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May 2013 | Graphic Novel Review 

Dead Space: The graphic Novels

Review by Mervyn Charles

So no one can hear you scream in space? Probably just as well, as Merv Charles finds out when he takes a look into Dead Space...

 

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April 2013 | Music Feature

Heroes & Villains: The Musical Icon

Stemming from LF's Podcast Episode 29, 'Heroes & Villains', we examine that very thin line between what goes into making an artist revered or despised, and, for budding heroes in the making, LF unleashes its 5-step guide to becoming a musical icon...

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April 2013 | Ground Level Podcast

Red Dog Redempition

Ground Level Episode 9

Celebrity Death! How should we react when People Die? North Korea? What's up with them? Cyclists! Should they have licenses to ride? Puppies! Should Lofty get one.

We also bring you our first outside broadcast, er, live, sort of, from the red dog saloon, where we put Denis-Jose to the chilli hot wing test!


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April 2013 | Competition

It's time for...

an Adventure Competition Time!

Adventure Time has consistently been the number one rated show in the US on the Cartoon Network since its debut in April 2010. and LF are very happy to announce our Adventure Time competition in celebration of the release of Adventure Time: Volume One from KaBoom! Studios and Titan Comics!

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April 2013 | Review

The Day: Review

Written by Dan Collacott

We check out tribal apocalyptic thriller The Day as part of our 'films you may have missed' series of reviews. This film may be relatively low budget but it is an intelligently put together survival film, that excels by keeping things simple whilst ramping up the threat levels?


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March 2013 | Horror Review

Errors of the human body

by Dan Collacott

This smart, character-driven bio-engineering drama, is brought to us by Eron Sheean. Set amongst bleak and sparse locations in and around a snow-bound Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, his directorial debut features incredible cinematography and great performances...

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March 2013 | Feature

Utopian Viewing : British TV vs American TV

 

Written by Dan Collacott

Dan Collacott asks if British TV shows like Utopia should be given longer runs and bigger budgets and if British TV can really compete with America for awesome programming?


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February 2013 | Comics Feature

Four Colour Females

by Gavin O'Reilly

Having recently discussed the role of women in media as a whole in the Liberation Frequency Podcast, we though it time we looked at the place of the fairer sex in the funnybooks...

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March 2013 | The LF Podcast

Heroes & Villains

LF Podcast Episode 29

What would a good film, comic or book be without a great villain or an even greater hero? In this episode of the Liberation Frequency, we look at the good guys and bad guys of popular fiction

What makes a great hero? Who are the best villains? Are there heroes where we least expect them? What about... Music? We think there are and have a few candidates!

Also in this episode: Imran tells us all about his experience at a live recording of Later with Jules Holland. Bernice has been to see Django Unchained and Anti-Viral.  Gavin dives deeper into Marvel Now! and Denis-Jose has finally seen The Iron Lady.

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February 2013 | Ground Level Podcast

A wee glass of beer for the road

Ground Level Podcast Episode 08

 It's 11.30pm, you've been drinking since 6 and you're faced with the dreaded one hour tube journey home with a full bladder. How do you survive? Worse, you are stuck in the middle of a ten thousand strong crowd at a rock festival and you badly need to 'go'. what do you do?

Fruit in Beer. Why would you do such a thing? And why would you go to work when you are sick, but happily take a sick day when you are not?

we've got the answers to these questions along with thoughts on Intrusive advertising, the value of detoxing and limp handshakes!

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January 2013 | The LF Podcast

Here come the girls!

LF Podcast Episode 28

In this episode of the LF Podcast, we take a look at the roles of women in genre fiction, specifically film & TV. What are the good, strong female character roles and which movies  are the worst offenders for promoting bad female sterotypes?

There's also a review of last years Top Ten most kick-ass women in sci-fi list.

We also discuss recent trends in film trailers, what we all thought about The Hobbit and which movies we are excited about for 2013. Is 3D Dead now?

Gavin tells us about his christmas pressies, Bernice tells us about All new X-men, Denis has been re-watching Spaced and we all ponder the idea that the world ended in 2012 and we could be living in purgatory...

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January 2013 | Comics Interview

LF Meets... Lighting Strikes

Interview by Gavin O'Reilly

Kicking off 2013, LF talks to the brains behind new Irish comic anthology 'Lightning Strike Presents'. Get in on the ground running on this fresh new venture.

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