Jonah Hex Trailer

After dropping off the promo radar for a little while, Warners are back pushing DC Comics adaptation Jonah Hex with a debut trailer out this week. Expectations in Fanworld are currently low, but the trailer should give it a boost, with Brolin looking the part as the snarling, revenge driven Hex, and Megan Fox doing the only thing she knows, acting like a hooker (God bless her).

As well as the aforementioned corseted Fox, we also get a horse mounted with Gatling guns, face branding, crossbow’s with dynamite stick arrows, crow vomiting, flame throwers, exploding ships and trains and John Malkovich doing his bad guy thing!

Jonah Hex is out on the 18^th of June in the US, with no UK date announced as yet, damnit!

Billy Joel was a Metalhead

That’s right! Back in 1970, Billy was rocking out in an organ/drums psych rock duo called Attilla, a far cry from multi-million dollar grossing piano pop of the 80’s. Teaming with drummer Jon Small, the band only lasted a year or so, splitting following Billy’s loose ways with John Small’s wife. Their one self titled album is (retrospectively) routinely panned by “critics”, but on the strength of the banging ‘Wonder Woman’ below, Billy had mad psych skills.

Basil Poledouris’ Complete Robocop Score Released

If you come here often you know we’re all about 80’s movies (You too? We should be friends)! So we thought it our duty to mention that the late great composer Basil Poledouris, has had his slamming score for Robocop released for the third time, but at last in its entirety!

The great Poledouris was the man scoring some of our favourite movies of the 80’s and 90’s. Roll Call: Conan The Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, Red Dawn, Iron Eagle, The Hunt For Red October, White Fang, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Hot Shots! Part Deux and Starship Troopers! He also gets honourable mention for surfer classic ‘Big Wednesday’ and the ace TV series ‘Misfits of Science’.

So the new Robocop score is out HERE, and in tribute to Basil, here’s some of his best!

Interpol ‘Lights’: Free Download

Gotham gloom rockers Interpol have shown their hand ahead of the release of their as yet untitled 4th album, by throwing out a bone to the hungry hipsters with a free download of new track ‘Lights’. Its typical Interpol fare; reverb sodden buzzy guitars and Ian Curtis channelled doom speak, but with none of the orchestral aspects as promised by Paul Banks earlier this year. Sucks to be boring.

The Dead Weather’s ‘Sea of Cowards’ Ready to Drop

Jack White navigated dirge rockers The Dead Weather may be cranking the same riff-crushed blues rock on their 2^nd album ‘Sea of Cowards’, but don’t they just do it with enough theatrical panache and black romance to break your feeble heart? The album drops in the UK on the 10^th of May, while the bone shakin’ lead single ‘Die by the Drop’ should already be in your life!

Metropolis is Complete!

Picture courtesy of Vintage Photo

Fritz Lang’s iconic Metropolis has been missing a substantial portion of its body since its premier in 1927. Lang’s producers thought that the film could do with a hacking, and as they were the guys controlling the purse strings, they got what they wanted, with nigh on 25 minutes of scenes going in the bin. Or so everybody thought!

Those inquisitive Germans over at ZEIT Magazin decided to go Goonies, loading up their Mystery Machine and setting off for South America, eventually tracking down the missing footage to a museum in Buenos Aires.
Now the fruit of their endeavours is here for you to feast on. With 25 minutes of new scenes plus the completed score by Gottfried Huppertz, Metropolis is getting a fresh release, giving film fans a chance to see what will be the closest thing to the uncut premier version, from 84 years ago.

Get over to the Official Site for details on screenings and the eventual Blu-Ray release. But first, let us refresh your memory.

4AD Summer Sampler: Free Download

Those jolly mindbenders over at 4AD are looking out for you in these tough times. They get it, cash is tight and illegal downloading is s slippery slope to an iPod full of shit you’ll never get around to listening to. So they’re hookin’ you up with a zip files worth of fresh tunes from their roster, including Ariel Graffiti’s ‘Round and Round’, and other musings from The National, Stornoway, The Big Pink and Efterklang.

Click Here to get it, then go away.