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Atom Bomb (song)
"Atom Bomb" is a single by the English electronic music band Fluke, released on 28 October 1996 by Circa and again in 1997 by Caroline Records. Originally created for the soundtrack to the video game ''Wipeout 2097'' and later featured in '' Gran Turismo'', the track reached number 20 in the UK music charts and brought Fluke their first non-club mainstream single. This song is also featured in part in other productions, including the films '' The Saint'', '' Kiss the Girls'', ''X-Men'' and '' Behind Enemy Lines'', the theatrical trailers for ''Paparazzi'' and '' The Bourne Ultimatum'', and the video game ''Enter the Matrix''. It was included on the album ''Risotto'' in 1997. The packaging and discs were designed by The Designers Republic The Designers Republic is a British graphic design studio based in Sheffield, England, founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips (graphic designer), Nick Phillips. They are best known for electronic music logos, album artwork, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fluke (band)
Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Jon Fugler, Mike Tournier and Mike Bryant. The band were noted for their diverse range of electronic styles, including house, techno, ambient, big beat and downtempo; for their reclusivity, rarely giving interviews; and for lengthy timespans between albums. Fluke produced five original studio albums, three compilation albums, and a live album. They made several line-up changes over the years, with credited appearances attributed to Neil Davenport on guitars, Robin Goodridge on drums and Hugh Bryder as a DJ. In the tour for their fourth album ''Risotto'' (1997), they were joined on stage by singer Rachel Stewart, who continued as lead female vocalist and dancer for all of Fluke's live performances between 1997 and 1999. After ''Risotto'', Tournier left the group to form Syntax with Jan Burton. Bryant and Fugler went on to produce Fluke's fifth and final studio album, ''Puppy'' (2003), and the pair subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss The Girls (1997 Film)
''Kiss the Girls'' is a 1997 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Cary Elwes. The screenplay by David Klass is based on James Patterson's best-selling 1995 novel of the same name. A sequel titled '' Along Came a Spider'' was released in 2001. Plot Washington D.C. Detective and forensic psychologist, Dr Alex Cross is devastated to learn that his niece, Naomi, a college student in Durham, North Carolina, has been missing for four days. Despite his family's anxiety, Cross travels to Durham to investigate, determined to find her. Upon arrival, Cross meets with local police and learns that multiple young women, including Naomi, are missing. He collaborates with Detectives Nick Ruskin and Davey Sikes, as well as FBI agents. Together, they visit a crime scene in the woods where the body of one of the missing women has been found, brutally murdered and tied to a tree, heightening Cross's fears for Naomi's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gramophone Record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near the center of the disc. The stored sound information is made audible by playing the record on a phonograph (or "gramophone", "turntable", or "record player"). Records have been produced in different formats with playing times ranging from a few minutes to around 30 minutes per side. For about half a century, the discs were commonly made from shellac and these records typically ran at a rotational speed of 78 rpm, giving it the nickname "78s" ("seventy-eights"). After the 1940s, "vinyl" records made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) became standard replacing the old 78s and remain so to this day; they have since been produced in various sizes and speeds, most commonly 7-inch discs pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of holding of uncompressed stereo audio. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc format to reach the market, following the larger LaserDisc (LD). In later years, the technology was adapted for computer data storage as CD-ROM and subsequently expanded into various writable and multimedia formats. , over 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs, and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide. Standard CDs have a diameter of and typically hold up to 74 minutes of audio or approximately of data. This was later regularly extended to 80 minutes or by reducing the spacing between data tracks, with some discs unofficially reaching up to 99 minutes or which falls outside established specifications. Smaller variants, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wipeout (video Game Series)
''Wipeout'' (stylised as ''wipE′out″'' or ''WipEout'') is a series of futuristic anti-gravity racing video games created by Psygnosis (later known as Studio Liverpool). Sony Interactive Entertainment owns the series and publishes most of the games. The series is characterised by its fast-paced gameplay, cutting-edge 3D computer graphics, 3D visuals that maximise the resolution capabilities of the game's console, and its association with electronic dance music, particularly big beat-infused techno and trance. This includes collaborations with prominent electronic artists such as The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Leftfield, Orbital (band), Orbital, Underworld (band), Underworld, Fluke (band), Fluke, and the in-house composer CoLD SToRAGE. Additionally, the series’ graphic design identity—crafted by The Designers Republic for the first three games—helped establish its signature futuristic rave aesthetic. The concept of ''Wipeout'' was first discussed during a pub con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Designers Republic
