Nintendo announce the “New Nintendo 3DS”
NINTENDO have announced a new iteration of the 3DS called “New Nintendo 3DS” – yes really – which will be out in Japan on the 11th of October. It will feature bigger screens on...
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Only in the 70s: Lisztomania (1975)
TAKING over from Torments on a monthly basis, we have a new feature at the film section: Only in the 70s. It’ll be a feature chronicling the absolute what-the-blue-balling-fuck films of that most drug-fuelled of decades....
Album released this week in… 1994: The Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
I’M NOT HERE to mythologise the life of Richey Edwards. We all know the score. What I am here to do is mythologise his last will and testament: The Manic Street Preachers’ third and...
Doctor Who returns with a solid transition episode
I DIDN’T really know what to expect from Peter Capaldi as the Doctor. I haven’t really seen him in any of his other major roles and in a way I think that’s a good...
The good, the bad, and the Force: Re-evaluating Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
WE’RE now officially halfway through on our whistle-stop tour of a galaxy far, far away. Since Attack of the Clones has been shortly dealt with (and not short enough it was), it’s time for the...
Youtube Review: OlanRogers – Meet Laboosh, the Cat Emperor
WHEN you’ve sat in the pub, twitching with laughter from some incomparable in-joke, I bet you’ve all agreed that a recording of your interactions would make great comedy. We’ve all been there. Checking out the...
Album released this week in… 2003: Elbow – Cast of Thousands
ELBOW have graciously been giving listeners the sort of music that can only be described as ‘art’ for nearly a decade and a half. Guy Garvey and co have been nothing short of National...
Film Torments: LOL (2012)
THERE’S a relatively old Family Guy episode where a cutaway gag pokes fun at the TV show One Tree Hill. “High schools so serious/These problems matter” a voice sings out as a depressed teenage boy...
Album released this week in… 1998: They Might Be Giants – Severe Tire Damage
YOU PROBABLY know them for their theme tune for Malcolm in The Middle, maybe you’ve heard ‘Birdhouse in Your Soul’ (if you have heard it, you’ll know because I’m certain that even reading this...
Naomi Punk develop their sound on Television Man
HAILING from Washington State, Naomi Punk do a good job of channelling their home state’s most famous resident musicians. Of course, the shadow of Nirvana will come with any band of that area, but...
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