#Billy Wickman

[zexal-club]

The Music Freaks Carrie AU

Hailey Austin as Carrie White

Jake Sterling as Tommy Ross

Daisy as Sue Snell

Zoey as Christine 'Chris' Hargensen

Drew as Billy Nolan

Shannon Wickman or Michael Austin as Margaret White

[confessionsofabingefreak]

Finding Santa (2017)

Impression: cute, bit fun, mostly not

Collection: no

Overall: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Concept: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Storytelling: ⭐️⭐️

Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Casting: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Visually: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Score/Soundtrack: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Entertainment: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Best: Santa school and family

Worst: casting didn’t work for main couple. No onscreen chemistry.

[soulmusicsongs]

New Year’s Soul and Funk Music: 32 tracks

Soul Music Songs has compiled a list of 32 songs for a happy new year.

New Year’s Soul and Funk Music

After New Year’s Eve - The Heartbeats (After New Years Eve / 500 Miles To Go, 1957)

Auld Lang Syne - The Black on White Affair (Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-75, 2004, previously unreleased), 1970)

Auld Lang Syne - LaBelle and The Bluebelles (Merry Christmas From LaBelle and The Bluebelles, 1975)

Auld Lang Syne - The Bells (Auld Lang Syne (Vocal) / Auld Lang Syne (Disco Version), 1978)

Auld Lang Syne - Mirror Image (Yuletide Disco, 1979)

Bringing In A Brand New Year - Charles Brown (Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs, 1961)

Bringing In A Brand New Year - B.B. King (A Christmas Celebration of Hope, 2001)

The First Day Of The New Year - Lo-End ‎(Le-Beat / The First Day Of The New Year, 1979)

For Auld Lang Syne - The Platters ‎(Christmas With The Platters, 1963)

Get Down Auld Lang Syne - Harris and His Christmas Avengers (Get Down Auld Lang Syne, 2014) 

Happy New Year - Nat King Cole (The Very Thought of You, 1958)

Happy New Year - Lightnin’ Hopkins (Sings the Blues, 1961)

Happy New Year - Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns (‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1962)

Happy New Year - George Victory (Happy New Year / It's Christmas, 1984)

Happy New Year - Bertha Payne (Merry Christmas From Me To You, 2010)

Happy New Year Baby - The Sisters ‎(Happy New Year Baby / Ooh Poo Pa Doo, 1965)

Happy New Year Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928)

Happy New Year Blues - The Two Charlies (Charley Jordan ‎– Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Volume 3 (31 October 1935 To 2 November 1937), 1992, original 1936)

Happy New Year Medley - Willie Mitchell Orchestra (Happy New Year Medley / More Carols Medley / By The Fireside Medley, 1982)

Happy New Year to You - Sun Ra and The Qualities (It’s Christmas Time / Happy New Year To You! 1960)

Happy New Year - Putte Wickman ‎(Happy New Year!, 1973)

Happy New Year, Darling - Lonnie Johnson (Happy New Year, Darling / Little Rockin' Chair, 1951)

Hello Mr. New Year - The Coolbreezers (Let Christmas Ring / Hello Mr New Year 1957)

It Was a Very Good Year - Della Reese (One More Time! Recorded Live At The Playboy Club, 1966)

It Was A Very Good Year - Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass ‎(What Now My Love, 1966)

New Year - Joseph Washington Jr. (Merry Christmas To You From Joseph, 1981)

New Year - Sugababes (One Touch, 2001)

New Year’s Resolution - Roy Milton and His Solid Senders (New Year’s Resolution / Porter’s Love Song, 1947)

New Year’s Resolution - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas (King & Queen, 1967)

New Years Resolution - Tony Jackson (Snowy White Christmas / New Years Resolution, 1984)

Queer For The New Year - Blowfly (The Weird World of Blowfly, 1969)

Ringing In A Brand New Year -  Billy Ward And His Dominoes ‎(Christmas In Heaven / Ringing In A Brand New Year, 1953)

Click here for more New Year’s Songs.

