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The stuff that isn’t about wrestling.

Into The Woods

Dark fairy tales are all the rage at the moment.  With authors like Neil Gaiman proving popular and cinema adaptations of classic Disney fare like Snow White and Maleficient, it seems like the classic stories are back in vogue.  Therefore, an adaptation of Steven Sondheim’s musical, Into the Woods, seemed like an inevitability.  The musical tells the story of several classic fairy tale characters; Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel, but rather than ending the stories at the traditional time, we go beyond that and see what happens after the happily ever after.  Sadly, it’s not quite as happy as you might suppose.

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Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher is a film that gives a lot of people a chance to shine.  A look at the lives of David and Mark Schultz, both of whom were Olympic amateur wrestlers and John E. Du Pont, an American millionaire and wrestling fan who runs Foxcatcher Farms on his mansion estate and wishes for it to be the headquarters of the USA’s wrestling program.  It’s a true life story and one that I shall not spoil for those of you that are unaware of its outcome, needless to say, there is a reason it has made its way onto film.

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The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything is the story of Stephen Hawking, a figure that even the most scientifically block headed will be well aware of.  Directed by James Marsh and based off the memoir of Hawking’s first wife, Jane Wilde Hawking, it stars Eddie Redmayne as the scientist who goes from a young and hopeful Cambridge PHD student, to a disabled, but world-renowned, scientist.  Hawking’s story is fascinating and even if this film occasionally views like a hagiography, it still has a lot in it to recommend.

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2015 Predictions

So we are now over a week into 2015 and the year is setting itself up, whether good or bad, to at least be interesting.  In the past I have done musical predictions, which I will continue to do this year, but I have decided to mix them up with film and maybe even a couple of gaming ones.

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Shadow of Mordor

Keeping up the Tolkien inspired posts, I have just finished Shadow of Mordor, a game by Monolith Productions, which takes place between the time of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.  It tells the story of Talion, a Ranger of Gondor, who is killed, along with his wife and son by the, Black Hand of Sauron.  However, he is brought back to life when he is merged with the wraith like spirit of Celebrimbor, an Elven lord.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Six films, more money than I count and a running time that goes over 1000 minutes (that’s not even talking about the extended editions) and Peter Jackson’s time in Middle Earth comes to an end with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.  It has been one of cinema’s most ambitious projects and has seen the wonderful world that Tolkin created enter the mainstream in a way it had never done before.  However, there is no denying that there are still question marks over The Hobbit.  Particularly, as to whether it ever needed to be three films at all.

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