Sunday, 21 December 2014

Top 5 ICW Fierce Females

Since I've done a post on the male ICW wrestlers and one on the WWE Divas I thought I might do one on the female ICW wrestlers. They are much hotter than the Divas after all and infinitely more bad-ass than they are.

5. Viper,
Viper's so pretty and sweet looking that you'd never expect her to be into kicking ass but she is and she does it well. Being billed as the most powerful female wrestler in the company she sure as hell shows it with her very impressive slams. I want one of her "death by snu snu" shirts.


4. Courtney,
I do love a stunning character with a bubbly personality and from what I've seen of Courtney so far she fits that style perfectly. She's one hell of a beautiful woman and her in-ring skills are impressive. She's a great wrestler that uses plenty of epic moves using her legs.


3. Kay Lee Ray,
Kay Lee is one of the most recognizable faces of ICW even before appearing on TNA and with good reason. She's very cute and likeable and a fan favourite. She has a very impressive core strength for someone of her build and her speed and agility seem to be matched by no one. It's hard to take your eyes off her when she builds up momentum.


2. Carmel,
Carmel is supposed to be a baddie and disliked by the crowd but a lot of people like her, me included. She sure can hold a crowd like no one else. She's pretty hot in a scary kinda way and she's one of the most impressive wrestlers in the ICW roster. Like Kay Lee Ray she has an impressive amount of core strength. She shows the most aggression I've seen from the female wrestlers and her skills are awesome. As far as I've seen she's the best at standing grapples and slams.


1. Nikki Storm
As far as I can tell this is an unpopular choice but... Nikki Storm is my favourite for a few reasons. She has an such an impressive physique and level of strength and is able to pull off the types of standing slams Carmel is capable of. She also has good speed and agility to match Kay Lee Ray and she is one hell of a technical wrestler. I also think she's quite cute despite her cocky character. All this is made more impressive knowing that she's only 5'1".


Elf

When Elf first came out no one, including me and even the people that made it thought it was going to be shit. We gave it a shot though, mainly because Will Ferrell was the lead. Man were we happy to be proven wrong, especially the people that made it. The movie has become one of the best Christmas movies ever as well as being one of the best comedies.


A big bonus of this movie for me is my favourite woman (after my girlfriend of course) in the world is in this, Zooey Deschanel. She's being all lovely 'n' stuff.


If you've not watched this yet or only seen it once years ago watch out for the legendary Peter Dinklage as raging writer Miles Finch.


Wowsers!

I don't normally do posts on single pictures but this Front magazine picture of Chelsea Danielle and Julie Kennedy (Lass) is the hottest picture I've seen in years (they are both from Scotland by the way).


Bad Santa

This is my favourite Christmas movie. It's just done so well, it keeps the grumpy people happy because it's about a crappy Christmas and it keeps the rest of us happy because the bad guy learns his lesson -thanks to an annoyingly unshakable little boy and a horny barmaid- and he makes up for his bad deeds.


The best thing about this movie is the late great Bernie Mac as the over the top mall security guard, Gin.


Lauren Graham is pretty damn hot in this, she's hot all the time but I love her style in this movie.


I actually really love this movie, I'd say it's one you'll either love or hate.


Hogfather

I'm a big Terry Pratchett fan and I was over the moon when I heard they were making a live action adaptation of one of the Discworld novels. I remember being like a kid on Christmas watching this the first time.


This book and the film would be nothing without Death and Albert (Death's butler). The Grim Reaper and his man-servant filling the role of the Hogfather (their version of Santa) and his little helper is one of the funniest things ever.


One of my favourite actors is Marc Warren and he is super-creepy as the manic assassin Mr Teatime. That's Te-ah-tim-eh by the way, not Tea time. ;-)


The hero of this film is the extremely awesome no-nonsense granddaughter of Death, Susan. She's played by the jaw-droppingly beautiful Michelle Dockery.


If you want to watch something different at Christmas and you love fantasy and get British humor then you should give this a watch if you haven't already.


Deck The Halls

Deck the Halls is one of the best modern Christmas movies and the main reason for that is that it's just like the older Christmas movies from the 80s and 90s. I seriously thought this was an old movie until I watched it. It really feels like a classic and it's only been out since 2006.


Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick are superb as warring neighbours Buddy Hall and Steve Finch.


