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Sex was always an important ingredient of Hammer horror, from the moment Christopher Lee’s Dracula swept down the stairs of his castle, setting female pulses racing. But as the British studio entered the more permissive era of the ‘70s, the two-backed beast increasingly began to eclipse the befanged bloodsucker. Based …

Sept 4, 2007 The main innovation in Airborne, and the one most obvious from the title, is that you play Boyd Travers, a paratrooper in the US Airborne Division. The tactic of dropping soldiers into enemy territory from planes was a new one for the ’40s, and it’s one of …

Being welcomed back to the world of LittleBigPlanet 3 by the dulcet tones of Stephen Fry is a little bit like sinking into a warm bath of – probably Earl Grey scented – PlayStation charm. And there it is already. The offensive ‘c’ word. Well at least now it’s out …

Poor Sonic. He’s just a hyper-speed hedgehog stuck with a permanent 1990’s rude ‘tude, trying to make it in the modern world. It doesn’t help that he ends up starring in a lot of games that aren’t tailor made for him, like Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for the 3DS. It …

In thousands of years’ time, after some Great Event that probably happens and buries us all under metres of dust, future archaeologists will dig us up, and what will they find? Amongst the rubble, bones, and Nokia 3310s, our legacy will be billions upon billions of Lego bricks, a remnant …

Whistleblow while you work The dilemma that faces every whistleblower is surely what to do with their explosive info. So it goes for director Laura Poitras, whose Edward Snowden doc has incredible, as-it-happens access, but absolutely no idea how to present it. She bookends the lengthy second act – spent …

You think you’ve never been to Far Cry 4’s Kyrat before, but you have. Many times, in fact. Level the Himalayan backdrop, strip out the regional touches – wandering sherpas who’ll sell you rocket launchers, tumbled statues of the Buddha, those godforsaken Honey Badgers – and you’re left, basically, with …

The feature debut of Irish director brothers Rob and Ronan Burke, Standby is a gentle, funny rom-com for which the term ‘heart-warming’ might have been coined. Alan (Brian Gleeson, son of Brendan) lives a dead-end life, manning the tourist-info desk at Dublin airport, when back into his life swims Alice …

Gerry Anderson may have left us for that great Tracy Island in the sky, but his legacy lives on. It’s that legacy, rather than their creator, that gets its due in this lovingly assembled doc, which charts AP Films from its early days ( Four Feather Falls , Supercar ) …

Two things reign supreme in Yann Demange’s excellent urban warfare odyssey, set in the eponymous year amid the Northern Ireland conflict: chaos and violence. Before we even meet new army recruit Gary (Jack O’Connell), we hear the pounding of his boxing gloves. He’s dishing out a beating in a dreary …