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Largely improvised by its cast of unknowns and sparingly shot by director Jon Sanders ( Late September ), this zero-budget drama follows widow Julia (Anna Mottram) as she mourns the death of her theatre director husband. While a small circle of close friends and acting acquaintances prepare to gather at …

Plot For Peace begins as it ends, with a round of Patience. It’s a game very much like life, observes our mysterious card player – who once spent years trying to deal the world a better hand. Every bit as compelling as any Hollywood political thriller, this fascinating documentary tells …

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This long-gestating follow-up to Zack Snyder’s 2006 gore-spiller continues a swords-and-sandals revival that has already suffered one box-office casualty stateside with Paul W.S. Anderson’s Pompeii . Is there an appetite, then, for another belated helping of clanging steel, arterial splatter and rippling six-packs, especially one minus Gerard Butler bellowing “This… …

There’s a certain fun to the incomprehensible. Nippon Ichi (best known for its work on the Disgaea series) knows this idea well, a fact evidenced by its most recent effort, The Witch and the Hundred Knight. That said, constant whimsy can be exhausting, and that fact is also on display …

Liam Neeson’s rise as a grizzled action star in the autumn of his career is one of Hollywood’s more intriguing trends. Compare him to certain ’80s action heroes who’ve descended into self-parody: in films like Taken and The Grey , Neeson has brought gravitas to his ageing hard-men roles. His …

There will come a point during your time with Rayman Legends where you’ll run out of ways to express how much you enjoy it. By a few hours in, you’ll have exhausted every synonym you know for “pretty.” A few stages after that, “fun.” By the end: “challenging.” And only …

The hype: Fable will revolutionize video games by giving you an unprecedented level of control over your character’s growth, and you’ll be able to affect the world of Albion in real, permanent ways. The reality: Fable was an above-average action-RPG, with most of its pie-in-the-sky possibilities failing to live up …

The best sports films are less about sport than sportspeople. As the calibre of filmmakers – J.J. Abrams, Stephen Frears, Jay Roach – also planning movies about Lance Armstrong suggests, Alex Gibney’s documentary has a corker in cycling’s fallen angel. It might have been good enough had Gibney made his …

Lara Croft is dead. This time, she was ripped apart by wolves. Death has also come in a variety of other forms: boulders, bear traps, spikes to the throat–each over-the-top execution a display of vulnerability. These shocking moments are heavy-handed with their message, but it comes across loud and clear: …