Monday, October 19, 2009 metrolife 13 Instant Win Digital Lottery Game from Rehab Lotteries C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Instant Win Digital Lottery Game from Rehab Lotteries route They just wanna: Quinns film 32A focu-ses on the plight of a gaggle of teenage girls trying to find their way in a hostile world Brtal Legend X360, 57 (also on PS3) From the mind of Tim Schafer (Monkey Island and Psychonauts) comes a game inspired by heavy metal conventions. As Eddie Riggs (pictured, voiced with gusto by Jack Black), you are the best roadie in the industry. A freak accident transports you to an album art landscape where a rebel band of humans fight Lord Doviculus. You progress through the open-world environment, recruiting an army and hacking demonic enemies. Your primary weapons are your axe, your guitar and the awesome hot rod Deuce; to upgrade your abilities you just visit the superbly funny Ozzy Osbourne in his lair. Theres an odd strategy element to some of the action but Brtal Legend is a triumph of style, vision and gameplay. Scribblenauts DS, 34 Every once in a while a game makes you ask: How did they do that? Scribblenauts is one such game. On one level, this is just another puzzle game and not a particularly good-looking one. But the task of getting from one place to another has never been so full of wonder. Type in the name of an object and it will appear and you can try to use it to help you. To jump over a chasm, you could type in cannon and a giant one will appear that might be able to fire you across. While only a few will work, the beauty lies in finding out how the game can match your warped sensibilities. Its an amazing achievement and allows for incredible tangents of imagination. Unfortunately, the stylus controls suck ruining much of the game and overall presentation is weak. Still genius, though. STATE OF PLAY Games reviews with Steven Fox she says. I still meet people to this day who are annoyed that the bouncers never let them in or their parents wouldnt let them go. Although Quinn spent much of her earlier career as an actress, taking minor roles in television shows such as Law & Order and films such as Who Shot Andy Warhol?, 32A has given her inspiration to continue working as a writer-director. Now living in Leitrim, she is concocting another low-budget film, Son, set in Irelands northwest. The story may be contemporary, with a small cast, but Quinn is not about to start appeasing the naysayers. Never wait for permission and if need be always do it yourself, she concludes. That, I believe, is the only way a filmmaker can survive. 32A is available on DVD now Monday, October 19, 2009 metrolife 13 Frozen River Axiom Films, 15, 18 Staying In DVD Reviews DVD Of The Week X-Men Origins: Wolverine Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (12) Rudo & Cursi Optimum Home Entertainment, 15, 20 Bitten Brightspark Productions, 18, 17 Hugh Jackman (pictured) admirably delivers the primal goods as the lead mutant here but he cant help this suspense- free howler of a spin-off that only the most diehard of X-men fans will love. Perhaps trying to revive the franchise clock after the underwhelming X-Men: The Last Stand, this fourth instalment (actually a prequel set about 15 years before the first film) delves into the mysterious past of Wolverine/Logan. Starting with our sideburned superheros tortured childhood in the 1840s, it reveals, among other (mostly uninteresting things), his troubled relationship with half- brother Victor (aka Sabretooth, played by Liev Schreiber), his membership in the top secret government program Team X, a great love affair and the experimental procedure that left him packing his indestructible adamantium claws. With such scope in subject matter, the potential was there for a ripping backstory befitting the X- Men favourite but what you get is a plodding, unimaginative history lesson that predictably joins the dots with a string of action sequences overly reliant on CGI. Ultimately, theres really nothing here that couldnt have been squeezed into a few flashback sequences of the previous X-Men films. X-tremely disappointing Extras: Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins, deleted and alternate scenes. Damian Tully-Pointon Who she? surprise of this years Oscars was 39-year-olds Melissa Leos nomination for Best Actress: her previous career high being beating Julia Roberts to a role in TV soap All My Children back in 1984. You sure cant argue with her powerhouse turn as a white, trailer trash mom, desperately trying to keep her children off the bread line whilst her wayward husband is off gambling. So desperate, in fact, that she turns her hand to the high-risk business of smuggling people across the Canadian border with her unlikely partner, a gruff young Mohawk woman (Misty Upham). Quentin Tarantino dubbed this Ascendance hit the most exciting thriller Ive seen this year... It took my breath away! A gush too far. Still, a life or death chase across the frozen river borderland is indeed a guaranteed breath- taker. Whilst writer/director Courtney Hunts tough-hearted indie debut admirably detours from the buddy-chick-flick route well-travelled by Thelma And Louise. Extras: interviews with Leo and Hunt; stills gallery; trailer. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh Rudo & Cursi reunites Y Tu Mama Tambien co-stars (and real-life best buddies) Gael Garca Bernal and Diego Luna. The photogenic pair recreate their previous on-screen chemistry playing bickering half-brothers both blessed with some fancy footwork and hoping to become Mexicos answer to David Beckham. As they climb the slippery slope to fame and fortune, Rudo (Luna) takes on a Wag and a burgeoning pop career while Cursi (Bernal) acquires a gambling problem. Both leads seem to be having a ball and share a great sense of comic timing, especially Bernal who as the sweet-natured Cursi has the idiot savant routine down pat. Their committed performances, a sharp, witty script and snappy direction which fizzes with energy by Alfonso Cuarns brother Carlos, more than make up for the clichs the film tends to lapse into. Down to the final nail-biting shoot out, Rudo & Cursi is a bittersweet gem of a film which will have you cheering wildly from the sidelines regardless of whether youre a footy fan or not. Extras: interviews, trailer. Ann Lee Twilight has a lot to answer for. DVD bargain bins are groaning under the weight of inferior vampire-themed product and Bitten is another abysmal addition to an already iffy genre. Starring the resolutely rubbish Jason Mewes (Jay from the Jay And Silent Bob films, thankfully leaving obnoxious sidekick Kevin Smith at home this time) who is so one-note he makes Danny Dyer look like Johnny Depp, Bitten sees Mewes play an ambulance driver who finds battered woman Dominika in the street, takes her home and discovers shes a vampire! Boredom ensues. The witless writers hope peppering pedestrian dialogue with a bit of effing and jeffing makes for edgy entertainment. No! Its still just juvenile rubbish with a potty mouth and, to ram the point home, Dominika is soon jiggling her boobs about and having a lesbian sex session, concluded with a bloody twist done a billion times better in Cabin Fever. Will Dominikas penchant for nudity and blood sucking stand in the way of romance? Who cares! Its rubbish! Extras: Scene selection. Andrew Williams index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html