Deception (2003)

For A C-Grade, made-for-TV release with no actors of great note, this isn’t a bad little watch if there’s nothing else on the shelf that tickles your fancy.
The plot is tight: Erin is a private investigator’s ‘dupe’, the woman they use to lure adulterous men into compromising situations to satisfy jealous wives. Her unpleasant vocation leaves her with no end of possibilities to chose from when she starts receiving threatening phone calls. Could it be that her new love interest has it in for her, too, though?
There’s more than a few twists in the plot, which is engaging enough, and with the right balance of characters/suspects so you don’t get confused – but be prepared, the ending is a little bit of a let-down. Though the film looks very obviously low-budget, the acting is not appalling and there’s lots of soft-porn to fill in the boring spaces.

Mark Ronson – Versions (2007)
On first listen you don’t know whether to love this alum or loathe it. DJ/producer/B-list celebrity Mark Ronson has taken some very classic songs and almost trivialised them in this album of covers – and he’s used some top names to do it. Though his name might only just ring a bell, Ronson is best known for his collaborations on albums by Amy Winehouse, Lilly Allen ad Robbie Williams.

The first song I heard off this album was his dance-track take on The Smith’s classic ‘Stop Me’. Being one of my favourite tracks, I was both aurally offended and intrigued. Was this man performing sacrilege or was he a genius?

You have to hear the rest of the album to realise he is far from a genius but he has produced some of the most cracking tunes you will hear in the summer of 2007.
Parts are awfully pretentious (see: Lilly Allen doing the Kaiser Chiefs and the Coldplay and Britney Spears covers) but then there are standout tracks that will stay with you for days: The Jam’s ‘Pretty Green’ and Maximo Park’s ‘Apply Some Pressure’.

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