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An immediate Bruce Springsteen collection in one box. A must have if you want to get into Bruce.

Another reviewer has already stated this, but it matches with my experience so well that I had to write to agree.

Heroes was awesome for the first two seasons. It really was something a little different and, perhaps learning from Lost just before it, it had you wondering what on earth was going on. Unlike Lost though, you weren't completely in the dark and everything was plausible enough and questions were answered quickly enough to keep you really interested in what was going to happen next.

Season 3 struggled to keep this up. The story had been played out in Seasons 1 and 2 and Season 3 seemed to be stringing it out to benefit from the popularity. By Season 4 I was only still watching it because I had put the effort into three seasons already. I hate starting a book and not finishing it. I want to know what the conclusion is and I'll wade through a lot of boring stuff to get to it.

I did watch this to the very end, but, only to see the writers conclusions, and looking back, I can't really recall what the conclusion was. It has slipped from my mind, clearly not impressive enough for me to find a permament shelf in my memory for it.

Perhaps not in the same league of popularity as House with English actor Hugh Grant, Lie To Me still manages to hold your interest in every episode. I agree that at times, Dr. Cal Lightman's infallable ability to know anyhting at all just by looking at a person is overplayed and overused, butm I guess that's the weight that the writers put around their necks when they came up with the concept of a specialist in applied psychology through microexpressions.

Tim Roth's Dr. Cal Lightman character does add more to each episode and his grwoing relationships, with his family and his work colleagues are deep enough to add an extra dimension to this series.

I love Ricky Gervais, he's hilarious and talented, but, let's face it, the movies he's been in, The Invention Of Lying, Ghost Town, Night At The Museum 2, are not movies that I could give any four or even 3 star rating to.

Cemetery Junction is different. Written by Gervais and Merchant and filmed in the UK, Gervais stars in the movie but takes a back seat to the main characters who act out this coming of age tale well. This film is not a laugh a minute gag-fest, rather a well written, flowing story set that is filled with humourous references and well placed humourous asides. Even though Gervais is not the star, his relationship with his live-in mother-in-law is hilarious and suits Gervais down to the ground. Credit to him for not trying to completely steal the limelight in this movie.

Leonard and Sheldon are like our geeky cousins that we keep up to date with via an ultimate future version of Facebook that allows us to see their lives in video rather than just pictures, posts and pokes!

After 3 series of watching them develop and following their relationships, success and failures, it really does feel like they are family memebers that we get regular updates. This is the sign of a TV series that I just couldn't miss. Thy haven't even started to talk about canning the show and I'm already worrying that, at some point, eventually, ultimately, they'll stop making more episodes of The Big Bang Theory. I dread it happening.

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is one of the Top 10 selling albums of all time, with well over 40 million sales worldwide (Top of this list is Michael Jackson's Thriller with over 110 million sales worldwide, but no other album has even half as many sales as that).

Even if you're not familiar with the album, we've pretty much all heard tracks from as they a re-used so often in so many movies, documentaries and ads. Tracks like Don't Stop and Go Your Own Way. If you don't recognise those names, I'm sure you'll recognise the songs when you hear them played.

Rumours was Fleetwood Mac's 11th album and was significantly more successful than practically every album they had released prior to this.

Daniel Craig is Bond. In just this one movie he has established himself as the best James Bond of the lot. I know that we all relate to whichever actor played James Bond when we were kids, but, putting that childhood attachment aside, Daniel Criag has created an excellent younger, grittier and far more realistic Bond character than we've ever seen before. The Bond franchise is surely going to be all the better for it.

Orwell certainly experienced some of the extremes of life, all of which undoubtedly helped him produce the works that he did. Reading Down and Out in London and Paris, I was enthralled and amazed at the life Orwell had had.

This was an excellent read and I would highly recommend it.

The West Wing is magnificent TV.

Fast paced, intelligent insight into the day to day operation of the White House and its staff, even for a UK viewer this series quickly becomes unmissable after watching just a few episodes.

