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For a game ostensibly about cooperative play, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge never capitalizes on its own premise – two fantasy badasses working together to slaughter hordes of monsters. The basic ingredients are there: Caddoc, the cautious but beefy human, is melee oriented while (sigh) sexy female elf E’lara plies her …

The impossible has happened: After 14 years in development hell, Duke Nukem Forever is a reality. Long synonymous with endless delays and empty promises, this butt of countless internet jokes is finally, undeniably here. Whether that’s a good thing is another matter entirely. Picking up 12 years after the events …

“Potiche” mean ‘Trophy Wife’ which is what Catherine Deneuve is to bullying male-chauvinist factory boss Fabrice Luchini. When Luchini’s hospitalised, it’s Deneuve who takes over running the factory, with the help of her daughter and closet-gay son, forging an alliance with Communist mayor (and ex-lover) Gérard Depardieu. This is feminism-lite …

Tweens will swoon over this sweet, predictable parcel of promfixated mini-dramas, which inhabits Glee and High School Musical territory without mustering their wit or creativity. Corralling a fine selection of stereotypes – the love-cheat sports-star, a likeable dork, the hottie endangering two indie boys’ friendship – into plotlines, Prom is …

Deathsmiles 2X represents some rather unexpected risk-taking on the part of ace Japanese arcade developer Cave. The follow-up to last year’s well-received, gothic-themed scrolling shooter Deathsmiles swaps 2D sprites for full-on 3D visuals, which is a first for any of Cave’s shooters. It’s also the first genuine import game to …

The Kids Are Alright gets a real-life spin in this documentary following a beach-bum sperm donor and his many, many children as they prepare to meet for the first time. If your tolerance for that weird American language of self-actualisation is at even average levels, chunks of this will drive …

Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson are bearers of bad tidings in this Oscar-nominated drama, an Iraq story that counts the cost of the conflict on the home front. Putting a face on the “angels of death” whose grim duty it is to notify the loved ones of soldiers lost in …

Sean Bean and Danny Dyer are outlaws of a different kind in this corny World War II actioner about ‘30 Commando’, an “elite smash and grab unit” set up by Ian Fleming (who he?) for search-and-destroy missions behind enemy lines. Whether the real regiment would have recruited an insubordinate lout …

In 1976, a film examining the redemptive power of violence won Oscars for Best Film and Director, albeit not for its committed star. Shame the winner was Rocky, not Scorsese’s masterpiece of urban alienation, which turns 35 this month. Though its iconic elements – De Niro’s unstable cabbie, Jodie Foster’s …

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