Zac Attack!

It’s a good week to be a Zac Efron fan – first the box office destroying ‘High School Musical 3’, then the announcement that Disney is fast tracking the ‘Footloose’ remake with Efron in the Kevin Bacon role (and new songs to go with the classics!) and Kenny Ortega in the directors chair…and now we have the official trailer for Zac’s next big screen adventure ’17 Again’.

As you’ve probably already guessed from the title, the movie is a classic body swap comedy with Matthew Perry getting his wish to be 17 again and going back to school, this time in the body of Zac Efron. Original? No. Must see? Did we mention ZAC EFRON? Sweet.

Big Screen Jonas Brothers

With High School Musical 3 taking a record breaking $42 million over the opening weekend, it should come as no surprise that other studios are trying to get in on the act. The odd thing is that 20th Centruy Fox are using one of Disney’s own acts to try and get a slice of the box office cake.

Yes, Jonas Brothers are signed up to star in Fox’s ‘Walter The Farting Dog’ (No, REALLY!) based on a series of popular children’s books. It’s being produced by the Farrelly Brothers who may also direct.

The tale revolves around a fat dog with wind problems who comes to live with a family, causing general and hilarious havoc. Interestingly as well as signing up Nick, Joe and Kevin, the film is also set to feature their younger brother Frankie, already familiar to fans of the band as the Bonus Jonas.

Jonas Brothers? Farting dogs? These are truly great days!

The Day You Never Thought Would Come. Comes.

Oh my god. Yes, the rumours, doubts, leaks, jokes are over. W Axl Rose has confirmed that Chinese Democracy, the long overdue Guns N Roses album will arrive in this country next month. Not next year, not next century, NEXT MONTH.
Whilst the Internet is always a hotbed of conjecture when it comes to this sort of thing, anyone who bought The Sun on Friday was greeted by this full page advert that reveals not only the release date, but a new web address and the album artwork for Chinese Democracy. Behold! The return of rock n roll's most dangerous band. Bring it. Welcome back Mr Rose, we've missed you.

10 Songs to Download This Week

1/ The Backseat – The Gaslight Anthem
2/ Ice Hockey Hair – The Wildhearts
3/ Scream – Zac Efron
4/ Run Run – Those Dancing Days
5/ Pork N Beans – Weezer
6/ Get In The Ring – Guns N Roses
7/ Whose Hands Are These – Neil Diamond
8/ The Boys Are Back – Corbin Bleu and Zac Efron
9/ Tiny Little Robots – Cage The Elephant
10/ Novotel – Adam Green

REVIEW: High School Musical 3

Another week, another Disney ‘event’ movie. Yet High School Musical 3: Senior Year is different, in that it is a global phenomenon that has risen from television to the big screen for its third outing.

The story will be familiar to fans of the first two – Gabriella and Troy have decisions to make not only about their own futures, but their futures together; the Wildcats are going for back-to-back championships and Sharpay still wants to be the star of the show. Add in a few new characters (a young emo Wildcat called Rocketman and a snooty London student determined to help, or is it hinder Sharpay?) and some great new songs (notably Zac Efron’s excellent ‘Scream’ and Corbin and Zac’s spirited ‘The Boys Are Back’) and you have a sequel that will excite and delight fans the world over. Brilliant.

New Jonas Brothers Video!

The new video for 'Lovebug' by Jonas Brothers has been released. Following on from the big budget Miami Vice/ Kung-Fu spoofing of 'Burnin Up', 'Lovebug' is a big epic video featuring the boys as an old style jazz band.

Check it out right now:

10 Songs To Download This Week

1/ Actionman – Those Dancing Days
2/ The Lovers Are Losing – Keane
3/ If It Dont Feel Good – Towers Of London
4/ A Time To Remember – Special Needs
5/ Twee Twee Dee – Adam Green
6/ Hello Beautiful – jonas Brothers
7/ 18 And Life – Skid Row
8/ Mr Misfortune – Hadouken!
9/ The Driveway – Miley Cyrus
10/ Time Is Running Out – Towers Of London

High Def Death

So did you buy a Blu-Ray player so that you could view big screen epics in perfect vision and stunning sound or did you grab one so you could watch executions, deaths and people eating monkey brains? If you chose the second option, then you are in luck (provided you have a multi-region player at least) as the most controversial film of them all is getting a 30th anniversary special Blu-Ray edition. Yes, Faces Of Death, now in shiny Death-O-Vision! Ok, we made that bit up.

New WWE Poster Revealed

World Wrestling Entertainment has released the poster for the forthcoming Armageddon Pay Per View. A highly stylised affair, it features World Champion Chris Jericho pressing a red button, no doubt setting off the titular armageddon. Dark, brooding, nice.

New Jonas Brothers Video Trailer

Not content with promoting 'Camp Rock', the forthcoming 3D concert movie, the forthcoming TV series 'J.O.N.A.S.' and the 'A Little Bit Longer' album, Jonas Brothers have also released a teaser trailer for the video for new single 'Lovebug'.

'Lovebug' premieres on Disney Channel on the 19th and will no doubt be right here then. Until then, here's Nick, Joe and Kevin describing the new vid…

New Poster For 'Up'!

Pixar has just unveiled this beautiful poster for its next big screen epic 'Up'. The tale will be the first Pixar movie shot in 3D (leading the way for the return of 'Toy Story' in 3D soon...) and the trailer is expected to be attached to either 'High School Musical 3' or 'Bolt' – or perhaps a different trailer with both? Let the hype begin!

