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Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis & Beau Bridges.Rated: 15.Story: Max Payne is a New York cop hunting the guy who murdered his wife and child. After some moody investigating, he discovers a link to the new narcotic, Valkyr. He goes on a gun-toting rampage of revenge. It snows a lot.Comments: I have a strange affection for movies based on videogames. This isn't that unlikely, I suppose, given

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Cost: £1 for a small packet.Contents:3 ugly, little plastic creature-things.3 stickers of different little plastic creature-things (also ugly).A sticker album can be bought separately for under £5. Be aware, though, that there are different generations of Gogo's, so make sure you get the right one.Gameplay: Gogo's are the modern alternative to Panini football stickers. Children wander round with

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Rated: 3+.Story: You're an up-and-coming tennis player attempting to win the four Grand Slam tournaments.Gameplay: Create your own player (complete with daft haircut and designer gear) then go play tennis by swinging the wiimote. Timing dictates which direction the ball goes. A combination of button presses and angle of swing determines the type of shot played. Using the d-pad sends you towards

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In another three months, all my children will be at school and I'll be a housedad of leisure, able to spend many happy hours watching daytime TV and then blogging about it to my heart's content. For now, though, I seem to have less time than ever. The boys are staying up later, Sproglette isn't being distracted by her meals for so long and the summer holidays are almost upon us.So many films, so

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Cost: £15.Contents:Game board with 16 fixed maze tiles.34 maze tiles. (One more than fits on the board.)24 treasure cards.4 small plastic figures to use as playing pieces.Gameplay: The treasure cards are divided face down between the players. The maze tiles are laid out on the board. Without showing each other, the players look at the treasure card on top of their piles.On their turn, players

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Rated: 3+ in terms of content. Children under seven seem to struggle with the controls, though.Story: There isn't really even an attempt at a story this time round. The levels have circus, space, pirate and hero themes and are populated by wacky animal blocks but nothing ties them together.Gameplay: BOOM BLOX Bash Party is probably best described as a puzzle game. The majority of levels consist

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Starring: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey & Tom Cruise.Rated: 15.Story: The filming of an action movie based on a 'true' story from the the Vietnam War goes totally pear-shaped. As a result, the director decides to go for a Blair Witch approach and a bunch of pampered Hollywood actors find themselves wandering the jungles of South East Asia dressed as GIs and waving

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Cost: This set costs around £15 but there are all manner of theme packs and refill kits ranging from between £5 and £20.Contents: 1200 little balls (in a selection of colours) which look like they're made of plastic but that go sticky in water.Snap-shut case divided into compartments for the different colours of bead.Dropper pen.4 sheets of patterns.Pattern holder with a see-through, dimpled

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Rated: U.Story: In the original Night at the Museum, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) takes a job as a night guard at the New York Natural History Museum, only to discover that the exhibits come to life after dark thanks to the power of a magical Egyptian tablet.In this one, the exhibits get shipped off to the Smithsonian and some nefarious wax-works, including Napoleon and Al Capone, take the

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Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and an absolutely vast amount of swearing.Rated: 15.Story: Er... I suppose there was a story somewhere. Let me think... Oh, yeah... A group of people in Washington DC go through mid-life crises over their work, appearance, marriages and/or sex lives. Through a series of affairs and a misplaced CIA disk, their

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Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and a whole lot of other talented people.Rated: 12A. There isn't much tension and there are only a few 'scary' bits, so children who are a little younger could probably cope. Everything moves so fast, though, they'll spend the whole time asking you what's going on.Story: Someone remembers that, once upon a time, Star Trek was fresh and exciting. They try to

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Starring: Jason Statham and Natalya Rudakova's freckles.Rated: 15.Story: Bad guys have kidnapped the daughter of a Ukrainian government minister in an effort to force him to sign contracts with an evil corporation that wants somewhere to dump its bubbling, green toxic waste. For some reason, they decide it's necessary to drag Frank Martin (Statham) out of retirement to ferry the girl about. Since

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Rated: 16+ (which, to be honest, is extremely harsh for some gore-free shooting and a bit of mild swearing).Story: You are Raymond Bryce, the only guy on the planet with worse luck than Jack Bauer. While working for a crisis management team in a West Coast US city, Ray discovers that the sister of an old friend has been kidnapped and he sets out to rescue her. His day starts with terrorists, then

