Linkin Park – One More Light

ATTENTION! This is not Minutes to Midnight, nor is it A Thousand Suns (thankfully) As the album title implies this is another light from Linkin Park. It’s very much a seminal album, focusing more on a laid back sombre outlook with a liberal dash of hope than the angsty shout-it-out-loud motif of Hybrid Theory & Meteora. […]

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Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis

Ellipsis opens with a certainty of which that reflects their debut album The Vertigo of Bliss. The song is titled Wolves of Winter, which is in itself immediately makes me think of Game of Thrones. It is enigmatic and evocative to the ears, a jumble of sounds giving a nod to The Vertigo of Bliss […]

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7 Days In Hell

There’s a part of me that wants to never read a real review of this project for fear of words like, obscene, grotesque, outrageous, but then I kind of already have, yet to my surprise all of those words had the suffix ‘ly’ (no not ‘love you’) Obscene became obscenely, grotesque was grotesquely etc. and […]

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The Man From U.N.C.L.E

Charmed I’m sure. Yes I said charmed and you better believe it. This film adaptation of a forgotten cult TV show from the 60s is not only a deadly serious spy flick *wink, wink* but a dashingly, charming and humorous take on the spy game of the cold war. Guy Ritchie brings us a fresh […]

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Spectre

Octopussy, is that you? Time and time again these days we are faced with reboots, or outright remakes of films from a few decades ago. In fairness I don’t have a problem with this, seeing as technologies change as does the calibre of actor, or just simply the presentation of a movie. This film, for […]

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The Martian

Ridley Scott has done it again. As we all know a manned mission to Mars is approaching rapidly. Needless to say this film, based on the cult book ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir (who can be found here on the 2015 Comi-Con panel talking about his book and the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2bkJQah_dE) is visually beautiful, heartfelt, and […]

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Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller makes a quintessential return to the Mad Max universe in what I view to be the best movie of at least this year (2015). In a dystopian future where water is a rare commodity, yet fuel and bullets reign supreme powering over the top vehicles which are worshipped. Max (Tom Hardy) is pursued […]

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