Just in case I haven't persuaded you to watch Pitch Perfect yet, here's a video that should change all that.

Along with the excellent news that there will be a Pitch Perfect sequel arriving in 2015, today also saw the release of this music video for Anna Kendrick's When I'm Gone, more commonly known as Cups for reasons that will become apparent when you watch it. If they don't become apparent I don't quite know what to suggest, really.

Based on one of the most memorable scenes in the film and showing off the vocal talents of Anna Kendrick (who appears to have a music career now); I doubt it's all one shot once the cups start to move, but I sure as hell can't see the edits. Either way, it's an impressive piece of choreography that propels it beyond its current party trick status.

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Matthew McConaughey on the set of Dazed and Confused, 1993.

Matthew McConaughey on the set of Butch Walker and the Black Widows' 
new music video, 2012.

Let this be a lesson to us all. Matthew McConaughey is immortal and cannot be killed.

ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs

Finding its way onto the internet this week, this latest music video for Arcade Fire's The Suburbs hints towards a much larger collaboration between them and director Spike Jonze. Of course Jonze made his name making music videos, but he seems to be doing more and more again these days.


I'm a big fan of Arcade Fire, and they (along with this song from their third album) are a good fit for the stylings of Spike Jonze. A project between them has been mooted for a while now, and apparently what we see here is just part of a bigger sci-fi tale they've written together called Scenes From The Suburbs. Part District 9 and part Kids, it involves a group of skater kids and the friendships that start dissolving between them when one of their group "changes". Looking at the basic story I can gleam from watching this video, it kind of reminds me of the story for Akira, albeit on a smaller scale. It's too early to tell what direction this story will take, but I'm excited to see more of this group of teens and the dystopian world they live in.