[anxious-acushla]

Books I Read in 2019:

***Favorites will be marked with an asterisk. If you’re looking for a book recommendation, let me know what you like to read and I’ll try to steer you in the right direction. 2019 was such a good year for literature! 

Self-Help/Feel Good/Business

Moment of Lift - Melinda Gates

*Traction - Gino Wickman

*The Deepest Well - Nadine Burke Harris

Girl Stop Apologizing - Rachel Hollis

Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist

Non-Fiction (Memoirs, etc.)

Educated - Tara Westover 

Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson

***Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe

*Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered - Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark

Chase Darkness With Me - Billy Jensen

Becoming - Michelle Obama

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas

Kick - Paula Byrne

The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore

Know My Name - Chanel Miller

*Conversations with RBG - Jeff Rosen

*Women Who Run with the Wolves - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes 

Shrill - Lindy West

*An Unquiet Mind - Kay Jemison

Only Plane in the Sky - Garrett Graff

Fiction

Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

Cilka’s Journey - Heather Morris

Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

The Guest Book - Leigh Black

*How Not To Die Alone - Richard Roper

The Girls - Emma Cline

*The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert

*Red White and Royal Blue - Casey mcquiston 

The Only Woman In The Room - Heather Terrell

Turtles All The Way Down - John Green

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

Crime/Thriller (Fiction)

*Disappearing Earth - Julia Phillips

The Wives - Tarryn Fisher

The Guardians - John Grisham

*I Am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll 

The Dancing Girls - MM Chouinard

When We Believed in Mermaids - Barbara O’Neal

Girl Last Seen - Nina Laurin

Political (Non-Fiction)

Blowout - Rachel Maddow

A Warning - Anonymous

Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward

All The Single Ladies - Rebecca Traister

Poetry

*Fierce Fairytales - Nikita Gill

[milliondollarbaby87]

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Review

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Review

In 1969 a group of strangers meet by chance at a hotel named the El Royale, it is very run down and has a dark past. Between two states California and Nevada, the hotel I split across the two and you can chose a room in either of those.

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[thecraggus]

Bad Times At The El Royale (2018) Review

The Hateful Motel 6. Bad Times At The El Royale (2018) #Review

“Bad Times At The El Royale” sees “Cabin In The Woods” writer/ director Drew Goddard indulging his inner Tarantino as he sets up this lurid, pulpy neo-noir tale of deceit, desperation and death in a faded motel, still trading on its glamorous past and novelty location.

In 1959, a man arrives at the El Royale hotel to bury a bag of money under the floor of one of the rooms only to be shot dead by…

[cinema-tv-etc]

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Running time 141 min. Country  United States United States Director  Drew Goddard Screenwriter  Drew Goddard Music   Michael Giacchino Cinematography  Seamus McGarvey Cast Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, Jonathan Whitesell, Nick Offerman, Mark O'Brien, Manny Jacinto, Bethany Brown, Sarah Smyth, Hannah Zirke, Sophia Lauchlin Hirt, John Specogna, Austin Abell, Minn Vo, Vincent Washington, James Quach, Billy Wickman, Xavier Dolan Producer    20th Century Fox Genre   Thriller | Crime. Black Comedy

Synopsis / Plot Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption... before everything goes to hell.

