10 of the Best DVDs Coming Out This Christmas

Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: yes, it’s that time of year already and yes, you’re going to have to start buying presents soon. Right, now to business: Hooray! It’s Christmas (nearly)! The festive period is a time of joy, merriment and more DVDs than you …

10/11/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

The surprisingly easy way to declutter your DVDs before Christmas

In case you hadn’t guessed from the non-stop barrage of festive adverts that hit our screens this weekend (yes, the Coca-Cola one has been on too”¦), Christmas is just around the corner. And with Christmas comes presents – including, no doubt, quite a few DVDs. There’s a bumper crop of …

10/11/2014

Chris Smith

To celebrate the release of Interstellar, here are our 5 favourite Christopher Nolan movies

Interstellar is released today, and it’s fair to say we’re pretty excited. The first reason is that it looks like a genuinely brilliant movie, with an incredible cast headed up by a top-of-his-game Matthew McConaughey. The second is that it’s directed by Christopher Nolan, a director who – in our …

07/11/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: EasilyDo

For every app that drains our time and money (we’re looking at you, Clash of Clans”¦), there are 100s that can make our lives that little bit easier. Surprisingly easy, in fact. This week, we’re focusing on EasilyDo – your very own virtual personal assistant. Oooh! What is it? EasilyDo …

07/11/2014

Chris Smith

App of the Week

The Surprisingly Easy Guide to Christopher Nolanâ€™s Interstellar

Interstellar is the new film from Christopher Nolan, the director of the The Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception, and it looks absolutely incredible. With the film set for release tomorrow, here’s everything you need to know. What is Interstellar about? There is a lot of mystery surrounding Interstellar’s plot, but …

06/11/2014

Chris Smith

Movies

The Surprisingly Easy Guide to Surviving Call of Duty Online

We originally published this post a couple of months ago, but it seemed like a good idea to share it again with the release of Advanced Warfare. Enjoy (and remember: it’s supposed to be fun!). Call of Duty is nothing short of a global phenomenon, with over 139,600,000 copies of …

05/11/2014

Chris Smith

Top Traded DVDs: American Hustle, TMNT and Willy Wonka

Wall-E Fun fact: WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class. Not so cute when you spell it out, is it? Insidious Chapter 2 Fun fact: The house at the beginning of Insidious: Chapter 2 also appeared in the slightly-less spooky Charmed. Now You See Me Fun fact: …

05/11/2014

Chris Smith

5 Dance Albums You Should Check Out (Even If You Donâ€™t Like Dance)

Calvin Harris released his latest collection of upbeat house this week and it’s almost guaranteed to be a smash. You’ll be hearing songs from it from now until eternity everywhere you go. Dance isn’t all just catchy one-off floorfillers, though. There have been quite a few geniunely brilliant dance albums …

04/11/2014

Chris Smith

Music

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