Review

Set in the ‘70s and early ‘80S, this conspiracy thriller recounts the true-life tale of the Norwegian divers who risked their lives to lay a pipeline on the ocean floor when oil and gas were discovered in the North Sea. Headhunters ’ Aksel Hennie rocks a quality moustache as star …

Mark Cousins follows his 15-hour opus The Story Of Film with a comparatively bite-sized discourse on how world cinema has depicted childhood. The result is a dizzying compilation of clips connected, rather preciously, by footage of his niece and nephew playing with marbles. Cousins introduces excerpts from some 53 titles …

Episode 2.15 Writers: Jake Coburn & Ben Sokolowski Director: Glen Winter THE ONE WHERE: As Oliver confronts Slade in his own home we flash back to the storming of the Amazo… THE VERDICT: I recently moaned that the island scenes have felt fiftful and inconclusive this season. “The Promise” addresses …

There are three certainties you can count on in life: death, taxes, and Dynasty Warriors. The famous button-mashing hack-n-slasher is known less for its innovation between titles and more for releasing a new, slightly upgraded edition every handful of months. The latest iteration in the series is (deep breath) Dynasty …

I am one with my aircraft. Piloting through the mustard-colored skies, I weave a parabolic path through a seemingly endless array of bullets, bombs, and bandits. I cut my engines, let my jet plummet to the ground like a lead weight, training my sights on my prey. With a squeeze …

Largely improvised by its cast of unknowns and sparingly shot by director Jon Sanders ( Late September ), this zero-budget drama follows widow Julia (Anna Mottram) as she mourns the death of her theatre director husband. While a small circle of close friends and acting acquaintances prepare to gather at …

Plot For Peace begins as it ends, with a round of Patience. It’s a game very much like life, observes our mysterious card player – who once spent years trying to deal the world a better hand. Every bit as compelling as any Hollywood political thriller, this fascinating documentary tells …

The world’s first digital comics magazine – 99p every week On sale now from Apple Newsstand, the latest edition of the world’s first digital-only comics magazine, packed to bursting with reviews and galleries and previews. There’s also news, a look at the week ahead, an exclusive interview with Peter Milligan …

This long-gestating follow-up to Zack Snyder’s 2006 gore-spiller continues a swords-and-sandals revival that has already suffered one box-office casualty stateside with Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii . Is there an appetite, then, for another belated helping of clanging steel, arterial splatter and rippling six-packs, especially one minus Gerard Butler bellowing “This… …

There’s a certain fun to the incomprehensible. Nippon Ichi (best known for its work on the Disgaea series) knows this idea well, a fact evidenced by its most recent effort, The Witch and the Hundred Knight. That said, constant whimsy can be exhausting, and that fact is also on display …