WWE Women’s Division

I feel like I have covered how awesome NXT is.  It’s the only televised wrestling I actually watch on a weekly basis and I genuinely think it’s the best thing WWE has done for a long time.  Therefore, you probably don’t need to hear me say that NXT Takeover: Rivals was another fantastic show, topped off with three absolutely brilliant main events.  If you like wrestling and haven’t watched it, then do so now.  If you don’t like wrestling, give it a chance anyway, it might surprise you.  However, that’s not what I’ve decided to discuss.  Instead, lets look at women’s wrestling in the WWE.

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Shaun the Sheep Movie

Most studios would be horrified at the idea of an animator filming three seconds of footage a day and it being seen as a good thing.  Then again, most studios aren’t Aardman Animations.  The studio who are most famous for Wallace and Gromit and uses stop motion clay animation, have long been famous for their incredible attention to detail and wonderfully crafted movies.  Yet, even for them their adaptation of Shaun the Sheep felt like a stretch.  Based off a show that airs on CBBC and generally runs for around seven minutes, it is the story of Shaun and the farm he lives on.  The added hitch in big screen plans, is its complete lack of dialogue.

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Everything is Awesome

Music is a funny old business.  Heavy metal is a genre that sits outside the mainstream and 99% of the time, relishes in that fact.  We embrace our difference and we love it. That is until something like the Grammy Awards comes along and gets metal horribly wrong.  They don’t get us, so they just go with the safest option, this year that was Tenacious D, and hand them a trophy, before ushering the whole thing off stage and breathing a sigh of relief.  Should we care?  No, of course not.  Do we care?  Well sadly, a glance around the internet suggests some of us do.

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Inherent Vice

If you’ve ever sat in a smoky room, squinting at a TV screen through the fog of whatever is being inhaled around you and struggled to make out exactly what is going on, then you are probably prepared for the experience of watching Inherent Vice.  The latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson, sees the Hollywood auteur try to adapt the famously incomprehensible novel of Thomas Pynchon.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

Matthew Vaughn made his name directing the stylish and ultra violent Kick Ass.  An adaptation of a Mark Millar comic, which took a very different look at super heroes.  It was successful enough that he bagged himself an X-Men film.  However, with Kingsman: The Secret Service, it appears Vaughn is going back to the w, as it’s another Millar adaptation, but this time see’s him dealing with gentlemen spies.

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Live Review: Mariachi El Bronx w/ Pounded By The Surf

Now that’s hardcore

Usually when The Bronx come to town, they leave a trail of destruction in their wake.  Upturned tables and a crowd with a look that sits somewhere between confusion and ecstasy are their stock in trade.  However, every now and then they leave that insanity behind.  They don the Mariachi gear and choose instead to serenade us, with tales of love, life and all those other lovely things.

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A Most Violent Year

1981 was one of the most violent years in New York’s history.  In a city with the history of New York, that is saying something.  A Most Violent Year brings you into that city.  It depicts a dark, dank place where violence and corruption are such a normal part of day-to-day life, that they are as common to the people involved as they would be shocking to you or me.

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Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth is based on the First World War memoir of the same name, which was written by Vera Brittain.  The novel has been widely proclaimed as a classic, as it represented the one female voice among a plethora of males ones looking at the war.  It has previously been presented as a TV production, but this is the first time it has made its way to the big screen, under the direction of James Kent.

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