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Who He? And Thingummy From Whatsit? Swap Fluids To Mass Hysteria!

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As every celebrity couple in America part ways in time for Christmas, intrepid British Y-Listers are fearlessly attempting to buck the trend. Leading the resistance, Zain Malik and Geneva Lane have announced via the Twitter that they are in luv. Some of you might be asking “who are they? Why should I care? What are [...]

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Stuart ‘The Brand’ Baggs Gets His Own ‘I’m A Field Of Ponies’ T-Shirt To Celebrate #theapprentice

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“Everything I touch turns to sold” Stuart ‘The Brand’ Baggs has been a rich source of televisual gold while he’s been on The Apprentice. It is obvious he should have been given the boot ages ago, but the producers clearly know when they’re onto a good thing. Anyone who can say “Excuse me Sir, you [...]

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Film Review: Tron Legacy – Digital Botox And Surprising Depth

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To be honest, hecklerspray gave up on computer games after a particularly tricky level on Sonic 2 saw a great hole being kicked in mum’s TV cabinet. So it was with some trepidation that ‘spray prepared to re-enter the digital space for Tron: Legacy. It’s already obvious that this was a going to be visual [...]

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Film Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part One

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Hardened critics love having a pop at Harry Potter. They prance around, nose in the air, clutching their copy of whatever obscure flawed masterpiece is in vogue at the time, claiming the Potter films to be quite rubbish – a two-star at best. Well, Potter fans don’t give a stuff about them. And so they [...]

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Gig Review: Linkin Park, Who Cares Where It Was? It Could’ve Been Anywhere…

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Week after week they shuffle into the stadium. Their team no longer have anything in common with them. The ticket prices go up and up and the only thing that improves are the salaries of the players, subsidised by people who could be doing something better with the money. Their loyalty to the brand is [...]

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Hipster Diary: Manchester’s In The City Festival

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So, yeah. In the City is happening this week in Manchester. It’s like totally an important festival about music. I work in ‘media’ so managed to get a press pass for it. I hate saying it, but I’m famous on Twitter. I get spotted all the time, so the festival will do well by having [...]

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Hollywood Remake The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo And People Get Cross While Others Just Wait For Daniel Craig To Get His Kit Off

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The first pictures emerged this week of Daniel Craig filming the opening scenes of the movie adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s book, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’. Despite the fact that there is already a movie version of the book (the first in Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy) by Swedish director Niels Arden Oplev with an [...]

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10 Most Datable Robots

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Robots are great. And rubbish. They’re either set to ‘kill’ or ‘sexy’. The worst thing we’ve found, is when they’re set to both. You lust after a humanoid… and then they destroy the fabric of your society. We see it time and time again, yet, do we learn? Not even slightly. That’s because not all [...]

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Review: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (But The Audience Can If They Want)

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Once upon a time there was a cuddly old man called Lou (Frank Zangella) who looked like Santa and just happened to run a big bank on Wall Street. He was still cuddly and lovable though. He had a protégé called Jake (Shia LaBeouf) whose dad died when he was little, meaning that he was [...]

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Stone Roses Mani Calls New Order’s Peter Hook Some Nasty Names – What Can We Learn From It All?

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There’s dissent amongst the middle-aged heroes of yore in Manchester. In a scene familiar to anyone who has made the mistake of going on-line after a few drinks, Stone Roses/Primal Scream bassist Gary ‘Mani’ Mountfield had some rather choice words for his ex-bandmate Peter Hook last week. Things must have got rather tense in Freebass, [...]

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