| FILM |
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Cinema Review)
 It’s been almost eight years since the first of the Harry Potter tales was consigned to celluloid. Over those eight years, the quality of the films has...
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The Hurt Locker (Cinema Review)
 Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Point Break) directs this documentary-style account of US bomb disposal specialists in Iraq. Hotshot sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner)...
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Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Cinema Review)
 The Ice Age series can always be called upon to entertain, regardless of which demographic you’re in. This instalment, of what will surely be one...
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Bigga Than Ben (DVD Review)
 Personally, I quite enjoy black comedies, movies and plays that delve into darker subject areas but which manage to extract the humour from even the most touchy of subjects...
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Miss March (Cinema Review)
 The script for this sex comedy could almost turn Miss March into a film suitable for PG licence – because every time one of the characters is about to get down to business, it takes...
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Anything For Her (Cinema Review)
 Anything For Her (or, Pour Elle, if you prefer not to deviate from its origins) is wonderfully arty, dramatic and very, definitively, French (because, well, it is). Documenting...
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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 |
Sugar Crisis Live (Gig Review)
 Playing to a diminished crowd of what appeared to be mostly a shy group of friends and family Sugar Crisis followed two acts that featured live drums and video synched footage...
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Dave Pearce - The Dance Years 1994 (Album Review)
 Does it help if you host a popular radio show as well as spend the rest of your life deejaying all over the place? It does for Dave Pearce, who reckons...
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Ray Wilson - Propaganda Man (Album Review)
 Not so much a case of ‘remember this guy?’ but more ‘join the music revolution’, so many bands these days are relying on their own labels, or the download market...
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Florence & The Machine - Lung (Album Review)
 Never having professed to being a great fan of the female singer-songwriter, as there is a moderate number of them populating the music scene at present, you can...
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Nell Bryden - What Does It Take? (Album Review)
 Courting conventionality has been a Nell Bryden marker post since she broke the UK market as recently as 2008. While not wishing to make...
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Burn The Negative - In The Atmosphere (Album Review)
 Not since Mike Oldfield first hit the music scene with his tubular appendages have I felt so much that a recently launched electronic pop band...
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| BOOKS |
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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Tank Girl: Volumes One And Two
 Forget Minnie the Minx, she’s all sugar and spice compared to Tank Girl. With her liking for beer, big guns and kangaroos, she became the anti-hero of late 80s comics culture in Britain...
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Sage-ing While Age-ing
 There’s so much useful information in Shirley MacLaine’s new book, Sage-ing While Age-ing that I’m reading it for the second time around. “I have been a questioner all my life,”...
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Judge Dredd: The Pit
 Dredd hs been the mainstay of British comics for over thirty years and his success has been largely down to the adaptability of the main character to reflect a distorted view...
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Vol 1 - Orientation
 Schooldays can be a little strange, and I don't mean Billy Bunter or St Trinians or the Molesworth. Just think more the magical surroundings of Harry Potter or then the...
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