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About Martin Mulrooney

I am a professional writer and editor from the UK. I graduated with a B.A. (Hons) degree in Media and Film in 2009, specialising in Print Journalism and Advanced Screenwriting. I created Alternative Magazine Online soon after.
by | 27/09/2011 · 5:30 pm

FILM REVIEW – Jurassic Park (UK Theatrical Re-Release)

By Marty Mulrooney

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Jurassic Park is an Academy Award-winning science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, based upon the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Released during the summer of 1993, the film went on to gross over $900 million worldwide, becoming the top-grossing film of all time (not to be surpassed until 1997 by James Cameron’s Titanic). A Blu-ray release of the Jurassic Park Trilogy is scheduled for the 24th October 2011 in the UK. In anticipation of this, Universal Pictures have decided to re-release a brand new digital print of Jurassic Park in UK cinemas on the 23rd September 2011. 65 million years in the making… Jurassic Park is finally back on the big screen where it belongs!

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by | 23/09/2011 · 4:20 pm

GAME REVIEW – Driver: San Francisco (PlayStation 3 )

By Marty Mulrooney

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Driver: San Francisco is an open world driving game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. The latest instalment in the Driver franchise once again puts the player behind the steering wheel as hardened detective John Tanner – joined by long-time partner Tobias Jones – as he tries to bring criminal mastermind Charles Jericho to justice.

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by | 20/09/2011 · 8:45 pm

GAME REVIEW – A New Beginning (PC)

By Marty Mulrooney

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A New Beginning is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game from Daedalic Entertainment, makers of The Whispered World and Edna & Harvey. An eco-thriller with a twist, it tells the entwining stories of Fay, a radio operator who claims to be from the future, and Bent, a former scientist who was working on an eco-friendly alternative energy source before he retired. Together, they must save the world from a global climate catastrophe that threatens the very existence of humanity.

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by | 16/09/2011 · 4:25 pm

BOOK REVIEW – Shelter by Harlan Coben

By Marty Mulrooney

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Shelter is the first instalment in a new series of books aimed at young adults, written by best-selling author Harlan Coben (Tell No One). Coben has previously written several books based around former basketball player turned sports agent Myron Bolitar – in Shelter, the focus shifts to Myron’s estranged nephew Mickey Bolitar, whose father Brad has recently died in a mysterious car accident. A standalone story that is accessible both to newcomers and those familiar with Coben’s work, Shelter follows Mickey as he struggles to make friends, find his missing girlfriend and discover the truth behind his father’s death…

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