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Sky News is today producing two fast turnaround documentaries on the death of Michael Jackson to be broadcast tonight on rival networks Sky1 and Channel Five.
Both hour-long shows, which are expected to include similar moments from Jackson's life, were originally planned to run at 8pm, although Five later confirmed it would move its to 7pm.
Sky News is producing Five's show as it holds the contract for its news coverage, with the channel having a separate studio and newsroom at Sky's Osterley base in west London.
Five's Michael Jackson: King of Pop, which will replace the advertised Five News and Top Trumps in the 7pm hour, will see Natasha Kaplinsky look back at the life and career of the pop icon, who died late last night, UK time.
The programme will include US fans' reaction to Jackson's death and a look at his life using interviews with Uri Gellar, Mark Lester and music journalist Neil McCormick, and clips from Jackson's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show and his interview with TV newscaster Diane Sawyer.
Meanwhile, Sky1's special documentary, titled The Real Michael Jackson, will feature TV coverage from his career. This will be produced by Sky News' Nick Phipps. The programme will be repeated at midnight and at 10pm tomorrow, with a further afternoon repeat on Sunday.
Meanwhile, US networks hastily ripped up their schedules last night to air Jackson tribute programmes alongside already planned shows on actor Farrah Fawcett, who also died yesterday.
News of Jackson's death broke just 90 minutes before primetime was due to begin on the east coast, with ABC, NBC and CBS all reworking their lineups to make room.
Barbara Walters introduced ABC's two-hour special. Martin Bashir, the British journalist who made his name in the US with his 2003 ITV documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which also aired on ABC, presented the Jackson tribute, The Life and Death of Michael Jackson.
This was followed at 10pm by Farrah Fawcett: Her Life, Her Loves, Her Legacy. Additional reporting on the two deaths continued on ABC's Nightline at 11.35pm.
NBC News broadcast a two-hour episode of Dateline from 9pm devoted to Jackson and Fawcett, fronted by Ann Curry and Meredith Vieira. Tonight NBC plans to rebroadcast two-hour documentary Farrah's Story about her battle with cancer.
CBS News aired a one-hour news special at 10pm also titled The Life and Death of Michael Jackson; while on Fox, Nigel Lythgoe, the British judge on reality show So You Think You Can Dance, paid tribute to Jackson and Fawcett during the live results programme.
The network said it would also repeat its two-hour Jackson-themed episode of American Idol from last season on Monday night as a tribute.
via the Gaurdian.
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tracks...
1. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
2. Beastie Boys - Lee Majors Come Again
3. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
4. Lit - My Own Worst Enemy
5. Beastie Boys - B-Boys In The Cut
6. Michael Jackson - Thriller
7. Bloc Party - One More Chance
8. Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
9. Against Me! - Borne On The FM Waves
10. Beastie Boys - Ch-Ch-Check It Out
11. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
12. The Who - Pinball Wizard
13. Streetlight Manifesto - We Are The Few
14. blink-182 - Easy Target
15. Street Sweeper Social Club - The Oath
albums...
1. Michael Jackson - Thriller
2. Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club
3. Idlewild - The Remote Part
4. ToTom - Dylan Mashed
5. Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
6. Michael Jackson - Bad
7. TRVS DJAM - Fix Your Face Vol.2: Coachella '09
8. Faith No More - The Real Thing
9. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
10. Rancid - Let The Dominoes Fall
R.I.P Michael Jackson, a true music legend. 1958-2009.
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Michael Bay has never been one to embrace or even read film critics, and with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, those aggrieved legions are returning the favor. And while the film is altogether review-proof, that’s not going to stop some of its most determined foes from attempting to smother it in its crib. After the jump, have a look at some of the most amusingly vicious rebukes to the summer’s biggest blockbuster to date.
