Garry Schyman (composer) - BioShock: Infinite

CoverAward-winning composer Garry Schyman has written music for feature films, prime time television series, mini-series, movies of the week, documentaries and interactive media. Renowned for his unique and often complex original scores for the multi award-winning video games BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock: Infinite; the dramatic orchestral score and chorus for Visceral Games’s adaptation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, Dante's Inferno; and the classic sci-fi inspired original scores for Destroy All Humans!; Schyman has emerged as one of the industry's foremost composers, receiving top honours for Best Original Score from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and Spike TV... [click here...]

 

WolveSpirit: Dreamcatcher - Music review

CoverWolveSpirit is a Hard Rock band reminiscent of those of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The members – Debbie (vocals), Rio (guitar), Oliver (Hammond organ), Yanick (drums), and Andy (bass) – live as part of a collective with other musicians and designers, in a house situated in the countryside of a small German village. Dreamcatcher is the debut album. It contains ten new songs... [click here...]

 

Huey Lewis and the News: Sports - Music

CoverHuey Lewis and The News's 1983 Sports album spawned four Top 10 hit singles (and another that cracked the Top 20), iconic music videos, and sold almost 10 million copies. To celebrate the blockbuster album's 30th anniversary, Lewis has personally overseen an expanded commemorative edition. Sports (30th Anniversary Edition) pairs each of the original album's nine songs with choice live versions on a second disc, many of which have never before been released... [click here...]

 

Sacrifice - DVD review

CoverWhen General Tu’an encompasses the destruction of the whole of the Zhao clan he does not account for the doctor, Cheng Ying, who attending the birth of his rival's son. In the midst of the massacre, Cheng takes the new-born and when Tu’an rounds up all the new-borns he substitutes his own son, condemning him to death. He raises the young prince, now named Bo’er, dreaming of gaining his revenge by having Bo’er kill the general when he is a grown man, but when the general take the two into his retinue emotional ties start to complicate matters... [click here...]

 

Eurovision Song Contest: Malmö 2013 - Music

CoverMalmö in Sweden plays host to the 58th Eurovision Song Contest in May. Sweden has become one of the world's biggest exporters of music. This important industry recognises its debt to the ground-breaking achievements of ABBA, who turned their 1974 Eurovision Song Contest win into a springboard for an international career of unparalleled success and longevity. Thirty-nine countries are hoping to repeat this success in Malmö in front of a TV audience in excess of 100 million viewers... [click here...]

 

Iron Man 3 - Movie review

CoverStill reeling from the aftermath of the recent alien invasion, Tony Stark faces powerful new adversaries, in the guise of a terrorist called the Mandarin and a squad of soldiers powered by a super-serum known as Extremis. When his personal world is shattered at his enemies’ hands, Stark embarks upon a harrowing quest to find those responsible, in spite of potentially crippling panic attacks. He is forced to survive by his own devices, relying on his instincts and intelligence to protect those dearest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him – does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man...? [click here...]

 

Knightriders - Blu-ray review

CoverIn this contemporary people story, a troupe of travelling players arrive at the edge of town. They consist of King “Billy” William, his queen, a company of knights, various performers, and makers of arts and crafts. For a small fee the pageant puts on an often violent display of jousting - in armour, but on motorcycles rather than horses - and hand-to-hand combat with weapons such as the axe, medieval spiked-mace, and sword. The combatants are happy with their calling, but one knight, Morgan, has ambitions to be king. Furthermore, he has been approached by a promoter, who wants to commercialise the company. Morgan is enticed by the prospect of money, fame and women, and leaves. However, King Billy refuses to sell out his ideals, but when he is jailed for defending one of his company against a corrupt policeman, it seems the close-knit community of knightriders may be coming to an end. King Billy continues to believe that doing the right thing will see them through, and that those which have left will return. But will he be proved right...? [click here...]

 

Runaway Orchestra: Runaway Orchestra - Music

CoverRunaway Orchestra is the debut album from Sophie Madeleine (going under the name of Runaway Orchestra). The album offers covers of ten classic songs, but gives them a unique folk twist... [click here...]

 

 

Alex Cross, Run (Hardback) - Book review

CoverAlex Cross makes a bust, which seems straightforward, with a case of a plastic surgeon who is drugging and having sex with underage girls. Following his arrest, Elijah Creem's privileged life is ruined, but Cross thinks nothing more of it. Later bodies start to turn up. A young woman is found dead, having recently given birth, but there is no evidence of the baby, another boy is found in the river having been stabbed and shot and another girl is found dead. With three cases to pursue the last thing Cross needs is the intrusion into his life of Ron Guidice, who blames Cross for his fiancé and is out for vengeance... [click here...]

 

Parks and Recreation: Season One - DVD

CoverCreated by Primetime Emmy® Award winners Greg Daniels (The Office U.S., King of the Hill, The Simpsons) and Michael Schur (The Office U.S., Saturday Night Live), comedy superstar Amy Poehler stars as Leslie Knope, an ambitious and hopeful small-town government worker, whose dreams are way bigger than her political talents. A hilarious saga of Government employees and local citizens turning a neighbourhood hole in the ground into a new public park... [click here...]