Magpie DVD Club: The Darkness, Slugs and more!

We’ve got some fantastic new DVDs hitting the musicMagpie Store at the moment ”“ here’s our pick this week! Slugs            Back in the 70s, Steven Spielberg managed to put a whole nation off going swimming with Jaws. Director Juan Piquer Simon didn’t quite put people off gardening with 1988’s Slugs, …

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23/09/2016
Chris Smith
soccer

The 20 best players on FIFA 17

This year’s edition of FIFA is released next week and naturally, much of the pre-launch chatter has focused on the issue of player ratings. After compiling the top 20 players last year, we’ve done it again for FIFA 17. As always, there are some controversial omissions: big names like Arjen …

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23/09/2016
Chris Smith
Walking Dead

5 important life lessons from The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is one of the most popular shows on television, with viewers across the globe enthralled by the adventures of Rick Grimes and his pals as they try to avoid being eaten by hordes and hordes of brain munchers. With season 7 lurching ever closer and season 6 …

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22/09/2016
Chris Smith
Recommends 21st September

Magpie Recommends: Opeth, Banks, Big Jesus and more!

Another week, another set of amazing new releases! Here are the upcoming albums we recommend wrapping your ears around this week… Sorceress ”“ Opeth Opeth’s 12th album Sorceress sees the Swedish prog-metal legends delving even deeper into their prog influences, crafting 12 awe-inspiring songs that combine melodic choruses and folk …

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21/09/2016
Chris Smith
The Terminator

The 10 best 80s movies (according to critics)

The 80s were a golden age for cinema, with the likes of Spielberg and Cameron at the top of their game. But what is the best 80s movie of them all? To answer that question, we turned to those vaunted experts of cinema, the critics. Using Rotten Tomatoes, we compiled …

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20/09/2016
Chris Smith
Books

As a new uni year starts, which students will pay most for textbooks?

This week, thousands of fresh-faced young people are heading to uni to learn, party and realise they’re terrible at cooking (top tip: make friends with a good cook early on). They’ll also have to learn some serious financial management skills. It’s no secret that higher education isn’t cheap, with the …

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19/09/2016
Chris Smith