Reading

How many of these notoriously difficult books have you finished?

People like books for many reasons. Some like to relax after a hard day’s work. Others like to read saucy material on the bus home without getting arrested. This post is dedicated to those who like to challenge themselves, however. In this post, we’ve collected some of the most difficult …

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04/08/2016
Chris Smith
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Love Stranger Things? Then you’ll love these movies too!

Stranger Things has taken the world by storm, confining millions of people to their couches in a binge of 80s throwbacks, Spielbergian adventures and Stephen King-esque spookiness. A second series is almost certain but until then, here are a few of the movies that inspired the show to fill the …

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03/08/2016
Chris Smith
Star Wars Lightsaber

Friday Five: Sequels that were surprisingly better than the original

In honour of 10 Cloverfield Lane, the surprisingly fantastic basement thriller sequel to monster movie Cloverfield which was released on DVD and Blu-Ray this week, this week’s Friday Five is dedicated to sequels that were surprisingly better than the movies that came before them. Starting with… Toy Story 3 via …

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29/07/2016
Chris Smith
Terminator 2

15 action movies you need to watch before you die

You can’t beat a good action movie. The explosions, the chases, the one-liners; they will never, ever get old. But with so many action movies to watch and so little time, which ones do you need to add to your movie bucket list? Here are the 15 action movies we …

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28/07/2016
Chris Smith
the babadook

Friday Five: The Scariest Films of the Past 5 Years

Horror movies have been making people sleep with the light on for over 100 years now, with all manner of ghouls, monsters and killers terrorising our screens. Amazingly, the horror genre is still finding new ways to scare the living daylights out of us. Here are five of the scariest …

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22/07/2016
Chris Smith
Books

6 reasons to switch to eBooks

Since the invention of the printing press, books have educated and entertained millions of people every single day. Technology could soon make the traditional paper and ink book a thing of the past, however. eBooks, which condense hefty novels into a dainty little file for reading on a phone or …

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21/07/2016
Chris Smith