Black Orpheus

All the way from Brazil, Marcel Camus' 1959 film that retells the classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the vivid setting of 50s Rio De Janeiro during the famous Carnival season. The film won the Paslme D'Or at Cannes and Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. It is also famous for it's soundtrack of bossa nova and samba by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Watch it on the youtube playlist below

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCAD02AB764BC676

Major Lazer Update!

So Major Lazer's album 'Guns Don't Kill People, Lazers Do' has finally arrived! I am not disappointed. It's full of sweaty dancehall and simmering reggae, among many other things.
BUY IT HERE
Check out the awesome new video for Hold the Line. And while you're at it have another HEAVY song from the album! Anything Goes ft. Turbulence DOWNLOAD HERE

Coraline

Here you go, enjoy the stunningly animated, breathtakingly beautiful new Henry Selick film (the man who gave us the Nightmare Before Christmas), based on Niel Gaiman's novel. Watch the high quality stream below.
WARNING! This is a megavideo stream so it will stop after 72 minutes and tell you to wait an hour until you can watch the rest (unless you give them money, which for something which has been pirated in the first place is just not on) so I highly reccomend you just download it from the source HERE (696MB)



Download the whole film here

TV worth shouting about

One thing I thought I'd recommend is the new BBC Three series Blood, Sweat & Takeaways which has to be one of the best things I've seen on telly in a while.
Taking the done-to-death format of a reality TV show and turning it into a socially, culturally, politically relevant documentary, the makers have sent six 20something Brits packing off to South East Asia to toil amongst the thousands of underpayed workers who create all the food they are so used to eating back home.
The group of fast food lovers have to gut endless barrels of fish, pack tonnes of rice, irrigate paddy fields, slit thousands of chicken necks per hour, and many other soul destroying tasks.
They do the same hours as the native workers and receive the same wage, which results in six very hungry people most of the time, desperately pooling together their pittance in exchange for small amounts of bread and rice to live on.

Some of it is truly shocking, while some scenes in the final episode genuinely moved me to tears. These were the scenes in which the brits discovered the true personal cost of the food industry and how it massively affects the lives of men and, in this case especially, women.

It's available on iPlayer for ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS! So hurry up, you won't regret it.
WATCH IT HERE

Blood, Sweat & Takeaways cleverly uses the ever popular reality TV show formula to sell a hard hitting and important documentary to the Big Brother generation. Unmissable TV.