Awards  2018: San Sebastian Film Festival: Closing Film (Out of Competition)

Critics' reviews

"A schizoid thing: terribly, terribly entertaining, and at times just a wee bit soulless."   Michael O'Sullivan: The Washington Post

"A worthwhile watch, even if for most, the script’s payoff isn’t enough to justify the pacing problems."   Peter Debruge: Variety

"A piece of major studio entertainment so patient, artful, and thrilling that it might as well be a time machine to the mid-'90s."   David Ehrlich: IndieWire

"[It] could have been creepier, wittier, sharper in its construction and packed with bombshell revelations that would have made its payoff actually pay off (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"   Peter Travers: Rolling Stone

"It's great to look at, nearly giddy with pop-culture love, and its particulars are intriguing. But those pieces — by turns weird, soulful and exhilarating — merely accumulate, when they should be generating magic."   Sheri Linden: The Hollywood Reporter

"[It] starts with a lot of promise and a full head of steam; even half-way through I was engaged. But the movie eventually careens off the track (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"  James Berardinelli: ReelViews

"For a while, the performances and the visual style keep you easily engaged (...) but at some point (...) you want something more substantial than even Hemsworth’s admittedly mesmerizing snaky hips."   Manohla Dargis: The New York Time  Characters enter the ominous digs in “Bad Times at the El Royale,” but they don’t always exit. This is hardly news. As the title suggests, El Royale — a motor lodge with pretensions of grandeur, which seems like an apt metaphor for this movie — isn’t a place for a good night’s sleep. It’s a spot for intrigue, desperation, swinging tunes and bloodletting. Mostly, it is a wellspring for a lot of talk, both seemingly idle chatter and carefully obfuscating oratories. Words are never casually exchanged at the Royale here but are instead deployed like weapons in what soon resembles a war of all against all.These many words have flowed from Drew Goddard, a screenwriter whose high-profile credits include “The Martian” and who made his directing debut with the self-knowing horror movie “The Cabin in the Woods.” He also directed “Bad Times” and imbued it with a similar self-consciousness, an attitude that has become almost a default in genre movies. Like many contemporary filmmakers who take on established cinematic forms, Goddard wants to play inside the frame and also to put his individuality on the picture. Optimistically set at the intersection of Agatha Christie and Quentin Tarantino, “Bad Times” is a hard-boiled thriller with flashes of a horror but largely a statement of authorial intent.The movie starts off on an ominous note that soon turns faintly comic after a solitary man (Nick Offerman) enters a motel room that, partly because of the frontal presentation, resembles a stage. A study in midcentury drab, the room is clean, borderline austere, meticulously arranged and one flickering light bulb away from David Lynch-style uneasiness. The man’s fedora and the silhouette of his clothing suggest that it’s the 1950s. He soon doffs his hat and begins moving the room’s furnishings to expose the wooden floor, which he then methodically tears up. One of the few silent characters in the movie, he doesn’t say a word; and then, in a flash, he’s dead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/movies/bad-times-at-the-el-royale-review.html?referrer=google_kp

Bad Times at the El Royale | Official Trailer

The Ending Of Bad Times at the El Royale Explained

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: Bad Times at the El Royale

Año: 2018

Duración: 141 min.

País: Estados Unidos

Director: Drew Goddard

Guion: Drew Goddard

Música: Michael Giacchino

Fotografía: Seamus McGarvey

Reparto: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm,Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, Jonathan Whitesell, Nick Offerman, Mark O'Brien,Manny Jacinto, Bethany Brown, Sarah Smyth, Hannah Zirke, Sophia Lauchlin Hirt,John Specogna, Austin Abell, Minn Vo, Vincent Washington, James Quach,Billy Wickman

Productora: 20th Century Fox

Género: Crime, Drama, Mystery

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6628394/

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7wzBVARwaU

[todayclassical]

