Usher continued to find success alongside Jermaine Dupri (and also Bryan-Michael Cox), who helped him to churn out out #1 hit “U Got it Bad”, also on “8701”. That album was led by yet another #1 single, “U Remind Me”. “Confessions” will go down as Usher’s greatest body of work according to most fans, but “8701” is not far behind. The second consecutive #1 single from Usher’s sophomore and breakout album, this was the first of many successful timeless ballads he’s churned out over the years. It was the album’s first single and eventually became his first #1 hit. Usher’s self titled debut album has gone largely overlooked, but he made sure his sophomore album would not suffer the same fate with the help of the Jermaine Dupri assisted single “You Make Me Wanna…”. You Make Me Wanna… (from the “My Way” album) Without further ado, here is our list of the Top 10 Best Usher Songs in chronological order: In a recent podcast, we debated the direction of his current music, but there is really no debating the impact he’s had on r&b and the legacy he’s created for himself so far.Ĭlick Here to check out all of our Top 10 Lists Now is a good time to reflect back on this legendary artist and highlight some of the great work he’s shared with us during his career. Few R&B artists have had as many timeless hits as Usher has had over the past two decades, so choosing his 10 best songs is no easy task. We’ve been rolling out our artist Top 10 Best Songs list features, and perhaps Usher is definitely one of our most challenging ones to create.
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Brings energy, wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people since the 1840s. Brings energy, wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people since the 1840s.' The Times Told in a very relaxed and sometimes - as you might expect - very funny Palin style.' David Baddiel, Daily Mail Carefully researched and well-crafted, it brings the story of a ship vividly to life.' Sunday Times The Erebus story is the Arctic epic we've all been waiting for.' Nicholas Crane This is the review of Erebus The story of a Shipwritten by Michael Palin: a book about great explorers, scientific discoveries, naval history and incredible travels. It's a fascinating story that brings full-bloodedly to life.' Guardian The book comes as a thick, 322 page compendium. The remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early. Now available: Michael Palin's North Korea Journals Review of Michael Palin´s EREBUS The Story of a Ship. Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin (Signed). Her fate remained a mystery for over 160 years. On the second, she vanished with her 129-strong crew in the wastes of the Canadian Arctic, along with the HMS Terror. On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. Illustrated with maps, paintings and engravings, this is a wonderfully evocative and epic account, written by a master explorer and storyteller.Random House presents the audiobook edition of Erebus, written and read by Michael Palin. To help tell the story, he has travelled to various locations across the world – Tasmania, the Falklands, the Canadian Arctic – to search for local information, and to experience at first hand the terrain and the conditions that would have confronted the Erebus and her crew. Erebus: The Story of a Ship Michael Palin Random House, Travel - 352 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's. And he vividly recounts the experiences of the men who first stepped ashore on Antarctica’s Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic wastes as rescue missions desperately tried to reach them. He explores the intertwined careers of the men who shared its journeys: the dashing James Clark Ross who charted much of the ‘Great Southern Barrier’ and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there and the troubled John Franklin, who at the age of sixty and after a chequered career, commanded the ship on its final, disastrous expedition. Now Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globetrotter – brings this extraordinary ship back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. Now Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globetrotter - brings this extraordinary ship back to life. In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Erebus, written and read by Michael Palin. it is still fun, entertaining ,but it's not daring as 3 or 2, nor as scary as 1. Balagueró tried to capture the lightning in the bottle again, but ended delivering another unoriginal outbreak film. Rec 4: Apocalypse was a letdown and the weakest of the series. It's not on par with the first two masterpieces but it is terrific, as a dark comedy, and I love how Paco Plaza went in a completely different direction even in filmmaking style, avoiding the series to become a repetition, and getting it closer to say, Sam Raimi's style, with comedy playing a heavy part on the horror of the situation. Actually Rec 2 is to Rec, what Aliens was to Alien, and I would dare to say that Rec 2 is even slightly better than the first, and more complex. It's a fantastic film, one of the best horror films ever made and Manuela Velasco's performance in this and subsequent sequels (2 and 4) could and should be compared to Sigourney Weaver's in the Alien franchise. We believe in her so hard we want the former for her as much as we want the latter, and we'll ride (or die) with her to the terrible, terrible places to find them both. And yet Velasco carries us genuinely to that heightened place through sheer force of skill, making Ángela's quest for truth and for freedom - the truth about what is happening inside of this building, and the freedom to get the hell out alive - go hand in hand. The climax of is nigh histrionic, with everyone absolutely screaming their lines at a register not seen since Janeane Garofolo went looking for " The Fucking Phone!!!! " in Wet Hot American Summer. Ángela is as dogged in her pursuit of the sleeping and eating habits of the local fireman in the film's first fifteen minutes as she'll come to be in ' s last act, when those same firemen have developed the nasty habit of ripping out throats. She will tell the outside world what is happening them there inside this building dammit, and Velasco plants those seeds of Ángela's serious-mindedness, even against the frivolity of her assigned duty, from frame one. A lot of found-footage movies don't seem to know how to convince the audience that a person would keep filming while monsters are attacking them, but keeping the camera running is Ángela's raison d'être. Because all the tension of - that's not all those bloodthirsty people-eaters they encounter, of course - is built right into its filming. And yet it's Ángela's push-pull with the camera (as well as her never-seen cameraman Pablo) itself that might be the movie's strongest legacy. Her natural charm in front of a camera, the way she manages to turn it on and off and make an entire side-story out of her relationship with the camera itself - an arc that would become integral to the entire sub-genre, and I don't know if any Found Footage film has done it better.Ī lot of feels like that, even though it came eight years after the phenom Blair Witch - watch a found footage film post-2007 and half their tricks are -thefts, up to and especially including its iconic final yank of a frame, which I'll refrain from spoiling here. Velasco was a well-known presence in Spain before came along - she'd been a child actor (exactly 20 years before she played little Ada in Pedro Almodovar's Law of Desire ) and in the way of European stardom she had done a lot of TV presenting over the years, a skill-set that was vital to her stellar turn here as Ángela Vidal, intrepid reporter on the firehouse beat. And the rest of the movie wouldn't work nearly as well as it does without it, because this is where we get to know the superhero-to-be Ángela Vidal (played with fire and fury by Manuela Velasco) and become intimate with all of the killer traits that will go on to make of her, by the film's final frame, one of horror's great Final Girls. There is far more meat to that "while they are recording" then one would think. While they are recording, the firehouse receives a call about an old woman." "Reporter Ángela Vidal and her cameraman Pablo are covering the night shift in one of Barcelona's local fire stations for the documentary television series While You're Sleeping. It's always like this, stolen off Wikipedia: Whenever you read a plot synopsis of the 2007 found-footage masterpiece by Spanish filmmakers Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza (both of whom have gone on to make outstanding films on their own, not to mention a couple of outstanding sequels to itself) it's worth noting that the synopsis always leaves out the first fifteen minutes of the movie. |
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