If you were to ask me what I thought about pop punk, I’d probably instinctively tell you that it wasn’t for me. If you were to find me in a slightly harsher mood, I’d probably tell you it was pish. However, the truth is that doesn’t make much sense. In the real world I am a pop music fan, someone who has Taylor Swift sitting next to TesseracT on their Ipod. So in an attempt to show a bit of fairness, I thought I would give the new All Time Low album, Future Hearts, a listen.
SpongeBob Squarepants: Sponge Out of Water
A cartoon based around the adventures of a sponge which lives in a pineapple under the sea sounds like something dreamt up by someone after a long day of taking halluceinogenics. However, it does somehow exist and SpongeBob Squarepants has become one of Nickleodeon’s biggest exports. The first SpongeBob movie was released in 2004 and despite a lengthy period between them, everyone’s favourite yellow fry cooks is now back with The SpongBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us
Continuing my cutting edge video game journalism, I am back with my second video, this time looking at Injustice: Gods Among Us. As I said with the last video I am still trying to navigate my way around putting these together so please be nice, although if you do have any constructive criticism feel free to chip in.
Cinderella
There are some stories that don’t need explaining and I’m pretty sure Cinderella falls into that category. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t know the story of the girl with the glass slippers and therefore it was an obvious choice for Disney as they continue their conversion of their classic animated films into live action.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
For many the animation work of Studio Ghibli is the be all and end all of animated cinema. The Japanese studio has long reigned supreme and the announcement that it’s director Hayao Miyazaki was set to retire after his last film, The Wind Rises, was met with universal sadness. However, Miyazaki wasn’t solely responsible for Ghibli’s output and Isa Takahata, who co-founded Ghibli with Miyazaki, is still making films. Which brings us to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya an Academy Award nominee this year, although it did lose out to Big Hero 6.
Mommy
Whether or not you get on board with Mommy will be very much down to your initial reaction. If you’re not a fan of subtitles, that will be tick number one in the against column, (although I really have to question why that would be an issue) while the fact it is shot in a 1:1 ratio might just be the final nail in any respective coffin. It insures Mommy is never an easy watch, as the almost perfect square gives the whole film a sense of claustrophobia that it is hard to escape.
While She Sleeps – Brainwashed
While She Sleeps have been consistently pinpointed as the next big band in UK heavy metal. Magazines like Metal Hammer have pinned their flags to the Sleeps mast and the excitement surrounding them only seems to grow. That momentum looked set to sweep to the top, but then disaster struck. While calling it a tragedy would be diminishing a word that is used to describe things like a member of One Direction pissing off, it’s fair to say the vocal problems that hit lead singer Loz and his subsequent throat surgery, threw the first big spanner in the While She Sleeps express.
The Voices
Horror comedy is a tough genre to pull off. It requires that you to both produce scares and laughs to truly pull it off and for every Evil Dead 2 there is a whole host of shit that we don’t want to remember. Stepping into that difficult arena is The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi whose previous film Persepolis, it’s fair to say, is a very different beast from this one.
Pokemon X
If you take a look at the section of this website named Top 10s, you will notice that on the list of my favourite games of all time, Pokemon Red sits in slot number 2. Pokemon was pretty much year zero for me when it came to playing games. Sure, I had played some before that. But Pokemon was the first game that I poured hour after hour into. Since then I have played pretty much every game in the franchise and as long as I have a suitable break between each installment, have never grown bored with them.
X+Y
X+Y sits in an unusual place. On one hand, it’s a sweet look at a young maths prodigy trying to find a place in the world. He goes to the International Mathematical Olympiad, meets a girl and discovers that there is more to the world than numbers. On the other hand, that same prodigy registers on the spectrum and just doesn’t understand how people work. His father died at a young age and his mother struggles to connect with him. His mentor suffers from multiple sclerosis and he discovers that even in the world of the super smart, bullying is still a major issue.
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