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Tweet This short film by Jamie Stuart references Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent film Man With a Movie Camera. Taken from photos of the blizzard this week, it’s a perfect homage to the 1929 classic

Tweet Denki Groove’s video for its song, “Fake it!,” features an endless loop of high divers. AmyGee writes in: “This clip of a loop of people jumping into a pool is mesmerizing. It starts off strong and keeps getting more awesome. At the end of it I felt like I had just watched a beautifully [...]

Tweet Andy Warhol predicted the “15 minutes of fame” culture more than 40 years ago. Now scientists have declared it official: we really are becoming shallower. An investigation of fame based on the appearance of the names of actors, writers, politicians and scientists in literature has concluded that people are more famous than ever before, [...]

Tweet Cinema chain blames World Cup for slump in takings and pins hopes on wave of 3D films, including latest JK Rowling adaptation the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Cineworld said admissions dropped by 681,000 to 22.7m in the first six months of the year as Britons chose the action in the Cape Town over Iron [...]

Tweet The Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas is being treated for a tumour in his throat. The star of Wall Street and Romancing the Stone, 65, said he hoped to make a full recovery. He was due to undergo eight weeks of radiation and chemotherapy. “I am very optimistic,” he said. Douglas’s spokesman Allen Burry said [...]

Tweet Author Andrew O’Hagan has said that his novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe will be turned into a soon to be produced film starring Angelina Jolie as the screen siren and George Clooney will play Frank Sinatra. Speculation over the project has been growing over [...]