Need some Christmas present ideas? How about one of these Marvel-lous superhero movies?

Need some Christmas present ideas? How about one of these Marvel-lous superhero movies?

We’re on a mission to make Christmas shopping surprisingly easy: we’ve already shared some of the best CDs & DVDs coming out this Christmas with you, and now we’re going to help you pick out the best Marvel DVDs to buy for kids (and big kids) too. The Marvel Movie …

24/11/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

Treat the music lover in your life: the best CDs this Christmas!

There’s just over 5 weeks to go until Christmas, which means we’re officially in the ”˜oh crumbs, I haven’t even thought about presents yet’ phase of the festive build-up. Luckily, we’re here to help. Today, we’re going to be sharing some of the best albums coming out this festive period. …

24/11/2014

Chris Smith

Music

The Top Traded CDs: Played Out Pop, All Rocked Out and Overplayed Indie

Our customers have been selling loads of CDs in the lead-up to Christmas. Here are the albums we’ve received most… This collection of chart-topping albums features some absolute classics, but it seems that our customers have heard it all before: Abba Gold and Adele’s 21 are two of the biggest …

21/11/2014

Chris Smith

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Duolingo

Every week, we bring you an app that’ll make your life surprisingly easy. This week, we’re going to be getting multilingual with the excellent language learning app Duolingo. What is it? In simple terms, Duolingo is a language learning app. You pick a language (at the time of writing, you …

20/11/2014

Chris Smith

App of the Week

9 Surprisingly Interesting Facts About The Hunger Games – Just in Time for Mockingjay!

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 hits cinemas today. To celebrate, we’ve trawled the web and picked out 9 interesting facts about the franchise, the books that spawned it and the stars of the series. Enjoy! Jennifer Lawrence was paid $500,000 for her role in The Hunger Games. Her star …

20/11/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

Which tablet should you buy this Christmas? Hereâ€™s your answer!

Christmas is coming, although you probably know that thanks to a near-constant barrage of adverts, Christmas songs and blog posts telling you so (sorry…). Anyway, now is probably a good time to get your present list together. We know that you’ve still got 5 weeks to go shopping, but we …

19/11/2014

Chris Smith

Tech

This weekâ€™s music news round-up: Band Aid, Slipknot and Philosophical Teenagers

Well, here we are again: another week, another round-up of the latest music news. This week’s edition features Bob Geldof swearing, 9 men in masks shouting and Will Smith’s offspring spouting the kind of philosophical nonsense you’d expect from a slightly drunk 6th former. Enjoy! Band Aid 30 Forget John …

19/11/2014

Chris Smith

Which films will be nominated for Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars?

We’re currently slap bang in the middle of what is commonly referred to as ”˜Oscar-bait’ season. This is when movies that are tipped for Oscars (or, more accurately, movies that want to be tipped for Oscars) are traditionally released, which is why you see a lot more serious people scratching …

19/11/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

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