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R n’ B artist Chris Brown’s new single I Can Transform Ya, featuring Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz has presented me with a bit of a conundrum. I’m a big Lil Wayne fan and would listen to pretty much anything produced by the borderline genius Swizz Beatz but the presence of Chris Brown has left [...]

Remakes and reboots have come thick and fast this year, and the trend seems set to continue well into 2010. Karate Kid is getting dusted off and thrown back into the dojo, some bright spark has decided that what the world needs is a new Highlander film, whilst those crazy Hollywood hacks are even putting [...]

Whilst watching Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe on BBC4 I was particularly struck by a computer game ad from the 1980s featuring Morecambe & Wise. This 30 second clip managed to sum up for me something I have kept a secret for years; I don’t think they’re funny and never have.

ridiculous fish out of water, I stood in a queue for my press pass at the 2009 Damnation Festival in Leeds University Union on a rain splattered late October Saturday. So afeared for my safety amongst the heavy metal rabble that as soon as the polite young man affixing passes to people’s wrists had [...]

If you’re into games, you’d be hard pressed to have been able to avoid the super-mega-enormo-release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 this week.  This is the first game ever to have a full-blown premiere event, a la the movies.  It is, according to initial stats, the fastest selling computer game ever. The hype [...]

For starters I think I should point out that this article is not an ill conceived treatment for the third instalment of the ‘Three Men & a Baby’ series. Although to be frank it would be amazing to hear Steve Guttenberg or Tom Selleck deliver classic pimpology like ‘Bitch, before you met me you weren’t [...]

Art Fist Editor Jon Cronshaw talks about the dark side of ITV’s flagship Saturday night sing-a-thon…
There’s something incredibly sinister about the X-Factor. I could never put my finger on it previous years, but I think I’ve worked it out: the X-Factor is like a bad 1950s science-fiction novel.

Carrying on from our Halloween themed film contributions, former Leeds Sanctuary Nightlife Editor and all round good egg Georgie Bentinck gives The Daily Scoundrel the low down on 13 Ghosts

Right. I know what I’m about to say is going to be quite controversial, but I actually think Thirteen Ghosts is a bloody scary film, and [...]

I almost feel guilty for the fact that I only ever praise things when I write for The Scoundrel. Almost. But if I am to start sounding off about the things I hate in modern film, it certainly won’t start with the new Disney Pixar flick, UP.
UP is beautiful in its simplicity in the way [...]