Opening with a montage of viral web clips (the double rainbow guy, the surprised kitty, the streaker who runs into a glass door…), We’re The Millers sets the tone early. Just as funny, forgettable and dumb as watching a naked idiot knock himself out, Rawson Marshall Thurber’s comedy is destined …
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Killer Is Dead isn’t interested in being mainstream, and that’s a refreshing feeling when retail games becoming increasingly homogenized. If you’re in tune with the action game’s post-modern, macabre vibe, then Killer Is Dead is an invigorating break from the norm. Sadly, it’d be easier to get in tune with …
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I am a straight up and down sucker for old British science fiction movies. You know the sort, filled with quiet country villages, salt-of-the-Earth farmers and UNKNOWABLE DOOM FROM BEYOND THE STARS! (Cue the theremin). The various Quatermass es ( Quatermi ?), X The Unknown , everything John Wyndham wrote, …
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Bastard Zane is a numbercruncher, an operative of the afterlife. As his name suggests, Bastard is not the normal angel. A former cockney enforcer, he was murdered and begged for one more year with the love of his life. As he did so, a contract appeared in front of him …
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Cubetractor is a 16-bit action-puzzler that’s simple enough, stylistically and mechanically, to have been released as a console game in the mid-’90s. That’s how it gets you. It has a two-button control scheme that can be mastered in seconds, and it’s almost entirely unburdened by a story, barring a few …
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Royally fed-up with living under their parents’ roofs and rules, best mates Joe (Nick Robinson) and Patrick (Gabriel Basso) turn runaways, building a makeshift shack in the woods. First-timers Jordan Vogt-Roberts (director) and Chris Galletta (writer) march on well-worn terrain with fresh confidence; their coming-of-ager dishes up laughs and lyricism, …
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The American dream gets a going-over in Laurent Cantet’s (Palme d’or winner The Class ) absorbing adap of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel. Set in a mid-’50s small town in upstate New York, it follows the Foxfire gang: led by charismatic Legs (Raven Adamson), they’re a group of female teens fighting …
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The Black Guard book review . Like a blindfolded mugger that’s been spun around several times and pointed in the wrong direction, The Black Guard , the first in AJ Smith’s meticulously planned Long War series, takes a while to grab you. After Ro Canarn is brutally sacked by colourful …
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