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Jamie Ewbank
05 June 2009 12:11
It’s another pair of polar opposites on our movies channel this week, with Frank Miller’s embarrassingly poor adaptation Will Eisner’s The Spirit picking up a single star for just about managing to look and sound vaguely interesting, while Slumdog Millionaire
Filed under: Blu-ray, DTS-HD MA, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, reviews, Playstation, Xbox, The Spirit, Slumdog Millionaire
Jamie Ewbank
20 May 2009 12:44
The sport of mixed martial arts has fewer rules than most boardgames, a fact which goes a long way towards explaining why UFC 2009 Undisputed is such an unnerving game to play: in its attempt to capture the no-holds-barred nature of the sport it lets
Filed under: games, reviews, Playstation, Xbox, UFC 2009 Undisputed
Jamie Ewbank
08 April 2009 12:02
Probably the hottest movie release of the week if you're looking to keep teenagers entertained over Easter, Twilight is an angsty teen movie featuring clumsy girls, hunky vampires and some lush cinematography. Sadly, its also po-faced and afflicted with
Filed under: DVD, movies, film reviews, games, reviews, music, wii
Jamie Ewbank
31 March 2009 11:47
Suffering through the kidnap of her son and the return of a boy she’s convinced isn’t hers, Angelina Jolie gives an impressive performance in director Clint Eastwood’s latest drama, Changeling . The Blu-ray presentation of Changeling preserves the film’s
Filed under: Blu-ray, DTS-HD MA, Blu-ray Disc, film reviews, reviews, Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Jamie Ewbank
23 March 2009 11:25
Much has been made of the slightly disjointed feel of Bond’s 22nd outing, Quantum of Solace , and while a glossy blu-ray presentation can’t do anything to fix the mid-trilogy feel of the film, it does bring the action and excitement to the fore, making
Filed under: Blu-ray, DTS-HD MA, Blu-ray Disc, The Leisure Lab, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Quantum of Solace, Daniel Craig, James Bond
Jamie Ewbank
19 March 2009 11:15
Quarantine ’s arrival on Blu-ray represents a clash of medium and message, in which a deliberately lo-fi, horror movie is presented on a format better suited to far slicker productions. The Blu-ray presentation is the mixed bag you’d expect, a product
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, Blu-ray Audio, DVD, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, reviews, Resident Evil 5, Quarantine
Jamie Ewbank
10 March 2009 10:52
We’ve finished our first run through the gorgeous Resident Evil 5 and while we’ve loved every action-packed second it has to be said there’s something missing: the chills. Even when the last instalment, Resi 4, opted for more action and less horror it
Filed under: The Leisure Lab, games, reviews, Playstation, Xbox, Resident Evil 5
Jamie Ewbank
17 February 2009 11:20
F.E.A.R.2 Project Origin , with it’s unwieldy title and murky, j-horror stylings would almost feel like a drag to review after the glorious high def, surround sound presentation that was Killzone 2 , but where Killzone packed only half the plot into double
Filed under: games, reviews, Playstation, Xbox FEAR 2, F.E.A.R.2, Project Origin
Jamie Ewbank
10 February 2009 12:40
With 7.1 audio and 720p graphics, Killzone 2 is the most cinematic game ever released, but it’s also proving controversial, as reviewers who suggest that it might be all gloss and no guts are being inundated with hate mail from PS3 owners desperate to
Filed under: The Leisure Lab, Samsung, games, reviews, Playstation, Killzone 2
Jamie Ewbank
09 February 2009 12:11
Set twenty years before the original Halo trilogy and with Master Chief nowhere in sight, Microsoft’s new Xbox title, Halo Wars , is already risking fanboy disapproval, but it’s not the absence of everybody’s favourite Spartan that makes things dicey,
Filed under: The Leisure Lab, Samsung, games, reviews, Xbox, Halo Wars, Hal, Preview
Jamie Ewbank
21 January 2009 14:42
Given the comedy pedigree of Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow and the directorial deftness of David Gordon Green, Pineapple Express would be an absolutely first-rate comedy if it were about anything but a pair of pot-smokers. Sadly, convincingly portrayed stoners
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, Dolby True HD, DVD, movies, film reviews, reviews, comedy, Pineapple Express
Jamie Ewbank
16 January 2009 11:45
It’s been a pleasantly surprising week on the Leisure Lab, where our expectations have been exceeded by both Somers Town on Blu-ray and Gears of War II . Expecting the first to be unable to live up to the excellent This Is England and the second to simply
Filed under: Blu-ray, Blu-ray Disc, The Leisure Lab, movies, Samsung, film reviews, games, reviews, Xbox, Gears of War, Somers Town
Jamie Ewbank
22 December 2008 12:22
It’s been a cracking year for gamers, with titles like Grand Theft Auto and Metal Gear Solid making it to their fourth instalments, new titles like LittleBigPlanet and Dead Space bringing new characters and stories into play, and a sprint finish to the
Filed under: The Leisure Lab, games, reviews, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo, wii, LittleBigPlanet, Dead Space, FPS, Call of Duty: World at War, Top 5
Jamie Ewbank
12 December 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
Filed under: Blu-ray, DTS-HD MA, movies, reviews, Hellboy: The Golden Army
Jamie Ewbank
10 December 2008 16:35
Given that we’re one of the few sites that refrained from making early predictions that Call of Duty: World at War would stink, it would be very easy to pretend that the thought had never crossed our minds and consequently look an awful lot more composed
Filed under: The Leisure Lab, games, reviews, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo, wii, FPS, Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Oldman, Call of Duty: World at War