What a year. I have now finished my second year of university and couldn’t be happier. After 8 months of still doing the bare minimum of work I need to do, I have finished. This year has been so much better than my first year. I moved into my first house, repped with the most unbelievable group of people for freshers, campaigned for the student elections, had an interview for repping again next year, got some valuable work experience, filmed for Notts TV and finally got a topic for my dissertation, which will be about music and authorship in films. It is ridiculous how quick this year has gone and now that summer is here I’ve got over 4 months until I need to be back in Nottingham.
In other exciting news, I am flying to America in exactly 3 weeks! In fact, this time in 3 weeks I will be on the plane on my way to JFK. I am finding it very hard to think about anything else especially as I have now decided that after camp I will be traveling to Chicago, Dallas, LA and Vegas!
In movie news, a trailer that I saw today was a new film featuring Al Pacino. Pacino is one of my favourite actors who has appeared in the Godfather trilogy, Scarface, Oceans 13 and many other fantastic films. This new film is called Manglehorn and it seems like it could be another brilliant performance from Pacino. The film is directed by David Gordon Green, who some of you may know as he directed Pineapple Express. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wVi2i9BPQE The film seems to be about Pacino’s character who lost his loved one and is trying to start his life over again. It might be a bit of a romantic film, but we are all allowed a guilty pleasure
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Another film that has caught my attention is American Heist. This film stars Hayden Christensen, who some people don’t like after his questionable performance in the star wars movies, and you could almost guess what its about just from the title. It’s about robbing a bank. Obviously there will be other little stories within the film but that’s the main idea of it. Along side Christensen is Jordanna Brewster, from the fast and furious movies, who I’m sure will still look as good as she does in the fast films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARy1veFIps
One final movie I want to talk about is the Minion movie. Everyone’s favourite animated characters have their own movie and I’m not going to lie, it looks incredible. I’ll admit, the film probably is for a younger audience, but it looks to good to miss. A group of yellow animated characters running around the world speaking a language that we don’t know yet still understand. The 3rd official trailer was released and the fact they go to England to take the thrown and become King just makes it even better. As well as that, Sandra Bullock is in it and I’m certainly not complaining about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvKmSNxFHyQ
Unfortunately that is all for this week. a few films and a couple of thoughts will have to do. Have a blinding weekend and to anyone with exams over the next week, good luck!
“For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found, else-ways everyone would know where it was”
Rob On Life 