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With the end in sight, Star Trek Discovery season 2 (opens in new tab) stops messing around and gets down to business with a revelatory episode about the Star Trek Discovery Red Angel (opens in new tab), which moves the story forward, but leaves more than a few plot holes …

Ashen is not a terribly original game. But that doesn’t make it a terrible game – in fact, far from it. As far as copycats and coattail riders go, it’s possibly the best game to use the Dark Souls formula that isn’t made by FromSoftware. Or at the very least, …

Hip-hop musician turned filmmaker Boots Riley makes a confident writing/directing debut with this riotous blend of comedy, satire, and sci-fi, in which a telemarketer discovers the key to success. Tackling race, capitalism, and wage slavery with a ribald insouciance, the results start hilarious and segue into outlandish before becoming increasingly …

I don’t think 10-year-old me could have imagined Pokemon Yellow looking this good. There’s something rather magical about seeing an Onix emerge from the rocks of Mt. Moon, so big it can’t quite fit on the screen; or seeing just how tiny Pikachu looks against the hulking mass of a …

The Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 gaming headset is a curious piece of tech. Turtle Beach itself is one of the most exciting, and reliable names in gaming audio, and the Elite series is the manufacturer’s premium set of cans – aimed squarely at the pro and very serious competitor …

I can’t think of any other video game studios who have fallen from grace and rose confidently back out of the ashes twice within the space of four years but, then again, Bungie never has been one to adhere to conventional patterns, has it? With 2014’s Destiny (opens in new …

I don’t have a particularly deep well of nostalgia for the Commodore 64. Though Retro Games Ltd., makers of the C64 Mini, are quick to point out that it’s the best selling home computer of all time, for me it’s a weird machine that lived in a dusty room at …

Situated in the fictional town of Snowbridge in upstate New York, the First Reformed Church is a white clapboard box with its steeple jabbing accusatorially at the grey, possibly empty heavens. It is presided over by Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a former military chaplain whose sparse life is one …

A year after fellow Brit Nick Broomfield, Kevin Macdonald tackles the enigma that is Whitney Houston in this sure-footed documentary. The difference from Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I Be Me is huge. Macdonald’s film is authorised, with full access to family and friends thanks to Whitney’s sister-in-law Pat Houston, who takes …

Winter’s Bone director Debra Granik’s latest feature is a deceptively simple work – and all the better for it. A father-daughter tale, it’s adapted from Peter Rock’s 2009 book My Abandonment, which itself was inspired by a true story. Ben Foster plays Will, a war veteran living with his daughter …