Discs and downloads

Most film buffs can remember an early, eye-opening moment when they became hooked on the power of the silver screen. In the whimsical Son of Rambow the main character, Will, has this revelation whilst hanging from a garage roof in a rowboat, ...

The Shortwave Set's first album went largely unnoticed, except by an impressive group of musical luminaries who began queuing up to work on their second album. Hence Replica Sun Machine, produced by Danger Mouse, of Gnarls Barkley and Gorillaz ...

Today's Leisure Lab update includes our review of Vantage Point, a fast moving assassination thriller that features a gaggle of stars and more twists than a Blackjack tournament.Sadly those twists, along with the ropey dialogue and leaden ...

SoulCalibur IV is a game in which ridiculous characters with preposterous swords attempt to slash each other senseless whilst spouting some of the most appalling dialogue this side of an all-night Manga marathon, so why did we like it so ...

Now, isn't that nice... That was pretty much our response to Replica Sun Machine, the second album from The Shortwave Set. It was good, and we'll definitely listen to it again, but sadly it won't be making any best of the year lists over on The ...

It's going to be a strange week at The Leisure Lab, one in which we'll be mixing conspiracy theories, mindless gunplay and psychedelic electronica to produce a diverse set of reviews.For starters we've been indulging our trigger fingers with the ...

 The Leisure Lab, our software reviewing sister site, is growing up fast. We've just added a new music review channel and we're moving from weekly to daily updates. Among the goodies going up this week are Brian DePalma's controversial Iraq ...

You may remember a few weeks back we ran a story about the first audio-only Blu-ray Disc release, from Norwegian label 2L. Well, quite a lot has happened since then, including the re-launch of this site, and as a result it was only last ...