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Invictus (Cinema Review)
 Nelson Mandela had a rare gift which enabled him to be the greatest politician of the modern era: a willingness to listen to and understand the fears of his oppressors. He learned...
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No Holds Bard (DVD Review)
 As a Scot living in England, I am only too aware of the taunts to which I leave myself open. Ironically, they come from north of the Border and not from the English side! In viewing...
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Sin Nombre (DVD Review)
 Predictable yet OK movie that merges two different stories of survival.
One part of the narrative deals with the familiar story of rival gang life. El Casper/Willy (Edgar Flores) is a gang...
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In the Electric Mist (DVD Review)
 Run of the mill drama mystery starring Tommy Lee Jones.
The action is set in the Deep South where Dave Robicheaux is a recovering alcoholic cop who also runs a small fishing bait shop...
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Broken Embraces (DVD Review)
 Pedro Almodóvar's latest film Broken Embraces may impress movie geeks but overall it’s a bit of a yawn.
The film opens with a middle aged blind man, who is slightly balding, end up...
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Precious: based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Cinema Review)
 Every so often American independent cinema produces a small gem of a movie which would not have had a chance of being taken on by the Hollywood...
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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 |
Hed Kandi - Nu Disco The Future Sound of Disco (Album Review)
 With 27 tracks on the latest offering from Hed Kandi you’d expect a few party pleasers and the album does deliver a nice bag of funky tunes with inevitably...
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Freestylers - Past, Present & Future EP (Album Review)
 Not much to shout about in the release of this distinctly below par EP.
The first track ‘Cracks’ has the ironic lyrics ‘about the cracks beginning to show’ and there...
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Genesis Klassik - Ray Wilson Live in Berlin (Album Review)
 A lot of water has passed beneath the bridge since Ray Wilson joined and then departed rock legend, Genesis, during which one low-key tour and solitary...
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Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion (Album Review)
 Jona Lewie, The Sound Of Music, party hats, drunk relations telling dirty jokes, yes, as the playfully sceptical That'll Be Christmas puts it, complete with...
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NOW That’s What I Call The 90’s (Album Review)
 The 1990’s brought with it a great deal of optimism. Nelson Mandela was set free after thirty years in jail, the Wall came down in Germany, there was...
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Detroit Grand Pubahs – ButtFUnkula and The Remixes From Earth (Album Review)
 Not much to recommend from this album apart from a couple of good tunes.
The album sees a host of producers put their spin on DGP tracks.After a promising...
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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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