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My Boomtown Experience

I've recently bought my Boomtown ticket and am really excited about it even though it's seven months away. I've been to quite a few festivals, from the little local, 'Beautiful Days' to the televised,'Bestival' but nothing compares to the sheer surprise that I experienced last year at Boomtown.
We got there and had to weave in and out of giant beds placed on the hill without the early birds already relaxing on them in the sun. We walked past dozens of interesting stalls, selling all kinds of quirky objects. And then we came across what was to be one of our favourite stages of the weekend 'Arcadia.' An enormous steel spider with rotating stages placed on the top, and platforms that the artists could run down to interact with their audience meters below.
After setting up we enjoyed a weekend in the sun (very surprising for England I know)  where we could wander into the forest to listen to reggae. Or walk about the town watching the rap battles, parades, flash mobs and so much more.
But when the night fell, the place transformed, and everyone came out in their fancy dress covered in glitter and paint. The cardboard town had somehow expanded to reveal more stages,  most very small and with living room furniture to properly set the mood. One of my favorites was hidden inside a telephone box and upon entry you must state that you know Charlie Brown then once inside, it is set up like a 1920's speakeasy with fake police staging acquisition's. It felt so real the first time, but the fact that everyone played along just shows the nature of the festival. Another great stage was the bank, with this stage you had to walk though a cloakroom to collect a blazer before actually going in. I had never seen anything as exciting as this before, every new stage we found surprised us, and gave us a sense of achievement.
Boomtown was definitely my best festival of 2012, I would recommend it to any festival goer. However I don't think this should be your first festival, as it might be a little too much to handle plus any festival afterwards would be a let down.

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les mis film review

The anticipation for 'Les Miserables' was high, with so much critical acclaim, the large amount of award nominations, and the all star cast. So all of these combined with my love for musicals made me very eager to watch the film.

However when I did watch I realised it was not a film with musical numbers, as I was expecting but instead a constant (nearly three hours) movie with almost every line being sung. I think this is the wrong way to go about the film, as it looses so much of of it's possible mainstream audience, as well as the intensity of the dramatic storylines.

Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman portray their characters exquisitely, whilst creating a great on screen relationship. As always Helena Bonham Carter portrays the eccentric outcast perfectly. I love the fact that Eponine actress, Samantha Barks was actually chosen from the stage play not just film, this is clear to see as she sings and acts as though she would if she were still on the stage. I felt Eddie Redmayne wasn't quite as good as the rest of the cast and his vibrato singing voice is less then up to scratch.
The film has a wonderfully sad storyline, but should have been adapted more to fit the film genre and appeal to more people.

Django Unchained Review

After watching ’Django unchained’ I couldn’t wait to watch it again the next day. I loved Tarantino’s layers of modern western mixed with the slave theme, of course held together by his recognised violent onslaughts.  I think some of the brutality issues are hard to stomach due to the fact that they most probably did happen, even though I’m used to his movies and enjoy that theme.

It’s not often I see a film in which all the actors are believable, but this one has to be that rare case with Christoph Waltz stealing the show. Everything was thought about so carefully to create the most realistic of films.

At two hours forty five minutes it is a long film, with so many points that could be the ending, however it just seems to go on until finally Django has his justice and there is a real ending, as well as multiple bloody fights to the death just as we would expect with Quentin.

I have to say this is a film I have enjoyed tremendously, however it doesn’t follow much of a historical outline, instead a two man battle for justice.

Although I did notice the girl with the red scarf, this may be because all of Tarantino’s films are all set in the same universe and have interlinking characters between films. Or this may be because the girl is played by Zoe Bell, who is normally a stunt actress, for which she must hide her face.  However, in ‘Deathproof’ she played more of a main part in which she had to show her face and so this could be her concealing her face again as an inside joke between the cast and crew.

I recommend this film highly, but be warned those who are queasy and have a low tolerance for bad language and racism, a harsh truth of old America.