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Skyfall wasn’t just responsible for elevating James Bond back to the top of the Hollywood totem pole. It can also take credit for doing the same for spy movies in general and this year there seems a bit of a resurgence in the genre. We’ve already seen Kingsman and later in the year we will have The Man From U.N.C.L.E. In the here and now we have Spy, from future Ghostbusters director Paul Feig.
Gene Simmons has a habit of opening his mouth and having shit spew out. He’s proven himself an ignorant bell end when it come to issues like mental health, but his recent comments on music fans having to bear the brunt of the responsibility for the decline of the music industry are at least interesting.
Dinosaurs are fucking cool. That is just a fact. Everyone has at some point been filled by fascination when thinking about these giant creatures, which lived before our time on this planet. It’s that feeling of wonder which makes Jurassic Park one of the most iconic films of all time. It’s a feeling that Colin Trevorrow has been tasked with recapturing in Jurassic World.
Heavy metal is generally not seen as a smooth or classy genre. There’s a lot of grunting, screaming and throwing your body into people. Yet when Faith No More stroll onto the stage of the O2 Academy dressed all in white and surrounded by flowers, there is definitely an air of sophistication to proceedings. It’s hard to imagine that just the night before this band was playing in front of the muddy denizens of Download festival. They are far too clean.
We’ve had sparkly vampires and we’ve had funny vampires. We’ve even had whatever it was Johnny Depp was doing in Dark Shadows. However, it is safe to say A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is our first Iranian Western vampire.
Here’s a little secret for you, that isn’t actually at all a secret. The first heavy metal band I truly got into was Bullet For my Valentine. They broke at the same time I was moving from Nirvana and Jimmy Eat World onto Metallica and Iron Maiden (not that I stopped loving either of those bands). They were the first band that felt like one of my bands and The Poison is still a cracking album. However, at some point in the last few years things have gone a bit off the rails for Bullet. Rather than, as many predicted, a rise to festival headliner status, they have seen themselves flounder around the same level. Never able to make that next big step.
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It is safe to say that Al Pacino hasn’t done his best work in the twilight years of his career. While there is no denying his talent, recent years haven’t been kind to the great man, as the number of films he releases dwindles and the ones he does appear in hardly set the world afire. He’s not alone in this however and he’s joined a surprisingly strong list of actors who have attempted to stage a comeback, by playing a character in a very similar position.
There are plenty of films out there that just do the bare minimum. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad, but they play to an audience that they know exists and whether they are good or not, there is a decent chance they will find that audience. However, every now and then a film comes along that tries something a bit different and is full of big ideas. Quite often these films don’t quite work and something is a bit off about them. However, should these films not be celebrated over even the better of the safe films? Movies that go for broke and don’t quite make it are surely more exciting than movies that play be all the rules?
Camden has long been a musical hot spot. Whether it’s Britpop or punk rock, it’s been key to more than one musical revolution. So a one day festival encompassing a whole host of venues makes perfect sense. Enter Camden Rocks, which features over two hundred bands, ranging from Bullet for My Valentine to competition winners. There was also beer, oh so much beer.
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