Month: November 2014

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

It has become Hollywood’s signature move to split the final film of a franchise into two parts.  It has become as predictable as a Hulk Hogan hulk up and frankly, it has begun to wear a bit thin.  However, it is still no surprise that The Hunger Games part 3, better known as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, is actually the first half of the final book in The Hunger Games series.  Unfortunately, it is also widely considered the weakest book in the trilogy, making the decision to split it into two seem even more baffling.

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The Metallica Question

So Metallica will once again make their way over to our shores in the summer of 2015.  This time they will grace Reading with their presence and as usual there is a lot of people very happy about it, but a more vocal group of people pissed off.  Why?  Because of the feeling that Metallica have over saturated the UK with festival headline slots.  In the last four years they have played Download, Sonisphere and Glastonbury, all with only one new song and the pile of steaming shite that was Lulu.  People are apparently fed up of Metallica and want someone new to take the spot.

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Primus and The Chocolate Factory

In an attempt to change things up I am going to begin to deliberately vary the length of my articles, this is going to be an example of a shorter piece and there shall be longer ones down the road.  I assume no one shall have any complaints about this.

Some ideas are just so incredibly insane that you couldn’t make them up.  Primus covering the soundtrack of 1971’s Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, is one of them.  You would have had to have taken a lot of drugs to stumble on that idea before it came about and yet here it is, Les Claypool and gangs interpretation of classic movie fare like “Candy Man” and yes all those oompa loompa bits too.

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What We Do In The Shadows

To say vampires have been popular in recent years is a bit of an understatement.  The success of franchises like Twilight, have seen our pointy toothed friends reappear on the big screen with a vengeance, although many would argue they lack the bite of old.  Of course, cinema has always faced these trends, whether it be zombies, werewolves or vampires, it always feels like one mythical beastie is on the top of the pile.  However, vampires seem to have been a bit under served in their current ascent of the mountain.  While I don’t harbour the dislike for Twilight that many others have, there is no denying Edward Cullen was hardly scary.  They have also yet to be spoofed in a successful way.  While zombies have been parodied so well that the RomZomCom is a recognised genre, vampires have seen themselves taken the mick out of in incredibly unimaginative ways, that were more likely to induce groans than laughter.  That is until What We Do in the Shadows came along.

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Survivor Series Rundown

So last night was Survivor Series and on a whim I actually stayed up and watched it.  Now for those of you based in America that might seem a strange statement, but in the UK it means a long night.  It is also probably the first time I have watched a WWE PPV live (that isn’t Wrestlemania) for a long time.  Anyway, below is my thoughts of the whole show, it obviously contains spoilers, so if you haven’t watched it stay away and if you don’t like wrestling please don’t bother, it’s long.

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Mr Turner

Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner tells the story, perhaps unsurprisingly, of the life and career of J.M.W. Turner, the British painter, whom many consider as the man who elevated landscape painting to previously unseen heights.  I should say from the outset that I have little knowledge of Turner, I could not tell you of his life and only know the most basic of facts about his body of work.  However, I still went along to the film with great expectations.  It has been critically praised and Timothy Spall took the prize for Best Actor at Cannes.

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Survivor Series Predictions

So Survivor Series is just around the corner and it may be one of the most one match Pay Per Views WWE has put on for a long time.  Nearly all of WWE’s build has been focused on Team Cena vs Team Authority, with only Bray Wyatt and Dean Ambrose coming close to getting a similar level of attention (and they are a long way off in second).  However, there is actually a whole under card happening as well and some of it could be alright, so here is what I expect to happen.

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Festival Season

So Download announcement’s have started and as usual the internet is all excited.  It’s become a worrying part of our festival culture, that the announcements now seem to actually get more hype than any of the bands themselves and personally I’d love Download to follow the model that Hellfest does, where it just released the majority of its bands in one go (check out that line up by the way!)  That’s not what I’m going to discuss here however, but rather an interesting divide I have begun to see in festival announcement reactions.  It’s one that to be honest confuses me and while this isn’t the first time I have noticed, it is becoming more and more common.

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ICW: Fear and Lothian II

Last night I decided to jump on a bandwagon.  That bandwagon was Insane Championship Wrestling, the Scottish wrestling promotion that just seems to be getting bigger and bigger.  This was in part due to a BBC documentary they were featured in, but mainly down to the their strong roster of talent and the very YouTube friendly Scottish crowds.  Last night they rolled into City Nightclub in Edinburgh,  a place I never thought I would watch wrestling in, and put on an incredibly entertaining card.  Rather than doing a full run down of it, I figured I’d just do a general opinions piece, which I hope is actually more interesting.

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