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Wes Anderson returns to our screens with his latest effort The Grand Budapest Hotel, which he both wrote and directed, although based it off the works of Stefan Zweig. It’s being described by many as the most Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson movie yet and if you go and see it you might quickly understand why.
Lamb of God are one of the biggest bands on the planet that most of the planet hasn’t heard of. They’ve sold nearly two million albums in their home country, the USA, been nominated for Grammy’s and their last album shot to number 3 in the US Billboard charts and made the top twenty in the UK. Yet this isn’t a music review, but rather a look at their recent documentary, As the Palaces Burn, which was directed by Don Argott.
Vampires have taken a bit of a kicking in the last few years, going from dreaded creatures of the night to sparkly things that fall in love. Therefore, it’s refreshing to see Jim Jarmusch remind us just how cool vampires can be in his latest movie Only Lovers Left Alive.
The idea of humans falling in love with machines is not a new one in cinema, it’s a common trope of the sci-fi genre, but if anything the last few years have led to it hitting closer and closer to home. Advances in technology like the Iphone suggest a future where, while our computers may not get to think for themselves, they may well be able to trick you into believing they can.
Nick Frost has spent his career in the shadow of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg. However, to purely consider him as a stooge to their talents is to give the guy a lot less credit that he deserves. Underneath that overweight outward appearance is an incredibly talented physical comedian and therefore it’s not surprising that the idea of him doing a comedy based around the idea of salsa dancing is on paper a recipe for success.
There is a track on Ghost Empire, German metalcore mob Caliban’s 9th album, called “I Am Rebellion”. It starts slowly before delivering some chunky metalcore riffs and a big melodic chorus. In other words, it’s about the least rebellious metalcore track you will hear this year. Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. If you take a stroll through the music section of this website you will find a lot of articles about metalcore bands, it’s a genre I have a lot of time for. However, it’s also a genre that can hit it’s saturation point quite easily and there are a lot of Killswitch Engage clones out their. Not all of them can claim to have been going as long as Caliban though, who actually formed in 1997 two years before Killswitch.
Dallas Buyers Club is the latest step in the ongoing McConaissance and is looking to be the one that will gain the man, once famous for leaning on his co-stars on the side of buses, that coveted Academy Award. Directed by Jean Marc Vallee it is a movie that has been a long time coming, with names such as Woody Harrelson having previously been attached to it.
The fact that The Lego Movie has taken this long to appear is something of a surprise. When you consider the amount of licenses that are held by Lego, it has surely always been only a matter of time until they all came together to create a movie. The problem is that much like many spin offs of beloved toys and games, it is all too easy to create something substandard and poor, with the knowledge that fans that will come flocking anyway. Therefore it was a relief when Phil Lord and Chris Miller stepped into the directorial seat, as their previously filmography suggests an ability to make gold out of something with the potential to plummet, mainly with 21 Jump Street and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
Inside Llewyn Davis is the latest release from the Cohen brothers and tells the story of a struggling Greenwich village folk musician. Llewyn Davis’s life is an endless circle of small gigs, crashing on friends floors and disappointment. His previous musical relationship was cut short when his partner, Mike, committed suicide. While the people he calls friends are not really his friends and more suffer him because without them he’d be dead. Reading that back it all sounds rather depressing doesn’t it?
The recent thrash revival has shown the demand for old school balls to the wall thrash is alive and well in the metal world today and one band who are willing to give us this is Suicidal Angels. Hailing from Greece they have just released their fifth album Divide and Conquer and will be looking to spread their blood and thunder thrash approach to the masses.
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