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Wallows: More | EP REVIEW & Song Ranking!

Indie rock band and my personal favourite trio on this Earth, Wallows, have released their third EP, titled ‘More’. Serving as an extension to their third studio album ‘Model’ which they are currently touring, ‘More’ is a seven-track EP running at a little under twenty-two minutes. Setting of the rollout with the release of the lead single ‘Your New Favourite Song’, it seems as though with just…

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'Novocaine' and the Good Old-Fashioned 'Popcorn Movie'.

What makes a movie a ‘popcorn movie’? It’s not aiming to be an epic masterpiece or a masterclass in acting and drama, it’s simply a blockbuster which the only job it has is to entertain. Hollywood has seemingly lost sight of this type of movie. If it doesn’t cost hundreds of millions, it’s going to either go to streaming or attempt to climb the box-office chart in it’s opening weekend until a…

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'Snow White' Has Many Problems But Rachel Zegler Is Not One Of Them.

The discourse surrounding this dreadful project has exhausted both the people hating on it and the very few people defending it. The intensely false guise of hating these live-action adaptations doesn’t really seem to be true, not when ‘Mufasa’, a prequel/sequel to a live-action adaptation has crossed over $700 million worldwide. When it’s 2019 copy and paste companion film became one of Disney’s…

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February '25 // Movie Review Round-Up ('One of Them Days', 'Companion' & 'Heart Eyes')

The first true releases of the year have shown up and believe it or not, all three are original releases! Don’t complain about sequels, requels and reboots if you didn’t support any one of these excellent movies. While the year hasn’t had a massive blockbuster to open with, or at least a successful one at that, sorry ‘Captain America’, these three movies powered original filmmaking and were solid…

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'Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man' Spins A Fresh Take On The Iconic Webhead.

With great source material comes great responsiblity. Spider-Man has been swinging across our screens for decades at this point and has reached a point of saturation that should’ve gotten tiring but when a hero is this beloved, it only makes sense that the people working on these projects want to take care of the character. Everything from the Playstation games to the ‘Spider-Verse’ movies, the…

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There Is Nothing Brave or New About the New 'Captain America' Movie.

Following the longest theatrical break in years, Marvel Studios finally returns to cinemas with not a bang and neither a whimper but a tired groan. ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ finally gives us Sam Wilson’s first venture as the titular hero, a mere five years after it was promised. This is a film which perfectly brings all of Marvel Studios’ current problems to light. It appears not even…

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The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow | Album Review & Song Ranking!

Over five years ago, Abel Tesfaye took his Weeknd persona to new heights with the meticulous rollout of his ‘After Hours’ album. It would go on to spawn the biggest hits of his career, landing him the Superbowl Halftime show and with the meticulous vision of Tesfaye become the first act in a trilogy leading to the very death of his persona. This singular vision that he has for the last leg of The…

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January '25 // Movie Review Round-Up ('We Live In Time', 'Nosferatu' & 'Babygirl')

New year, new priorities! For the first time in forever, audiences kept showing up to the cinema after the holidays. While families enjoyed their fair share of blockbusters with a trio of films that has yet to calm down completely, adults waited it out for this trio of mature films which, come to think of it, are all quite lustful films, for lack of a better categorical phrase. The holidays sure…

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'Saturday Night' Is 100 Minutes of Mania With Hollywood's Newest Stars.

Jason Reitman’s ‘Saturday Night’ is one of 2024’s most overlooked movies which is rather odd considering just how many selling points it has. From it’s stacked cast to it’s manic premise and the entire association with SNL, this film should’ve been on everyone’s radar but if we’ve learned anything from ‘Babylon’ and ‘The Fall Guy’, audience simply do not care for how the sausage gets made, they…

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'Castlevania: Nocturne' Season 2 Delivers Epic Righteousness.

Before ‘The Last of Us’, before ‘Fallout’ and before ‘Arcane’, there was ‘Castlevania’. Coming out at a time where adaptations of video-games were considered immediate flops, Netflix greenlit what would become the first beloved adaptation of a video-game franchise. Running for four immaculate seasons, ‘Castlevania’ did what many shows, no matter if they’re an adaptation or not, couldn’t do and…

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'A Complete Unknown' Ironically Fails To Emulate It's Subject's Boldness.

”You can be pretty, you can be ugly but you can’t be plain.” It’s rather ironic that James Mangold’s ‘A Complete Unknown’ uses this line as somewhat of a defining tagline when this latest biopic from Hollywood doesn’t really do anything to stand out. it is ultimately comical that a movie about Bob Dylan’s rebellious nature and genre-bending ways falls in line in such a typical way. considering…

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'The Lord Of The Rings: War Of The Rohirrim' is One of Hollywood's Weirdest Creations.

The film rights to a beloved franchise can lead a studio to create some pretty bizarre features. Look at what glorious films Sony Pictures produced with their rights to Spider-Man’s rogue gallery. What timeline could possible live without the creations of ‘Madame Web’ and ‘Morbius’? However, we need to give credit where credit is due and Warner Bros. has created something rather unique by giving…

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The Miracle That Is Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto's 'Interstella 5555'.

2024 brought with it a lot of shocking developments for my personal life and quite frankly, I cannot wait for the year to finish. This being said, one of the bright spots that came about in the past few weeks has been my discovery of Daft Punk. Despite not living under a rock, I might as well have been as I had no clue what awaited when I sat down to watch the 4K restoration of the 2003 anime…

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You Can't Help But Laugh At 'Venom: The Last Dance'.

In case the release of ‘Morbius’, ‘Madame Web’ and the upcoming ‘Kraven the Hunter’ didn’t make it clear enough, Sony Pictures does not know what the hell it’s doing. Society has now experienced a whole ‘Venom’ trilogy without a single Spider-Man. A ‘Venom’ trilogy that feels like it got transported out of 2007 and is being released bit by bit and well, now we got to the end of it. Tom Hardy’s…

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'My Hero Academia: You're Next': An Ultra-Formulaic Film In A Vastly Superior Franchise.

The ‘My Hero Academia’ franchise has had quite the busy year. Kohei Horikoshi’s beloved hit manga series not only celebrated it’s tenth anniversary but it also reached it’s conclusion this past August. Meanwhile, the anime adaptation is running strong on it’s seventh season while simultaneously premiering it’s fourth and final film in the franchise titled ‘You’re Next’. It’s crazy to think that…

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'Joker: Folie à Deux' Is One Big Fucking Joke (that doesn't land).

Todd Phillips’s ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is the harrowing punchline to a now humorous meeting with Warner Bros. where money-hungry executives let him make an R-rated musical courtroom drama for $200 million. The sure-bet sequel that couldn’t fail did the impossible. An utter and complete misfire that doesn’t appeal to any demographic it’s shooting for, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is one of the worst…

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Why Hollywood's Nostalgia Isn't Sacred Anymore.

Tinseltown needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Nostalgia only works if you do it sparingly not multiple times a month! While there is undeniable value in nostalgia, the twisted warping of it in the past decade has led Hollywood and TV to bring back just about anything with a recognizable name, no matter how niche it is. While the nostalgia ploy has finally started to backfire as audiences…