, 2014, the sci-fi film stars
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, John
Lithgow, Casey Affleck, David Gyasi, Wes Bentley, Mackenzie Foy,
Timothée Chalamet, Topher Grace, David Oyelowo Ellen Burstyn, Michael
Caine and Matt Damon. Interstellar
chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a
newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space
travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar
voyage. (comingsoon)
Portland punks The Thermals have released a video game entitled "Sword By My Side". The title comes
from the song of the same name off of their 2013 release
Desperate Ground. You can play the game by following this link.
Brazilian television network Globo created an entertaining video
which goes through all of the design changes that Formula 1 cars have
gone through over the decades. The clip was created for the 2013 Brazilian Formula 1 Grand Prix and
shows the evolution of F1 cars through the eyes of a young fan who grows
up with the sport. There have been several significant design changes since the
inaugural season of Formula 1 which took place back in 1950. We get to
see iconic cars such as Ascari's Ferrari and Fangio's Mercedes, as well
as the Benetton and Ferrari cars driven by Michael Schumacher. (WorldCarFans)
Portland rockers Red Fang have premiered their new music video, for the track “Blood Like Cream” off their latest album, Whales and Leaches. Whales and Leeches was released in October, and the band will make their late-night TV debut on The Late Show with David Letterman on January 10th.
The Mercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo arrives at Jay Leno’s Garage and he also gives us a drive in his 1076 hp 1966 Toronado. Both go virtual in Gran Turismo 6.
Paris public transport authority RATP has come up with an etiquette guide for tourists on how to navigate the city’s subway system. The Manuel de Savoir-Vivre
is an e-book containing 12 humorous rules for tourists to follow to
ensure a pleasant ride on the metro. It was the result of collecting
thousands of suggestions from commuters over several months. The
guidelines are accompanied by helpful illustrations and are aimed at
improving tourists' manners, and educating them on the dos and don’ts of
riding the subway. Some of the rules are tongue-in-cheek, such as “Have manners:
Share your new musical tastes on your social networks. Today, you can
express yourself in silence” and “Be helpful: Hold the exit door for the
person behind you. In life, never pass on the chance to come across a
pretty glance”, while others are common sense. The guide is currently only available in French and you can check it out here. (designtaxi)
US car manufacturer Lucra has revealed first details on their all-new L148
supercar. The super aerodynamic L148 features a one piece carbon fiber
body and is powered by a 4.7 liter LS7 V8 engine, spitting out
approximately 700hp and capable of accelerating from 0-60 time in around
2.5 seconds. The Lucra L148 is expected to make it’s first public debut
in Spring 2014, no official price has been been announced as yet. (blessthisstuff)
The first trailer is out for Doug Liman's sci-fi epic "Edge of
Tomorrow". Tom Cruise stars as a soldier sent on a brutal suicide
mission against an invading alien force. Killed within minutes, he
finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop —forcing him to live
out the same brutal combat over and over. The pic also stars Bill Paxton, Laura Pulver, and Jeremy Piven. Edge of Tomorrow opens on June 6, 2014.
Kyuss offshoot Vista Chino have released a video for their track Sweet Remain. View it below. It’s taken from their debut album Peace, which was launched in September via Napalm Records.
When Ferrari wanted to race in Formula 2 with its new V6 engine named
after Enzo Ferrari's son Dino, the company faced a problem. They needed
to build enough cars to satisfy the homologation rules, so Ferrari
turned to Fiat for help. A deal was struck with Fiat to build the Dino
Coupe and Spider, and with this, Ferrari got its chance to compete in
Formula 2. Danny Soukup always loved the way the Dino Spider
looked, so for decades he worked his way into a position to buy the car
of his dreams. There is a lot of history surrounding Fiat and Ferrari
during the time period of this car, and Danny gives us a look into this
as well as the design, thoughts, and inner workings of a Fiat Dino
Spider. He also shares the new perspective into life that his car has
given him. (petrolicious)
Dam-Funk & Snoop's 7 Days Of Funk is out now.
The new video is "Hit Da Pavement," directed by Henry Demaio. This is
the second part of what began in the first video, "Faden Away".
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released the first trailer for
director Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla along with a new poster. Here's a synopsis: An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, and Sally Hawkins. Godzilla opens in 3D on May 16, 2014.
