Review

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” have been the words on many fans’ lips since Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were given their Imperial Marching orders deep into the shoot of Solo: A Star Wars Story. Who better, after all, than the guys behind The Lego Movie (opens in …

Three episodes in and we’re no closer to understanding what’s going on in Westworld season 2 (opens in new tab). Not really. And while there’s been a few enjoyable revelations and fan-pleasing moments, things so far have been rather… tame? (Now, there’s a word I never thought I’d use to …

Omensight from Spearhead Games is a delightful surprise in this day and age – a colorful game with vibrant characters and a story that, while well told, isn’t super heavy or trying to make us reflect deeply on Big Important Themes with a stern look on our faces. It wants …

There’s a brilliance in Nintendo’s strategy to remaster and re-release games from the Wii U back catalog for the Nintendo Switch (opens in new tab), because it resurfaces excellent titles like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. Most people missed out on Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze the first time around because …

What’s harder than beating up a staircase of thugs or leading a dystopian rebellion? Marlo, Charlize Theron’s exhausted mother of three, barely surviving her newborn’s broken nights and son Jonah’s meltdowns, has it tougher than Furiosa and her Atomic Blonde (opens in new tab) badass combined. In Jason Reitman’s tough, …

There’s a wolverine biting my balls. Which I wasn’t expecting to happen but really need do something about. Far Cry 5 is built on this sort of problem solving. Brilliant, terrible, ‘what was I thinking?!’ or ‘how did this happen’ disaster management where the solution is usually shooting, explosions and …

For one hot second, Lady Bird was ranked 100 per cent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, breaking Toy Story 2 (opens in new tab)’s record as the best-reviewed flick in the site’s history. Of course – as T-Swift might say – haters gonna hate, so that streak is now blemished. But …

Altered Carbon is an age-old murder mystery, set within a thoroughly alien world. While most will struggle to adjust to the hyper-futuristic setting at first, the core premise is immediately relatable. Takeshi Kovacs is released from prison to solve the murder of Laurens Bancroft, because he has a set of …

In many film romances, a belief in finding ‘the one’ is woven deep into the plot fabric. But what if the lead character is a mother-fixated, man-child creative with a profound inability to countenance disturbance or compromise? What might this genius’ chosen ‘one’ look like? Ask Paul Thomas Anderson, who …

Anyone who played the original Life is Strange (opens in new tab) will know just how much of an impact Rachel Amber had on Arcadia Bay. From the missing posters splattered all over town to how she hung like the Ghost of Christmas Past over Chloe. Because of all that …