A rock musical, based on a black comedy, with Steve Martin. I was always going to love this movie.

The comedy songs are the main stars of this film, which does no disservice to the stars who play in it, it just recognises how good the songs and lyrics are.

I'm a musicals man, you can tell from many of my other reviews, but, I love the French too and this marvellously orignal french movie can be added to my Top 10 movies even though it lacks the song and dance numbers that make any movie for me.

Amélie's originality, Its original French title is Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain meaning "The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain", has sparked many copies and references in homage to this great visual feast and heart-warming tale.

The american TV series Pushing Daisies is based heavily on the look and feel of Amélie and in the Disney animated blockbuster, Up In The Air, a subplot shows a cardboard cutout of the heroes sister photographed in interesting places. They refer to this as 'like that gnome in the french movie'

The BBC really seems to have got Doctor Who right with this series. Matt Smith is an excellently quirky Doctor and the writing for each episode of this series is fantastic. SOme of the story lines have real depth. And, the spcial effects, sets and onl ocation shooting are fantastic. Gone are the days of men dressed up in poorly fitting monster suits. The creatures and characters in this latest series of Doctor Who really stack up to modern day standards.

The Hangover takes the well used plot of men celebrating a friends last big night before marriage and makes it properly funny again.

As our heroes try to unravel their actions during a riotous night out in Las Vegas, the plot takes more twists and turns than San Francisco's Lombard Street. Always in pursuit of their missing friend Doug, the guys retrace thier steps and unravel the few clues that they have to track him down and to deal with the consequences of what is either the best, or the worst, night of their lives.

Another film that has a firm and unshakable slot in my Top 10 movies. I can't remember what led me to watch this film originally as it never had a huge launch campaign, but the discovery of this movie was a real treat.

Because I'm recommending it, I need to add one caveat. If you're not a fan of the potty mouth, then I think that the number of expletives in this movie will more than muddy your ability to enjoy it. Don't get me wrong, this is not vulgar, crass swearing to offend, but it is swearing. Constant swearing. Every sentence swearing. Swearing in the middle of words swearing.

Ken and Ray are hitmen that need to lay low after a job and they have been sent to Bruges by their gangster boss Harry. All they need to do is to lie low and enjoy the city until word comes about what they should do next.

Their tourist activities show Bruges as the best and the worst city in Europe to visit.

Ken: Coming up?

Ray: What's up there?

Ken: The view.

Ray: The view of what? The view of down here? I can see that down here.

Ken: Ray, you are about the worst tourist in the whole world.

Ray: Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.

This excellent movie, that falls firmly into the black comedy category, won Martin McDonagh a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.

If you read all of my reviews youll see that musicals always score highly in my ratings. I suppose some people would argue that all musicals are chick-flicks to some extent but Mamma Mia deifintely falls more into the girls film category than most.

The story of single mother Donna, bringing up beautiful daughter Sophie on a remote Greek island certainly shows solidarity with the female viewers. Even so, this excellent movie appeals to all, and, as it is set to an ABBA soundtrack, could not possibly fail to impress. And impress it did. Mamma Mia is the third highest grossing musical film of all time after Grease at number 1 and Chicago at number 2. I bet Pierce Brosnan never thought he would be a principal character in a movie that achieved that accolade!

Mad Men is an exquisite TV Series both with its plot lines and with the visual imagery that it presents to the viewers. Retro classics are everywhere and the scriptwriters take every opportunity to remind us how, not that long ago, the health and safety department was never able to prevent any village fetes from going ahead. Hard smooking, hard drinking Mad Men.

Red Dead Redemption is proving that even in the middle of a recession, a minor heatwave, and with a shortage of supply for the PS3 version, they can still pull off an attention grabbing launch, generating £10m worth of sales in the first two days.

Read Dead Redemption (RDR) is produced by Rockstar Games, of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) fame, and firmly shows that Rockstar are no one trick pony. Put on top of this the fact that RDR, like GTA is an adult only content game and you can see how great games will generate great sales.