August 20 2007
Lounge Links
posted by Steven Shaw at 3:37 pm
Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight
The bat’s out of the bag: Slashfilm and several other movie blogs have a series of leaked photos from The Dark Knight — the Christopher Nolan-directed sequel to Batman Begins…
Cheese on Toast reports that The Mint Chicks abbreviated their Friday night set at Auckland’s Safari Lounge. “According to the forum post we read, The Mint Chicks stopped playing after four songs because the mosh pit was ‘getting out of hand’.”…
Flight of the Conchords in for the long haul: HBO’s antipodean comedy heroes get the go-ahead for a second series on HBO…
PJ Harvey’s new album White Chalk is due out in NZ on 24 September…
I coulda been a contender: Popmatters reviews the career of Stax Records legend William Bell, explaining why the 1960s southern soul star remains an obscure figure…
“Smile and wave boys, smile and wave”: More damn animated penguins, this time on surfboards in the upcoming film Surf’s Up (NZ release date 20 September)
Call me Ishmael: John Huston’s outstanding version of Moby Dick, with a screenplay by Ray Bradbury and starring Gregory Peck as Cap’n Ahab, screens 8.30pm this Sunday 26 August on Sky TV’s MGM Channel as part of their “Attack of the Superbeasts” movie marathon…
Yet another comedy from the Judd Apatow stable: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, written by Judd Apatow with director Jake Kasdan. It’s a parody of Walk the Line and other music biopics and it stars John C. Reilly, whose improv comedy was the real highlight of Talladega Nights. Look out for The White Stripes’ Jack White as Elvis (Warning: As is usual with Apatow productions, this may contain scenes with grown men running around in their Y-fronts):