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pop babble is a confusing mix of scathing observations of the daily world of pop culture and insignificant celebrity opinions. With significant emphasis on unlikable things such as dungarees and air guitar and likable things such as Lee Paces eyebrows.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - review

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – review

A group of rebels must obtain the plans for the death star before Darth Vader and the Empire start using the super weapon to destroy planets. For a whole film to be based off the opening crawl and a few lines of dialogue in Star Wars A New Hope, I think it does pretty well. With no opening crawl, little use John Williams theme and very little instances of the (often pompous and self righteous)…

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Kubo And The Two Strings

Kubo And The Two Strings

Kubo is a small boy who lives in a cave with his mother, everyday to goes to the local village to tell stories but his mother insists he be back before dark. So when he is a bit late, he finds himself fighting vengeful spirits with the help of a sardonic monkey and a beetle samurai with no memory in order to regain some heirlooms and break a curse on his family. The animation studio Laika, just…

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Morgan - review

Morgan – review

Morgan is a genetically engineered person/creature/girl who may or may not have no moral compass and be capable to killing people willy nilly, it is Kate Maras job to investigate and find out whats going on. I have no faith in The Black List if Morgan really made it on to the list of best unproduced screenplays this film is pretty terrible. The movie feels somewhat familiar with the creature…

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My Blind Brother - review

My Blind Brother – review

Nick Kroll always plays second fiddle to his overachieving blind brother (Adam Scott) but when the rivalry between the two is ignited when they realise they both like Jenny Slate. This is a mildly amusing comedy with jokes that hit more than they miss. The movie is very earnest and despite highlighting their negative personality traits up front, actually allowing all of the characters to have…

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Most Anticipated Movies Of 2017

Most Anticipated Movies Of 2017

For this years Most Anticipated Movies list, I have tried to include 10 movies that aren’t all major franchise/blockbusters/remakes. Just to give a little bit more variation from Pirates Of The Caribbean, Transformers and movies staring The Rock. Most anticipated superhero movie – Wonder Woman Of the seven superhero movies being released in 2017, Wonder Woman has the most to prove. It isn’t a…

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Top 10 Vest Wearers

Top 10 Vest Wearers

The vest wearer, an iconic look for an action star. Sometimes all it takes is one movie (or one vest) to make an icon, other times the vest becomes so linked to a character there is no other costume available for them to consider wearing. P.S. That is a vest, in American it may be called a tank top. No arguing please. 10) Jack Burton from Big Trouble In Little China. The only one on the list with…

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Matthew McConaughey Sells Bourbon

Matthew McConaughey Sells Bourbon

Matthew McConaughey wants you to buy this whiskey and Wild Turkey want Matthew McConaughey to sell whiskey so much that they made him ‘creative director’ which means that he gets to have a go at directing a commercial. It is a pretty standard alcohol commercial, people having more fun than you by drinking this drink.   Bourbon and…

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Ben Affleck is a mouth breather

Ben Affleck is a mouth breather

Ben Affleck often has a slack jawed, mouth agape expression plastered on his face, akin to an expiring fish. Now don’t think that just because I have called Ben Affleck a mouth breather that I don’t like him, because Ben Affleck is more than capable of putting in a great performance, he has reestablished himself as something of an auteur director and just maybe the best Batman (certainly the best…

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Storks - review

Storks – review

Storks gave up on delivering babies and invested in delivering everything else (basically storks run Amazon) but when (the only human who works with the storks), Tulip accidentally activates the baby factory, she and no.1 delivery stork, Junior must deliver the baby before anyone finds out. What a fun animated movie, but as it isn’t a Disney or Pixar film, it doesn’t get the promotion or…

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Weekly Roundup - 16 Dec 16

Weekly Roundup – 16 Dec 16

Last week she was an Everton Mint, this week I am getting Dracula vibes, anyone else see it? (Apart from the sunlight obviously).   The other week we already established that Conor McGregor may not be all that bright because he was unsure about what a phone was, now the rest of the world has caught on to his smarts, what with the newspaper being upside down and all. But who care about his brains,…

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Helen Mirren sells beer and cheap yet questionable taxi services

Helen Mirren sells beer and cheap yet questionable taxi services

If this commercial looks familiar it is because it the exact same advert used way back in Febuary for the Super Bowl, it has just been released again in December, because apparently people get drunk and drive their cars at Christmas, that’s not cool. But Helen Mirren is going to stop it. The commercial is making full use of Helen Mirrens Britishness, use of  word pillock for example, and…

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Jason Bourne - review

Jason Bourne – review

Jason Bourne returns from his retirement hobby of bare knuckle boxing, because Julia Stiles gives him a USB of info about Bourne, other black ops projects and Bournes dad, I think that is about it. Did we really need another Bourne film? Not really. Should it have a better title? yes. Is it forgettable? Totally. While the are a couple of cracking action sequences that we want and expect from a…

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The disproportionate level of crying in Star Wars

The disproportionate level of crying in Star Wars

There might be no crying in baseball, but there sure is crying in Star Wars. Not that there is anything wrong the turning on the eye faucet but just think about other movie franchises that span this many movies … hmm 7 movies is quite a bundle. How about The Fast And Furious movies, the only crying there is us, when Vin Diesel makes a face like this. What about Marvel, there are a lot of movies…

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Top 10 Actors with Props

Top 10 Actors with Props

Harrison Ford is tired of taking abuse from that lamp.   I know mobile phones were different back in the 1970s but the fact that Jeff Bridges has managed to get signal from his hand is something else. Shame there is no one to answer his call though.   Unlike Jeff Bridges, Gerard Butler needs no phone, he can read you’re mind. He sometimes has to recharge his mind reading abilities using this…

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Weekly Roundup - 10 Dec 16

Weekly Roundup – 10 Dec 16

This weeks roundup is all about people that look like someone else (or sometimes something else). When you asked for an Everton Mint but somebody misunderstood, (blame the accent Marion) and thought you wanted to be an Everton mint.   You’ve seen this meme, right? Fat Doggo or Ice Cream …. Well it’s not just dogs or ice cream.   I think Justin Bieber has been watching old East 17 videos on…

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War Dogs - review

War Dogs – review

Miles Teller is a down on his luck 20 something in the mid-2000s, his luck changes when in gets involved in the business dealings of his old school friend (Jonah Hill), they end up making money taking small government contracts for weapons and the like but then they start approaching bigger government contracts and run into a spot of trouble. War Dogs could be a companion piece to Pain & Gain,…

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Sylvester Stallone loves punching people

Sylvester Stallone loves punching people

  Much like David Hasselhoff who loves the the finger guns pose, Sylvester Stallone loves a pretend punch. He was been working the fake punch since the 70s and is still happily using the pose on the red carpet. Here is Jason Momoa really getting into the vaudville routine of it all. (Sly appreciates a receptive face punch-e)   Robert Downey Jr may look like he is having the time of his life but…

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