Art Brut Vs. Satan
Art Brut Vs. Satan could have just as easily been called Bang Bang Rock and Roll III. The band is still just as capable of hanging with the punks as they are with the indie kids, Eddie Argos is still barking drunken blog posts instead of singing them, and all songs—excepting seven-minute closer “Mysterious Bruises”—still come in nice, manageable blocks of verse-chorus. With most bands who fall into diminishing returns like these, this is the point where we begin to grow weary, cut our losses, keep the excellent debut in our collections, and go look for someone else to worship. This won’t happen with Art Brut, though, because even though any of their songs could migrate from one of their three LPs to another without any of us being the wiser, this band is still damn near impossible to dislike.
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A New Jersey man filed a federal lawsuit this week against SCEA, SCEI and a number of individual attorneys. The suit, filed by Craig Thorner and his company, Virtual Reality Feedback, makes some very ugly allegations.
GamePolitics has obtained a copy of Thorner’s complaint in which the inventor charges that SCEA, SCEI, PDP/Electro Source and several attorneys colluded to infringe on his controller feedback patents. In a 43-page complaint, Thorner spins a tale of high stakes corporate conniving and reveals a surprising degree of naivete on his part.
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Roger Friedman, a well-known entertainment columnist for FoxNews.com, discovered over the weekend just what Rupert Murdoch means by “zero tolerance” when it comes to movie piracy.
On Friday, 20th Century Fox – owned by News Corporation, the media conglomerate ruled over by Mr. Murdoch – went berserk after reading Mr. Friedman’s latest column. (Movie bloggers actually started opining about it late Thursday, alerting the studio.) The subject: “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” a big-budget movie that was leaked in unfinished form on the Web last week.
Mr. Friedman posted a mini review, adding, “It took really less than seconds to start playing it all right onto my computer.”
The film studio, which brought in the FBI last week to help hunt the pirate, put out a statement calling Mr. Friedman’s column “reprehensible,” among other things. Then News Corporation weighed in with its own statement, saying it asked Fox News to remove the column. (It did.)
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Viewers tuning in for the 100th episode of “Lost” next week will be served an extra dose of mystery.
Sources said ABC will be launching a stealth promo campaign for new series “Flash Forward” during the episode, in which Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) will come clean about what he knows about the island.
While questions from the dense mythology of “Lost” probably will be answered in the episode, the commercial breaks are sure to raise a host of new ones with perplexing snippets that might direct viewers to a Web site.
The mystery spots will in fact be for “Flash Forward.” They are said to be part of an elaborate marketing campaign for the drama, which has not officially been picked up but is quietly being positioned on ABC’s schedule for next season.
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