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Starring: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart and Uma Thurman.Rated: 12.Story: Michael Jennings (Affleck) is an electronics genius who secretly reverse engineers technology for big corporations. They lock him in a lab for months, he steals their competitors ideas and then they wipe his memory so no one finds out. In return, he gets a huge paycheck.He decides to take one final job, only to wake up

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Starring: Jeremy Irons, Justin Whalin, Zoe McLellan and Richard O'Brien.Rated: 12.Story: In a generic fantasy empire, a small band of adventurers drawn together by fate must embark on a quest to recover a powerful magical artifact, save the empress and defeat an evil sorcerer.And, yes, it does all involve a drunken dwarf, a haughty elf, a sneering henchman, some wandering around in a forest and

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Cost: The RRP is £20 but it seems to be selling for £25 most places.Contents:A pedometer with an attached wire to plug into a wii remote and a socket in which to insert a wire from a wii nunchuk.How it works: The pedometer clips to your belt while playing normal Wii games and counts the number of steps you take. Stop jogging and the Wii no longer receives signals from the thumbstick on the

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Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen.Rated: 18.Story: An eighteenth century barber has his wife and child stolen by a wicked judge who gets him transported to a penal colony. Years later, the barber returns, seeking revenge. When his plans don't go well, he takes out his frustration by giving a whole load of customers very close shaves and

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Rated: 3+ but play requires strong reading skills and a good deal of general knowledge - under-12s don't have much hope.Gameplay: There are three modes: Classic multiplayer: This is essentially a computerised version of the standard Trivial Pursuit board game. Travel round the board answering questions in categories such as History or Entertainment. Get a question right and you get to take

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Starring: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson and, oh my goodness, is that Ian McShane!? (Remember Lovejoy?)Rated: 18. (Apparently it's only a 15 on DVD, although I have to assume it's still a bloody tale of revenge, featuring convicts murdering each other using killer cars. Perhaps there's less gore or they bleep out all the swearing. Who knows?)Story: In the near future, a former racing driver gets

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Cost: £2 per issue. (New issues come out every three weeks or so.)Contents:A 36-page magazine, about 3 pages of which are adverts and 3 are simply pictures.'Free gifts'. The copy I was forced to buy had a sheet of stickers and a lip gloss case in the shape of a mobile phone.Age: The target age is 3-9 years. Half the puzzles are things like word searches which are beyond most four-year-olds,

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Starring: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman & Angelina Jolie.Rated: 18.Story: A guy with a dull cubicle job and a rubbish life gets recruited by a pretty girl into a secret organisation. Before long, it turns out he has special powers enabling him to leap like an acrobat, drive like a maniac and bend the trajectory of bullets like... like... er, Elmer Fudd?So, essentially, it's The Matrix without the

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Rated: 3+.Story: King and Queen White have gone on holiday, leaving their son Fritz in charge. King Black sees an opportunity for some mischief and challenges Fritz to a duel.With the help of his cousin Bianca, King Kaleidoscope and a water rat, Fritz must learn to play Chess. The future of the kingdom depends on it...Gameplay: Fritz & Chesster starts off with a handful of minigames to teach the

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Cost: £30.Contents:30 painted plastic figures.Lots and lots of interlocking board tiles of various shapes and colours.16 army cards listing the stats and abilities of the different units.A stack of counters.16 order markers.12 6-sided battle dice. (3 sides have skulls, 2 shields and 1 is blank.)1 20-sided dice.Gameplay: The three-dimensional board of hexagonal spaces is put together from layers

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Rated: 16+.Story: In a city of the near future where Big Brother has taken control, you are Faith, a courier who carries illicit information for her clients, sprinting over rooftops to evade the authorities.Then your sister gets framed for murder and it's up to you to discover what's going on.This involves much jumping, somersaulting and falling great heights to your doom. Again and again and

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It's time, once again, to return the links DadsDinner.com has received from other sites. But first, let's contemplate a few of the more unusual phrases that have led anonymous web searchers here.Some of these people have found exactly the opposite of what they wanted, such as the person searching for "great gifts for dads that do not like gameboys". Sorry about that.Scarily, others discovered

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