The Sand Land action-rpg is right around the corner, so promotion has been ramping up of late. The latest preview to surface taps an iconic piece of music to fuel the hype, as "Sandstorm" by Darude helps bring the desert themes to life. Really, we should have seen this one coming, right? Sand Land - Sandstorm Trailer Related: Sand Land Game's Final Developer Diary Video Heads to Forest Land Viz Media publishes Akira Toriyama's Sand Land manga. Here's how Bandai Namco describes the game: Sand Land is a popular manga created in 2000 by Akira Toriyama, the author of Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, that has gained worldwide popularity since its publishing. In a desert world where demons and humans suffer from extreme water shortages, Beelzebub, the Fiend Prince, and Rao, a small-town sheriff, form a tag team and set off on an adventure in search of a hidden water source.
- 4/15/2024
- by Joseph Luster
- Crunchyroll
‘All My Friends Hate Me’ Review: Scary-Funny British Satire Unpacks the Anxieties of Old Friendships
A scary-funny British satire that cringes in horror at the all too familiar sort of affluent, over-educated millennials who are somehow both self-obsessed and deeply ashamed of themselves at the same time,
Its story hinges on a simple notion about the unnatural forces that might compel a 31-year-old neurotic like Pete (co-writer Tom Stourton) to keep even his most toxic college friendships on life support: He’s mortified about the man he used to be, but the only people who can let him off the hook are the ones who knew him back then. They’re the only ones who might be able to appreciate how much he’s changed. So while Pete is plenty amped up for the rural getaway that his old chums have planned for his birthday — only real ’90s kids will fully understand how funny it is when he blasts “Sandstorm” by Darude to get the...
Its story hinges on a simple notion about the unnatural forces that might compel a 31-year-old neurotic like Pete (co-writer Tom Stourton) to keep even his most toxic college friendships on life support: He’s mortified about the man he used to be, but the only people who can let him off the hook are the ones who knew him back then. They’re the only ones who might be able to appreciate how much he’s changed. So while Pete is plenty amped up for the rural getaway that his old chums have planned for his birthday — only real ’90s kids will fully understand how funny it is when he blasts “Sandstorm” by Darude to get the...
- 3/24/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Imagine the protagonist of a Richard Curtis film woke up on the morning of whichever wedding or funeral they were to attend, suddenly cursed with self-awareness. The resulting movie, a comedy that elicits such bone-deep cringe it’s indistinguishable from horror, might look a lot like Andrew Gaynord’s “All My Friends Hate Me,” a ferociously witty, deeply British evisceration of upper-class Millennial anxiety, dedicated to the truism that if you can’t spot the asshole in any group of five or more people, the asshole is you.
Pete (Tom Stourton) is just back from a volunteer stint at a refugee camp, and is setting off in high spirits to spend his birthday weekend in the enormous stately home owned by his friend George (Joshua McGuire). Pete’s down-to-earth girlfriend Sonia (Charly Clive) will join him the following day, but initially it’s just going to be him and his...
Pete (Tom Stourton) is just back from a volunteer stint at a refugee camp, and is setting off in high spirits to spend his birthday weekend in the enormous stately home owned by his friend George (Joshua McGuire). Pete’s down-to-earth girlfriend Sonia (Charly Clive) will join him the following day, but initially it’s just going to be him and his...
- 6/11/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Gene Kelly’s iconic dance under a downpour in “Singin’ In the Rain” is arguably one of the most famous scenes in movie musical history… so, of course, the internet is going to turn it into a mashup.
One adept poster on Twitter named Cuppycup noted that the famous song can be swapped out with any track that has the same beats per minute, and Kelly’s fancy footwork synchronizes perfectly. To demonstrate, Cuppycup paired the clip with a song that’s about as far as you can get from postwar showtunes: Darude’s “Sandstorm”
May I have your attention? Sandstorm and Singin’ in the Rain have the same Bpm. ???-️ pic.twitter.com/ZyAcij7OfF
– cuppycup (@cuppycup) October 16, 2018
And Cuppycup didn’t stop there, showing the clip with several other songs that are a Bpm match, most notably another toe-tapper about precipitation: “It’s Raining Men.”
Singin’ in the...
One adept poster on Twitter named Cuppycup noted that the famous song can be swapped out with any track that has the same beats per minute, and Kelly’s fancy footwork synchronizes perfectly. To demonstrate, Cuppycup paired the clip with a song that’s about as far as you can get from postwar showtunes: Darude’s “Sandstorm”
May I have your attention? Sandstorm and Singin’ in the Rain have the same Bpm. ???-️ pic.twitter.com/ZyAcij7OfF
– cuppycup (@cuppycup) October 16, 2018
And Cuppycup didn’t stop there, showing the clip with several other songs that are a Bpm match, most notably another toe-tapper about precipitation: “It’s Raining Men.”
Singin’ in the...
- 10/21/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
This mini-documentary allows Darude to explain just how Sandstorm came to be. To start with he was simply a club patron at first, listening to the music and trying to find something he liked, some sound that might define what he wanted to do. He had no set plan in mind, there was no ‘ah-a’ moment that got him going on the track known as Sandstorm. It was a process that took a while that took a lot of work and a great deal of effort to come together. The melody came together first is what it sounds like. From
Darude Reveals The Origins Of “Sandstorm” In Interesting Mini-Documentary...
Darude Reveals The Origins Of “Sandstorm” In Interesting Mini-Documentary...
- 1/11/2018
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
Even if you don't know the name, you'll be pretty hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't know the song "Sandstorm," by Darude. The song is played ironically and unironically in clubs, video game compilations, and around 90% of sporting events, but how did it come to be? Vice contacted Darude and he explains his origins, which in turn explains how the song came to be. Check it out below, and let us know how "Sandstorm," has affected your life. ...
- 12/31/2017
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
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