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Oh Mr Copping. After causing the Internet to explode with yesterday’s Download announcement, you only went and topped it this morning by announcing the second headliner and another special guest. Â Here’s my latest reaction to the Download announcements.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was a surprisingly touching and fun film that also had a big dollop of surreal weirdness.  It was also a surprise success so naturally we now have a sequel on our hands.  The rather boringly named Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 is that sequel and has seen most of the original cast return apart from Mr. T who has been replaced by Terry Crews as Eric Devereaux.
Festival season is up and running and while festivals like Bloodstock have been pulling out exciting line ups involving the returning Emperor and the always loved Megadeth Download have held off on letting the cat out of the bag on their headliners for next summer.  That is until today, when Andy Copping and co have decided to let the first of said cats out of said bag and let the world know exactly who they can expect to see when they are set up in that beautiful field down Donnington way.
Huntress were shot into the metal world’s attention with their very solid debut album Spell Eater, which took elements of trad metal and thrash and mixed it with very occult lyrics and the incredible voice of Jill Janus.  They’re now back only a year later with their second album Starbound Beast, which has presumably been pushed out in order to capitalise on that publicity.
When the Djeent scene exploded a few years back TesseracT were quickly pinpointed as MVPs.  Their brand of progressive metal is more intelligent, and better crafted, than nearly anything on the market at the moment and their second album Altered State will be looking to expand upon their already lofty reputation.  It features Ashe O’Hara on vocals for the first time and is also their first release to feature entirely clean vocals.
Here’s another playlist folks. Â Hope you enjoy.
Ender’s Game is an adaptation of the book of the same name, written by Orson Scott Card.  The film has been directed by Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and has already faced criticism due to the controversial views of it’s original author.  As a fan of both the book and as someone who is aware of his views I shall be reviewing the film without taking into account either of those factors, because it is obviously a completely separate piece of work.  To get it out the way now though, I do prefer the book.
Captain Phillips is a biopic of merchant mariner Captain Richards Phillips who was kidnapped and held hostage by Somalian pirates back in 2009.  It’s an adaptation of the book A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs and Dangerous Days at Sea, which was written by the aforementioned Richard Phillips, and is directed by Paul Greengrass’s who is possibly most famous for his work on the original Bourne films.
James Gandolfini’s sudden death earlier this year was a tragic moment as the man, best known for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, appeared to bow out before ever really getting to make his mark on mainstream Hollywood.  This has obviously led to his final performances receiving a lot more attention than they may have done otherwise and the first of his final two films comes in the shape of Enough Said, a romantic comedy written and directed by Nicole Holofcener.
