Top Ten Films of the Year: Number 10 to Number 6

The end of the year is neigh and with the likes of Birdman and Whiplash not making their way to UK cinemas until next year, I think it is a safe time to start my top ten movies of the year.  As usual, this is completely subjective and I’m not even claiming the movies that make this list are the best ones, but rather the ones I enjoyed the most.  I also obviously didn’t see every single film released this year.    Basically, please don’t waste your time telling me I’m wrong.

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Bang Man!

I’ve never reviewed a mobile game before, however there is a first time for everything and I’m short on time today, so it seems an appropriate thing to review in short form.  Bang Man! is the latest game from Bryonic Man, a studio which is essentially the brain child of Simon Byron, who some may know from his work on One Life Left, the video game radio show and podcast.   Continue reading “Bang Man!” →

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Christmas Number One

The annual get so and so to Christmas Number One, has become almost as big a tradition as turkey or drunk argumentative relatives.  Ever since the Rage Against the Machine campaign knocked Cowell and co off of the top spot, it has become somewhat fashionable to push an alternative band towards the top of the charts.  This year the always wonderful Iron Maiden are the chosen band.  Now quite frankly, I would love Iron Maiden to get only their second UK number one single, they damn well deserve it, but do we really need to care about Christmas Number One?

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St Vincent

If there is one thing that can always be said about Bill Murray films, it is that they contain Bill Murray, a fact that instantly improves them by around 50%.  His most recent role, as the Vincent in Theodore Melfi’s St Vincent, see’s him being particularly wonderfully Bill Murray, as the gruff, prone to a drink elderly gentlemen, who takes up the role of father figure to the young protagonist Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher).

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Live Review: Machine Head w/ Darkest Hour and Heart of a Coward

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Machine Head are having one hell of a year.  Their Killers and Kings tour, where they hit up places in the UK they hadn’t been in a long time and played venues they were too big for 15 years ago, led to some of the best live shows the UK has ever seen.  While their latest album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, saw a return to form, after the slightly patchy, Unto the Locust.  Now they are out on tour in support of said album and sadly back in the kind of venues you expect to see one of the UK’s favourite metal bands in.  Although, I have to admit, I really hate the O2 Academy in Glasgow.

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NXT Takeover: Revolution

Slowly but surely, NXT has become one of the best wrestling programs on TV.  Led by Triple H and featuring some of the best young, up and coming wrestlers in the world, it is the future of the WWE.  Or at least it will be, if they don’t fuck it up.  Last night they had their latest Takeover event, Revolution.  These NXT versions of a PPV are some of the best shows WWE has put on this year and last night was no exception.

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Behemoth w/ Decapitated, Grand Magus and Winterfylleth.

There aren’t going to be many bills that can compete with just how metal Behemoth’s current touring party is and therefore, it is nice to see them playing a venue the size of Glasgow’s O2 ABC.  The beer might be overpriced and it’s not actually sold out, but it show’s that extreme metal doesn’t have to exist solely in the underground.

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Nickelback – No Fixed Address

As we approach the end of the year, (you can expect my end of year lists to start appearing over the next few weeks) I have a tradition of making a list of albums I have somehow missed, so I can go back and check them out.  While looking for some that might grab my attention, I stumbled on the fact that apparently everyone’s least favourite twats, Nickelback, released a new album.  Now, I was kind of surprised I’d missed this.  As much as I despise their bland, soulless radio rock, I was of the opinion that Nickelback were still a rather big deal and therefore, I would have heard when they were releasing a new album.  All of this led, out of some masochistic need to hurt myself, to me sitting down and listening to it this morning.

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My Thoughts on ROH – Final Battle

Last Sunday Ring of Honor held Final Battle at Terminal 5. New York.  It is ROH’s biggest show of the year and I guess their equivalent of Wrestlemania or Bound For Glory.  Now, I used to watch a lot of ROH, but I have to be honest and admit that in recent months I have become lax in doing so.  I keep up to date with what is going on, but very rarely catch the television product, it’s a similar relationship that I have with TNA to be honest.  However, with this being ROH’s big show, I decided to return and because I am like that, to also give you all my opinion on where ROH stand at the end of 2014.

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