Both have pretty stunning daughters too, Steve Finch's daughter Madison is played by the absolutely flawless Alia Shawkat.


Buddy Hall's twins, Ashley and Emily are played by the gorgeous Kelly and Sabrina Aldridge.


Kristin Davis is also pretty good in this and she looks amazing. She looks just as hot today as she did 20 years ago, she hasn't changed much at all.


It's understandable how annoyed Steve is, I mean can you imagine living across the street from this?


If you want to watch a Christmas movie you haven't seen before and love the slapstick comedies like Home Alone and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation then you should give this a shot.


Top 5 Christmas Movies

At this time of year there's masses and masses of extremely crap movies on TV. It would appear that the only quality these movies need to make it on is to be set at Christmas time. You can tell most of them are filmed in LA during the summer as no attempt has been made at all to even decorate the sets. There are, however, a lot of good festive films too. This is my personal top 5.

5. Deck the Halls,
Deck the Halls is one of my favourite more recent movies. Everything about it feels like the movies I grew up with from the small town setting to the slapstick hijinks.


4. Jingle All The Way,
This was my favourite Christmas movie growing up. I remember wishing that Turbo-Man was a real toy I even liked Booster.


3. Elf,
Elf is one of the best modern comedies never mind Christmas movies. It just feels a bit weird if you watch it in the summer, I still have done though.


2. Hogfather,
I love Discworld novels and my love for the stories only got stronger seeing them in live action as I'm a massive movie/ TV geek. This is a great alternative take on the classic 'save Christmas' story.


1. Bad Santa,
Bad Santa has been my favourite Christmas movie since it's release in 2003. I was a typical Christmas hating grumpy teenager back then and loved the whole feck Christmas side of this movie. These days, thanks to my level-headedness that comes with maturing,  I love this movie for its redemption storyline.


Top 5 Christmas Songs

I thought I'd do some Christmas stuff since tis the season. This is my top 5 Christmas songs.

5. The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't let the Bells End)


Not only are the guitar solos spot on the song is actually pretty good for a Christmas song, it's classic Darkness. Plus they've got everyone from a choir to your gran singing "bell-end" over and over.

4. Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry


This has a great festive sound to it and I love songs that tell stories of war and historical events.

3. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time


This song is great for Christmas it really gets you in the mood for the season.

2. Slade - Merry Christmas Everyone


I've always loved the sound of this band and this song always triggers memories of a ten year old me playing air guitar and power sliding in my Gran's living room.

1. The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York


To be honest I wanted to be a bit different and not make this my number one but it sounds so good. Even without the lyrics the song is a beautiful piece of music.

Friday, 19 December 2014

TNA Wrestling: British Boot Camp 2


I have to be honest, I don't know anything about TNA and I have never watched it or anything about it until now. I haven't even seen the first season of this show and to be honest I'm not going to cause it looks pish. I enjoyed this show though it felt like the whole show was a promo for the Al Snow vs Grado match in January of 2015. That should be good by the way.


It was great seeing some of my favourite British wrestlers on TV again and it was these guys that made the show worth watching. The Scottish people's champion, Grado was the most entertaining part of the show as he tends to be. He's funny as usual but I don't think they showed off his talent for wrestling as much as they should have.


It was fascinating seeing Noam Dar too as I've only ever seen him wrestle and never heard him speak. He's always a pleasure to watch as his style is pretty technical and he really suits being in the ring.


Sha Samuels was awesome in this too, I've only seen him a few times-and I know it's controversial but- I love his over the top asshole of a character. He makes for great entertainment and isn't that what it's all about?


I loved Nikki Storm in this too, she's a fantastic wrestler, easy on the eyes and is probably one of the most dedicated to her character, keeping it up even when she's put out of the show.


Dave Mastiff is a monster of a man and he's one of the most impressive people in wrestling in general: his size surely is intimidating and his agility and stamina are impressive. Many times in this show he had me stunned by what he can do with ease that a lot of other wrestlers would struggle with.


Last but not least there was the ever-lovely Kay Lee Ray being lovely as usual. She's probably one of the best female wrestlers around and this show done well showcasing her talents. That 4-way match with the girls in the show was one of the best matches I've ever seen thanks mainly to Kay Lee.


You can still see this show in Sky Box Sets.