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The Secret In Their Eyes (Cinema Review)
 It’s not often that this can be said... we have been spoilt. Police fiction on television has been of the highest calibre imaginable. The Wire, Dexter and The Shield are Greek tragedy...
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Chloe (DVD Review)
 Atom Egoyan’s remake of French thriller Nathalie stars Julianne Moore as a suspicious wife who goes to extreme lengths to test her husband’s (Liam Neeson) fidelity...
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Invictus (DVD Review)
 Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Prison after nearly 26 years sets the scene for this biopic directed by Clint Eastwood. Based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy...
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The Office: An American Workplace (DVD Review)
 Critics were poised and ready to condemn those cheeky Americans for poaching the very British BBC hit The Office. To everyone’s surprise, this US...
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The Killer Inside Me (Cinema Review)
 Below average yarn directed by Michael Winterbottom. Much has been made about the violence portrayed in Michael Winterbottom’s latest offering but ultimately it’s just not a great...
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True Blood Season 2 (DVD Review)
 Disappointing HBO series. HBO have set the bar pretty high with the likes of The Sopranos and The Wire in recent years and all though much hyped the True Blood series fails to impress...
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| GAMES |
SNK Arcade Classics (PSP)
 Welcome to 1991. A world where the only interactive computer games, other than n Commodore Amiga, was among the bleeps and cackles of a smoke filled arcade. Since...
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Disney Fairies (DS)
 My daughter is five, and she absolutely loved this game. For our Nintendo she only has a few games and they are unisex as she shares them with her younger brother...
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Top Trumps – Doctor Who (Wii, DS, PS2)
 Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction TV series in the world but its conversion to a computer game format has been chequered to say the least. There were a number of...
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Monster Lab (Wii, DS, PS2)
 On paper Monster Lab is a thrilling prospect. As part of a Mad Science Alliance, you are charged with building a mighty beast, that is part mechanical, part biological, part...
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Spiderman: Web Of Shadows (Xbox, Wii, PS3)
 For this, the latest take on the massive multi-million dollar Spiderman film franchise, Activision have gone off the script. Spiderman: Web Of Shadows sets itself...
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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (Wii)
 No sooner than the Wii remote was unpacked and Wii Tennis was played 100s (if not more) of Star Wars fans imagined what a light saber game would be...
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| MUSIC |
New Thomas White Video
 White’s interpretation of Warren Zevon’s tale of heartbreak, Accidentally Like a Matryr, leads a 5 track digital EP that features White’s take on artists as diverse as Louis Armstrong and...
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Whip It Soundtrack (Album Review)
 Director Drew Barrymore’s likeable and well received Whip It has a great soundtrack and so the soundtrack album was always going to be a sure success with those that...
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Martin Landsky – Werkschau (Album Review)
 German producer and DJ Landsky mixes up the techno beats to good effect. ‘2000 Miles’ is the opener a nice reworking of Landsky’s best known track 100 miles, the trance synth...
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Angus & Julia Stone – Down the Way (Album Review)
 Perfect for a lazy or rainy day the second album from siblings Angus and Julia Stone is a collection of elegant, simple yet softly reassuring songs...
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It Might Get Loud (Music Documentary Review)
 To start a film with a young chap nailing a Coca-Cola bottle, a single metal string and electric pickup to a two-feet long plank of wood, which he plays subsequently in...
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Thomas White - The Maximalist (Album Review)
 Thomas White first came to prominence as a teenager when he and his brother Alex as Electric Soft Paradise were nominated for the 2002 Mercury...
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| BOOKS |
Best Of Battle (vol 1)
 Before the days of 2000AD’s future wars, the British comics revolution exploded with Battle, which offered a refreshingly different, more adult take on traditional stiff-upper lip...
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Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought and Good Manners
 Success for Margaret Rutherford came at a late stage when she was entering middle aged but she became a national treasure. Merriman’s biography is...
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Static Shock: Re-birth of the Cool
 Originally conceived as a one of Milestone imprint titles for DC Comics, Static inhabits a comics universe where all the main heroes are black, reflecting the audience which...
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Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits
 It is eminently easy to describe something that is revolutionary, in some ways quite disgusting and, by a quirk, ahead of its time, as ‘misunderstood’, yet Zo Street Howe, freelance...
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The Best Of Judge Dredd
 It's difficult to believe that thirty years ago there was a single judge patrolling our crime-riddled streets. But then in 1977, 2000AD was launched onto an unsuspecting world...
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Movie Icons: Woody Allen
 ‘Behind the familiar comic persona of the bumbling neurotic is a serious cinematic artist who meticulously controls nearly every aspect of his films,’ writes film critic Professor...
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