Barbarion Are Back

 Back in 2011 Australian "Wagnerian Metal" band got a lot of attention for their utterly OTT  music video for "My Rock", which featured a metal-loving teenager bemoaning the absence of rock before the band magically appear in his bedroom and rock like hurricanes. It really has to be seen to be believed and is exactly the sort of thing I love about Heavy Metal. 

 After that, the band seem to have ridden off into the outback and vanished.

Until now.  

  The new video has the band being summoned for  a "big gig"  except a pair of disgruntled ex-fans want Barbarion DEAD.  It is cheerfully daft and may be the only music video in history to feature the magnificent B-36 Peacemaker. 

 Picture sourced from: https://bomber-aircraft.blogspot.com/p/convair-b-36-peacemaker.html

Check out the video and see if it cheers you up too. 

Song's good stuff too. 

 

Mimi Hagiwara In A Comedy Match

 So I was browsing Youtube and while trying to find a Mimi Hagiwara wrestling bout that 1. I hadn't see and 2. had decent video quality I stumbled across an oddity. 

  In case you don't know who Mimi Hagiwara is, she was a big Women's Wrestling star in the late 70s/ early 80 and has a good claim to being the most gorgeous Joshi Puroresu star of her era.

  Not surprisingly Mimi also strayed into other entertainment, releasing some singles and even having a short, highly memorable appearance in Robert Altman's "All The Marbles" 

  Anyway, back to the point.  While Japanese women wrestlers are renowned for working a hard-hitting, fast paced style they also seem to happily adapt to comedy matches against men, which is what we have here. Mimi, along with fellow AJW stars, Noriyo Tateno, Yukari Omori and  Jaguar Yokota team up for a 4 on 4 match against a team of  comedians. 

It gets very silly from the start although I'm happy to say the blokes aren't as gropey as they sometimes get. 

  See what you think: 

 That's All Folks

Been watching: Catwoman - Hunted

 

  After stealing a particularly valuable gemstone Catwoman has now pissed off a particularly powerful international crime syndicate. 

  Her only option is to team up with Batwoman and try to take the syndicate down first. 

The plot really isn't that complicated: heist - chase - reluctant team-up - big fight - Catwoman  walks away. 

 Except for some reason the big fight at the end isn't the big fight at the end. 

  There's another big fight after that, then a second, then a third and final boss fight.  This does seem excessive although if all you wanted to see if Catwoman kicking ass and being playfully quippy then I suppose you''ll be Ok with it. 

 Me. I felt that somebody wanted to pad the run time a bit and there wasn't enough story to stretch any further. 

 The animation was done by a Japanese studio which gives the characters a semi-anime makeover.  This mostly works except one particular character who is supposed to be menacing just looks like she strayed in from a kids show. 

These quibbles aside - and I do have more - Catwoman Hunted is entertaining enough, with decent animation, decent voice-acting  and a fun lead character, but not what you'd call essential viewing.

That's all folks