The Designers Republic is a British graphic design studio based in Sheffield, England, founded in 1986 by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips (graphic designer), Nick Phillips. They are best known for electronic music logos, album artwork, and anti-establishment aesthetics, embracing "brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands". Work by tDR is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The studio in its larger form closed in January 2009, with Anderson stating it would continue in a more "slimline" form. Style Work by the Designers Republic generally is viewed as "playful and bright" and considered Maximum-Minimalism, minimalist, mixing images from Japanese anime and subvertising, subvertised corporate logos with a postmodern tendency towards irony. It often features statements/slogans such as ''"Work Buy Consume Die"'', ''"Robots Build Robots"'', ''"Customized Terror"'', ''"Buy nothing, pay now"'', and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enter The Matrix
''Enter the Matrix'' is a 2003 action-adventure video game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name. The first game based on ''The Matrix'' film series, its story is concurrent with that of the film '' The Matrix Reloaded'' and features over an hour of original footage, written and directed by the Wachowskis and starring the cast of the films, produced for the game. Released in May 2003, the same month as ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''Enter the Matrix'' was simultaneously produced with ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and '' The Matrix Revolutions''. While it received mixed reviews from critics, the game sold 5 million copies as of May 2004. Gameplay ''Enter the Matrix'' gives players control of two of the supporting characters from ''Reloaded'' and ''Revolutions'', Ghost ( Anthony Wong) and Niobe ( Jada Pinkett Smith), members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo, the protagonists of the series. Niobe is the Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bourne Ultimatum (film)
''The Bourne Ultimatum'' is a 2007 action film, action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. Although it shares its name with Ludlum's The Bourne Ultimatum, titular 1990 novel, its plot is entirely different. The third installment in the Bourne (franchise), ''Jason Bourne'' film series after ''The Bourne Identity (2002 film), The Bourne Identity'' (2002) and ''The Bourne Supremacy (film), The Bourne Supremacy'' (2004), the screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi and based on a screen story of the novel written by Gilroy. Matt Damon reprises his role as Ludlum's signature character, former Central Intelligence Agency, CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne. Additional cast members who star alongside Damon include Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Édgar Ramírez, Édgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen. In the film, Bourne continues his search for information about his past before he was part of Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paparazzi (2004 Film)
''Paparazzi'' is a 2004 American action thriller film directed by Paul Abascal, produced by Mel Gibson, and starring Cole Hauser, Robin Tunney, Dennis Farina, Daniel Baldwin and Tom Sizemore. The film chronicles the life of popular Hollywood film star Bo Laramie in the aftermath of a car crash caused by four paparazzo tabloid photographers. Bo soon goes on a quest to get revenge on the gang for almost killing him and his family. ''Paparazzi'' was released on September 3, 2004 in the United States to a critical and commercial failure. Plot Rising Hollywood movie star Bo Laramie finally achieves major success with his latest film ''Adrenaline Force''. After the film's premiere, a persistent group of unscrupulous photographers—Kevin Rosner, Leonard Clark, Wendell Stokes and their leader Rex Harper—harass Bo and his wife Abby, along with their 8-year-old son Zach. When Bo takes Zach to soccer practice, he eyes Rex taking photos of Zach and confronts him, leading Rex to provoke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind Enemy Lines (2001 Film)
''Behind Enemy Lines'' is a 2001 American action war film directed by John Moore in his directorial debut, and starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The film tells the story of Lieutenant Chris Burnett, an American naval flight officer who is shot down over Bosnia and uncovers genocide during the Bosnian War. Meanwhile, the rear admiral commanding the carrier strike group to which he is assigned is struggling to gain approval to launch a combat search and rescue mission to save Burnett. The plot is loosely based on a 1995 incident involving Scott O'Grady that occurred during the war. Released on November 30, 2001, ''Behind Enemy Lines'' received generally negative reviews from critics. It was a box office success, taking in $91.7 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. The film started a franchise of direct-to-video spiritual successors: '' Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil'', '' Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia'', '' SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines'', co-pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X-Men (film)
''X-Men'' is a 2000 American superhero film directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by David Hayter and a story by Singer and Tom DeSanto, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Ray Park, and Anna Paquin, the film depicts a world where an unknown proportion of people are mutants, possessing superhuman powers that make them distrusted by normal humans. It focuses on mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they are brought into a conflict between two groups with radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutant-kind: Charles Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto. Development of ''X-Men'' began as far back as 1984 with Orion Pictures, with James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow in discussions at one point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
