If history suggests anything, it should suggest that Halestorm are not the band for me.  Actually, it suggests a lot more than that, but for the sake of this review that’s stick with it.  On the surface its middle of the road radio rock and the first time I heard them that’s exactly what I thought.  However, a couple of years after that first listen, I still find myself going back. Because as much as Halestorm haven’t reinvented the wheel, the wheels they are making are full of the kind of big choruses that it’s hard to reject.
Fast and Furious 7
Roughly ten minutes into Fast and Furious 7 The Rock and Jason Statham are having a good old-fashioned rumble.  The Rock grabs the Stath and for all intents and purposes Rock Bottoms him through a glass table.  Following this, The Rock and one of friends are blown out of a window (which is several stories up) and land on top of a car, causing it to crumple in on itself.  No one dies in this exchange and it’s the moment I got on board with Fast and Furious 7.
Gallows
Losing key members of a band is always tricky.  In the case of Gallows, it arguably knocked their career back several years.  To the NME crowd who had embraced them, Frank Carter was the band, without him they may as well not exist.  However, that didn’t stop them releasing an awesome slab of hardcore punk in 2012.  For their fourth album, Desolation Sounds, they have trimmed down even further, losing their second Carter, but that doesn’t mean they are not in the mood for kicking some serious arse.
John Wick
To enter the world of John Wick, you need to accept one very simple fact.  Mr Wick is a fucking badass.  Get that into your head and you will be fine, because this is revenge porn that isn’t pretending its central character is anything less than a super hero.  Wick’s nickname is the boogeyman and every time he steps foot in a room, every person in it hopes that he isn’t there for them.
Good Kill
Drones are a hot topic at this point in time, so it’s hardly surprising that they are making their way onto the big screen.  Good Kill follows the life of a drone pilot, someone who gets to stay at home in beautiful old America and conduct his business from an air-conditioned booth in Las Vegas.  Sadly, being away from the actual conflict zone doesn’t mean that the war’s effects are any less real.
NXT: A Problem?
I have written a lot about my love for NXT, it is the best wrestling product on TV at this point in time and it is the only one I actually make the effort to watch on a regular basis. Â However, inspired by a conversation on The Art of Wrestling, I want to take a slightly different look at NXT and how its success might actually end up being a bad thing.
All Time Low
If you were to ask me what I thought about pop punk, I’d probably instinctively tell you that it wasn’t for me.  If you were to find me in a slightly harsher mood, I’d probably tell you it was pish.  However, the truth is that doesn’t make much sense.  In the real world I am a pop music fan, someone who has Taylor Swift sitting next to TesseracT on their Ipod.  So in an attempt to show a bit of fairness, I thought I would give the new All Time Low album, Future Hearts, a listen.
SpongeBob Squarepants: Sponge Out of Water
A cartoon based around the adventures of a sponge which lives in a pineapple under the sea sounds like something dreamt up by someone after a long day of taking halluceinogenics.  However, it does somehow exist and SpongeBob Squarepants has become one of Nickleodeon’s biggest exports.  The first SpongeBob movie was released in 2004 and despite a lengthy period between them, everyone’s favourite yellow fry cooks is now back with The SpongBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
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Injustice: Gods Among Us
Continuing my cutting edge video game journalism, I am back with my second video, this time looking at Injustice: Gods Among Us. Â As I said with the last video I am still trying to navigate my way around putting these together so please be nice, although if you do have any constructive criticism feel free to chip in.
Cinderella
There are some stories that don’t need explaining and I’m pretty sure Cinderella falls into that category.  You’d be hard pressed to find someone who didn’t know the story of the girl with the glass slippers and therefore it was an obvious choice for Disney as they continue their conversion of their classic animated films into live action.
