Review

Dragon’s Dogma is like a precociously intelligent teenager, in the sense that it has ideas beyond those of its peers, but struggles to explain itself. There’s no better example than the game’s rushed opening, which drops you into the armored boots of a warrior about to face a giant chimera. …

“I’m only harming myself,” reckons one of London’s casual cokeheads. Oh yeah? Rachel Seifert’s rigorous doc follows the “war on drugs” from Colombian jungles to Wire -tapped Baltimore to highlight the appalling human cost involved in snorting the occasional gram. Interviewing everyone from presidents to prisoners, Seifert lays bare a …

There’s a fantastic moment halfway through Max Payne 3. The titular hero has reached his boiling point, shaved his head, and gone underground into Sao Paolo’s gritty favelas. Things are looking down. A local gang has robbed him of guns, watch, and even his sunglasses. He’s been kicked into a …

Episode 2.07 Writers : David Benioff and DB Weiss Director : David Nutter THE ONE WHERE Jon is tempted, Jaime mounts an escape bid and Daenerys goes in search of her stolen dragons. VERDICT Oh dear Dany. Perhaps if you’d spent a little less time moaning like a spoiled brat …

Who is Michael E Briant? It’s a question even pretty knowledgeable Doctor Who fans can be forgiven for scratching their heads at. Briant helmed half a dozen of the Time Lord’s ‘70s adventures (including much-loved tales “The Green Death” and “Robots Of Death”), but has a lower profile than some …

After their teacher’s suicide, a grieving class gets an unlikely replacement in Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag). Philippe Falardeau’s intricate drama (a Best Foreign Language Film nominee) inverts ‘inspirational teacher’ clichés; Lazhar’s as troubled as his pupils but touchy-feely sentiment is actively thwarted by a ban on teacher/student contact. …

What do you get if you cross a Norse god-king with an ego the size of a planet, a nervy science boffin with gigantic anger issues, a WW2 super-soldier with a very silly costume and a genius billionaire playboy with flying armour? Arguments, obviously. With great power comes great banter …

Freddy meets Hollyoaks meets Emmerdale meets The Bill in this cheap-as-chips horror mash-up, featuring TV’s finest – and Robert Englund, in a pointless five-minute cameo. Cockney lycans go nose-to-knockers with dancing girls in a London nightclub; the script’s very funny but with the exception of the charismatic Simon Phillips (as …

The One Where: The Lannisters catch up with Arya and Gendry, Theon chooses his side and Tyrion plays politics. Verdict: Things are heating up in all sorts of interesting ways this week in Westeros in an episode that neatly captures everything we’ve grown to love about this wicked and warped …

What if we turned our head to the left and looked at the blocks from this angle? What if we jumped every time there was a slanted line, and held the left trigger whenever there was a square? What if the secret to opening this door involves standing still for …