Alice Through the Looking Glass - Movie Review!

Who's In It?

Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp & Sacha Baron Cohen


What's It About?

After sailing the world and exploring China, Alice returns to Wonderland to save the Mad Hatter. Rather than reboot, we're talking next chapter. 

Mad Max: Fury Road - Movie Review

Who's In It?

Nicholas Hoult, Charlize Theron, and Tom Hardy


What's It About? 

Max is kidnapped by Immortan Joe and his War Boys, and must escape by running away with Imperator Furiosa, Immortan's "Breeders" - women with healthy pregnancies - and the War Boy Nux in a giant armoured oil tanker.

Any Good?

I have never been so tired or sore after a movie, Fury Road is relentless in shooting, driving, explosions, and INCREDIBLY loud music. There is maybe a 10 minute break near the end, but even that doesn't last before it's LOUD NOISES AND DEATH again, I LOVE it.

The action is non-stop, from the first 5 minutes it's immediate punch and run, with Max escaping Immortan Joe's slave base by beating his War Boys and having serious hallucinations. The soundwork was fantastic in the film and was a real part of the action, every time the war parties were on the road there was a War Boy with a giant fire-spitting guitar shredding his heart out on a giant vehicle made of a speakers fit in perfectly - Nolan needs to learn how to do loud music from this.

Immortan Joe

This film really takes advantage of its 15A rating, having serious blood and gore as well as scenes of slaves being beaten and women being drained of milk (yep, lovely) as well as naked women, I'm surprised the American film industry didn't gimp it totally to be more family friendly. 

I haven't seen the original Mad Max films in some time, but this really felt like the 80's style they were done in, as well as the original Fury Road comics and other films like Conan the Barbarian with giant mountain bases. Australian Bane is perfect as Max, and "the feminist legion" are great, and make sense dammit. I thoroughly recommend watching this in cinemas, and in isense if you can because not only is the soundtrack amazing but it uses classic 3D where things come out of the screen! 

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A Sweet 16 Wish for Mah Boy

Today I've something a little bit different and it's only because it's hitting me in waves that I am sharing it. Today my baby (yes, he'll always be that) is 16! SIXTEEN years of age, people!

I've spoken to him about this at length, asked him to please do his sums again, as by my calculation he should be, at most, 7 but no joy. He's growing (hurtling) up & there's nowt I can do about it.

That's him there, all 16 years worth and isn't he a bag of gorgeousness? (Control yourself, Caroline Flack, this Mammy bites!). I'm not sure where the years have gone and yet I can account for every one. Mmhmm, I'm getting old.

Anyone that has read my post about becoming a Mam so young will know that it wasn't always rosey but, genuinely, I couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful or generous boy. He's made my life so much easier just by his very nature and for that I'm very grateful to him. (& his Bro, naturally). 

I've included a poem I wrote for him when he was only a couple of days old that was published that year. This book has always been knocking about but I hadn't actually reread it until the past few days. Perhaps it was a little naive at the time to feel this way but those feelings are what made me who I was, who I am now and who we are as a family. 

I'd never advocate anyone to start a family as early as I did, you know why? Because its nobody's business when you start your family or if you ever do for that matter. All you can ever do is your best given your circumstances. Looking back, I can safely say that we've never been in as good a place in life as we are right now and it's only getting better. I wouldn't change a day of it for the world. 

If/when you're reading this, Aar, I want you to know - I love you more than words could ever say. You make me proud every single day just by being you but more than anything else I'm thankful to have grown up with you. Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, Egg x