Top 10 Countdown: October 27, 2018

10. Good Charlotte - Prayers
Last week: NEW!


9. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes
Last week: 10.


8. Eat Your Heart Out - Better Late Than Never
Last week: 9.


7. Waterparks - Peach (Lobotomy)
Last week: 8.


6. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
Last week: 2.


5. New Found Glory - Barbed Wire
Last week: 6.


4. Set It Off - Killer In The Mirror
Last week: 5.


3. With Confidence - Moving Boxes
Last week: 4.


2. Anti-Flag - Trouble Follows Me
Last week: 3.


1. Sleep On It - A New Way Home
Last week: 1.

Top 10 Countdown: October 20, 2018

10. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes
Last week: NEW!


9. Eat Your Heart Out - Better Late Than Never
Last week: 10.


8. Waterparks - Peach (Lobotomy)
Last week: 9.


7. Knuckle Puck - Want Me Around
Last week: 3.


6. New Found Glory - Barbed Wire
Last week: 7.


5. Set It Off - Killer In The Mirror
Last week: 6.


4. With Confidence - Moving Boxes
Last week: 5.


3. Anti-Flag - Trouble Follows Me
Last week: 4.


2. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
Last week: 1.


1. Sleep On It - A New Way Home
Last week: 2.

Special: Top 10 Scene Halloween Themed Music Videos

10. Waterparks - We Need To Talk


Zombie Awsten Knight... What more can we say? Zombie is a pretty common occurrence on this list though.

9. blink-182 - I Miss You


It's creepy, it's haunting, it's everyone's favourite pop-punkers not pop-punking. But seriously Tom needs to easy up on his verse. Yeesh.

8. Gob - I Hear You Calling


Don't you hate it when a model is kidnapped by zombies and the only thing that can save her is a Canadian pop-punk trio beating the zombies at soccer?... What? This really happens doesn't it?

7. The Early November - Decoration

I mean, this video is pretty low budget, yes but you can't get more Halloween than this.

6. Linkin Park - Papercut

R.I.P. Chester Bennington but seriously, this video gave 12 year old me nightmares! It's pretty freakin' creepy.

5. New Found Glory - Don't Let Her Pull You Down

Even if we put aside the making fun of Twilight in the opening, this would've still made the list. This was during New Found Glory's "Pop Punk's Not Dead" phase so naturally they included the undead... Yep. More zombies!

4. Fall Out Boy - A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me

We interrupt this zombie list to bring you dapper dressed vampires in a video that turned a less than 3 minute song into an almost 7 minute epic!

3. Panic! At The Disco - Emperor's New Clothes

I was really tempted to go with "Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time" here but I gotta give the nod to this one, after all Brendon Urie slowly turning into the devil is pretty intense.

2. All Time Low - Something's Gotta Give

This all seems pretty normal, until you start seeing people getting eaten alive in the second half of the video. This concludes our "Zombies" list... Hey maybe next year we'll do one excluding zombie videos.

1. Real Friends - Mess

The perfect Halloween video with a great message about mental health in the background this couldn't be any better. I get excited every time I hear the "What if you were the monster..." intro.

Top 10 Countdown: October 13, 2018

10. Eat Your Heart Out - Better Late Than Never
Last week: NEW!


9. Waterparks - Peach (Lobotomy)
Last week: NEW!


8. With Confidence - Jaded
Last week: 3.


7. New Found Glory - Barbed Wire
Last week: 8.


6. Set It Off - Killer In The Mirror
Last week: 7.


5. With Confidence - Moving Boxes
Last week: 6.


4. Anti-Flag - Trouble Follows Me
Last week: 5.


3. Knuckle Puck - Want Me Around
Last week: 1.


2. Sleep On It - A New Way Home
Last week: 4.


1. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
Last week: 2.

Special: Venom, The Nun and The House With A Clock In Its Walls Mini-Reviews

Venom:

Synopsis: Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter-ego: Venom. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organisation looking for a symbiote of their own.

My thoughts: So this film got a critical drubbing. But the fans seem to like it. Me? I'm more-so with the fans. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but that's not to say it was a perfect film. There were some real cringy moments, and when I say cringy I mean C-R-I-N-G-Y! The acting was good, apart from the aforementioned cringe which mostly landed on Tom's shoulders, sorry Tom. The CGI was heavy, as you'd expect but it almost seemed too much at times.

Final verdict: 4 Symbiotes out of 5.

The Nun:

Synopsis: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order's unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in "The Conjuring 2," as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

My thoughts: This was certainly scarier than the Annabelle and Conjuring films in my opinion. Though it certainly was not better, especially to the later franchise, but it's still a worthy enough entry. The acting (all 3 of them) was fine but the script could've used some fine-tuning to help with this films obvious pacing issues.

Final verdict: 3 expanded universes out of 5.

The House With A Clock In Its Walls:

Synopsis: In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award (R) winner Cate Blanchett star in THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.

My thoughts: Children's Halloween movies are hard to pull off. You need to strike the perfect balance between scary and funny. Too scary and you have kids crying in the theatres (Monster House) too funny and you alienate the older viewers (The Haunted Mansion). Happy to report this film hits the bullseye on that balance. It's hard to find any faults with this movie so I'm just not going to try. Go see it this Halloween.

Final verdict: 5 witches and warlocks out of 5.

Top 10 Countdown: October 6, 2018

10. You Me At Six - 3 AM
Last week: 10.


9. Hands Like Houses - Overthinking
Last week: 9.


8. New Found Glory - Barbed Wire
Last week: NEW!


7. Set It Off - Killer In The Mirror
Last week: 8.


6. With Confidence - Moving Boxes
Last week: 7.


5. Anti-Flag - Trouble Follows Me
Last week: 5.


4. Sleep On It - A New Way Home
Last week: 4.


3. With Confidence - Jaded
Last week: 3.


2. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
Last week: 2.


1. Knuckle Puck - Want Me Around
Last week: 1.