Review

Sony’s adorable Sackboy is back, bringing the “play, create, share” mantra into LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita, the fourth entry in the puzzle-platforming series. The intrepid, happy-go-lucky, walking ball of yarn fits in right at home on the new handheld; taking advantage of the PS Vita’s touch controls in a way that …

Your controller should beware, because things are going to get a little nasty. Thanks to the introduction of True Performance Skating in NHL 13, most of the tactics for success you’ve used the past few years won’t work anymore. While the controls are the same–move with the left stick, shoot …

• A very silly, fast-paced, but amusing romp. Kind of like how “The Curse Of The Black Spot” should have been, but wasn’t. The story may not be the greatest ever, but it absolutely nails the correct tone. • Although it may be a little too fast-paced to begin with. …

We’ve all told little white lies, right? Harmless enough, we think. Until the moment when the lie turns round and severely bites us on the arse. Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) tells lies. Not maliciously; she’s charming and vivacious, and she wants things to be nice for her and her friends. And …

The core elements of the Counter-Strike series haven’t changed much since the original Half-Life mod emerged in 1999. That trend continues with the newest update, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for better and worse. Though the $15 downloadable title keeps the core of the series’ gameplay alive, preserving the traditional maps, gun …

Trent Richardson is hurting. The Browns’ rookie, fresh off an NCAA championship at Alabama, has gotten a painful introduction to life in the NFL. Somewhere in the midst of being tackled by several Philadelphia Eagles, his head was forcefully twisted one direction while his body continued forward in the other. …

Twenty years after Baraka , his last globe-trotting banquet for the senses, Ron Fricke returns with a sequel of sorts… or, Samsara being a Sanskrit word for the circle of existence, a cyclical continuation. Four years in the making, Fricke’s film is a non-verbal tour of the rituals and patterns …

Having convinced America aliens were invading in 1938, Orson Welles mused on art-as-deception in this 1974 pic considered his last classic. Jumping off from a BBC commission about art forger Elmyr De Hory, Welles uses blink/ miss editing to stitch up a mischievous mash of mock-doc, magic show, lecture and …

28 Weeks Later. Predator 2. xXx: State Of The Union . Just a few of the pictures that have tried to perpetuate a franchise without their original stars on board. To their number we can now add The Bourne Legacy , a continuation of the Robert Ludlum-inspired spy series without …

Michelangelo Antonioni’s first film in colour, dating from 1964, has his regular muse Monica Vitti as a mentally disturbed woman traipsing through a bleak industrial wasteland with young son in tow. Lacking sympathy from her husband she embarks on a joyless affair with his associate (Richard Harris, uncomfortably cast). Fans …