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The Samsung Galaxy S Review

The Samsung Galaxy S smartphone is the latest Android release from Samsung. It has of course been compared in depth to Apple’s latest iPhone 4, and although it is similar in functionality and layout, it is a different, and in many ways superior, beast.
For the obligatory bit of technical jargon, its weight is only 118 grams (so the same as the newly released Galaxy Wave), it operates on Android 2.1, the Samsung processor is 1 GHz, and the browser More

A whole company goes under because of one persons greed

Eileen Evis is a 61 year old grandmother who is from Colaton Raleigh, Devon. She was put into jail in March for stealing a lot of money. She stole from TAG which is located in Sidmouth. The police are still currently trying to find any of the assets she may still have. There is a large amount of money that is still unaccounted for and is being searched for by local detectives. She stole the money over a ten month More

Magnum Gold-Is it worth its weight in gold?

It looks valuable, almost like a real gold bar, rich vanilla ice cream with sea-salted caramel, encased in a hard gold chocolate shell. There was an elaborate ad campaign for this new product, where two people decided to “steal” the ice cream or something–pretty much building it up in my mind to be not something that you eat, but some designer kitchen accessories that you put out on the counter to impress the guests.

Anyway back to the product, the More

What A State…

Shutter Island: the advertisements–the hype–I couldn’t help but get carried away in the excitement of a new Scorsese film. The Departed was great, wasn’t it? So why shouldn’t this one be?! I honestly thought it was going to be one of the best films ever. And I needed to have my faith in the movie industry re-energized. I’d thought that Paranormal Activity was going to be the scariest horror film ever and was sorely dissapointed–

Then came the More

Opinions

The Arcade Fire really stunned me with their first album: Funeral. I’m no music expert but even I knew that the band were different to nearly everyone old or new. There were reference points I could draw from their music, of course, but the lyrics and the song construction–I had never heard a combination quite like it. Every song was its own. Nothing seemed forced or repeated. In short, the album marked the beginning of an amazing new band. More

Lost - Season 6

Well we waited long enough and it arrived several weeks ago, but it can’t just be me feeling a little short-changed at the moment. Lost, season six, started with a bang, quite literally, just like season five had ended. We were promised answers, to the myriad of questions that avid viewers have built up over the years. We were also promised a gripping storyline, that would leave us begging for the next episode like we have done in the past. More

The Rules That Must Not Be Broken

Rules are everywhere, and tea-making is just as rigid. Sorry people, but there are very good reasons as to why this is the case. If they were not in place, the world of tea-making would be thrown in to bedlam. It’d be like the Sun suddenly switching off, gravity ceasing to exist and all the planets colliding into one another!

What a terrifying thought that is–

Here are some stick-to rules. Do not veer from the path dear Tea-maker. Read More

A Clever Let-Down: Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity was extremely unusual, both in its marketing and the length of time it took to go from production to screen—something which at one time looked to threaten the film even being seen by a global audience. And what can you say about an Indy film made by a first-time director that grossed substantially more money at the box-office than almost every other film in recent years? Well, actually you can say a lot. Mainly because the film doesn’t More

A Hard Sequel

I feel sad. Not in a seasonal affective disorder kind of a way–though it is cold out, and this is England–but In a way that might make Pierce Brosnan and the other Bonds weep themselves to sleep; why? Well, I can’t remember the theme tune to Quantum Of Solace, the main point of the story, or any of the dialogue, of which I recall there was quite a lot to get through; to me that means that the sequel More

Film Review: The Woodsman

The Woodsman (2004) confronts the disturbing subject matter of pedophilia with a conviction that makes it both hard to digest, and also strangely watchable.

Released after twelve years of imprisonment for offences that the film only ever hints at–offences somewhat skewed out of all proportion by the chinese whispers that follow–Walter (played by a dedicated Kevin Bacon) comes face to face with the old life and neighbourhood he used to call his own; with a new job and a new More