Friday Five: Are you David Brent?

Everyone's favourite terrible boss and master of cringe David Brent is back, this time on the big screen in Life on The Road. After leaving Slough's premier paper merchants Wernham Hogg, Brent decides to pursue his dream of becoming a music megastar (whilst working as a cleaning products sales rep …

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19/08/2016
Chris Smith
Books

What are Britain’s biggest literary guilty pleasures?

Britain has given the world some brilliant authors over the ages: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Neil Gaiman, Zadie Smith. We could go on. So surely Britain's taste in books reflects our rich literary heritage? Erm… not quite. A quick glance through the best sellers list shows that Brits, while enjoying …

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18/08/2016
Chris Smith
Suburra

Is Suburra one of the best crime thrillers ever?

Crime pays – in the movies at least. Filmgoers have long been obsessed with the lives and crimes of career criminals, from honourable family man Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather to the coke-fueled paranoia of wise guy Henry Hill in Goodfellas, and what drives them to commit their evil …

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16/08/2016
Chris Smith
Fight Club film vs book

Movies better than their books

Once a book makes the transition from page to screen, you know lots of people are going to claim that the book was better than the film. But sometimes, just sometimes, the movie adaptation actually surpasses the book. From the casting choices, plot changes, additional or stripped back dialogue, there …

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12/08/2016
Emma Lyskava
Lazer Team

5 reasons you should watch Lazer Team as soon as possible

Lazer Team, released by Manga Entertainment, hits the musicMagpie Store on the 15th August 2016. Here are five reasons to check it out! The plot is amazing Lazer Team is a comedic take on sci-fi and superhero movies, posing the question: what would happen if 4 idiots got their hands …

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09/08/2016
Chris Smith
Blu-Ray

#GetPhysical: Why you should still buy CDs and DVDs

We're about to drop a huge revelation, so you might want to sit down: we love physical media. We write about the virtues of decluttering on this blog a lot but we also don't believe in getting rid of everything you own and going completely digital. And neither do the …

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09/08/2016
Chris Smith