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The Raid (Cinema Review)
 If I father a son in the near future, I’m going to call him The Raid. Yeah, I love this film. For action junkies, you’re likely to overdose. Fist fights, gun fights, knife fights. All jammed into a...
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Kosmos (Cinema Review)
 The cosmos for me has always had positive connotations as it has featured so much as either a subject matter or reference point in what is termed ‘spiritual jazz’ music. Alice Coltrane...
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Cafe de Flore (Cinema Review)
 As film director Jean-Luc Godard famously said: “A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end but not necessarily in that order.” Montreal filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee, perfectly...
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2 Days In New York (Cinema Review)
 2 Days in New York is probably most people’s idea of two days in hell. When Marion, played by the naturally funny Julie Delpy, and partner Mingus, played by the equally funny Chris Rock...
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Piggy (Cinema Review)
 Making the leap from Editor to Director with Piggy, filmmaker Kieron Hawkes assembles a prime cast, comprised of Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen), Paul Anderson (The Firm)...
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Wrath of the Titans (Cinema Review)
 Remember 2010’s remake of the classic Eighties fantasy film, Clash of the Titans? Well now those Titans have finished clashing and have got themselves in a real tizz...
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| MUSIC |
Experimental Pop Band - Vertigo (Album Review)
 It’s been nearly five years since their last album, and now the Bristol five-piece that is Experimental Pop Band has released Vertigo, a...
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TJ Kong & Modular K- Dream Cargoes (Album Review)
 It would seem we have come to a watershed moment in music if not in society in general, where the digital should no longer be viewed as a harbinger of...
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Kasper Bjorke - Fool (Album Review)
 Chicago is the home of House music - the birthplace of electronic music such as this. Whilst Henrick Schwartz’s ‘Chicago’ channelled Roy Ayers, Kasper Bjorke quirkily and...
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Katzenjammer - A Kiss Before You Go (Album Review)
 The word ‘eclectic’ possesses a polysemic quality. It conveys a particular idea in two distinct but related ways. It can suggest an innovative and challenging...
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Peter Gabriel - Live Blood (Album Review)
 As good as some newcomers to the music scene are, the key reason for major influencers and original artistes proliferating, many for some years after their nominal retirement ages...
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Missing Andy – Generation Silenced (Album Review)
 Runners up in Sky1’s Must Be The Music competition in 2010, Missing Andy are an Essex five-piece full of energy, mod influence and meaningful...
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Neverland (DVD Review)
 Created by J.M. Barrie in 1902 and first catching the public imagination two years later in a stage play and subsequently the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan has become...
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Il Boom (DVD Review)
 This lesser-known entry in the canon of Oscar-winning Italian director Vittorio De Sica gets a DVD release to coincide with its 50th anniversary. The title refers to the huge economic...
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The Mighty Mississippi (DVD Review)
 This is a great idea for a documentary: an integral part of the national landscape, prone to long and winding passages, and source of a thousand stories...but enough about presenter...
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Skins Series 6 (DVD Review)
 The multi BAFTA award –winning drama Skins is back for a sixth series. What drama will unfold this time around? The Skins gang are making the most of their time on holiday in Morocco...
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The Iron Lady (DVD Review)
 Making an essentially apolitical film about Britain’s most important post-war politician is a remarkably brave achievement. But, by foregrounding feminism and its Ozymandias theme that...
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This is England ’88 (DVD Review)
 Following on from the original 2006 film and This is England '86 Shane Meadows intense and darkly humorous mini-series sequel This is England 88 was possibly the best...
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| GAMES |
Back To The Future: The Game (Wii)
 Back To The Future is another of Telltale Games series of episodic adventure games, along the lines of Sam and Max Series 1-3, Strong Bads Cool Game and Tales of Monkey Island...
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Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City (Xbox)
 The power of a Resident Evil game was always the constant feeling of cold fear as you edged round a dimly lit corridor, shivering as you listened to the low groans of a zombie echoing...
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Mass Effect 3 (PS3)
 The finale to the Mass Effect series lets you know that it is back and ready to prove it’s bigger than ever. You are thrust straight into the action as Reapers invade Earth in a style...
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Catherine (Xbox 360 Review)
 One of the oddest titles to make it over from Japan, Catherine is more than a game – it’s like a Relate session, a Murakami novel and a Rubik’s Cube all rolled into one. The player...
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Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii Review)
 Another in the long list of Mario (and his new friend Sonic) themed party games, Olympics takes the practiced format and improves on it once more...
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Resident Evil Revelations (3DS Review)
 After the disappointment of Resident Evil 5, Capcom have returned to their roots with puzzles, plot and the tense atmosphere of older Resident Evil games, but with the...
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