May 01 in Music History

1582 Birth of Italian opera composer Marco da Gagliano.

1602 Baptism of English madrigal composer William Lawes, in Salisbury. 

1696 FP of Colasse's "La naissance de Vénus" Paris.

1739 FP of Handel's "Giove in Argo" London.

1761 Haydn`s first contract with Prince Paul Anton Esterházy.

1764 Birth of composer Gottfried Rieger.

1769 FP of Mozart's opera La Finta Semplice in Salzburg.

1775 FP of Benda's "Medea" Leipzig.

1775 Birth of composer Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn.

1786 FP of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

1797 FP of Méhul's "Le jeune Henri" Paris.

1814 Birth of English soprano Emma Albertazzi in London.

1821 FP of Cherubini/Berton/Boieldieu/Kreutzer/Paër's "Blanche de Provemce, ou La Cour de Fées" Paris.

1821 Birth of American composer Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg. 

1837 FP in US of Rossini's opera Semiramide in New Orleans, LA.

1840 Death of Italian mezzo-soprano Giuditta Grisi. 

1853 Birth of composer Charles Lee Williams.

1858 Birth of American hymn composer Anthony Johnson Showalter. 

1863 FP of Delibes' "Le Jardinier et son seigneur" Paris. 1865 Birth of American composer Charles Kassel Harris. 

1868 FP of Granval's "Les Fiancés de Rose" Paris.

1872 Birth of Swedish composer and violinist Hugo Alfven in Stockholm.

1874 Birth of French tenor Augustin Nuibo.

1874 Death of Czech composer Blodek Vilem in Prague. 

1879 FP of Chabrier's "Une Éducation manquée" Paris.

1884 Birth of Argentinian composer Felipe Boero in Buenos Aires.

1884 FP of Sousa's "Desiree" Operetta, Washington, DC.

1886 FP of Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, in Paris.

1892 Birth of American conductor Howard Barlow. 

1892 Death of singing teacher Francesco Lamperti. 

1893 Birth of Bulgarian soprano Flora Yardumian Kurkjian. 

1894 Birth of French soprano Marthe Nespoulos in Paris. 

1895 Birth of American organist and composer Leo Sowerby.

1899 Birth of Icelandic composer Jón Leifs in Sólheimar. 

1900 Birth of bass Leon Bjorker. 

1901 Birth of American composer Heinz Roemheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

1904 Death of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak in Prague.

1909  FP of Rachmaninov's Isle of the Dead in Moscow with Rachmaninoff conducting.

1912 Birth of mezzo-soprano Anna Pollak.

1912 Birth of composer Felipe Padilla de Leon.

1913 Birth of Czech conductor Walter Susskind in Prague. 

1924 Birth of composer Enrico Josif.

1924 FP of Boito's "Nerone" La Scala, after 50 years and this work was not completed. The orchestral score was revised by Toscanini and performed under his direction. Bass Ezio Pinza with baritone Carlo Galeffi.

1925 FP of Walter Piston's first publication, Three Pieces for flute, clarinet, and bassoon. Blanquart-Coste-Dherin trio, at the École Normale in Paris.

1927 Birth of Israeli conductor and composer Gary Bertini.

1936 Death of Austrian soprano Hermine Bosetti. 

1939 FP of Samuel Barber's The Virgin Martyrs. Composer conducting students from the Curtis Institute of Music, on a CBS Radio broadcast.

1941 Death of Swedish soprano Julia Claussen. 

1942 Birth of German tenor Wolf Willie Appel in Senftenberg. 

1942 FP of William Bergsma's Señor Commendante in Rochester, NY.

1946 Death of English composer, organist Edward Cuthbert Bairstow. 

1946 Death of English composer and organist Percy Whitlock in Bournemouth.

1947 FP of Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Op. 45, at Harvard University. 

1952 Birth of British opera and theater director David Freeman.

1964 Debut of conductor Pierre Boulez in New York City.

1971 Death of Dutch baritone Theo Bayle.

1971 FP of Dave Brubeck's oratorio Truth Has Fallen. For the opening of the Center for the Arts in Midland, MI.

1972 Birth of Latvian soprano Inga Kalna in Riga. 

1972 Death of Belgian tenor Fernand Ansseau. 

1973 Birth of American composer Ethan Wickman.

1974 FP of John Barry's Billy at Theater Royal, Drury Lane, London. 1977 Death of German composer Johannes Weyrauch in Leipzig. 

