Machete Kills is the sequel to a movie that started out as a joke trailer for the Rodriguez/Tarantino collaboration that was Grindhouse. Whereas the first movie was funny enough and came with lots of action, blood and beautiful women, it already wasn’t as good as the spoof trailer. Machete Kills comes with even more action, more blood and more beautiful women and is even less funny.
Directed by Ken Scott (who also made Starbuck, the Canadian original this movie is based on), Delivery Man is about a loveable loser called David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn), a man-child driving a meat truck for the family business. In the early nineties, Wozniak sold sperm to a fertility clinic nearly seven hundred times, which resulted in five hundred and thirty-three children. A hundred and forty-two of those children are now suing in order to overturn the confidentiality agreement, which puts Wozniak in a bit of a pickle.
From Quebec City come The Hunters, which when judged solely on their name could just as well be a primitive black metal band. Luckily they are not.
For me personally, Cheap Girls have been one of the most exciting new bands around in recent years.
Built around brothers Zachary and Andy Gabbard, Cincinatti’s Buffalo Killers have already been around for some time and are back at it with a new album, already their fifth.
Since the release of 2012’s “London”, Apologies I Have None have quickly been making a name for themselves, which is why it must have sucked for the rest of the band when co-lead singer Dan Bond an
Storming out the gates with the thrashy “All The While”, the all grrrl punk quintet that is She’s The Band immediately wants to be clear about the fact that they are not the kind of girls you want
Australia’s Burning Fiction are back with an EP called “The Story Will Continue”. On it, they blast through six songs worth of punkrock that sometimes border on rock in songs like “O’desperad”.
For the past ten years, Andrew Jackson Jihad has been cranking out their particular/eccentric brand of folk-punk to great effect.
One Vital Word gets to call Newcastle, Australia home and with their debut album they prove that people down under can rock just as well.
