Album Review: Run For It – No You Ain’t, We Is

Hailing from Pennsylvania and featuring members of bands you’ve probably never heard of (Bangarang? Sincerely Monroe?), Run For It are a melodic pop-punk band in the vein of The Wonder Years and Fall Out Boy.

There’s a token acoustic song splitting the album in two, but for the most part this is a collection of songs full of catchy hooks, killer riffs, pop choruses and big sing-a-longs.

Music

Album Review: On My Honor – Nature & Nurture

On My Honor are a five-piece pop-punk band from Knoxville, Tennessee who’ve been touring all around the US since their inception in 2007, having been part of the Warped Tour in 2009, sharing stages with The Ataris, Hawthorne Heights and The Swellers along the way. They’ve also had their music played nationwide in Hot Topic stores (but don’t hold it against them).

Nature & Nurture is their first release on Little Heart Records but it’s got loads of heart – right from the opening line “What if these are the last words I ever get to say?” – it’s an EP crammed full of fist in the air, heart on the sleeve, sing-a-longs.

Movies

Film Review: Mr. Nice

Mr. Nice is a comedy-drama directed by Bernard Rose (most famous for his 1992 cult horror, Candyman), adapted from the Howard Marks autobiography of the same name, starring Rhys Ifans as Marks, alongside Crispin Glover and Chloë Sevigny.

Set primarily in the swinging 70s, the film tells the story of the notorious British drug smuggler, as he transforms from a youthful drug dabbler to international smuggler, taking in love interests, dodgy dealers and terrorist organisations along the way.

Sport

10 Reasons why I <3 Chicharito

Anyone who follows me on Twitter is probably already aware of my heterosexual man-crush on Javier Hernandez.

Hernandez, better known as ‘Chicharito’, comes from a footballing family; his father and grandfather both played for Chivas Guadalajara and Mexico before him. While struggling to break into the Chivas first team, Javier almost quit football.

How quickly things change; two seasons of regular appearances for Chivas later, he signed for Manchester United as an unknown before announcing himself on the global stage as one of the stand out players at the World Cup, scoring against France and Argentina while being clocked as the fastest of the tournament.

Television

Why EastEnders thinks you’re stupid

Eastenders boss Bryan Kirkwood is “really proud” of the baby swap storyline, describing it as “captivating”.

I’m not convinced. Okay so it had pretty good ratings but it also had 65 zillion complaints and ended up being re-written, re-filmed and cut drastically short. Is that really the sign of a good storyline? Something to be proud of?