Games Addict
10:27 - 05 September 2008
Price: £39.99 Format: Xbox 360 (also on PS3, PS2 and Nintendo Wii) Age rating: 15+ WRESTLING isn t just a sport, it s sports entertainment , which is just a cunning way of saying it s not really a sport at all. It s a circus act that dresses 800lb gori... Full Story »
10:26 - 05 September 2008
Need For Speed: Prostreet - PS3 GET yourself a Coke Zero Volkswagen Golf GTI by entering ZEROZEROZERO as a code in the Cheats menu. Hellboy: The Science of Evil - PSP BOOST Hellboy s powers with extra rage by pressing Left, Down, Right, and then Squa... Read More »
10:07 - 05 September 2008
Price: £39.99 Format: Xbox 360 Age rating: 3+ AS a gardener on Piñata Island it s up to you to attract cute piñata animals to your beautiful papier mâché enclosure so they can be filled with sweets and fired off (by cannon) to parties around the world. U... Read More »
CD Reviews
09:52 - 04 September 2008
UNBUNNY S architect Jarid del Deo and friends have been around for 15 years, largely hovering under the musical radar. But this fifth collection of sharply composed songs is just great. With vocals echoing Neil Young and simple arrangements, Snow Tires bo... Full Story »
09:51 - 04 September 2008
THE weight of fans post-Urban Hymns expectation has arguably morphed into one of hope more than anything; that Ashcroft s shamanics and McCabe s space-dust-fuelled guitars can still dilate the pupils. But lead single Love Is Noise misleads, arriving lace... Read More »
09:41 - 04 September 2008
FANS of The Killers and Bloc Party will love this self-titled album by New York indie rockers, Jupiter One. Although well known in the Big Apple, this band is yet to have broken in to the UK charts. K Ishibashi and Zac Colwell founded the group in 2003... Read More »
DVD Reviews
09:48 - 04 September 2008
Scotland has been walled off to the outside world for 25 years following the outbreak of a deadly virus. The rest of the UK is internationally isolated, but when containment fails and the virus threatens London, a crack squad goes north in the hope of fi... Full Story »
09:47 - 04 September 2008
A beach bum treasure hunter unearths a map which pinpoints a famous shipwreck full of booty on the day his divorce from his highly strung boffin wife comes through. Can the pursuit of money help them overcome their vast differences and save their marria... Read More »
09:43 - 04 September 2008
THIS is one of those cartoon films where the story is so compelling that you forget that you are watching animation. Set in Iran and starting while the Shah was on the throne, this is the autobiographical story, in drawings of Marjane Satrapi who was nine... Read More »
Book Reviews
09:43 - 04 September 2008
THE mellow creamy pages, soft photographs and misty romanticised prose of this guide to the wild in our midst gives it a certain mildewy feel, as if one had stumbled across it in an old garden shed. But it perfectly suits the theme, as we follow Somervi... Full Story »
09:40 - 04 September 2008
IN spring 2002, award-winning journalist Asne Sierstad spent four months living with a family in Afghanistan. She was appalled at how the women were treated, unable to go out alone, unable to go out without being covered up, but she tells the story deftly... 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 »