How do you follow one of the greatest TV shows of all time? Â Well if you are Vince Gilligan, you take one of the characters from that show and go all superhero by giving him an origin story.
Unfriended
Traditional horror is basically a morality tale.  Anyone who has seen the Scream films will be aware that the easiest way to survive a horror film, is to make sure you stay as far away from sex as possible.  However, in 2015 that idea doesn’t really work anymore.  Times are changing and horror movies need to catch up.  Enter Unfriended, a horror movie for the internet generation.
Baby Chaos
As I was around six years old when Baby Chaos were first on the scene, it is probably not surprising that they passed me by.  However, I did catch these Glasgow rockers supporting Ginger Wildheart last year and they have just today been announced as support for The Wildhearts P.H.U.Q tour in September.  Such an obvious seal of approval from Ginger himself, was always going to insure I picked up their comeback album.
Live Review: While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats w/ Hundreth and Oathbreaker
The ABC is crowded with an unusual audience as While She Sleeps and Cancer Bats roll into town.  There’s the heavy metal fans, the ones I recognise from countless gigs in Glasgow and will see at countless more.  There’s the scene kids, who travels in packs and who I may well have seen before, but blend into one giant blob of baseball caps and shorts.  Then there’s the new folk, the people who look slightly out-of-place and aren’t really into heavy metal.  However, they have come out tonight because bands like While She Sleeps are getting big and it is awesome to see.
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The Falling
It takes a certain kind of film to release on the same day as something like Avengers: Age of Ultron.  You either have to be a little bit insane or be peddling something so completely different, that you believe your audience will find it.  The Falling definitely falls into the second category, as Carol Morley‘s film looks at a fainting epidemic in a 1960’s girls school in England.
Extreme Rules
Extreme Rules felt like a show from a jaded company that was stuck in a slump.  Something which is almost impressive, considering it comes just a month after one of the best Wrestlemania’s of all time.  Overflowing with unneeded gimmick matches and the kind of juvenile humour which only Vince could laugh at, it once again came down to a few of the WWE’s great roster, to save the show.
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
It’s fitting that the newest Marvel film sees it’s biggest stars coming up against an ever multiplying robot, which is set to take over the world. Â It in many ways bares resemblance to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is slowly spreading into every corner of our entertainment world and is probably making more money than God. Â The jewel in the crowd of that universe is The Avengers and with the first movie playing a big part in raking in that money, it’s safe to say the pressure was on for Joss Whedon and co with the follow-up.
Daredevil
It is no secret that for all the Marvel Cinematic Universes brilliant qualities, it has always felt a bit light weight.  As of yet no one important (which sounds a lot more horrible than I mean it too) has died, with even Phil Coulson (whose death played an important part in uniting The Avengers) coming back from the dead for Agents of SHIELD.  However, stepping into this ring is Daredevil, a character non comic book fans will be aware of because of an awful Ben Affleck film back in 2003.  A blind lawyer, he spends his nights dealing out a different kind of justice on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen and his introduction to the MCU via Netflix, sees Marvel looking at a grittier New York.
Second Chances: The Prodigy
We all have them, those big bands you know you should love, but just leave you feeling a bit cold.  I have a fair few of them in my closet, bands for whatever reason I have never got or never given the time to.  That’s where Second Chances come in.  An article series where I will go to bands who fill this criteria and give them exactly that, a second chance.  To start things off, we have The Prodigy.  A band who have always gone over my head.  Sure, there are some great things about them, I remember how cool and dangerous they seemed when they first broke and I was young and impressionable.  But in the here and now, I just struggle to care.  Even their famed live show failed to convince me when I watch them headline Sonisphere last year.
Sharon Osbourne and Rock and Roll’s Problem
Towards the end of last week, I made the mistake of stumbling into the comment section of a post on Metal Hammer’s Facebook.  Anyone with any experience of that horrible place, will know it tends towards the unpleasant, filled with trolls trolling trolls and people generally acting like dickheads.  However, on this particular comment thread people were throwing around an accusation that I have seen many times before and yet still get pissed off at.
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