My personal blog to discuss movies, music, some games, and other miscellaneous stuff
Disney’s new trilogy of Star Wars movies this decade may well go down as the biggest missed opportunity in cinematic history. Most reviewers right about now will preface with statements about how they ‘grew up with Star Wars’, or they’ve been ‘fans since day one’ and that the saga has meant so much to them …
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Track listing: Garden of Earthly Delights (3:29) Dignity (6:35) Heart in Hand (8:30) Next of Kin (7:08) Lovelorn Crime (6:34) Charlatan (5:29) Universal Truth (7:21) The Garroter (6:44) Continuum (7:23) All Things Will Pass (8:31) Opeth’s new record In Cauda Venenum, Swedish for “Poison in the Tail”, is what you listen to when you’re yearning …
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This movie could’ve been, and deserved to be, the ultimate supervillain origin story. It isn’t. It is instead an alright comic book film with a standout central performance that just happened to be made during a time where mass shootings in the U.S. are more common than rainfall. I don’t get out to go see …
Track listing: The Future of Warfare (3:26) Seven Pillars of Wisdom (3:02) 82nd All the Way (3:31) The Attack of the Dead Men (3:56) Devil Dogs (3:17) The Red Baron (3:22) Great War (4:28) A Ghost in the Trenches (3:26) Fields of Verdun (3:17) The End of the War to End All Wars (4:45) In …
Continue reading “Sabaton – The Great War (2019) album review”
You should probably know now that quiet movies like this which aren’t sequels, reboots, or remakes and have nothing to do with the current obsession with comic book adaptations or origin stories of uninteresting characters tend to fill my list every time I start to think what movies I’m most excited about in the upcoming …
Continue reading “The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) movie review”
Track listing: Front Toward Enemy (3:45) I’m Already Gone (3:51) Seasons (4:27) Sevens (2:05) Tourniquet (5:46) Anchor’s Lament (1:40) Throw Me an Anchor (4:01) I’d Do Anything (4:10) Blankets of Ash (1:04) Emmett: Radiating Light (4:12) Cold-Blooded Angels (5:38) Crooked Mile (0:52) Broken Halo (4:24) Can Obscura (2:02) Borderlines (6:16) Assault on East Falls (2:19) …
Continue reading “Baroness – Gold and Grey (2019) album review”
Track listing Humanicide (5:42) Divine Defector (3:24) Aggressor (5:11) I Came for Blood (3:12) Immortal Behated (6:08) Alive and Screaming (3:36) The Pack (3:33) Ghost of Me (4:34) Revelation Song (5:33) Of Rats and Men (4:27) It still surprises me how rarely Death Angel comes up in discussions about classic thrash metal albums of the …
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Track listing: Last Man Standing (5:49) Believe in the Fight (5:03) Head of a Pin (5:57) Batshitcrazy (4:33) Distortion (6:10) A Mother’s Prayer (3:59) Welcome to the Garden State (4:42) Where Few Dare to Walk (5:25) Out on the Road-Kill (4:42) Hole in My Soul (4:47) If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Few bands …
Continue reading “Overkill – The Wings of War (2019) album review”
This review was previously posted to my social media in March and I’m sharing it here with slight edits. There are many who would claim that the only good horror movies are the old ones. Alien, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Thing, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, even Psycho, if you can call it …
Track listing: imagine (3:32) needy (2:52) NASA (3:02) bloodline (3:37) fake smile (3:29) bad idea (4:27) makeup (2:21) ghostin (4:31) in my head (3:43) 7 rings (2:59) thank u, next (3:27) break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored (3:10) Previously posted review from my social media, slightly updated for this blog. In a time when …
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The King's Speech