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Splatoon should be the Wii U’s best game. It’s one of the most inventive, joyful, and vibrant shooters in years, bursting with energy and a ton of unique ideas. Nintendo has squirted new life into a genre that, for all its explosive set-pieces and viscera, has grown complacent over the …

When Jack met Jessica. Or rather Nancy… Four Weddings And A Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, er… For whatever reason, Brits don’t do romantic comedies too often or too well, especially if you remove Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant from the equation. Which makes Man Up all the more welcome. With …

A monster mash-up… Chances are you won’t have seen Resolution, the 2012 debut of writer/directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. A critical hit on the horror festival circuit that went straight to DVD in the UK, it was likened to Cabin In The Woods, only smaller, cheaper and even smarter. …

We haven’t played a game this cheerfully meta since we developed Game Dev Story in Game Dev Story. Yes, in screenshots Behold Studios’ super sentai-in may look like ‘merely’ a game about turn-based battling with knock-off Power Rangers, but it actually casts you in the musty costumes of five skint …

She’s the leader of the pack… French arthouse darling Céline Sciamma really hits the mark with this tender, spirited story of a stifled teen rebelling in a tough girl gang on a Parisian sink estate. As in the atmospheric Waterlilies and touching Tomboy, Sciamma captures the energy, stern loyalties and …

A huge surprise in the woods today… For his follow -up to breakout hit Rare Exports, Finnish director Jalmari Helander has gone to Hollywood. Not literally – Big Game is set in Finland, was largely shot in Germany and is not a studio movie – but certainly for inspiration, its …

They’re in the army now… Low in budget, high in concept and brimming with invention and audacity, Gareth Edwards’ Monsters showed you don’t need millions to make a smart, character-full genre picture featuring giant squid-like aliens. It also showed how quickly careers can be made these days, Edwards going straight …

Hardy candy. Long before her namesake kicked ass in the Capitol, there was Thomas Hardy’s Victorian games-player, Bathsheba Everdene. Less passive than Hardy’s most famous heroine, Tess, feisty farmer Bathsheba (Carey Mulligan) tries to play the field, figuratively and literally: a proto-feminist hoping to wed for love rather than obligation, …

Shoot-’em-ups are defined by the amount of space they give you, and in We Are Doomed, you get almost none at all. The action takes place in a claustrophobic rectangular grid populated entirely by enemies who have as much understanding of the concept of personal space as a facehugger. Jellyfish …

Bitter Swede… Read previews for Ruben Östlund’s snowbound comedy-drama which swept the board at the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish Oscars) and you’ll be expecting an off-piste The Impossible. But don’t be fooled. Although it features a family tested by disaster, it’s closer in spirit to a euro-centric Woody Allen flick: a …