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The magic of the Smash Bros. series can be condensed into one simple principle: whether you win or lose, you just want to keep playing. Even after hundreds of matches–solo or multiplayer, with items and without–I still get giddy every time a round starts. Super Smash Bros for 3DS proves …

The Forza series is a tale of two different racing games. On the one hand, you have Forza Motorsport, the serious and sterile racing simulator. On the other, you have its Ecstasy-gobbling, Burning Man-attending hip racing cousin Forza Horizon. Apparently, Motorsport convinced Horizon to share some of its drugs, and …

The Sims, the king of DLC since before DLC was a thing. After the release of the series’ first expansion pack in 2000, The Sims has become one of the most widely extended game franchises ever, with 44 content packs to its name so far. Digital distribution and fan modding …

“How does water shape us, how do we shape water?” asks photographer Edward Burtynsky who, along with filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, seeks to explore just that in this Canadian documentary. Much like the pair’s 2006 collaboration Manufactured Landscapes , their study of water – scientists drilling ice in Greenland, millions washing …

In being brave, scrappy, and not quite as funny as it thinks it is, Gillian Robespierre’s controversial romcom mimics its heroine, a down-on-her-luck Brooklyn comedian (Jenny Slate) struggling to tell a straight-laced one-night stand that she’s become pregnant. We’re in Girls territory here, with awkward, confessional dark comedy that slyly …

“Deep Breath”. Is it a title? Or a statement of intent? Armed with “attack eyebrows” and a taste for the grisly, the Peter Capaldi era arrives with a tale that delivers a literal change of pace for Doctor Who, trading the giddy, pirouetting, breathless energy of Matt Smith for something …

“The little band who couldn’t” is the affectingly bittersweet hook for Drew DeNicola’s loving doc about the almost-rise, demise and rediscovery of early ’70s US alt-pop beauties Big Star. Critics, musos and family members pop up to revere a band who spun melancholy into magic over three albums, before bad …

With no bells, whistles or fanfare, the Dardenne brothers – Jean-Pierre and Luc – have been writing, producing and directing their own brand of Belgian naturalism since the ’90s. Before that they made documentaries. Ignored by the multiplexes, but loved by the critics, their modest, moving films sound eminently missable. …

The controversial career of arms trader Viktor Bout was fictionalised in 2005’s Lord Of War , but truth trumps fiction in Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s enthralling doc. Centred on Bout’s entrapment and trial by America, the directors dare to ponder how villainous this “merchant of death” was. Such sympathy …

Written by Dutch Southern and steeped in Jim Thompson-style noir, Simon and Zeke Hawkins’ low-budget debut shows genuine promise. When Texan teen B.J. (Logan Huffman) steals the local psycho’s money for one last hurrah with best friend Bobby (Jeremy Allen White) and girlfriend Sue (Mackenzie Davis), he lands everyone in …