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Flight Of The Conchords: The Complete HBO First Season

starring: Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement

Release Date October 29, 2007
I tuned in to this more by luck than judgement.... became hooked and had to buy this DVD. These guys are just so naturally funny and the song writing is just spot on, they sing the way you think..... taken over from the Mighty Boosh as my favourite alternate comedy!

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Flight of the Conchords (BBC Audio)

by: Flight of the Conchords

Release Date May 01, 2006
What a little gem this is. I can't believe this passed me by (well it was on the radio so that's probably why). This is probably better than anything I have seen on TV for the last couple of years. I must admit that I haven't seen the HBO TV series and I'm not sure if I really want to because this is so good that I don't want to be disappointed.

For those of you who don't know, Flight of the Conchords are a real band, they even have an album out on the sub pop label. Though this radio series is a fictitious account of their attempt to break into the UK scene. They are described as a novelty band and indeed their songs are very funny but the music is still good as well. The only thing I can compare them to are Tenacious D but then they ... Read More:

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Flight Of The Conchords

by: Flight Of The Conchords

Release Date May 12, 2008
I had never heard of these but my boyfriend put this onto my ipod. I just could not stop laughing. "Can someone please remove these cutleries from my knees?" I laughed out loud on the tube.

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Eagle Vs. Shark [2007]

starring: Joel Tobeck, Jemaine Clement, Loren Horsley, Brian Sergent, Rachel House
directed by: Taika Waititi

Release Date January 21, 2008
Yes, this Napoleon Dynamite set in New Zealand. There are so many similarities to the above-average Napoleon that it is almost a parody, except it contains very few laughs. So contrived it actually made me cringe. Cliche after cliche after cliche.

The writer/director has noted the popularity of "quirkiness" in indie films, and his script-by-numbers attempts to conform to as many stereotypes in this genre as humanly possible.

Little depth, less than endearing characters, predictable, self-gratuitous and pointless.

A dismal film. Those who love quirky, dry indie films, and those who do not, AVOID. Watch Science of Sleep. Or Squid and the Whale... or Wes Anderson films, or, hell, anything else. You will find more emotional depth ... Read More:

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Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline

by: Charlie Brooker

Release Date November 01, 2007
Brooker is currently the best-loved pop culture pundit amongst the jaded workshy internet-hogging sullen misanthrope demographic. This is an indesputable fact. He has sat aside the collective imagination of this unhappy group like a grumpy colossus since the launch of the spoof listings website TVGoHome back in what now feels like the mid-1800s, and he continues to do so with his Guardian articles and the brilliant Screenwipe show, which I'll wager most of you have seen on the Guardian website and youtube respectively rather than in actual grubby print or on actual proper telly. This all feels very word-of-mouthy and grass-rootsy, with friends slinging URLs at you every time he says something particularly interesting or rude, and part of the reason for this popularity is that, ... Read More:

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The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 3 [2007]

starring: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Rich Fulcher, Michael Fielding, Dave Brown
directed by: Paul King

Release Date February 11, 2008
So the first two series were great. The radio series was great. They had energy, origionality, verve, were set in a world outside of our own. They had an awkward hero in Howard Moon that we could all laugh at and yet root for. Characters like Bob Fossil, Charlie, Old Greg and Milky Joe populated a world that was rarely not funny, interesting or different.
Series 3: Set in Camden, staring NOEL FEILDING!!!!!!!!.... oh yeah, and julien barrat... sort of. The bumbling hero is now the sidekick. all the old characters are re-run and the jokes are largely re-cycled, take crimping. A few mildly amusing moments, most of them involving howard moon 'its whats inside that counts' etc.
I mean I never liked the 'noel fielding show'... i like the mighty boosh. and this is a joke. its got nme ... Read More:

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Peep Show Series 4 [2007]

starring: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Rachel Blanchard, Olivia Colman, Matt King
directed by: Becky Martin

Release Date November 05, 2007

AFTER 3 GREAT SERIES THIS GOES INTO A DITCH

-- OK BUT I AGREE WITH SOME OF THE OTHER REVIEWERS HERE IN SAYING SOME OF THE PLOT DO NOT FEEL RIGHT

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AD/BC - A Rock Opera

starring: Matt Berry, Julian Barratt, Mat Lucas, Noel Fielding

Release Date November 19, 2007
This is a 5 minute joke stretched out to 28 minutes, and an extremely unfunny one at that. The very talented people involved should hang their heads in shame at this total embarrassment. The 'songs' are instantly forgettable and lacking in melodies. Just don't buy it ok, its dire.

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For Emma Forever Ago

by: Bon Iver

Release Date March 24, 2008
For Emma just creeps up on you and invades your existence but in the most wondrous way. Had an awful long drive home one evening in the pitch darkness and listened to it properly. It's like having your best in friend in the car with you. When it finished I just put it back on again. Very wintry, isolated, atmospheric and lovely. Creature Fear and Lump Sum are brilliant. Lets not mess about all the songs are superb. And then of course there is "Re. Stacks" - the song of the year. Quite where Justin Vernon goes next I don't know but I do care a lot.

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The Science Of Sleep [2006]

starring: Miou Miou, Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat
directed by: Michel Gondry

Release Date June 25, 2007
I cant write a positive review of this film because I didnt think the characters where that interesting, there's little or no plot and its not compelling viewing in the least.

However, I think it has to be seen to be believed because of its bewildering strangeness.

The film begins with a scene of a man in what appears to be a studio telling you what are the ingredients of a dream, throughout the movie it cuts back to this scene and I think perhaps its meant to be his conscience, the point is its not clear at all.

It could as easily be a dream state because frequently throughout the movie the central character and others cut back and forth between dreams and reality, some of the dreams are clever but eighties pop video or visually clever rather than cerebrally challenging clever. I ... Read More: