(review) Curt Cannabis – Sad But True (Too Loud Records)

USA pop punks Curt Cannabis have a new record out and it is an e.p. containing 6 songs. The music is melodic punk rock, with lots of pop punk thrown in. The songs are not fast, rather mid tempo punk rock with gusto and deliberate built up of melody to sweet choruses. I love tribute to Elvira with Dear Elvira (Jewel of TV), also Atomic Heart is one of my personal favorites having such great chorus and melody. Vocals are kind of rough on edges but fit perfectly to music. Songs called Drag and the title song are also highlights of this little e.p. Great effort. If you like your pop punk check this one.

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(movie review) Burial(2022) is one of the best war movies I have watched in last couple of years!

Wow! This is only thing I can say about this one, after I watched it. I first thought this one was one of those Russian propaganda action war westerns with pathos and not much to tell, but I was wrong. This is a movie directed by Ben Felton, writer of Girl On The Third Floor which I liked, horror starring wrestler CM Punk. The story of this one is based upon one of the greatest WWII mysteries, being the whereabouts of Adolf Hitler´s remains. Story goes like this: In 1945, after the fall of Berlin, a group of Soviet soldiers is given a mission to deliver a casket to Stalin. Every night they bury the casket, only to dig it up again, so if they are killed in their sleep the casket remains hidden. As is clichee in most mission war movies, they fight amongst themselves with some of the men unable to cope with the fact that Brana Vasylieva(Charlotte Vega of Wrong Turn remake) leads them into mission. They wander in one remote Polish village where a gang of Werwolf, Nazi guerillas stalk them and try to wipe them out one by one. They desperately try to protect the casket and mission at all cost.

Although this movie suffers from some holes in story, for example the bad guys agenda is not really clear why they want to do with the casket what they plan to do, this is a more than decent war action/adventure with good a bit clicheed characters, but indeed a story told good, being a story that old Brana tells to the skinhead which broke into her house at night in nowadays London. Action scenes are superb, especially final shootout in an abandoned church and it delivers one version of the myth about Hitler and his mortal remains. Actors are good, even Tom Felton(Draco Malfoy of Harry Potter movies) is decent as a Polish Volksdeutscher deserter who helps Brana and her soldiers. Good one.

8/10