Games Addict
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 »
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 »
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 »
CD Reviews
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 »
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 »
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 »
DVD Reviews
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 »
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 »
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 »
Book Reviews
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 »
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 »
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 »