Games Addict
12:11 - 14 August 2008
Price: £34.99 Format: PC Age rating: 12+ OPENING with the destruction of the Earth by an armada of alien spaceships, Space Siege certainly knows how to put on a great show. Set in the late 22nd century and taking place entirely on Armstrong – the only e... Full Story »
12:10 - 14 August 2008
MESMERISING Japanese arcade players for the past year, Battle Fantasia is a street fighting arcade game that s about as eccentric as they come. Featuring a roster of characters that could be moonlighting from a Brothers Grimm fairytale – as interpreted by... Read More »
12:11 - 14 August 2008
Price: £19.99 Format: Nintendo DS Age rating: 3+ ROLL up for all the fun of the fair in the palm of your hand. Twenty-three mini-games of varying quality have been squeezed into this virtual funfair, including Nerves of Steel (a metal hoop has to be guid... Read More »
CD Reviews
11:22 - 14 August 2008
Not some feverish preachers from America s deep south, Noah And The Whale is rather led along its pleasant path by Englishman Charlie Fink. Lead single 5 Years Time has been flitting around popular airwaves for weeks; a simple, bouncy and unashamedly sunn... Full Story »
11:20 - 14 August 2008
Any band melding guitar, synths and pop melodies, taking inspiration from just about every one of the last 35 years, is brave indeed. But this debut arguably pulls it off better than any recent pretenders to the dance/rock throne. Not so much genre-hoppin... Read More »
10:28 - 13 August 2008
LAUDED by many as the band of the summer, Noah and the Whale is an upbeat five-peace indie rock band from North London. After scoring support slots with the likes of Feist, Broken Social Scene, The Zutons and Laura Marling, the band have now released the... Read More »
DVD Reviews
11:14 - 14 August 2008
THIS horror movie tells the story of a young television reporter and her cameraman who are recording a late night news programme with the Barcelona fire department when things go wrong and they are trapped inside the building with something e... Full Story »
11:12 - 14 August 2008
TWO Irish hitmen have been told to lie low in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges after a murder goes wrong. While one of the gangsters takes in the sights of Bruges, the other strikes up a romance with a local drug dealer and thief. Expect a violent conc... Read More »
10:24 - 13 August 2008
FROM Garth Jennings, the director of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy comes Son Of Rambow a comedy about friendship, faith and growing up.
The film centres on a young boy called Will, (Bill Milner) who is not allowed to watch TV. That is until, one da... Read More »
Book Reviews
11:10 - 14 August 2008
WHATEVER else you may think of Russell Brand, his quick-wittedness and excellent command of the English language cannot be denied and are highly evident in this No.1 bestseller. Brand s autobiography, unlike many celebrity biogs, has been written by the l... Full Story »
10:30 - 13 August 2008
WHEN 17-year-old Bella Swan moves to Washington to live with her father she has no idea how much her life is going to change. In spite of her awkward manner and low expectations Bella is soon accepted by everyone in her new school, except the mysterious... Read More »
13:19 - 18 July 2008
A SOLITARY man, who chooses to live life alone and gets much enjoyment from his environment, has his world turned upside down when he finds a child washed up on a beach, still alive. Set in Cornwall, Swift s first novel paints powerful images of the Corni... Read More »