Competitions
Metrodome Distribution is proud to announce the release of the MAVERICKS collections.
Ferociousunforgettable ablaze with energy and imagination every film in the MAVERICKS collections combines cinematic mastery with mesmerising vision, and hip commercial appeal with intellect. These movies are the maverick successes of world cinema, fiery diamonds in the rough and classics for any collector.
Mavericks “DRIVEN BY A VISION” boxset features Donnie Darko – The Director’s Cut, Easy Riders Raging Bulls and Overnight.
Donnie Darko the Director’s Cut Jake Gyllenhal stars in one of the biggest cult hits from recent years as a tormented youth haunted by the future.
Extras Audio Commentary with Richard Kelly and Kevin Smith
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls The outstanding documentary from the evangelical young guns that re-invented (and almost finished) Hollywood cinema amidst a blaze of cocaine, backstabbing and white-knuckle filmmaking. Extras 90 Minutes of Deleted and Extra Footage
Overnight The riotous theatrical documentary hit detailing the rise and dramatic freefall of egomaniac filmmaker Troy Duffy.
Extras Director’s Interview on ‘Backstage With Barry Nolan’, Deleted Scenes, Alternative Ending.
Novas Gallery
3 A2 posters of the elements of colourful surroundings, that have been especially designed by one of the exhibition artists Steve Gee, 5 limited edition comic books drawn by participating artist Keith Watts and a 10 sets of original artists postcards, including Keith Watts zombie postcards, the mundane gundam postcard, Steve Gees, Jon Burgerdman’s and keith Watts postcards. All waiting to be won by you!
Bloom Festival
Bloom- new festival of cultured electronic beats and bass.
The countdown to the first ever Bloom is really now on. It’s a shiny jewel in the busy crown of festivals; with an impressive lineup of all the who’s who in electronic music and visuals these days. Coupled with the fact, that it is a mere 90 minutes from London and set in the most lush, stunning and truly magical festival site Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset(complete with free-roaming peacocks and parrots)
The big news this week is the latest and final nugget to complete the Bloom programme: **808 State LIVE!!** The Bloom brigade have also just released day tickets for only £50 due to high demand. Check the website www.bloomfestival.com, pack up your tent and go! In addition to other headliners, Cagedbaby, Hexstatic, The Nextmen, secretsundaze, StompaPhunk, Inland Knights, Chew the Fat! + many more they are laying on the silliness thick with comedy, Fish Seeks Bicycle, Lost Disco, Bingo, Beat Jigsaw, Oxygen Tent, Sonic Art and Giant Drumming Robots!
a Tale Etched In Blood
Christopher Brookmyre is sometimes referred to as the “British Carl Hiaasen”, a tribute to his knack of producing really hard-edged novels, some with a remarkably high body count, while at the same time managing to be one of the funniest writers in Britain. To achieve that without altogether trivialising crime or resorting to crude slapstick is a very fine art indeed. It is as though Brookmyre is writing about another dimension – one uncomfortably similar to our own – and that is what enables the laughter to flow without hindrance or guilt. In his novel Boiling a Frog, for example, some corrupt politicians come to a very sticky end, the sort we might wish on enemies but never impose, in a vicarious fantasy revenge on scumbags everywhere.
The Knife – We Share Our Mothers Health
The Mysterious brother and sister act, The Knife are back with their new single, We Share Our Mothers Health. The single is set to be released on July 24th and is accompanied by an extraordinary video made by the talented and infamous Japanese artist Motomichi Nakamura.
Once upon a time, before the advent of the indie rocker and the alternative chick, before primitivism became a style trend and tattoo parlors set up shop on the good avenues, tattoos were the secret language of a restricted world, a world of criminals. The photographs, drawings and texts published here are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldayev. Tattoos were his entrance into a secret world, a world in which he acted as an ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just simply strange, reflecting as they do the lives and mores of convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin–these are the signs with which this hidden world of people mark and identify themselves.
Win 5 x exclusive signed poster copies of Genetics Issue
Win 5 x exclusive signed poster copies of Genetics Issue
Some people redefine their genetic heritage, altering their natural appearance entirely with tattoos (see the new poster). Win copies of new book Russian Criminal Tattoos and loads of other stuff you now won’t need to steal, just tell us the answer to the following question and pick a signed copy of the genetics poster.
Win a copy of Hot Chip’s latest single ‘Colours’, from the widely acclaimed album ‘The Warning’. We have 10 7″ and 12″ copies to give away! Check out www.hotchip.co.uk for details of upcoming live shows.
“There are only so many chords and only so many ways you can play them, we aren’t saying we ripped all these songs off but these are songs that we love and inspire us as a band,” The Paddingtons. Featured artists include Iggy and the Stooges, The Libertines, The Cribs, 5 O’Clock Heroes, The Rakes, Buzzcocks, The Holy Orders, Joy Division, The Clash and The Moldy Peaches.
No-one really knows how Betty Curse pounced into the world, or from whence she crept, but the legends are legion. Some say she’s some venom-pretty monster cloned by mad scientists from the spittle of Siouxie Sioux, the tears of Christina Ricci and the shotgun brain mulch of Dead from Mayhem. Others claim that she wandered out of a graveyard mist, naked and feral, gnawing on the innards of a hand-slaughtered wolf. The more Hammer Horror-inclined say that she crawled fully formed from a smoke-spewing rent in a cathedral crypt wall somewhere beneath Vienna; the cyber-creeps reckon she chewed her way out of a computer wire downloading “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
Call in the exorcists. You’ve been Cursed.
Win the new TOBIAS FROBERG album
Poptones Records are giving away 10 copies of Tobias Froberg’s new album ‘Somewhere In The City’ which is released on Poptones in the UK on 21st August 2006.
The Academy Award winning TSOTSI is a riveting drama of the triumph of love over rage. Based on the acclaimed book by the author and playwright Athol Fugard and directed by Gavin Hood, this truly exceptional film is evocative, dramatic and compassionate.
Win new DJ Krust album “Hidden Knowledge”
Win yourself a signed copy of the new Krust album “Hidden Knowledge” by answering the following question.
Win 1 out of 5 Mavericks – Fight the Power
Metrodome Distribution is proud to announce the release of the MAVERICKS collections.Ferocious, unforgettable – ablaze with energy and imagination – every film in the MAVERICKS collections combines cinematic mastery with mesmerising vision, and hip commercial appeal with intellect. These movies are the maverick successes of world cinema, fiery diamonds in the rough and classics for any collector.
Mavericks – “DRIVEN BY A VISION” boxset features The Assassination Of Richard Nixon, Manic and The Corporation .
The Assassination of Richard Nixon – The emotionally charged ‘70’s style thriller starring Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle.
Extras – Director’s Commentary, Deleted Scenes (With Optional Commentary), Behind The Scenes Featurette, Sean Penn Press Conference and The Real Sam Bicke Profile.
The Corporation – The theatrical documentary hit that took on the corporations of the world and ripped the covers off the dealings of big business.
Extras – Director’s Commentary, Writer’s Commentary, Deleted Scenes, ‘Majority Report’ by Joel Bakan and Katherine Dodds on Grassroots Marketing
Manic – Don Cheadle and Joseph Gordon Levitt wrestle with their demons in this riveting dogme classic set in a psychiatric institution.
Extras – ‘Making Of..’ Featurette