Moneyball: not quite a home run
In The Social Network, scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin created a thriller about a geek building a website in a Harvard college dorm. With Moneyball, a new vehicle for Brad Pitt, he fashions a fascinating but uneven sports drama from the arcane topic of how
Straw Dogs: Hollywood versus Tea Party evil
Few films have provoked as much controversy and heated debate as Straw Dogs, the classic 1971 revenge thriller from Sam Peckinpah. Pauline Kael, an admirer of the director, famously called it “the first American film that is a fascist work of art” – and that was in a review
Modern Warfare 3 review: war never changes
Call of Duty (CoD) games are like underground trains in London. If you miss one, you can be sure the next will be along in five minutes. Publisher Activision has released a CoD game each year since 2005, with each new entry in the franchise quickly demolishing
Uncharted 3 review: cinematic gaming done right
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, the latest game in the PlayStation 3’s flagship franchise, is the best movie you’ll play this year. Brimming over with witty writing, memorable characters and exhilarating set-pieces, it is one of the best expressions of the game as
Steve Jobs: a man of wealth and taste
Walter Isaacson centres Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography on a single idea: that Jobs was an artist working at the intersection of the liberal arts and the technology industry. Jobs emerges from the pages of the enthralling biography as a figure who would be as at
Why Contagion is not a disaster movie
In the hands of a hack like Roland Emmerich, Contagion could have been a bombastic and sensational melodrama awash with over-the-top CGI and far-fetched government conspiracies. But under the control of director Steven Soderbergh, Contagion’s blend of
HD makeovers bring new life to old games
This console generation, games publishers have become as adept at mining their back catalogues for more cash as the movie studios and music companies. A trickle of high-definition remakes of classic games from the PS2/Xbox era is becoming a deluge, with facelifts
A river of blood runs through it
“Money is like poison. At the very end, it always kills you,” a gangster’s flame-haired moll tells the antihero of Congolese flick Viva Riva! It’s a brief flicker of trite morality in an otherwise unashamedly blood-soaked and sex-stained film set in Kinshasa where everybody
Generic Resistance 3 battles to rise above the FPS crowd
Insomniac Games has tried desperately this console generation to become a serious contender for the first-person shooter crown held by Halo and Call of Duty. Yet it has been unable to turn its Resistance series into a triple-A franchise despite the profile Resistance: Fall of Man
Gears 3: fire up the war machine
With the exception of Call of Duty, there is no other franchise that encapsulates the present console generation as neatly as does the testosterone-charged Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War. With its crusty, buzz-cut space marines, grimy visuals
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