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Quick-fix responses to street violence get no shrift in this lengthy but immersive doc from Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and journalist Alex Kotlowitz. The filmmakers spent 14 months with CeaseFire, “violence interrupters” who intervene in altercations between Chicago’s inner-city gangs. Credibility being crucial, the interrupters all have law-breaking previous – …

Another nuanced turn from Kristin Scott Thomas anchors this respectful if didactic adap of Tatiana de Rosnay’s bestseller. KST plays an American journo in Paris researching a story about the Vel d’Hiv raid in 1942 (recently dramatised in The Round Up) in which thousands of Jews were deported to German …

There’s nothing in sports more traditional than college football, which is why it feels so subversively sweet to destroy much of it with a few clicks of a button. We no longer need to moan about BCS inequities or conference imbalances; NCAA Football 12 lets us alter the landscape of …

Less a traditional chase thriller, more a study of self-reinvention, Eric Laritgau’s film follows Parisian lawyer Paul (Romain Duris), who accidentally kills his wife’s lover in a scuffle. With echoes of Antonioni’s The Passenger, Paul fakes his own death and adopts the deceased man’s identity, fleeing to Montenegro where his …

The thirtieth anniversary isn’t pearl or diamond. No, if Galaga Legions DX is any indication, the proper way to mark the occasion is extending its legacy with a remastered, rethought, and massively rejiggered version of the shmup classic that came out in 1981. To be sure, DX barely resembles the …

Transformers: Dark of the Moon doesn’t suck – which in and of itself is pretty good for a summer blockbuster’s obligatory game tie-in. But really, it’s not all that surprising – it’s developed by High Moon, the same studio that created last year’s excellentWar for Cybertron (opens in new tab). …

When you name your game FEAR, it had better be scary. The original FEAR jumped on the J-horror bandwagon and practically copy-pasted the black-haired ghost girl from The Ring, and it worked well the first time around with its “is she there out of the corner of my eye?” antics. …

There are enough borrowed core mechanics from other popular games found woven all throughout the fabric of Outland that you could make a drinking game out of calling them out. Developer Housemarque did its due diligence in strip-mining classics like Super Metroid, Ikaruga, and Prince of Persia – to name …

What were you doing on 24 July last year? You could’ve been uploading a video on YouTube hoping it might feature in this much-discussed user-generated documentary. With 80,000 clips submitted, amounting to over 4,500 hours of material, the odds of that happening were admittedly slight. If you succeeded, though, congratulations! …

For British squaddie turned prison guard Sam Norwood (James D’Arcy), policing the wings at fictional HMP Romwell is a case of “same shit, different uniform”. But with only one officer for every 35 cons, it’s no surprise when things kick off in a thriller which begins promisingly before descending into …