Breaking Bad

6 alternatives to watching football

The next month is going to be hell for non-football fans. With wall-to-wall football coverage until July, there is going to be no escape from the "˜beautiful' game. Or is there? Here are some things you can do while the rest of the country wastes their time with football… Declutter …

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12/06/2014
Chris Smith
Riggs and Murtaugh

musicMagpie’s greatest cop duos of all time

It's no secret that we're fans of bleak US crime drama True Detective, especially the main cop duo Rust and Marty. It came out on DVD last week, if you missed it (sell us a Blu-Ray copy if you've watched it already). Odd couple Marty and Rust have been catapulted into …

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09/06/2014
Chris Smith
22 Jump Street

5 Surprisingly Brilliant Remakes

Movie remakes are usually rubbish, aren't they? What's the point of remaking classics like Robocop, Total Recall or The Italian Job when the originals are already brilliant? One movie that did manage to buck the trend, however, was 21 Jump Street, which stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. It's a …

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09/06/2014
Chris Smith
Dallas Buyers Club

Which Oscar-winning movies should you buy on DVD?

With awards season a distant memory, the real day of reckoning has arrived for most of the award winners: their DVD release. So which of this year's crop of award winners is worth your hard-earned cash (or the cash you make from selling DVDs with musicMagpie)? Dallas Buyers Club Who'd …

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03/06/2014
Chris Smith
DVDs

Which DVDs Should You Sell?

Choosing DVDs to sell is harder than choosing CDs to sell for a couple of reasons. Unlike CDs, which can be ripped to other formats or streamed, the options for watching a film are limited. Your DVD is probably the only way you can watch a particular film. A lot …

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02/06/2014
Chris Smith