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05:08 > Friday 9th January 2009

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AC/DC Live: Rock Band
09:36 - 08 January 2009

Publisher: Electronic Arts Price: £29.99 Format: Xbox 360 (also on PS3, PS2, Wii) Age rating: 12+ RELEASED towards the end of last year, Rock Band 2 was a big disappointment for fans of the supergroup simulator. While enhancements included better instru... Full Story »

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News: Ultimate fighting game

09:30 - 08 January 2009

AFTER five years in the videogame wilderness, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship game since Sudden Impact is limbering up to enter the sport s famous octagonal ring. Based on the mixed martial arts tournament popular on pay-to-view channels, UFC 200... Read More »

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Bucking the system

10:19 - 08 January 2009

The Last Remnant Format: Xbox 360 Price: £44.99 FROM Final Fantasy producers Square Enix comes The Last Remnant with the tough-to-live-up-to promise of a new and innovative gaming system. Described by the games director as a, turn-based, command-based sy... Read More »

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The Kinks Picture Book Sanctuary
11:43 - 08 January 2009

WHILE pretty much every other major 60s and 70s act has had their repertoire considerately repackaged into various box sets, Picture Book is the first to encompass The Kinks output across their entire career and three record labels. With six CDs and a de... Full Story »

Fall Out Boy Folie A Deux Mercury Records

11:42 - 08 January 2009

THIS American quartet s fourth full-length is the follow up to the depressingly factory-finished emo of 2007 s Infinity On High, a hit despite – or probably because – it sounded a helluva lot like everything else. Now they return to the charts on the back... Read More »

Now 1
Now That’s What I Call Music Volume 1 (Re-Release Special Collectors Edition)

09:33 - 07 January 2009

THIS special re-release of the first edition of the popular franchise includes two CDs full of classic 80s hits. The compilation of 20 songs was originally released in 1983, and includes tracks such as Let s Stay Together by Tina Turner, Please Don t Mak... Read More »

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MAN ON WIRE (12)
11:53 - 08 January 2009

ECCENTRIC, enthusiastic French performance artist Philippe Petit s story of his successful attempt to evade security at the World Trade Centre and walk a tightrope between the twin towers in 1974. This is a gripping and often quirky documentary of one ma... Full Story »

EDEN LAKE (18)

11:52 - 08 January 2009

PLAYING on the media s hype about gangs of feral youths, two 30-somethings on a surprise engagement trip to a remote lake are terrorised by a group of nasty little hoodies. What begins as an innocuous confrontation escalates into terror as the gang membe... Read More »

somers town
Somers Town – Cert 12

09:32 - 07 January 2009

ACCLAIMED British filmmaker Shane Meadows steps outside his familiar Midlands surroundings for his first film set in London. Somers Town is a rites of passage drama that elaborates on the themes of the director s earlier A Room for Romeo Brass and This Is... Read More »

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PARKY: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Michael Parkinson
11:40 - 08 January 2009

DURING a long and distinguished career the king of the chat show has delved into the lives of everyone who is anyone. Now the master interviewer turns the spotlight on himself, from his childhood in a Yorkshire pit village, where he dreamt of being Humphr... Full Story »

reluctant
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid

09:31 - 07 January 2009

THE Reluctant Fundamentalist is the second novel by acclaimed author Moshin Hamid. The book s main character is Changez whose story, narrated to an American tourist visiting Pakistan, forms the plot. We follow Changez as he leaves Pakistan to attend Prin... Read More »

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Young Samurai – The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford

11:02 - 31 December 2008

IT is august 1611 and young Jack Fletcher has been shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. His whole family has been slaughtered by ninja pirates and his only hope lies in his rescue by the legendary swordmaster Masamoto. His training as a samurai warrior is... Read More »

 

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