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| Pointing out the pitfalls of employing amateur-level babysitters, this depicts a range of increasingly disastrous and hilarious scenarios ranging from dog-shaving to house-fires ("...the good news is, your house is going to be on TV tonight!") and explains how the Red Cross can help teens not to be that babysitter. |
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| This promo/film shows us what astonishing experiences we might have if only we were willing to open our minds a little more. Based on Dante's Inferno and set to a superb remix of Plaid's Eye Robot, the English National Ballet blows our preconceptions out of the water and conclusively proves how powerful dance can be. |
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| Recent ads for the army have been very inclusive, highlighting all manner of roles and showing women to be equal players. This is very much a return to old-school recruitment campaigns: unashamedly macho, unashamedly traditional in its portrayal of army life. As a piece of film it's well realised; as an ad it's less clear what the rationale behind this approach is. |
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| Like Sue Tissue of briefly brilliant Suburban Lawns, Talvi Faustmann looks totally disaffected as she sings. It's a hair's breadth away from Paris Hilton-style vacancy – but a hair's breadth is enough. Instead, she's vaguely sinister; the dreamy detachment evocative of dangerous amorality. |
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| ÍriS | 20-May-13 |
| "Swiftly Siren" | 3m 49s |
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| Singer ÍriS has made her first video for her debut album Penumbra. A tale of ill-fated love, it's set on a bleak Icelandic coastline and opens with a distressed woman trying to escape a man aiming a gun her way. The colour palette is blueish; you can almost feel the sting of the salt air. |
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| How did this one slip past Video Zoo? It's been on the loose for a couple of months now, and we hang our collective heads in shame at not having spotted it sooner. Like the little girl's lost pet in the attendant promo, So Good to Me stands head and shoulders above the general anonymity of 90s deep house that's enjoying a resurgence at the moment. |
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| A lavish production for their latest zippy model, this takes its inspiration from good old Wacky Races and throws in some extra zaniness just for fun. The rascally characters get hot and bothered trying to thwart our driver, but the car's unstoppability means he gets his very own Penelope Pitstop as his prize. |
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| Temples | 17-May-13 |
| "Colours to Life" | 3m 53s |
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| They're enough to make you yearn for the days of cheesecloth and daisy chains. Temples is the most perfectly-honed psych-pop band around right now; and let's face it, there are a lot to choose from. Skinny and dreamy with impossibly full heads of hair, they mine a rich seam of B-list influences: ie, The Byrds, The Beatles and Bolan. But there's nothing second-rate about that. |
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| A newly-single character decides - after a lifetime of faithfulness and the demise of his partner - to go out and explore the world of modern dating in all its dubious glory. The long-lived tortoise - for this is our hero - discovers all manner of things... but nothing really catches his fancy until some squeaky wheels come along. |
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