9. “My son does not own any Transformer dolls. I’m sorry, make that Transformer action figures. But if he did, upon my return from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I would have taken these Hasbro toys outside, placed them under the wheels of the car and driven back and forth across them until they were ground into dust.” — Mary Pols, Time Magazine
8. “Michael Bay has once again transformed garbage into something resembling a film, at least in the loosest sense: it can be run through a projector and used to sell millions of tickets.” — Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
7. “At 149 minutes, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is six minutes longer than the 2007 noise machine from which this sequel sprang, but those six minutes are like dog minutes.” — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
6. “Fallen indulges Bay’s excesses well past the point of reason to deliver the male teenage cinematic equivalent of snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass.” — Garth Franklin, Dark Horizons
5. “It finally occurred to me that pyrotechnics are Bay’s pornography: massive, fiery money-shots. The bigger the fireball, the more he gets his rocks off. I hope he had a sufficient supply of tissues in the editing room.” — Marshall Fine, Hollywood and Fine
4. “This is the same man who directed The Rock in 1996. Now he has made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Faust made a better deal.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
3. “I don’t have much nice to say about Transformers 2, but I’m happy to see my Park Slope neighbor John Turturro get another big paycheck.” — David Edelstein, New York Magazine
2. “I’m certain that someday it will be acknowledged that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire. It’s so us, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it. […] What we have right here is the Easter Island statue of our legacy.” — MaryAnn Johanson, FlickFilosopher
1. “Terry Schiavo would have been bored by this bloated, ponderous piece of $h!t.” — Devin Faraci, CHUD
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i found this article on a film called 'Moon' sounds really interesting...
Alone with his robot on a remote lunar station, Sam is about to head home after a three year contract. That's when things get weird in Moon, which is lucky for you if you like smart, original science fiction stories.This is the season when movies are more likely to bash you over the head with giant robotic fists then they are to make you ponder the universe. Nothing against robotic fists, mind you. But what sets Moon apart from other space operas this summer is that it blows you away with original ideas and surprising characters. It's still action packed, violent, and intense, but on an individual scale. Instead of spaceship battles, you have one man in his lunar rover, tiny against the immense moonscape.
Sam (Sam Rockwell) has begun to realize something is wrong at the lunar mining station. He can't get a live feed from Earth, and the video mails from his wife seem strangely edited. Plus, his robot Gertie (voiced by Kevin Spacey) seems to be trying to tell him something in a very subtle way: When he delivers news from the company, he flashes emoticons on his screen which signal confusion and distress. At first Gertie seems incredibly menacing, a version of HAL, but slowly we begin to realize that the robot is more complicated than that.
And Sam's life is a lot more complicated too. He knows he's a working stiff, required only to start up stalled mining vehicles. He's so unimportant that the company doesn't even bother to fix his live feed. But when he has an accident, he learns that he's more lowly than he ever imagined.
I would like to give you a reverse-spoiler alert here. Many people seem to believe that the big reveal of this movie is that Sam is a clone. Nothing could be farther from the truth. He discovers this early on, when Gertie awakens another clone after believing that Sam perished in the accident.
Sam's coming to terms with the fact that he is a clone, and his relationship with the newly-awakened second Sam clone, form the meat of this film. Together they must unravel the mystery of their existence and find out what the company has in store for them. Gertie also has a mysterious purpose, and his battered body, covered in post-it notes, always lurks at the edge of the frame. Eventually the company dispatches a "rescue mission" to the base, and the two Sams must race to figure out what they can do to save themselves in a world where clones are clearly less than people.
Directed and conceived by Duncan Jones, Moon is quiet and disturbing, yet manages to be hopeful in the face of overwhelmingly grim conditions. Director Jones happens to be the son of alien rocker David Bowie, but the tone and pacing of this film couldn't be farther from Ziggy Stardust. It's understated and minimalist – awash in shades of gray, with a rippling score from Clint "Pi" Mansell, the story is anti-glam. Which only allows Rockwell's incredible acting to pop even more.
What's pleasing about this movie is quite simply its originality. From the breathtaking images of a strip-mined moon, to the tight shots on Sam's face when he realizes he is just a copy of a man, this is a movie that will wash those YARMS right out of your brain. And without giving anything away, I'll just say the ending is not what you were expecting.
The other thing that I think is interesting about this movie is that it is actually based on current legal theories of clones. As law professor Kerry Macintosh has pointed out in her book Illegal Beings, human clones are illegal and therefore possess no human rights. If a human clone grew up now, it would have the legal status of a slave or worse. So it is not so farfetched to imagine that clones might become the untouchables of the next century.
So if you're wondering what to see this weekend, and you're lucky enough to live in one of the few cities where this movie has opened, check out Moon. You can see robots fighting any old time. But seeing something truly new? That's as rare as a rebellious clone on the moon.
and here is the trailer:
85% on the tomatometer and getting loads of positive reviews, its out in the UK on the 17th of July.
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Bloc Party 'One More Chance' || 10-08-09
in Indie, Rock and Alternative
they have finished with Intimacy now, they always do this, the release a brand new unheard single just to finish the album's era off (just like Two More Years and Flux)