Night of Champions Preview

Night of Champions is a strange PPV this year. On one hand it feels like a big deal. Seth Rollins will compete twice and Sting is fighting for the WWE Title, something we never thought we’d see. However, the rest of the card is same old, same old. Rusev and Dolph Ziggler are still plodding away in their never-ending feud and Neville will probably beat Stardust again. As usual, WWE are approaching the end of the year stuck in a bit of a rut. Which is probably not the way to entice you into reading this preview.

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16/09/2015 0

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Teens with cancer is in danger of becoming it’s own genre. Following the success of the emotionally draining Fault in Our Stars, we now get the quirky indie version. Sundance awards and all. It’s a description that is sure to raise the heckles of some, as they expect to hate Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and yet this story about a self loathing teenager called Greg and his friendship with a girl suffering from leukemia manages to never collapse into mawkish sentimentality.

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07/09/2015 1

45 Years

Cinema is often unfair to the elderly. There are few films that give an accurate representation of what it actually means to be old, at least not a growing old doesn’t involve them either going senile or just being a bit racist. However, with the discovery in recent years that as a group they will attend the cinema on mass, this has begun to change. The success of films like The King’s Speech seemed to activate the Grey Pound and we are now getting films that are more understanding of elderly life.

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02/09/2015 0

The Wolfpack

The Angulo families seven children have been raised without really seeing the real world. An active year was leaving the house nine times, while there were years where they would never leave at all. When Crystal Moselle met them walking down the street dressed like they had walked straight from the set of Reservoir Dogs, she found out about this story and determined to discover more. Henceforth, The Wolfpack was born.

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28/08/2015 0

Trainwreck

Being funny is hard. Being funny for two hours, is very hard. That’s the challenge laid at the feet of Trainwreck from the start and, like most Judd Apatow films, it is probably around half an hour too long. However, it does manage to be funny. A lot of which is due to a star making performance from Amy Schumer, who is also the first person to write a film that Apatow directed who is not called Judd Apatow.

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20/08/2015 0

The Gift

The Gift is a film that would do better without a trailer. A glance at said trailer would believe you to think you were about to witness a very simple home invasion horror. A man and his wife return to his hometown and are haunted by an old school friend. However, the film itself is much more intelligent than that.

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19/08/2015 1

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation

There are a lot of parallels between the Mission Impossible and Fast and Furious franchises. Both started quite small-scale, based around a specific idea, and as they’ve gone on they have got bigger and sillier and seemed to settle into what they want to be. They’ve also at this point, both peaked with their fifth film.

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07/08/2015 1

Southpaw

Boxing films are notoriously hard to pull off. They can go from the sublime to the ridiculous very easily, as director’s try to capture the frantic nature of the sport. The truth is that the best boxing films don’t focus on the sport itself, but the people involved in it. Which is exactly what Southpaw tries to do.

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06/08/2015 0

The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson is born from the city it is set in. It’s humour, people and language are so Glaswegian that you wonder how it will go down to any audience not based in Scotland. Robert Carlyle’s debut film as a director is as Scottish as he is and sees both him and Emma Thompson steal the show.

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04/08/2015 0

Inside Out

It’s become a commonly held view that Pixar have been in a bit of a slump. Brave and Monsters University were hardly bad films, but they missed that bit of magic that has always made Pixar so special. While Cars 2 sadly goes down as one of their first genuine flops. However, with the release of Inside Out Pixar are proving that rumours of their demise were greatly exaggerated.

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27/07/2015 1