Sometimes you want to get deep and dark. Â Then other times, you want to watch a small yellow creature shout banana in a funny voice. Â I don’t know what it says about me that I tend to be much more into the second option.
Slammiversary
TNA is a mess at the moment. Â 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. Â Sunday night’s Slammiversary, seemed to sum up all of those problems at once.
The Messenger
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.
Liza, The Fox-Fairy
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.
Mr Holmes
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.
Turbo Kid
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.
Spy
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.
Music Vs Money
Gene Simmons has a habit of opening his mouth and having shit spew out. Â He’s proven himself an ignorant bell end when it come to issues like mental health, but his recent comments on music fans having to bear the brunt of the responsibility for the decline of the music industry are at least interesting.
Jurassic World
Dinosaurs are fucking cool.  That is just a fact.  Everyone has at some point been filled by fascination when thinking about these giant creatures, which lived before our time on this planet.  It’s that feeling of wonder which makes Jurassic Park one of the most iconic films of all time.  It’s a feeling that Colin Trevorrow has been tasked with recapturing in Jurassic World.
