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April 25, 2012

Being Human: The Complete Fourth Series

DVD

The highly anticipated fourth season of the critically acclaimed Being Human was aired on BBC Three earlier this year. The comedy-drama is split into eight hour long episodes gravitating around ghost Annie (Lenora Crichlow), werewolf Tom (Michael Socha) and vampire Hal (Damien Molony). The supernatural triple are living in a tropical themed B&B in gloomy Barry Island desperately trying to blend into society. Nice.

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May 11, 2012

Film Review: Avengers Assemble

Film

If you’re asking this then you’re clearly one of the few minority who have yet to see this film according to the record box office sales. After countless Marvel movie releases setting up Captain America, Thor, and the rest of the team’s background, we finally have the full fledged team: The Avengers.

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May 7, 2012

Comedy tour: Simon Amstell – ‘Numb’

Comedy

After his release of series 2 of ‘Grandma’s House’ on BBC 2, Simon Amstell is once again embarking on a brand new tour of the UK. Having previously hosted ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’, Amstell is renowned for his cheeky persona and his deconstruction of the more vapid celebrities on his panel show. However, ‘Numb’ communicates Amstell’s feelings of social inadequacy, his internal conflicts and his difficulties with dating.

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April 19, 2012

Book review: The House That Groaned

Book

‘The House that Groaned’ is the debut graphic novel by the illustrator Karrie Fransman, who explores our contemporary preoccupation with physical imperfection, sexuality, and the reality that lurks behind every closed door. This short story is as macabre as it is entertaining.

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March 19, 2012

BBC Radio 4: Wordaholics

Radio

Wordaholics is a weekly comedic radio panel show all about words, and all of their origins, meanings, and peculiarities. The show has so far featured Stephen Fry, Richard Herring, Milton Jones and many other prominent comedians who dissect a particular letter week by week.

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May 7, 2012

Web Favourites: ‘My Drunk Kitchen’ with Hannah “Harto” Hart

Web

Over the past year, Hannah Harto has now achieved ‘weblebrity’ status as one of the funniest bloggers on YouTube. The premise, although basic (alcohol + cooking) is one that most of us are familiar with. And for those of you that aren’t, cooking something vaguely edible is NOT an easy task when you’ve had 2 bottles of wine.

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May 7, 2012

Game Review: X-Men Destiny

Game

At a glance this appears to be yet another comic book hero game featuring the well-known characters in yet another bid to save the earth from the well-known villains. Except its not: you get to choose. Throughout the game you are faced with choices, side with the righteous X-Men or rebel and support the Brotherhood. Nice.

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April 24, 2012

’9/11 – The Lost Tapes’ on Channel 4

9/11: The Lost Tapes is a documentary which contains minute-by-minute coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. This coverage is given by recordings of conversations between the people on the ground who were trying to stop the attacks, as well as the distressed people on board the hijacked aircraft, and makes audience members re-live the events of a day many of us would rather forget.

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