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So on Friday I nipped down to Caberet Voltaire in Edinburgh on a whim, to check out a few local bands. I came into this gig with exactly zero knowledge of any of these bands, except for the description on the Cab Vol website and came away very pleasantly surprised, as all four bands put on a great show. Not bad for a fiver.
After a short break from talking about games, we are back with LUFTRAUSERS which actually came out this year, possibly making it the newest game I have talked about. It was a game I picked up in a Humble Bundle and decided to have a go at this week while waiting for the new Football Manager to drop (more on that later). LUFTRAUSERS is an update of a free Flash game and was developed by Vlambeer. It’s one of the many indie games that takes on a rather retro art style and it is also incredibly good fun.
Films that look at the modern state of the media are hardly rare in this day and age. With the UK having gone through phone tapping and the US having just as many problems themselves, the media is rife for a kicking, but few films have done so in the stylish, dark and twisted way that Nightcrawler does. It’s the directorial debut from Dan Gilroy, who also wrote the script, which suggests that he may well be a film maker to watch in the years to come.
Sometimes I sit down to write a review and realise that there is probably not much point. Today was one of those days. On Sunday night I went to see Ginger Wildheart in Glasgow and had a rather fantastic night. However, me writing about how awesome Ginger is seems a bit pointless. If you wish to know my opinion on the man and his music you can find it here, here and here, as well as a few other places if you want to delve a bit deeper. I’m a huge Ginger fan and therefore repeating myself is now going to be that interesting. Of course it was awesome, he’s always awesome.
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Horror in 2014 is a strange genre. Modern films seem to fall into two categories. Every now and then you get something smart and interesting, for example the great You’re Next, which took traditional horror tropes and twisted them in a dark and amusing way. However, more often than not we are left by Paranormal Activity inspired cattle-prod cinema. Horror movies that rely mainly on the idea of being quiet for a while, before making the audience jump with a big bang. Into this fray now enters The Babadook, a movie written and directed by the possibly twisted mind of Jennifer Kent.
If you ask most people to describe what they consider the standard blues guitarist, they would probably go down the old, craggy man route. Someone who can damn well play, but is not exactly one of the hip young people the modern music world seem to have such an obsession with. However, if you dig below the surface, times are a changing and two albums I’ve checked out in the last week or so, are the perfect proof of that.
It’s been a mixed year for animated films. On one hand we have had the brilliant Lego Movie and the wonderfully dirty Box Trolls. On the other hand, there has been a lot of crap. Films like The Postman Pat movie seemed to fail on nearly every level. The latest fighter to enter the fray is The Book of Life, a film, which at least on paper due to the involvement (as a producer) of Guillermo Del Toro, looks set to be a prize fighter.
Hell in a Cell was last night and as I did a preview for the event, I felt the natural follow on was a review. Believe it or not, there will be spoilers past this point.
Any listeners to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s weekly film show, Wittertainment as it has affectionately become known, will be aware of a long running joke about films that aren’t actually about what they appear to be about. The classic example of this, at least in Mark Kermode’s opinion, is Jaws, which he proclaims is not about the shark, but actually about infidelity. The most recent addition to this ‘genre’ is ’71, a film set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, but which despite this, is really not about the Troubles themselves.
Another month, another PPV and WWE have somehow managed to put together one of their most lackluster bills yet, as the television product stagnates. Despite this, it is another PPV that might just deliver in the ring and I am still happy to provide you all with my (semi) educated opinion on what will go down.
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