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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
13:23 - 24 June 2008

Price: £34.99 Format: Nintendo Wii Age rating: 12+ AS with previous games in the series, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a hugely entertaining beat- em-up that lets you duke it out with an impressive roster of Nintendo videogame characters – although you ll p... Full Story »

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News: New GTA IV content delayed

13:21 - 24 June 2008

WITH Grand Theft Auto IV still riding high in the charts, the game s developer has announced that new downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of the game has been delayed. While no release date was ever confirmed, it had been widely expected that th... Read More »

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10:05 - 26 June 2008

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Format: Xbox 360 Price: £44.99 Set as a prequel to the legendary PC title Quake II, Enemy Territory sees the series move genres into class-based shooting. The good news is that it plays a lot like Battlefield 2 with large maps... Read More »

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CD Review
09:42 - 03 July 2008

Dirty Pretty Things Romance At Short Notice Vertigo Records THE second release from ex-Libertine Carl Barât and his cronies is remarkable only in its unremarkable-ness. The rose-tinted romanticism and spring-heeled exuberance of lead single Tired Of Engl... Full Story »

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The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets

13:17 - 02 July 2008

A collaboration between the frontman of the Arctic Monkeys and the lead singer of The Rascals was always going to create a stir. But this album is much more subtle than you would imagine. It creates all the drama and excitement you would expect from the... Read More »

Weezer: Weezer

14:35 - 26 June 2008

ALREADY being referred to as The Red Album , Weezer s sixth studio effort is also, confusingly, their third self-titled one. Best known for the stupidly catchy Hash Pipe on 2001 s self-titled Green Album - arguably the epitome of US college rock tune... Read More »

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Pair have it taped
09:38 - 03 July 2008

BE KIND REWIND (12A) YOU know when you wiped that video of RoboCop with Strictly Come Dancing? That was annoying, hey? Well this video shop worker (Jack Black) has wiped the whole shop s collection after becoming magnetised in a vigilante attack on a pow... Full Story »

Pushing Daises
Pushing Daisies - The complete first season Cert 12

13:10 - 02 July 2008

PUSHING Daisies is a lovable and entertaining show that follows a young man called Ned (Lee Pace) who discovers he can bring the dead back to life. When his gift is discovered by a private detective he agrees to use his ability to solve murders. However... Read More »

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (15)

14:32 - 26 June 2008

AFTER an Iraqi veteran goes AWOL on a break from the conflict, his retired military police father (Tommy Lee Jones) goes looking for him and soon finds himself struggling to make sense of a military cover up, murder and suicide. Jones is superb as the we... Read More »

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Insight into society sisters
09:30 - 03 July 2008

THE MITFORDS by Charlotte Mosley THERE can be few sisters to match the Mitfords. The six girls, born between 1904 and 1920, had everything to keep the gossips mesmerised. They were aristocrats, the daughters of the eccentric 2nd Baron Redesdale and his w... Full Story »

Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

12:49 - 02 July 2008

THE setting for this book is Nigeria in the 1960 s at the time of a military coup. It is told from the point of view of Kambili, a 15-year-old girl. She lives with her parents and 17-year-old brother Jaja. Her father is a wealthy pillar of the community,... Read More »

Lois' African adventure

09:47 - 26 June 2008

RED TAPE AND WHITE KNUCKLES by Lois Pryce TO most 30-something women, tottering across the street in excrutiating high heels to get a skinny latte and the latest copy of heat is an all-terrain task in itself. But Lois Pryce isn t any woman. In her 20s,... Read More »

 

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