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It’s becoming increasingly clear that the only thing worse than a needless Hollywood reboot is a needless Hollywood reboot done for contractual reasons. With the Terminator film rights set to revert to James Cameron in 2019, it’s time to milk that cash cow and Paramount and Skydance Productions have brought us Terminator Genisys, a film almost as messy as it’s spelling.
Until recently my only real experience of Nekrogoblikon was on the Kerrang tour in 2014. Sharing a bill with the wonderful Baby Godzilla (now known as Heck), the not really my thing but aren’t they good live Crossfaith and the yes they are ridiculous but god they are fun Limp Bizkit, it’s safe to say they stood out. Mainly for being a bit shit. I don’t know if I missed something, but the selling point seemed to be the fact they had a bloke dressed as a goblin. And that wore thin fast.
The band that changed punk rock or the ultimate sell outs. Refused are a lot of things to a lot of people, but very few can deny the power of The Shape of Punk To Come. The album which was thought to be their last was released before the band imploded in a basement in Virginia. Afterwards they declared they would never play music together again. But times change and people grow and seventeen years later they are back and not just playing shows, but releasing a whole new album, Freedom.
Sometimes you want to get deep and dark. Then other times, you want to watch a small yellow creature shout banana in a funny voice. I don’t know what it says about me that I tend to be much more into the second option.
TNA is a mess at the moment. Over the last couple of weeks we have seen some of their biggest stars decide to leave the company and they seem to bounce from disaster to disaster. Sunday night’s Slammiversary, seemed to sum up all of those problems at once.
Seeing dead people is not new ground for cinema. The iconic line from The Sixth Sense is almost as famous as it’s twist ending. However, very few people have made this supernatural power as dark and gritty as David Blair does with his thriller, The Messenger.
The great thing about the Edinburgh International Film Festival is the chance to stumble upon something that it is a pretty safe bet to say you would never watch otherwise. Surreal Hungarian comedy, Liza, The Fox-Fairy, probably falls into that category. It’s director Károly Ujj Mészáros‘s debut feature and according to the man himself, isn’t much like other Hungarian films.
A lot of people have played Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes character is such a part of British literature and film history, that it is easy to forget that he doesn’t actually exist. It’s a popularity that doesn’t seem likely to fade, with Benedict Cumberbatch bringing him to a whole new generation in Sherlock. Therefore, it’s kind of surprising that Sir Ian McKellen has never played him before.
The elevator pitch for Turbo Kid is ‘Mad Max on a BMX’ and with that simple sentence you begin to understand just a sliver of the lunacy in this debut full length feature from directorial trio François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell. Set in a post apocalyptic 1997, it is an homage to 80’s action movies and sets out purely to entertain.
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.
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