Review

Ethan goes dark in a colourful adventure… Ethan Hunt’s fifth impossible mission starts with its much-publicised money shot: Tom Cruise clinging to the side of an Airbus A400M. For real. It’s a crazy stunt, and to front load the film with it is equally ballsy – audiences are sure to …

Lurching mysteriously from Bandai Namco’s churning seas, the inexplicable arrival of the game simply known as Godzilla provokes the same befuddled panic as if an actual kaiju showed up. Where did it come from? Why is it here? What did we do to deserve it? And most importantly, why is …

The original Devil May Cry 4 feels like half a game. Once you reach the midpoint of its 20 missions as the blade-wielding, gun-toting, demon-armed Nero, you fight back through the same locations as usual series hero, Dante. I expected to feel short-changed by this recursive structure, but in a …

His last bow… Given the superhero treatment that Sherlock has had over the last few years, you’d half expect old man Holmes to look like something that would fit nicely in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. Instead, we get Sir Ian McKellen sitting quietly in a chair by the …

They’re here. Again… “If you really wanna make some money quick, a poltergeist abduction isn’t a bad idea…” So says paranormal investigator Boyd (Nicholas Braun) halfway into Gil Keenan’s slick update of the 1982 Steven Spielberg/Tobe Hooper spook film. The executives at Ghost House Pictures (Evil Dead, The Possession, Boogeyman), …

The lady is a vamp… Destined to become known as ‘The skateboarding Iranian vampire movie’, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut is not-quite horror that combines moody monochrome style, an eclectic soundtrack and hipster attitude to giddily inventive effect. This isn’t Iranian cinema as you’ve ever seen it. In fact, despite being …

Days of future park… So is it all about Disneyland? Is Uncle Walt in it? Does it have anything to do with that weird box of clues on Twitter? Do we find out why George Clooney has an exploding bathtub? Err… in response to all the above, yes and no. …

Betrayal, anguish, death. As Anakin puts it: “This is where the fun begins!” After the Midichlorians, taxation, Jake, Jar Jar, and juvenile romance, Star Wars gets seriously entertaining with Sith. Revenge is indeed sweet. And, yes, pretty damn dark. Perversely, though, for all the pain and suffering and severed limbs, …

The Bellas are back for an encore… Right from the opening number – which unceremoniously ends in a cringey, gross-out on-stage fail – it’s clear Pitch Perfect 2 is singing from exactly the same song sheet as the original. Sticking to the formula like a well-rehearsed dance routine, the sequel …

For my sins I love a good old-fashioned shoot-’em-up, so I was secretly a little excited when a download code for Project Root popped up in my inbox – a game I knew little about, other than it was vaguely reminiscent of EA’s old Desert Strike series. That I immediately …