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There are a million albums out there that I don’t like or in which I take absolutely no interest. The number that I actively hate is a lot smaller. It takes something special to make me despise a band and the music that they create. Panic! At the Disco have pulled that off with Death of a Bachelor. Even more impressively, they’ve pulled it off while getting me to like some of the songs.
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If someone was to sit you down and request you write a list of directors whom you believed would be likely to direct a film on the 2008 financial crash, how many would you get through before you got to Adam McKay?  The man who created Ron Burgundy may have included a small lecture at the end of The Other Guys about said financial crash, but he would still have been far down most people’s lists.  And yet, here we sit.  The Big Short not only exists but has five Oscar nominations, including Best Director for McKay.  So how did he pull it off?
Weatherstate is what happens when you merge pop-punk fuelled lyrics with garage rock and then chuck in a bit of Weezer.  I’m sure I could come up with a fancy name for that but I think I’ll just stick to describing their latest EP, Dumbstruck, as punk rock.  I’ll also throw in that is a combination that you need in your ears.
Sunday the 24th of January saw two very different wrestling promotions on opposite sides of the world put on very similar shows. Â ICW held their Square Go, at Glasgow’s famous Barrowlands, while the WWE hosted the Royal Rumble in Orlando. Â Both shows are based around a Rumble style match and I was lucky enough to attend one and to watch the other (although I did have to stay up until 4 am so I don’t know how lucky that was). Â The question is, how did they compare?
There is an unsettling feeling in the air right now, rock and metal heroes seem to be dropping like flies and for the first time, we are about to see an enforced changing of the guards.  In the last few months, we have lost Lemmy, Scott Weiland, David Bowie and now today the sad news of Glenn Frey of Eagles fame.  We are reaching an age where the rock and roll bands of yesteryear are getting old and their members are passing away.  So the question is, what next?
It is looking more and more likely that part of The Bullet Club is making their way to the WWE, possibly in order to team up with former leader Finn Balor. Â It also appears that joining them will be Shinsuke Nakamura, no not Celtic’s former freekick taker, that’s Shunsuke. Â Instead, he’s the former NJPW Intercontinental Champion, having been stripped of it because of this very move. Â Put him alongside AJ Styles and the tag team of Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows and you have four incredibly talented and successful wrestlers making their way into the WWE. Â So what do you do with them?
The Revenant’s gruelling shoot is already crossing over into Hollywood myth and legend. Â It endured everything from freezing temperatures to an unusual lack of snow in Canada and saw more than one crew member either walk off the set or be fired. Â All to bring us the story of Hugh Glass, (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is buried alive and left for dead by his fellow trappers after he is attacked by a grizzly bear. Â Somehow he survives to pull himself out of his grave and give chase, seeking revenge on those that have wronged him. Â So the question is, was it all worth it?
Wrestlemania is fast approaching and I fancy doing some fantasy booking! Â Now, as always with these things, this is totally invented and should in no way be taken as fact. Â It’s just me filling some time by guessing Wrestlemania cards. Â So let’s do it.
There are minor spoilers for Room in this review, although they are all revealed in the trailer. Â If you want to know nothing, you should probably stop here. Â It’s brilliant, go see it.
To call Room harrowing is the mother of all understatements.  At the start of the film, we find Brie Larson’s Ma living in a garden shed barely bigger than a closet, imprisoned by ‘Old Nick’ who kidnapped her seven years previously.  In that time, she has grown to be dependent on him and has also had his child, Jack, who is now five years old.  Despite the circumstances of his birth, she has grown fiercely protective of him, letting Nick nowhere near him and raising him best she can in their horrifying circumstances.
If I am being perfectly honest, I can’t call myself a David Bowie fan. Â The sole Bowie album in my collection is a Greatest Hits compilation and while it is a pretty comprehensive one, I doubt it does him justice. Â However, love of his music or not, I had a lot of respect for the man and while I may not have had the personal reaction to his passing that I did to someone like Lemmy, it was still a sad day for music.
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