Browsing: Weekend

Perhaps it’s an indictment of the sad state of Hollywood action movies, but 58-year old Liam Neeson is one of the most credible action stars around at the moment. His latest film, Unknown, immediately brings to mind the 2008

Can Crysis run on consoles? Crysis 2 answers that question with a resounding yes. The sequel to the 2007 graphical beast that many PC enthusiasts still use to put new gaming rigs through their paces is nothing short of a technical marvel

If you were bred only so that your organs could be harvested to keep someone else alive, what would you do? Would you revolt like the clones in Michael Bay’s The Island? Or would you run

Take the basic plot of Chinatown, throw in A Fistful of Dollars and add a pinch of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Mash it all up and serve with a helping of knowing irony to prepare a serving of Rango

Is there any lazier shorthand for “This film is set in Los Angeles” than an establishing shot of downtown from the Hollywood Hills while Tupac’s California Love plays in the background? The relentless and boring assault

A spunky war photographer with green lipstick and sensible clothes, and her anthropomorphic pig uncle were the unlikely heroes of one of 2003’s best games – Ubisoft’s Beyond Good & Evil from French game designer Michel Ancel

If Killzone 3’s cinematics were compiled into a Hollywood movie, they’d make Battlefield Earth look like Blade Runner by comparison. It’s a shame that there are

Any follower of Joel and Ethan Coen’s work watching True Grit for the first time will probably sit out most of the pair’s take on the Western waiting for the moment that the other shoe drops

Should a film obviously designed to pander to critics and awards voters automatically be regarded as any more worthy than one made to please the crowds?

Dead Space 2 has no right to be as nerve-wracking as it is. There are few survival-horror game clichés that it doesn’t reach for at some point in its running time – the rattling in the air vents, the monsters that leap