Your eyes will thank you for watching these 10 movies on Blu-Ray

The movie industry spends billions of dollars trying to make movies as eye-poppingly gorgeous as possible, only for people to watch them on tiny smartphone and tablet screens. In fairness, not all movies need the home cinema experience. But some movies are best enjoyed on a huge screen on Blu-Ray. …

19/05/2016

Chris Smith

Movies

10 PlayStation 3 games everyone should play

As it approaches its 10th birthday, the PS3’s days are numbered. Its arch-nemesis, the Xbox 360, was recently discontinued, and it won’t be getting the latest version of Call of Duty either. The end is nigh. Consoles never really die though. People still play the Super Nintendo, and that’s nearly …

18/05/2016

Chris Smith

Games

5 US TV shows to binge-watch next

We’ve all felt it: that empty hollow feeling after you’ve finished a TV series, that huge hole in your schedule where tales of bikers, meth cooks and advertising execs used to reside. Luckily, great TV shows are as common as air these days. There is always something new to watch. …

17/05/2016

Chris Smith

TV

8 of the weirdest upcoming movies

In the age of the internet, movie studios get the hype machine whirring by announcing films years in advance. It’s why we know that there’s a Star Wars movie coming out in 2020, and why we know that there are approximately 100 billion Marvel movies on the way. However, a …

16/05/2016

Chris Smith

Movies

9 of the best retro first person shooters

The Doom remake hits shelves today, with thousands of gamers shunning the rare sunshine in favour of another jaunt to Hell with just a shotgun for company. Although Doom’s open beta received less than stellar reviews, mainly due to the fact that it borrows some modern FPS features like load …

13/05/2016

Chris Smith

Games

6 video game movies that are actually good

Do ”˜good’ video game movies exist? The evidence suggests not, with the average score for videogame films on Metacritic a lowly 30. So why do people keep making them? Angry Birds is in cinemas now, Warcraft is released at the end of the month and films based on Assassin’s Creed …

12/05/2016

Chris Smith

How many of these classic 70s albums have you listened to?

The 70s spawned more classic albums than we can count: Exile on Main St, Who’s Next, Paranoid, Dark Side of the Moon, London Calling ”“ the list goes on. This post isn’t about those albums though. This post is about the classic albums that you might not have heard, but …

11/05/2016

Chris Smith

Music

What will Apple make next?

Apple is the most valuable company in the world, raking in more cash per year than most small countries. So everyone was understandably concerned when Apple announced they made slightly less money than usual last year. Sales fell by around £5.5 billion, the first time they’ve declined in 13 years, …

09/05/2016

Chris Smith

Tech

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