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Spore
Spore
11:56 - 28 August 2008

Price: £39.99 Format: PC (also on Mac) Age rating: 12+ WITH such legendary games as Sim City and the Sims under his belt, it s not surprising that Will Wright s next project has been subject to the sort of examination usually reserved for the love live... Full Story »

News: Celebrity barrel scraping

11:55 - 28 August 2008

IF you ve ever wondered who would win a jet racing contest between Avril Lavigne, Nelly Furtado and Fergie from The Black-Eyed Peas, your wait is almost over. A new celebrity packed sports game promises to answer that particular conundrum plus many others... Read More »

Mercenaries 2: World In Flames

11:50 - 28 August 2008

Price: £49.99 Format: Xbox 360 (also on PS3, PS2 and PC) Age rating: 16+ WHEN a drugs baron overthrows the Venezuelan government, a bloody free-for-all kicks off, with competing factions vying for control of the country s oil supplies. As a tough-as-nuts... Read More »

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Lessons to be Learned
Lessons to be Learned - Gabriella Cilmi
14:10 - 28 August 2008

FANS of Sarah Bareilles, Duffy and Amy Winehouse will love the light, refreshing voice of Gabriella Cilmi. At just 16 years of age, she has been propelled to fame with her chart-topping single, Sweet About Me. This song is not only catchy but also grown... Full Story »

Go Audio
Go Audio: Made Up Stories

10:00 - 28 August 2008

Just like politicians, Go:Audio s sound strives for the safe middle ground of the chart music landscape for the widest audience possible. While these guys are armed with guitars and hair gel instead of empty promises and fake smiles, their cynical cores... Read More »

The Week That Was: The Week That Was

09:57 - 28 August 2008

TWTW is the result of a week of self-enforced exile for Sunderland s Peter Brewis, with no access to TV, radio or newspapers. An imagined crime thriller about a kidnapping, this 32-minute collection offers songs as snapshots of the tale, variously from th... Read More »

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Over Her Dead Body
Over Her Dead Body - Cert 12
14:12 - 28 August 2008

IN this supernatural romantic comedy, a beautiful psychic finds herself being haunted by the ghost of her new boyfriend. Kate (Eva Longoria Parker / Desperate Housewives) dies on the day of her wedding to fiancé Henry (Paul Rudd / The Ten) after being cra... Full Story »

Nim
NIM’S ISLAND (U)

09:55 - 28 August 2008

AN agoraphobic, OCD suffering, best-selling action-adventure author must follow her own imaginary rough and ready hero to save her biggest fan, Nim, a girl stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific after her marine biologist father is lost at sea.... Read More »

P2
P2 (18)

09:54 - 28 August 2008

A DERANGED security man obsessed with a late-working exec locks her in the office car park on Christmas Eve for a spot of enforced dinner. This film s tag line is The only thing more terrifying than being alone…is realising that you re not . Well no, th... Read More »

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Picking Up The Brass
Picking up the Brass by Eddy Nugent
14:07 - 28 August 2008

IT is 1985 and 16-year-old Eddy Nugent is living in Manchester and bored out of his mind. On a whim he decides to join the British Army. Overnight he leaves the relative sanity of Civvie Street and falls headlong into the lunatic parallel world that is b... Full Story »

THiRTY-THREE TEETH by Colin Cotterill

09:51 - 28 August 2008

IF you re used to the modern, high science world of Patricia Cornwell, Dr Siri Paiboun may come as a shock. Unlike the heroine of Cornwell s forensic whodunits, Siri is elderly, ill-equipped and hampered by living under the Communist regime of Laos in the... Read More »

Clarissa Dickson Wright
Book Review of Clarissa's Comfort Food

12:31 - 26 August 2008

Clarissa s Comfort Food – Clarissa Dickson Wright CLARISSA Dickson Wright of Two Fat Ladies television fame returns with a cookbook entitled Clarissa s Comfort Food. The book contains one hundred comforting recipes, which are designed to restore body an... Read More »

 

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