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Hey guys!

I hope you’ve had a great weekend so far. Last time I watched Now You See Me 2, and this weekend I watched The Take, aka Bastille Day which stars Idris Elba.

So I was browsing around Amazon Video and I’ve seen this film pop up a couple of times, and wanted to watch an action film since I haven’t seen one in such a long time. I saw it was Idris Elba but had not heard of the film, “The Take”. Then I realised that this was originally called Bastille Day, and I had seen some previews of that and it looked like a good film, so I watched it. Something I don’t like about action films is that some can seem far fetched, or just predictable, but I guess that you have to just go with it, afterall it’s not real, it’s just a film! 😀

The film starts on the eve of Bastille Day, an American called Michael Mason who’s lost most of his purpose in life is living in Paris, and is a pick pocket. He sees an opportunity to steal a women’s handbag, and does, then goes through it. There’s nothing much in there apart from a phone and a teddy bear, so he takes the phone and tosses the bag. Unknown to him there’s a bomb inside the teddy, which was supposed to be placed in an office for the French Nationalist party, but the women changed her mind when she saw people in the building and was told it would be empty. After he’s thrown the bag it goes off, killing people, and so it appears he’s a terrorist and killed those people. He’s now a wanted man by the police and RAPID, French special forces. He’s captured by CIA agent Briar, who’s played by Idris Elba, who questions Mason and tells Briar what happened and that he’s not a terrorist, Briar has reservations and believes him as the story unfolds of corruption and dodgy dealings happen play out; The film goes from there.

I thought that this was a really good action film with a good plot and plenty of action which you obviously expect to see. If you’re looking for an action film then I can recommend giving this one a watch.

I’ve seen a few people talk about their EDC, which (apparently) is an acronym for Every Day Carry, i.e. the essentials that men walk around with in their daily life. What do you usually carry around? What can’t you leave the house without? I’ve done a few posts like this before, but I’ll have a bit of a refresh and show you what I carry, and it’s not really a lot! 😀

For some people they use this as a photo opportunity to show off all the crap they have, and try to wedge it into the photo so it looks good. For the usual lifestyle stuff, I don’t think you really need to carry a lot, not in Newcastle at least. I’ve seen a few people who talk about penknives and other things, I guess they’re American or live out in the country, because there’s no chance you need something like that in your actual every day life.

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A few years ago I heard about the film Napoleon Dynamite but I had never got round to watching it. I recently discovered it was on Amazon Prime, so I decided it would be the perfect chance to watch it, so I did. WOW, it’s such a terrible film!

Have you seen those “Vote for Pedro” T-shirts? I saw them years ago, but never knew where they came from or what they were about. Well it’s to do with this film, and it has a cult following so those T-shirts are popular with the fans of this film. What’s it about and why is it so bad?

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Hey guys!

I hope you’ve had a good weekend. Last week for my film night I watched The Edge Of Seventeen, and this time round I watched Now You See Me 2, the sequel to the film which I watched a few years back. The old gang are back together, the four horsemen, all except Henley who was played by Isla Fisher, who’s been replaced by Lula May who’s played by Lizzy Caplan. The film continues on from the previous one, with the remaining members of the Four Horsemen hiding out in New York City 18 months after getting past the FBI, with Dylan Rhodes who begins still an FBI agent and leader of the group.

They’re awaiting further instructions from The Eye, Dylan aka Shrike gives them a new mission to expose a corrupt businessman at the launch of a software company, but the plans go bad, their hijack is interrupted by a mystery person, Dylan is exposed as a Horseman and they try to escape through a tube, but then find themselves in Macau and are captured. Daniel Radcliffe plays Walter Mabry who is the bad guy character, and tells The Horsemen has had a job for them which they must do or he’ll kill them, which is to steal a device which can decrypt any system in the world; And the film goes from there.

I think that the film makes a really good sequel, and has plenty of twists and turns along the way, and is a good watch. Morgan Feeeman and Michael Caine also make appearances in the film too.  You don’t necessarily need to have seen the first one to watch this, but you’d have a better understanding of the story and history. If you’ve seen the first one and liked it, you’ll probably like this.

Hey guys!

Autumn is here! It’s been getting darker and darker earlier and the weather has gotten much colder, even for the North East of England! 🙁 I’ll be getting out my jumpers, knits and Autumn/Winter clothes really soon, but for now, I’ve added a couple of new things which I’ve recently got.

First up I got a sweatshirt from Adidas Originals. I think that over the past year or two sweatshirts have became cool again…They were the only thing you could wear apart from a knit jumper for a long time, and then along came hoodies and they became really popular and nobody bothered with the ‘uncool’ sweatshirt; But the rise of basics as well as high end luxe basics, sportswear and street wear, the good old sweatshirt has gained once again in fashion and in popularity.

It’s a white sweatshirt with the classic Adidas Originals trefoil logo. I have a tee in black as well as a blue hoodie in Adidas Orignals too, the Originals arm of the Adidas brand is the old school cool stylish label which has so much love. It’s a bit of a bargain, with it being only £31.46 (what’s up with that silly price?!) at Adidas here and available at other places too.

I got some COS socks as a gift. COS is a brand owned by H&M and they have a few stores in the UK as well as being online. It’s not one of the most well known brands, but it’s growing, and is supposed to be a ‘higher end’ version of H&M, with better quality basics. As you know I’ve been loving socks over the past year or so, and have so many Happy Socks it’s untrue. It’s a shame that they don’t have a store in Newcastle so I can’t go and try out any of their other clothing, maybe one day we’ll get one.

That’s all I have for now, but I may add a couple of more pieces to my wardrobe for the upcoming Autumn and Winter season, there’s plenty of great pieces of menswear out there which I’ve had my eye on 😉

Have a great Wednesday! 🙂