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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri review - An extremely good, if misguided, film.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a good film. In fact, it's a very good film. A masterful take on black comedy, with powerful acting throughout and beautiful cinematography a focus throughout - Three Billboards is no doubt deserving of the praise it is getting as a piece of cinema. However, the messages it sends through its narrative and characters may be tone deaf, and misguided in a political landscape as volatile as the one of 21st Century America - preaching forgiveness no matter what at times, but completely irrational acts of violence at others. The positives of the film are still evident from the very outset. Three Billboards brings out a career performance from Frances McDormand as the kick-ass Mildred Hayes - her performance brings the fire to a role which could have easily fallen flat with a less supreme performance - to hear any name other than McDormand's called out at the Oscars would be a true shock. Woody Harrelson makes the character of Chief W

The Top 5 Official Football Themes.

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Yes, I am sad enough to really write this article. But football themes are what get you in the mood for a game, be it a Carabao Cup first round fixture or a Champions League final. The question remains, which of these themes is truly the best? Can everyone's favourite, the Champions League anthem, hold up to my intense, day-long scrutiny? 5. Bundesliga 2013- This is a quintessentially German theme. It has the elegance and grandeur you'd expect from a German competition, it's clinical yet graceful. It just feels like it represents good football, you're not gonna listen to it individually, but it fits its use to the tee. Like the Sebastian Rudy of themes. 4. Premier League 2016- With a new brand identity for the Premier League came a new theme song, and it's a more than solid showing from the biggest league in the world. A slow building modern orchestral piece that just gets you excited for seeing Jay Rodriguez to score a last-minute winner at the Hawthorns,

The Most Popular Unpopular Film in the World

Tommy Wiseau is a mysterious character. He claims to have grown up in Louisiana, and lived in France, but his accent isn’t like either. No record of his name is found on any tracked records, so nobody knows how old he is. He claims to be about 48, others claim he is older. Nobody knew anything about this secretive, long-haired man – at least not until 2003, when the bizarre, almost surrealist movie ‘The Room’ came out. He was the writer, director, producer, lead actor, and financier – with money he claimed came from selling irregular jeans and real estate (there is also no evidence of this). One of the supporting actors claimed that Wiseau had an epiphany from a near-death experience, which led to him following his dream of becoming an actor – a dream which still seems farfetched to this day. The Room had a budget of $6 million, financed by Wiseau’s unknown wealth. How much did the film gross? $1,800. The equivalent of about 180 tickets, or a large screen at a multiplex. Most of W

Colin Kaepernick to find a team? Can Ezekiel Elliott follow up last season? 5 bold predictions for the 2017 NFL season

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With training camps finally opening up this past week, the NFL season is edging ever closer. With less than a week until the Hall of Fame game, teams are beginning to shape up, with draft picks and free agent signings learning to settle into their new surroundings. But what does the coming season hold for the league? Here are 5 bold predictions for the 2017 NFL season: Colin Kaepernick will start at least one game this season. Colin Kaepernick seems to be a poison apple to every coach and front office in the league. What is simply a silent, peaceful, and totally lawful protest against something he disagrees with may cost Kaepernick his entire career at this rate. However, he is by far the most talented quarterback that currently sits without a contract. In fact, Kap had the 17th best passer rating in the league last year, on a team devoid of talent where his main target was Jeremy Kerley. The same Jeremy Kerley who only had one season with more than 75 targets in his career un

New drivers at Ferrari? Drivers who could move this F1 offseason

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This off-season in Formula 1 may well be one of the most interesting in recent history, with seats potentially opening up all across the grid. Here are 6 drivers who may find themselves moving in the world of open-wheel racing come season's end. Likely to move: Sergio Perez Sergio Perez is quickly becoming a veteran of the sport, with more experience than 10 of the 20 drivers on the grid. But, at only 27 years of age, Perez is still to enter the prime of his career, with another 10 years left at the highest level. In his 6 year career in F1 so far, Perez has 7 podium finishes, despite running in mid-pack cars the entire time, from the 2012 Sauber to the Force India cars of recent years. After his performance in the 2012 season, finishing on the podium three times in a Sauber car lacking consistent pace, Perez got what everybody presumed would be his jump into the big time, with a contract at McLaren-Mercedes for 2013. McLaren were still very much in their prime in 2

Amber Rudd to lose her seat? Green Party to make gains?: Election Predictions

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With a few days to go until the snap election called by Theresa May in mid-April, the landscape voters face on the 8th of May seems clear. Policies have been laid out, campaigns run, and revelations made - which leaves us with all of the information we need to make predictions for the election. Of course, predictions are wrong at every election, but these 6 below could well take place come election day, with some more likely than others. Confident Predictions: 1. Theresa May will see a reduced majority in her seat. Since her entry into Number 10, Theresa May decided to push through the UK's exit from the European Union, despite her support of the Remain campaign. This switch on her Brexit allegiances has led to uproar from the 48% of people nationwide who voted to remain. In fact, May's home constituency of Maidenhead voted to remain, by just under 54%. The way May has failed to reflect her constituency fairly since becoming PM could sway Remain Tories in the area to