SHANE CARRUTH
Again and again we’ve been promised a second outing from the director of 2004’s mind-buttering mumblecore sci-fi classic Primer, but as yet we’ve had nothing. Out there in the webiverse – outside of space and time – is a site for Carruth’s new movie, atopiary.com, but it gives away even less than that tricky fifth viewing of Primer itself. Back in June 2010, A Topiary was reportedly ‘in the works’, but months later Carruth was telling people that the cryptic website was merely a cosmic placeholder until funding was secured. Scant details have emerged about the script but what we do know is as troubling as it is intriguing: a 30-minute prologue set in a provincial Mid-West town sometime during the ’80s gives way to an ensemble cast of 10 kids in possession of a ‘black box’ that produces possibly semi-sentient ‘white discs’. Primer was hands down one of the most intelligent science-fiction movies made on any budget, so can someone please give this man a pile of cash so that if he is going to disappoint us with a Duncan Jones Source Code moment we can just get it over with.
THE MIGHTY BOOSH MOVIE
“In our heads it’s like Indiana Jones,” Boosh co-conspirator Noel Fielding said recently about the absurdist electrojazz comedy duo’s proposed silver screen voyage. That’ll be an Indiana Jones in stack heel boots, pretentiously block-quoting excerpts from Virgil while a short, fat American in a powder blue Sta-Prest safari suit bellows out the theme from Hawaii Five-O over some tasty fusion beats then, will it? But the clock’s ticking and jungle fever doesn’t last forever. It would be a real shame to think that their singular tribal thunder had been stolen by the homespun imaginarium of Boosh-cohort Paul King’s 2009 style-consort Bunny and the Bull. A deal is, however, reportedly already in place with BBC Films, so fingers crossed for the first of a series of unhinged Hope & Crosby-style adventures that plunge Vince Noir and Howard Moon through the warm, warped heart of dayglo Camden existentia
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