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Hellboy scales new heights on Blu-ray while Star Wars plumbs new depths on the Wii...

Jamie Ewbank Friday, December 12, 2008 15:13
After a week of gritty flamethrower-wielding war-crimes in Call of Duty: World at War it’s been quite a relief to get to grips with some light, fantasy content in the form of Hellboy II: The Golden Army on Blu-ray and Star Wars Clone Wars: Lightsaber

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: Hancock

Jamie Ewbank Monday, December 01, 2008 12:33
After a year in which we’ve been inundated with superhero movies, all of which have been, to a greater or lesser extent, better than expected, we finally come to Hancock . On paper, it has the edge over all its rivals - it isn’t hampered by an original

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DVD REVIEW: The Dark Knight

Jamie Ewbank Wednesday, November 19, 2008 15:16
If Batman Begins was a surprisingly dark and serious take on the Batman mythos, then its all-conquering sequel, The Dark Knight , sees director Christopher Nolan heading into even grimmer territory to produce an excellent and unpredictable blockbuster

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DVD REVIEW: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Jamie Ewbank Friday, November 07, 2008 12:11
Age may have caught up with Harrison Ford, but in this fourth Indiana Jones movie he turns his advancing years into a virtue. Sadly, the same can’t be said for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, who direct and produce this rather disappointing sequel.

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From the sublime to the ridiculous: LittleBigPlanet and The Happening reviews

Jamie Ewbank Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:48
It's been a week of extremes on The Leisure Lab, where we’ve discovered that a lossless 5.1 DTS-HD soundtrack isn’t enough to save the The Happening , a film where the scariest noise is that of Mark Wahlberg staring down the camera and explaining the

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: Iron Man

Jamie Ewbank Friday, October 17, 2008 12:13
If you’ve ever lamented the fact that blockbuster movies just don’t grab you the way they used to, then Iron Man is the film to restore your faith in the genre. For starters, the special effects are genuinely special. The titular armour is all gloss and

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BLU-RAY REVIEW: The Incredible Hulk

Jamie Ewbank Friday, October 10, 2008 15:40
The grumpy green shape of The Incredible Hulk is the first of the summer comic book blockbusters to make the jump to DVD and Blu-ray on October 13th. After Ang Lee’s thoughtful but surprisingly placid Hulk in 2003, Director Louis Leterrier clearly wants

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DVD REVIEW: Stop Loss

Jamie Ewbank Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:38
It’s been a long wait for Kimberley Pierce to follow up 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry, but with Stop Loss she succeeds in tackling another serious subject with the same sort of power and poise her last film displayed. Stop Loss is the name of the US army program

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DVD REVIEW: Persepolis

Jamie Ewbank Wednesday, September 03, 2008 09:21
Adapted from a pair of hefty graphic novels, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's illustrated autobiography and tells the story of her youth in Iran and Austria, with the Iranian revolution providing a contrast to Marjane's feisty personality and leftist leanings.

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Conspiracy theories, mindless gunplay and psychedelic electronica

Jamie Ewbank Monday, August 11, 2008 16:46
It's going to be a strange week at The Leisure Lab , one in which we'll be mixing conspiracy theories, mindless gunplay and psychedelic electronica to produce a diverse set of reviews. For starters we've been indulging our trigger fingers with the long

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The Leisure Lab is bigger and better

Jamie Ewbank Thursday, August 07, 2008 16:10
The Leisure Lab , our software reviewing sister site, is growing up fast. We've just added a new music review channel and we're moving from weekly to daily updates. Among the goodies going up this week are Brian DePalma's controversial Iraq movie, Redacted

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