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Out on Friday 9 September The father adventures of Viggo. Laika’s read strum-dinger. Chris Pine’s criminal enterprise. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of Captain Fantastic, Kubo and the Two Strings, Hell or High Water, Ben-Hur, Don’t Breathe, Theo and Hugo, Anthropoid, The Blue Room, …

In the mood for saving The humble save point is an endangered species in this day and age. Modern games, not wanting to interrupt or burden players with a need to remember to slide a digital bookmark into their progress, either save your game automatically or let you save whenever …

It’s sadly appropriate that Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof’s sci-fi fantasy Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – a film that deals in dichotomy (alternate dimensions! Retro- futurism! Grounded fantasy!) – sits squarely on a score of exactly 50 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, for both critics and audience.  Which somehow narrowly …

I’ve long held the very sensible belief that if a Gears of War movie ever gets made, the only person who could acceptably play Marcus Fenix is Dave Bautista. It’s obvious. The ex-WWE star turned cinematic heavy has the right build, countenance, and almost exactly the same face. Sometimes even …

Out on Friday 19 August Ricky’s office boss goes big screen. A tickling endurance competition gets even weirder than it sounds. Arthur Ransome’s outdoor novel receives the film treatment. Yes, here’s this week’s new releases. Click on for our reviews of David Brent: Life on the Road, Tickled, Swallows and …

For a long time, I’ve bemoaned this generation’s lack of a BioShock moment. Don’t get me wrong, games have been brilliant since 2013. The console hardware has increasingly shown its might, and game designs have evolved very nicely indeed from their last-gen roots. But it’s been a process of small, …

Bethesda has assembled a distinct roster of characters in the last decade, whether by creating instant-classics like Dishonored (opens in new tab), or by buying the talent and/or rights behind existing series like Doom and Fallout. And as Nintendo has proven several times over, the best thing to do with …

Darling, Journey is better down where it’s wetter, take it from me. Then again our Abzu review (opens in new tab) suggests that’s not necessarily the case. Conceived by Journey artistic director Matt Nava and scored by Austin Wintory, the newly released Abzu PS4 bares a striking number of similarities …

Malcolm Goodwin and Rahul Kohli stop by the Loot Crate booth at San Diego Comic Con and talk about their experience creating the new iZombie show. Get a few hints about the upcoming season 3 and more in our interview. 

Spider-Man: Homecoming (opens in new tab) might only be a few days into filming, but director Jon Watts still had a treat for fans in Hall H at San Diego Comic Con (opens in new tab). “We just started shooting, we should actually be shooting right now probably,” he said, …