Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 22 Nov 2009
Based on the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber, An Education is a powerful evocation of the early 1960s in suburbia, seen through the eyes of a young woman.
Teenager Jenny (Carey Mulligan – Sally Sparrow from the excellent Doctor Who episode, Blink) dreams of a life beyond the dull, drab walls of her suburban home where dad (Alfred Molina) and mum (Cara Seymour) bang on about the importance of education and follow the same routine day in and day out. Jenny wants to be enlightened and dreams of travelling the world having adventures. When she meets the much older charmer David (Peter Sarsgaard) she believes all her dreams have come true in one day, for not only is David dashing and handsome, he leads an exotic existence so different from her own it seems almost alien.
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Written by Mike Shaw
Published on 17 Nov 2009
Win the chance to see John Mayer at Sony Ericsson presents Q The Music Club at Hard Rock Cafe
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Written by Mike Shaw
Published on 14 Nov 2009
Morris is yet another biopic, albeit a spoof one, about the life and times of Derecq Twist (Charles Thomas Oldham), a Morris man who just wants to do his own thing.
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Written by Dee Pilgrim
Published on 13 Nov 2009
Jesco White is an Appalachian mountain dancer with whisky in his veins and the devil in his soul (or so he believes).
Taught to dance by his father as a way of weaning him off booze and drugs, Jesco tours the States performing and achieving a level of fame, but he can never get the monkey off his back and his self-destructive ways threaten to engulf him.
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Written by David Lillywhite
Published on 12 Nov 2009
Everyone’s playing fighting games these days.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Capcom aficionado, the hype emanating from SNK Playmore regarding the triumphant return of their King of Fighters franchise had me salivating. Eschewing 3D in favour of gloriously chunky hand-drawn sprites, King of Fighters XII looked gorgeous and had the gaming community anticipating a resurrection that promised to make at long last accessible, the fabled deep play mechanics that typifies the KoF series.
Sounds perfect.
And it probably will be, when the developer finally gets around to finishing the game.
Even the most hardened SNK fanatic is going to feel hard done by here, there’s simply not enough for a full-price and until KoF props up the bargain bins, you’ll be expected to pay £39.99 for what is essentially half a game.
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