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Wham, bam, thank you, Sam. Through the exclamatory prose and plumes of cigar smoke, a passion for life, people and stories blazes forth from Hollywood maverick Samuel Fuller’s autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale Of Writing, Fighting And Filmmaking. Passion begets passion here in daughter Samantha’s heartfelt tribute, where a …

An actor in crisis who gets locked out of his theatre in his undies? It’s Birdman, right? No, actually. Barry Levinson’s take on Philip Roth’s novel The Humbling (the film’s original title, incidentally, before this rather generic UK re-titling) sees Al Pacino play Simon Axler, a Shakespearean thesp who loses …

There’s just a pinch of The X-Files in the way that “Broken Arrow” opens: torch-flashing security guards, a mysterious, supernaturally-powered figure in the shadows and a grisly bit of blood-letting to take us into the credits (the splattered TV screen is a particularly grisly touch). Fabled creature performer Doug Jones …

For a few krona more. The western is alive and well (-referenced) in Kristian Levring’s violent horse opera, one of the most exciting cowboy movies to clip-clop onto screens in a while. Stylish, sexy, with a quick-draw narrative, it’s set in 1864 in the small town of Black Creek: a …

Lady gardening? Ooh la la… What attracts an actor to direct? It takes just one scene to discover what Alan Rickman, behind the camera for the first time since 1997’s The Winter Guest and here playing Louis XIV, saw in A Little Chaos. But any thoughts that Rickman the director …

It was about an hour in, once we reached Heide’s Tower of Flame, when we realised that Scholar Of The First Sin is exactly what we wanted it to be. Essentially a rejig of the GamesMaster Game Of The Year 2014 winner we know and love, this current-gen re-release does …

Hang on. Trip’s dead? Why didn’t anybody mention it? Oh hang on – they did. In every bleedin’ scene. At least, that’s what it felt like at times. His death leads to mourning, to guilt, to anger, to accusations, to revenge. It also leads to some downright clunky dialogue and …

It’s never a good sign when you get stuck during a tutorial. Here, the introductory text is telling us to use the left analogue stick to roll and pitch our vehicle in mid-air. ‘The car’s response improves if you activate the jet or air brake’, we’re informed. Hang on a …

Last week’s episode delivered a couple of body blows with the deaths of Noah and Aiden. “Try” was less explosive, but almost as strong. While no one died, it was an hour steeped in tension. As that superb pre-titles sequence showed, people from both sides are quietly falling apart while …

“Oh mein Gott hast du das gesehen? Ich tötete ihn nur mit der zip-line hahaha!” This is the sound a mad German makes when he shoots and kills me with a zipline during a multiplayer match of Battlefield Hardline. I’m sitting opposite him, furious. 50 journalists from across Europe are …