1978 Death of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian at age 74, in Moscow. 

1987 FP of Harrison Birtwistle's Endless Parade for trumpet, vibraphone, and strings. Collegium Musicum conducted by Paul Sacher, with trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger, in Zurich.

2003 FP of Lukas Foss' Concertino Baroque Meditations for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra. New York Choral Artists and the New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur conducting.

2004 FP of Richard Danielpour´s String Quartet No. 5, La Vita Nuova. The Guarneri Quartet in Sleepy Hollow, NY.

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Jan Ludgren Trio

I Love Jan Lundgren Trio

Figaro, 2013

Jan Lundgren, piano

Mattias Svensson, bass

Zoltan Csörsz Jr, drums

Lundgren's trio, the Jan Lundgren Trio with Mattias Svensson (bass) and now Zoltan Csörsz (drums), broke through in 1997 with the album Swedish Standards, which won Orkesterjournalen’s Golden Record prize in 1998. In 2007, Lundgren became the first Scandinavian jazz pianist to be named an International Steinway Artist.

Since the early ‘90s, Lundgren has worked with a variety of Sweden’s leading artists both in the studio and/or at concerts. These include, inter alia, Dan Berglund, Povel Ramel, Putte Wickman, Bengan Janson, Jason Diakité, Peter Asplund, Monica Zetterlund, Lill Lindfors, Arne Domnerus, Jacques Werup, Goran Söllscher, Pernilla August, Georg Riedel, Göran Fristorp, Anders Bergcrantz, Sylvia Vrethammar, Jojje Wadenius, Bengt Hallberg, Lars Danielsson, Hayati Kafe, Lars Erstrand, Håkan Hardenberger, Miriam Aida, Ulf Wakenius, Michael Saxell, Rune Gustafsson, Nils Landgren, Pernilla Andersson, Hans Backenroth, LaGaylia Frazier and the Bonfiglioli Weber String Quartet.

Among the international artists Lundgren has worked with are Johnny Griffin, Mark Murphy, Eric Alexander, Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu, Herb Geller, Joe LaBarbera, Andy Martin, Scott Hamilton, Arild Andersen, Pete Jolly, Bill Perkins, Peter Washington, Billy Drummond, Deborah Brown, Harry Allen, Grégoire Maret, Caecilie Norby, Chuck Berghofer, Tom Warrington, Paul Kreibich, Dave Carpenter, Mark Murphy, Conte Candoli, Jacob Fischer, Lee Konitz, Joe Ascione, Stacey Kent, Charlie Mariano, Jukka Perko, Morten Lund and Wolfgang Haffner.

Lundgren has recorded some 50 discs as leader or co-leader since 1994.These are on labels including ACT, Fresh Sound, Marshmallow, Sittel, Four Leaf Clover, Volenza, Alfa, Gemini and Bee Jazz. Some of Lundgren’s particularly well-received and strongest selling albums include the Fresu-Galliano-Lundgren recording Mare Nostrum (ACT), 2007, which had sold around 50,000 copies by 2014, and Together Again ...At The Jazz Bakery (Fresh Sound), released in 2011, which was chosen by critics at the UK magazine Jazz Journal as the year’s top jazz record. As a sideman, Lundgren has been involved in dozens of other recordings across a broad range of labels.

In addition, Lundgren has produced albums for the Volenza label, including recordings by the John Venkiah Trio, Fanny Gunnarsson Quartet and Hannah Svensson. He has also produced several of his own records.

