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5 of my favourite comedy film moments
You can’t beat a bit of comedy. Nothing better to cheer up a gloomy mood and put behind you a 6 game losing streak on FIFA that saw you launch your pad through the air like a swan chasing a … Continue reading
Posted in Films
Tagged 2pac, blogging, cinema, comedy, Direction, dumb and dumber, Evan Goldberg, Films, harold and maude, jim carey, movies, Netflix, paul rudd, Seth Rogan, step brothers, superbad, wet hot american summer, will ferrell
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Max Richter – Sleep. The adult lulaby
I don’t know how many of you out there have heard of Max Richter, whose music has been featured in such films as Waltz with Bashir, Shutter Island and Prometheus but I am a massive fan of his. To me … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Album, art, Cinema Music, Classical, classical music, composer, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Max Richter, movies, music, Piano, Prometheus, shutter island, Sleep, Star Wars, strings, Waltz with bashir
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Flashback: My 5 favourite childhood WWF/WWE Wrestlers.
I had a big wrestling obsession in my childhood and early teens. I had probably hundreds of videos and then DVDs when that became the format of choice and all the PS1 and 2 games. Watching Smackdown on a saturday … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged 90s, 90s TV, Big Show, Brett Hart, Cactus Jack, Entertainment, film, games, Hell in the Cell, Mick Foley, movies, Raw, Ric Flair, Royal Rumble, Shaun Michaels, Smackdown, sports, Stone Cold, The Rock, The Undertaker, Triple H, tv, WCW, Wrestlemania, wrestling, WWE, WWF
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Movie Review: Everest
I love a true story film. Biographical dramas always resonate with me and I find films a lot more tense when you realise that these were real people and real lives that were on the line. As soon as I … Continue reading
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Tagged action, biographical drama, biography, blog, blog review, drama, Everest, Everest Film, Films, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, latest release, man on wire, Mountain, Mountaineering, movie review, movies, touching the void, true life, true story, wire
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5 of the Best Documentary Films
I think documentaries get a bad rep of being dull or slow; incapable of action or humour. We’ve seen more and more in recent years that the documentary genre can make some of the most tense and exciting films out … Continue reading
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Tagged art, banksy, documentary, donkey kong, exit through the gift shop, film, Films, games, grizzly man, indie game, indie game: the movie, king of kong, movie, movies, ps3, the cove, tv, video games, xbox 360, xbox live
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3 Movie Soundtracks that stay with you
Soundtracks can be one of the most important parts of filmmaking. In some cases they can make or break a movie. If you haven’t noticed the soundtrack then it’s probably because the composer has done a decent job. If you … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Music
Tagged classical music, composer, emotion, film, film soundtrack, Hans Zimmer, human nature, Max Richter, movie soundtrack, movies, orchestra, shutter island, soundtrack, strings, thin red line, thriller, Waltz with bashir, War, war films
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Movie Review: The Gift
If you’ve seen the trailers for The Gift you may be confused as to what sort of film you are seeing. It was certainly difficult to describe to people. Was it a horror? A thriller? Family drama? The truth is, … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, blog, Box Office, cinema, Direction, film, Films, Jason Batemen, Joel Edgerton, movies, Rebecca Hall, review, summer, The Gift, Writing
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Whiplash – An Interpretation
Whiplash is about a lot of things, obsession, success and failure, fame, the strive to be the very best, motivation, competition. At its core, Whiplash is about a young man, Andrew (Miles Teller) struggling to achieve his goal of being … Continue reading
Recent Film Thoughts
Just a quick blog of my thoughts on some of the recent releases on the big screen. Amazing Spider-man 2 Remaking Spider-man never made sense to me. I’m not against remakes, I think it can be good to revisit iconic … Continue reading
Oscar thoughts
First Blog. Instead of doing a dodgy introduction on why I’m blogging, let’s just get cracking instead. Just a quick blog to give my thoughts on the Oscars this year. I thought the academy got it mostly right this year. … Continue reading