The upcoming Netflix movie Mute might fix one of the biggest problems with the future dystopias of many sci-fi flicks. At least personally speaking, one thing that’s always bothered me about such films is that their worlds are portrayed as so different from ours that they become difficult to believe …

Ever since it was revealed in January 2017, Square Enix’s Project Octopath Traveler has held Switch owners’ attention (opens in new tab). The game combines 16-bit era sprites and textures with 3D environments to create a sort of high-definition retro aesthetic (or “HD-2D” as the developers have described it), which …

Welp. Star Trek Discovery (opens in new tab) episode 13 was a wild ride. At the risk of sounding like a broken record every week: Watch. This. Show. Seriously. For those of you who haven’t caught up (or haven’t even boarded the Discovery yet, for shame!) then there are big …

Get a good crew together and Sea of Thieves (opens in new tab) is some of the most fun you can have without getting keelhauled, but you’ll also plow through pretty much everything the beta has to offer real quick. Developer Rare has avoided spelling out just how much of …

Running a country is, we’re sure, a messy, awkward business and so, much of the time, is Dragon Age: Inquisition (opens in new tab). Consider Skyhold, the game’s gradually restored mountaintop fortress that is the most obvious manifestation of your power as Inquisitor, but which often inspires a sense of …

Between fires ravaging California, hurricanes decimating Caribbean islands, earthquakes rocking Mexico and countless other natural disasters, 2017 was one of the most destructive years on record. Art imitates life, so some of last year’s news reports are bound to inspire creatives in entertainment – or at least their financiers – …

The Walking Dead season 8 (opens in new tab) is going to be returning with a bumper episode. After the biting events of the mid-season finale, there’s going to be a lot of ground to cover. Not only is the episode going to deal with everything that happened with that …

Star Trek Discovery (opens in new tab) continues to be one of the most engaging shows going right now. The giant watercooler that is the internet keeps bubbling over with discussion, ‘Did you see that?’ moments and even some reactions that, if you aren’t watching already, will make you want …

“The first thing you’ll learn is that nothing is what it seems…” This is the opening line of the first episode of Altered Carbon and it couldn’t be more apt. Its true that given the popularity of sci-fi dystopian series and the trend for body-swapping stories, you might think you …

Election (opens in new tab), About Schmidt (opens in new tab), Sideways (opens in new tab), Nebraska (opens in new tab) – you might say that the films of Alexander Payne contain microscopic studies of masculinity, featuring men who try to find their own small place in the world… but …