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Margin Call (Cinema Review)
 The typical association with the margin or marginality is invisibility. Though the ‘margin’ referred to in this film possesses quite a different meaning, invisibility is its most prominent...
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Mother And Child (Cinema Review)
 Mother and Child explores the unbreakable bond against all odds, between mothers and their children.Rodrigo Garcia – son of the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez – whose earlier...
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War Horse (Cinema Review)
 Expecting a tale of melancholy and heartache, with Spielberg’s name on the tin and promises of a tear-jerker (even the woman next to me apologised in advance for fear of blubbing)...
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Cinema Review)
 “The Russians are classifying this as an undeclared act of war… The blame points to you and your team… The President has initiated ‘Ghost Protocol’...
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows (Cinema Review)
 Author Arthur Conan Doyle’s seminal character has gone through a ridiculous number of face-lifts over the years. (My favourite interpretation is...
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We Were Here (Cinema Review)
 An extraordinarily moving documentary, “We Were Here” examines how the AIDS epidemic devastated, united and transformed the gay community of San Francisco during..
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| MUSIC |
The Red Inspectors - Are We The Red Inspectors? Are We? (Album Review)
 Digital Underground now make just a little more sense. There was never any doubt that they brought the funk, and an interesting and innovative...
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Crippled Black Phoenix – (Mankind) The Crafty Ape (Album Review)
 Not since ‘Tarkus’ by rock legend ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) have I felt so enthused about a ‘concept’ album, even though I am 100% certain that...
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Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland - Whitehorse (Album Review)
 The recipe for success, especially in debut album terms, is usually marked by years of hard grind apprenticeship of musicians new to the industry...
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Johnny Boy James - Mistakes ‘an All (Album Review)
 The sound of the blues is fairly thin pickings, these days, and there is a need for some novelty to enter the scene. Blues fans fearing a dearth of...
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Hate Gallery - Viva La Resistance (Album Review)
 Oh, the troublesome second album…a common cry among reviewers contemplating the second efforts of many artists. Yet, Anglo-Scandinavian...
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A Loss For Words - No Sanctuary (Album Review)
 ‘No Sanctuary’, the second album by ‘A Loss for Words’ a band from Boston, Massachusetts also known as ALFW, is an electric mix of old fashioned punk...
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| DVD |
Crazy Stupid Love (DVD Review)
 In recent years it been increasingly harder to find a romantic comedy that doesn’t involve a flood of foul mouthed language, crude sexual humour and gross behaviour...
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Drive (DVD Review)
 Drive is a brilliant oddity: a combustible set of parts that somehow combine for one of the sleekest cinematic models you’ll ever experience. It’s a fairytale plot of a silent prince...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (DVD Review)
 Following his debut feature, vampire film Let the Right One In, Swedish director Tomas Alfredson interprets the classic British spy tale Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Famous as...
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Two-Lane Blacktop (Blu-ray Review)
 Monte Hellman's open-road classic Two-Lane Blacktop comes to Blu-ray this month and after thirty years of repeat TV-screenings its not surprising the melancholy-laden epic...
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The Whistleblower (DVD Review)
 The Whistleblower is a hard-hitting and often sickening expose thriller set in post-war Bosnia. Lead by the superb Rachel Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac the audience follow..
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Just Henry (DVD Review)
 With the winter nights still long and cold, comfort viewing is the order of the evening. Meeting this need like a nice but slightly watery shop-bought Lancashire hot pot is feature-length...
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| GAMES |
Saints Row the Third (PS3 Review)
 In what has been possibly the most lucrative and critically successful month for videogames since, well, ever, it’s likely that Volition’s latest exercise in open-world obscenity will...
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Rayman Origins (PS3 Review)
 Rayman Origins marks the return of one of the most recognisable platform game heroes. This game takes platforming back to its early roots: a 2D side scroller with simple controls, colourful...
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Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PS3 Review)
 As the title suggests, this game follows the pattern of Lego games by parodying a popular franchise story by story. In this case, the last few books/films of Harry Potter get the Lego...
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Disney Universe (PS3 Review)
 The trailers to this game seem to show it as some sort of cross between LittleBigPlanet and the Lego game franchise, mixed with Disney based characters and wacky action. That’s a pretty...
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Batman: Arkham City (PS3 Review)
 A long awaited sequel to the acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum, finds Batman thrown into a prison five times bigger than before. The game starts out as a mirror to the original...
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Gears of War 3 (Xbox Review)
 War is hell. Especially when you’ve spent the last decade warring against massive galactic shrubbery and that just refuses to go away. This is the third game in the multi million...
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