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SWAGG COLUMNIST MOVIE NEXT-MOMENT-PERSON REVIEW hen I was in high easy. Just little did I know! My darling school I didn’t think mom would constantly always ask me what progress Wthat far out into the I have made with getting a job and I wasn’t bothered future. I was (and still sorta- the least bit. All because I never really thought about CRIMSON kinda) an in-the-moment the downside of being unemployed. I was always typa person. So when the about the chill! I mean… YOLO! I never thought about PEAK THE KING MINX zeyis would ask me what I what I would do next besides do the usual stuff that wanted to study at campus, youngins like to do. I recall back in high school when @thekingminx I just shrugged them off. the zeyis would be like, “fi rst fi nish studying and you To be honest it was irritat- will then have all the time in the world to party!” I’d ing. Why were they all up on thought, now is that time for me. Time to parre! Call me? Couldn’t they chill me and allow me chill in my up my buddies and yell out like “yo where the party Rating: R zone, party whenever without giving me the ‘priori- at?!” Silly I didn’t even think about where the dimes I Genre: Horror, Drama, Fantasy ties lecture’? Maaahn, little did I know. I fi nished high was hoping to splash would come from. Director: Guillermo del Toro School and it was onto the next platter, freaking uni! Luckily, I got a slot and got a job at an NGO I really Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston (With a chip from a relative, which I am not proud to enjoy working with. I felt like I had dodged the bullet Tagline: Beware of Crimson Peak say because I should have done this myself) I man- of poverty! Now it’s time to parreee (*makes evil Runtime: 119 min aged to get into a uni where I did a course I wasn’t laugh*)!! Wait! Pause! Did I really dodge brokeness? Review by: AHMAD MUTO too interested in, because I didn’t concentrate on the One day I was doing my usual stalking on Instagram majors I needed in high school to be able to qualify for and I found these youngins living the lavish lifestyle EVIEW: This fl ick rolls on a tight plot! So tight that the course I wanted… BUMMER! But towards the end (and trust me it wasn’t trust-fund or daddy/mommy’s you will be forced to dread the breeze around you for of my course I really started to appreciate it more and money). It really was all from their own pocket, from Ra love story trapped in cruelty and violence. more, because it put me in a state of mind where I was their hard work. All coz they dug what they wanted to It’s one of those boy-meets-girl stories that we all love. aware that for something to go somewhere, things do from day one and they got up and they done did Edith (Mia Wasikowska), an upcoming author with an eye have to be done. it. These youngins concentrated on what they needed for ghost stories bumps into Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom to do. So listen to me and believe me when I tell you, Hiddleston) who’s been going round searching for inves- Well, I hit grad and gam uni quite young with a degree those things that seem important now like partying tors with Edith’s dad being one of his targets too; that is but I was still slacking like crazy! All because I had it and all really will always be there. They ain’t goin’ Mr. Cushing (Jim Beaver). Sadly tho, Mr. Cushing jams Sir nowhere and you will enjoy’em a thousand times more Thomas’ proposal. when ya’ll have made something of your unemployed Meanwhile, the ghost of Edith’s late mother gets to her bottoms. There is no better feeling than spending (Edith) with a warning, “beware of crimson peak”. As Sir your own hard-earned dime from doing something Thomas is getting his head around convincing Mr. Cushing you really dig. Think about tomorrow even again, love strikes and Thomas gets romantic with Edith, though it’s never really assured. but the relationship is disapproved. When Mr Cushing hires a detective, horrible secrets of the Sharpe’s family are uncovered forcing Sir Thomas to end his relation- ship with Edith. Shortly Mr. Cushing is murdered. To Sir Thomas and Edith’s relief, they get married and move to England. Edith gets around the mansion and learns that Mr Thomas previously married three wealthy women, but were poisoned for their inheritance and she too is a SWAG MASH UP target. Navio, G2 and Producer Jaaz Odongo n the new season of Coke Studio Africa, versus practising your craft is the secret. one of Uganda’s most celebrated artistes I’ve been writing since I was 10 years old, I – Navio – returns on the show a second open my eyes and stay observant. I also try Itime. He is paired with Mozambican R&B to change the fl ow, experiment and think singer G2. The two are collaborating in the on my feet, the same way as an upcoming show’s new mash up format and are being mcee would.” produced by Kenyan producer Jaaz Odongo in the songs: Swag by G2 and Navio’s Kigozi. As for G2, he concludes: “Thank you to my Mozambican people for being with me. For While speaking at the show’s Behind the those outside Mozambique, listen to my Music studios, Navio talked about his pairing music and don’t mind the Portuguese.” with G2: “I feel great to work with the King of In season III of Coke Studio Africa, Navio Mozambican R&B; guys don’t leave your girl joins more than 20 music stars from around him. To be paired with an artiste who Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Mo- knows what they are doing is great – expect zambique - all whom have made a mark in our mash up to be a game changer.” their local music scene. They include Jose Kenyan Producer Jaaz Odongo is one of Chameleone, Juliana Kanyomozi, Elani, the nine enlisted producers working on epic Neyma, Alikiba, Vanessa Mdee, Yemi music mash ups this season. He seems quite Alade, 2Face Idibia, Ice Prince and Eva ecstatic about the task of creating one sound Alordiah. It’s the most exciting season off from Mozambican and Ugandan tunes. of Coke Studio Africa yet as musicians He says: “I grew up listening to a lot for rock have been paired with visionary music music. When I was about 15, I heard Linkin producers and South African Grammy Park and Jay Z do as album together and Award-nominated music expert Zwai it was mind blowing – a test form of how Bala, the show’s music director. The things happen. The mash up works very well team will steer phenomenal music for Coke Studio Africa. Never in my life did production. I think that I’d be working with G2 someone Written By Ms. Anyiko Owoko. (From left) Navio, producer Jaaz Odongo and G2 from Mozambique.” Coke Studio airs in Uganda While on the show’s recording, Navio spoke exclusively on Urban TV at 7pm about his need to remain relevant: “Talent on Friday. 28 Saturday Vision, November 7, 2015.
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