 In August 2014, Lundgren released his second solo studio album, All By Myself (Fresh Sound), which is a collection of standards from the great American songbook. The album was voted best new release of 2014 by Jazz Journal's critics. Lundgren's newest release as leader, in January 2016, is a live recording with Mattias Svensson on bass and the Bonfiglioli Weber String Quartet, The Ystad Concert: A Tribute to Jan Johnasson (ACT).

in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lundgren

[movietvtechgeeks]

Latest story from https://movietvtechgeeks.com/billy-wickman-talks-supernatural-skittles-elvis-katz/

Billy Wickman talks 'Supernatural' Skittles and Elvis Katz

With a Supernatural character name like Elvis Katz, how could you go wrong? From playing a Sam fan (asking what it was like being Lucifer’s vessel) to being possessed by a crossroads demon … lots. Billy Wickman plays Elvis and plays him very well …

He might look familiar as he also appeared on Supernatural 719 investigating a haunted house.

Tell us about your character, Elvis Katz.

When you meet Elvis, he has already accepted his good friend Asa’s death, as it’s a dangerous business in which we’re involved. Elvis became a demon hunter for the excitement, camaraderie, and possible underground fame. He knows the Winchester stories and would love nothing more than to be in one. Now that he is in one, Elvis has left the building.

Where you familiar with Supernatural before you were cast?

Absolutely! My wife watches and my friend Ivan is a super-fan (he’s gonna lose his mind when he reads that). Also, this being season 12, the show has been integral in developing the Vancouver film industry to what it is today.

Do you have any behind-the-scenes stories you can share?

I reminded Jensen of a story he’s told (video below), about walking into an electronics store to find a shocked young woman with a Skittles mosaic portrait of HIM in progress on the floor. He was floored to hear that that weirdo woman is now my lovely wife. We had a good laugh about that spooky, coincidental, almost Supernatural experience;)

ALT: John Badham (our director) is an incredible man. Name anyone in the film industry over the last 50 years; John has a great story about them. He is super knowledgable about Film and always cracking jokes; Dad jokes, but jokes.

What did you enjoy most about filming with the cast?

After this many seasons, my dudes have developed great chemistry with each other and the crew. Everyone is on the same page and in a good mood. They welcome guest actors, making it comfortable for you to explore your character. Jensen has clearly been in a lot of knife fights because we choreographed ours outside the stage in about 20 minutes. Jared and I enjoyed working together on a Christmas movie years ago, and he’s still funny as ever.

Do you have any current projects that you’d like to share?

I have been heating up lately, check episodes of Prison Break, Rogue, and Timeless soon. Also, watch for me next year in Loudermilk and War for the Planet of the Apes.

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[confessionsofabingefreak]

A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas (2019)

Impression: it was so very sweet, and cuddly.

My Collection: yes but may not stay. Didn’t stay

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Concept: ⭐️⭐️

Story: ⭐️⭐️

Storytelling: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Casting: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Visually: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Score/Soundtrack: ⭐️⭐️1/2

Entertainment: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Best: Willow

Worst: could have been much better

[cinedescargastorrent]

El séptimo hijo, Seventh Son

[starsqa]

Welcoming… Billy Wickman @BillyWickman (Boon, #FallingSkies) a question here http://starsQA.com/billy-wickman #starsQA RT

[thecraggus]

Loudermilk Season One Review

AssHat says recovering alcoholic counsellor Loudermilk is worth a shot. #Review

Sam Loudermilk is a recovering alcoholic and acerbically witted counsellor who provides emotional support to his congregation of miscreants and layabouts whenever they encounter trials and tribulations. When he becomes the guardian of Claire, a recovering substance abuser, he realises that there is more to life than just his job and rediscovers love in the unlikeliest of places.

Peter Farrelly’s…

[thecraggus]

War For The Planet Of The Apes (2017) Review

War! What is it good for? Concluding the #PlanetOfTheApes trilogy, that's what. #Review

As a rule, I’m not a fan of prequels. But rules were made to be broken, and “War For The Planet Of The Apes” manages to thwart two of mine: it’s a superb prequel and it’s the third chapter of a trilogy which is the best of the three. In the aftermath of Koba’s betrayal and attack on the humans, Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his tribe of apes are hiding in the Californian forests, forced into a…