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by Guest/Previous | 12/12/2011 · 10:00 pm

FILM REVIEW – 50/50

By Adele MacGregor

5050 Poster UK

Inspired by a true story, 50/50 follows the painful journey of a 27 year old man who discovers he has a rare form of cancer, leaving him with a 50/50 chance of recovery. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer) plays Adam, a good law abiding citizen working at a Seattle radio station with his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogan, Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin), living an ordinary existence until a doctor’s appointment turns his whole life upside down. Almost overnight Adam’s life becomes consumed by the alien world of hospital appointments, chemo and therapy sessions.

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GUEST POST – My Ten Favourite Holmesian Movies

By Kim Newman

Kim Newman Guest Post

Give me a hansom cab, a magnifying glass, a diabolical mystery, a deerstalker, a rattled-off deduction and Dr Watson being baffled, and I’m usually happy. I enjoy most Sherlock Holmes films – with the exception of the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore version of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the likes of Sherlock Homie: The Ass Detective, of course – but here I select my particular favourites, highlighting slightly off-the-beaten-track efforts.

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Tagged as Bees Saal Baad, Case of Evil, Film, Kim Newman, Murder By Decree, Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Pearl of Death, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, They Might Be Giants, Zero Effect

by Guest/Previous | 29/11/2011 · 3:40 pm

GAME REVIEW – Sanitarium (1998, PC)

By Jamie Downes (Guest Writer)

Sanitarium

Originally released in 1998, Sanitarium is a PC adventure game created by Dreamforge and more recently re-released and made playable on modern machines by GOG.com. Despite receiving a mixed reaction from adventure outlets back in the day, it is still often cited by fans of the genre as a classic for its twisted and unsettling atmosphere. As a fan of psychological horror and thrillers across all forms of media, I was understandably excited when given the chance to belatedly discover what all the fuss was about. With the credits now behind me, I’m unfortunately no nearer to finding out.

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Tagged as Adventure game, Dreamforge, Game, Game Review, pc, point and click, Sanitarium

by Guest/Previous | 23/11/2011 · 6:30 pm

FILM REVIEW – The Rum Diary

By Adele MacGregor

The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp as protagonist Paul Kemp, follows the booze fuelled journey of a newspaper journalist making a new start on the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico in the 1960s. Directed by Bruce Robinson, the film is adapted from the novel by the eccentric and brilliant Hunter S. Thompson, who also penned the cult classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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