Nothing Beats A Dog In A Hat

Obviously Ridley Scott, Leo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe underestimated the power of A DOG IN A HAT as their new 70million dollar epic ‘Body Of Lies’ entered the US movie charts at number three with $13 million. Yes, Disney kept the top spot with ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ raking in another $17.5 million, bringing its total box office to an impressive $52.5 million.

Spare a thought too for the massively hyped family adventure ‘City Of Ember’ which only just managed to dent the top ten with a feeble $3.2 million opening. Kids don’t want big epic landscapes, they want hilarious talking dogs, get with the program!

10 Songs To Download This Week

1/ We Rock - Demi Lovato/Jonas Brothers
2/ Queen Of Cool – Towers Of London
3/ Sylvia – Special Needs
4/ In This World – The Automatic
5/ Another Way To Die – Jack White
6/ Year Of The Pig – Fvcked Up
7/ Pushin' Me Away – Jonas Brothers
8/ Beach Bar – Towers Of London
9/ Raise Hell – Kids In Glass Houses
10/ New York Groove – Kiss

Final 'Twilight' Trailer

So only a few days after the final poster was unveiled for the vampire epic, here's the final trailer for the movie version of 'Twilight'. BRING IT ON.

Disney Is Top Dog

Without a major picture like the Pirates franchise to rely on to bring in the cash, you might think it would be a quiet time for Disney, but then you would be underestimating how much people want to see talking dogs.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua opened at number one in the states, taking twenty nine million in its opening weekend, the best ever October opening for a Disney movie.

Following this, get ready for High School Musical 3 to shatter not only October records, but box office records galore later in the month.

CD - Towers Of London, 'Fizzy Pop'

So you release a brilliantly angry debut album, hit reality TV, date Peaches Geldof and become tabloid fodder. What’s next? Well, you’d think it would be a treading water sophomore effort and watch the cash roll in. Yet, this is Towers Of London we are talking about so instead, we get new members, a new sound, a new record label and the strange beast known as ‘Fizzy Pop’.

Okay, lets get the bad stuff out of the way first, the production of ‘Fizzy Pop’ is absolutely terrible – it sounds like it was recorded underwater, or the producer was perhaps asleep through the whole process. Whilst the guitars on album one were crystal clear and turned up to 11, here they are stuck back in the mix, coming through an amp that cost a quid from Poundstretcher. And what’s happened to Donny’s vocals? The screeching banshee is gone and the vocals are stuck behind some sort of effect, like they’ve borrowed Cher’s vocoder and puked all over it. It’s like having Bob Ezrin produce your debut and then sacking him and bringing in Steve Albini. Or Steve Albini’s deaf brother.

Yet, underneath all the grit are a dozen guitar pop gems, with more hooks and choruses than a lot of bands manage in their entire careers. Donny has been commenting recently that touring the first album was tough as everything was so full on, so here things are a lot calmer, less angry, but still bang on the button when it comes to singalong tunes. Forget the faux punk attitude of the past, this new (improved?) Towers is more like an amalgam of The Wildhearts bubblegum metal and the bonkers glitter rush of Space Age Playboys.

Highlights include the poptastic ‘When She Comes’, the attitude laden ‘Go Sister Go’ and first single ‘Naked On The Dance Floor’. The spotlight may have left the Tourettes, but on this evidence they still demand your attention, but this time more for the classic tunes rather than the fights and the booze. Although we’re sure they’ll still ensure there are plenty of both on the tour…

Final 'Twilight' Poster!

Here it is then, the final poster for the much anticipated 'Twilight' movie…

It's good that they have concentrated on Edward and Bella rather than tried to squeeze in all the secondary characters, but they've made Edward look slightly less suave and more undead than readers may have pictured him, as if the advertisers are like "But he's dead! He can't be beautiful!". Prepare for messagebaords across the Internet to melt!

The Killers Announce 2009 Dates

The Killers are set to return to the UK in 2009 for their biggest arena tour yet, including two dates at the massive O2 Arena in London.

Brandon Flowers and co can be seen at the following dates:

February 23/24 – London O2 Arena
February 26 – Birmingham LG Arena
February 28 – Cardiff International Arena
March 2 – Sheffield Arena
March 3 – Nottingham Arena
March 5 – Aberdeen AECC Arena
March 6 – Glasgow SECC
March 7 – Newcastle Arena
March 9 – Manchester MEN Arena

10 Songs To Download This Week

1/ A Little Bit Longer – Jonas Brothers
2/ Drive Away My Heart – Ida Maria
3/ Tiny Little Robots – Cage The Elephant
4/ Highway To Nowhere – Drake Bell
5/ Shelf – Jonas Brothers
6/ Stay Positive – The Hold Steady
7/ Home Before Dark – Neil Diamond
8/ Flowers & Football Tops – Glasvegas
9/ The End – McFly
10/ Burn Koko – Subliminal Girls

New Dogs, Old Tricks

You know, sometimes you want to sit down and relive the classics like ‘Citizen Kane’ or ‘The Seventh Seal’, but other times you just want to see Drew Barrymore starring as a talking dog.

Luckily Disney knows this and has updated the ‘Homeward Bound’ theme with new movie ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua’ which opens in America this week and hits the UK next March.

The story sees a glamorous Beverly Hills Chihuahua getting lost on vacation in Mexico and needing help to find her way home. As well as Barrymore, the film features Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin, Placido Domingo and Edward James Olmos as other hilarious talking animals.

Come on, you know you want it, just look at that poster!!!

New 'Bolt' Poster

We can't wait for Disney's animated 3D adventure 'Bolt' and now they have unveiled the latest poster for the Travolta/Cyrus epic. Expect the hype machine to really kick into overdrive soon, probably around the time that HSM3 invades cinemas in a few weeks…