Taken
Director: Pierre Morel
Release Date: 27th February 2008
Rating: 18
EuropaCorp, Canal +, 20th Century Fox
Whatever you do, don’t screw around with Liam Neeson. You take something from him, he’s going to take it back. Once someone stole his last Rolo, nobody has seen that guy for years. The creeps in this film take his daughter, a whole group of them. They should have heard about the Rolo incident. It’s that times one hundred and twenty-two. Seriously. Continue reading
It’s all about pace. Keep the pace steady and things shouldn’t go wrong. Pick the pace up and you’ll end up a nervous wreck. Like on the run up to results day, my pacing up and down the flat led me to the town called panic. Just sit down and shut up! Continue reading
‘Hey, Basil!’
‘Piss off!’
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Release Date: 20th June 2012
Rating: 15
Bazelevs Company, Tim Burton Productions, Dune Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is an unlikely combination promising the ultimate combination. Seeing president Abe go about hacking vamps with an axe sounds like one of the best ideas ever, as long as its done in a kitschy, self-aware way. Lincoln has his trademark beard as a child and goes ‘It’s Lincoln Time’ before slaying vamps and a great time awaits. Of course, they don’t do any of this and they make the film a fairly serious action romp. Time to get the axe out. Continue reading
N*E*R*D – In Search Of…
Release Date: 12th March 2002
Genre: Hip Hop
Virgin/EMI Records
No one ever really dies. Instead they are reborn as a potato. What a drag. Continue reading
Pig Iron
Author: Benjamin Myers
Release Date: 31st May 2012
Bluemoose
Bare knuckle boxers, drunk abusive fathers, prison free protagonists, a spot of classic literature references, drug dealing and a touch of rape are just some of the tired clichés Pig Iron uses to tell the story of a gypsy traveller trying to get by after five years locked up. But while it may be using a students most popular subject matter, Pig Iron is a thrill to read. You can do wonders even with the expected. Continue reading
One Piece Volume 61: Romance Dawn For The New World
Story and Art: Eiichiro Oda
Release Date: 4th February 2011
Covers Chapters 595-603
Shonen Jump/Viz Media
After sixty volumes, the Straw Hats do a time jump and two years whisk by at the turn of a page. The excitement of how the world has changed and what our favourite characters look like now is what makes time skips worthwhile. Seeing characters come back with new threads and physical changes is worth admission alone, even if they do spoil it on the volume cover. Still, they look pretty damn great and ready for the New World. A new saga of One Piece begins! Continue reading
The ancient Japanese paintings made at the kiddy table. They were all made at the kiddy table. But who made the kiddy table?
The Deer Hunter
Director: Michael Cimino
Release Date: 8th December 1978
Rating: 18
EMI Films
Steven and Angela have invited you to their wedding! Enjoy the preparing, the ceremony, the party and the aftermath but be prepared for a long night. By the time you’re tapping your feet wondering when you can go home, things will only have just begun! Just stand in the corner and keep drinking, just keep drinking. The wedding is a long one, but ultimately worth it in the long run and you won’t even have a hangover the next day. Perfect for a spot of deer hunting. Continue reading
Man in the corner is packed but with nowhere to go. As he waited for the bus he lost his sight and then his thoughts.
