Category: Film

From modern day flops to the classics you missed.

Unlikable Characters in Film

Most people’s favourite movies centre around a character they can relate to, respect or have a feeling of affection for.  However, every now and then a movie comes along that is populated by, well, cunts.  Which brings us to Maps to the Stars, the latest movie by the brilliant David Cronenberg and a satirical look at the world of Hollywood and the nature of celebrity.  It’s a film that will make you laugh, horrify you and which I imagine many will take against (at least a few people walked out of the screening I was in), however, it is also full of thoroughly unlikable characters.

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King 810 w/ Hang the Bastard and Astroid Boys at The Classic Grand, Glasgow, 24/9/2014

King 810 are hitting up the UK for the first time and last night they rolled into Glasgow.  With their debut album currently proving polarizing among the metal community, there is an air of expectancy mingled with a sense of interest.  A lot of people here are looking to be impressed by King 810 and it feels very much like one of those nights that will make or break the band to that particular audience.

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The Guest

Adam Wingard is gaining a bit of a reputation for directing fantastically nasty films that revel in violence and absurdity.  Last years You’re Next, was a comedy horror which flipped your exceptions on their head and gave us a constant stream of gore.  His follow up movie The Guest, is less of a traditional horror but embraces home invasion elements, while continuing to be a nasty film that is comfortable in it’s B movie elements.

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Scaring Children

Everyone knows that traditional fairy tales have always been a bit scarier than their modern incarnations.  The years have seen the attitude adapted that children need to be protected from the grotesque, that they don’t like things that scare them and that anything that might do so should be avoided.  Now obviously if you are going to sit a child down in front of Saw, you should probably get your head checked, but the truth is that most kids like being scared, if it is done in the right way.

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How long is too long?

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Nine years ago Sin City came out and proved itself a stylish and exciting adaptation of a comic book.  It’s embracing of the graphic novel style, was a new way to portray the genre and the stories entwined in it, while obviously pulpy fiction, were exciting and gripping enough to insure it’s success.  After numerous delays, we have finally been provided with a sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, a movie that has seen some of the old cast return, others replaced and others join.  Yet has it just been a little bit too long for this particular sequel to make a true impression?

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Transfer Deadline Day

Yesterday was transfer deadline day.  For some a great day, for others one that rivals Christmas and New Year for being anticlimatic.  Particularly when you are still waiting around for your team to sign a bloody left back after several seasons of not having one.  Not that I’m bitter or anything…  Forgetting that momentarily, I thought today would be a good day to have a look back through some of the biggest moves of the day and give my opinion on them.

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What Harry did next.

Franchises aimed at the teen market are very much in vogue at the moment.  What started with Harry Potter has gone through Twilight, Hunger Games and all manner of poorer efforts.  It’s also led to a legion of young actors coming out of these franchises with the whole world having an opinion of them.  Some have failed spectacularly, Taylor Lautner comes to mind, as so far he seems to populate bad action movies and Grown Ups 2.  While the likes of Robert Pattinson have shown a new side to themselves, with interesting roles like Cosmopolis, the upcoming Map to the Stars and his most recent release The Rover.  Another teen idol who has broken out of the mold is Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe.

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How The Inbetweeners 2 Improves on the Original.

When The Inbetweeners hit our TV screens in 2008, it seemed to explode, you couldn’t walk down the street without hearing a quote from the show.  After three seasons this success transferred itself off our tellies and onto the big screen, becoming one of the biggest British comedy movies off all time, despite failing to make it over the other side of the pond.  In spite of this success, the first movie never quite achieved the brilliance of the TV show, it lost a lot of the charm that had made people fall in love with this group of misfits in the first place.

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Does the Expendables 3 take itself too seriously?

When The Expendables was first announced it seemed a brilliant idea, an over the top action film bringing together the greatest film hard men of all time.  The fact that it wasn’t very good wasn’t really an issue, the movie was fun enough that it got away with it.  The second followed on in much the same vein and now here we are with Expendables 3, featuring a whole new cast of young up and comers joining our heroes…  and Frazier Crane.

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