So a couple of weeks back I was listening to my favourite local station @PointFMRhyl and heard and interview with Dave Elwyn (@DaveElwyn) and Craig K (@OfficialCraigK) which introduced me to Dave’s music and that he was giving away a copy of his album, Raw Blues, in a little competition on the station, so how could I not get my entry in, in a hope of winning his album.

Hoorah! I’ve Won A Competition

I do have to admit that I do enter a few competitions (I still have hope in winning all the tasty cakes on the PointFM Cake Break) and was over the moon when I was announced as the winner of Dave’s album, so now all I had to do was pick up the CD, so as I was off out to review a film that night I decided to pop down to PointFM and pick the CD up from John Daly (one of the DJs on the station).

Enough Of The Banter, What About The Album Review!

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Battleship (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It’s not the first time that Hollywood has taken inspiration from a game, I’m not talking about video games, we all know there have been loads of those, I’m talking about board games!

Many years back we had “Clue” which was a rather funny comedy based on the board game “Cluedo”.

My thoughts when I first heard that Battleship was based on the board game was: “How the hell are they going to do that!”. But after seeing Battleship last night at @ApolloCinemas Rhyl, I was really surprised that it has been done and how enjoyable the actual film is.

Ok it’s a complete no brainer you really don’t have to think about the film, all you need to know us that aliens are attempting to kick Earth’s backside, yes that’s about it really.

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Now I do have to say that many, many years ago, back in 1997 I first saw Titanic on the big screen and have since seen it several times on DVD and it’s appeal had worn a little thin, but now 15 years later and being a little older, I decided to go and see this re-issue of the film that has been converted in to 3D.

As most of you know Titanic is a love story of Rose (Kate Winslet) and Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) based on the ill-fated voyage of the “unsinkable” Titanic, possibly the most famous ship in the world, the film won 11 Academy Awards back when it was originally released and to this day, still holds an audience, whether it’s on DVD or on the big screen.

Titanic 3D – Blazing Minds Film Review

So I can’t really say much about the film itself as most of us already know so much about the much-loved film, so this review is really about the 3D more than the actual film itself.

To start of with Titanic has aged well, it’s still enjoyable to watch and still has the power to make the tears stream down your face, even though we all know what happens with Jack and Rose during this cinematic masterpiece.

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So last night I went to my local @ApolloCinemas to see Wrath Of The Titans the sequel to the much talked about and extremely criticised Clash If The Titans a film which was panned for almost everything!

The story goes that Zeus (Liam Neeson) has been captured and taken to the underworld by his brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes), now Perseus (Sam Worthington) must now travel to the very depths of the underworld to find and save his father.

The major question for the sequel is could it be better or worse and would the 3D be so much better than its predecessor which was terrible for its 3D.

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Directed by: Garry Ross

Produced by: Nina Jacobson, Jon Kilik

Screenplay by: Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray

Based on the books by: Suzanne Collins

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz

Running Time: 142 min

Certificate: 12A

Now before you all start shouting at me, no I haven’t read the books that The Hunger Games are based on, so I’m reviewing the film as a film, not an adaptation of a book, you have been warned

Ok on to The Hunger Games, now I do have to say that if you are expecting the film to jump straight in to the games themselves then you will be surprised, as we are slowly introduced the main characters of the film, just to get to know them a little, before going on to them being chosen from their district to perform in The Hunger Games.

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Good grief are we on Episode 4 of the Twisted Showcase series already, it certainly looks that way and so far I’ve loved every single episode and Ben Dracula is no exception.

Episode 4 is a little more light hearted than the previous episodes, but it still has that “Twisted” feel to it as we meet Bob, Bob Dracula, son of the most famous vampire in the world or so he thinks.

So we see Bob on a day in his life trying to keep down a job, stopping from being burnt by the sun and generally getting on with his every day to day chores, but the question that was on my lips, is Ben really a vampire or is he just living in a little world of his own, hmmm!
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So last night was the night that I had tweeted, facebooked and generally shouted about from the roof tops, the night when David Bolton would be performing live on stage at The Apollo Cinema in Rhyl.

All I can say is to those that refused the invitation to come to the show, seriously missed out on an amazing show from David Bolton, as he hypnotised members of the audience to do some really funny things, such as rowing a boat, being a super spy and even a nit nurse!

David Bolton Performed HypnoMagic Live @ApolloCinemas Rhyl

So the night kicked off at about 7:45 with David Bolton explaining to everyone a little bit about hypnosis and what he does in his show and the safety aspects on who can and shouldn’t come up to the stage to be hypnotised.

Then after a little coaxing of the audience several of them took the plunge and took to the stage for the night of fun to begin.

Now I do have to say that I was little sceptical at first, as I am probably one of the few people who can’t be hypnotised and believe me I have tried it to help with the habit of biting my nails, but nothing,  so I wasn’t really sure that this was going to be a good show or not, oh how wrong I was.

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