Review

Miller’s Crossing . The Royal Tenenbaums . Magnolia . Three Kings . All films by modern American directors who already showed considerable early promise with their first two movies, only to hit the ball right out the park with number three. Rian Johnson does just that with Looper , an …

Roughly five minutes in, an incendiary bullet from Judge Dredd’s hand-cannon cooks a thug’s brain inside his own skull. He drops, glowing like a human halloween pumpkin. Dredd grimaces. Call it a statement of intent. The helmet stays on and the gloves are off in screenwriter Alex Garland’s grim, ultraviolent …

Sinbad 1.09 REVIEW (opens in new tab) Sinbad 1.09 Writer: Jack Lothian, James Dormer Director: Colin Teague THE ONE WHERE Sinbad goes in search of a stone that can predict the future, and is pursued by an assassin. VERDICT After a couple of really enjoyable episodes, Sinbad loses the momentum …

Episode 7.01 Writer : Steven Moffat Director : Nick Hurran THE ONE WHERE When the Daleks turn to their oldest enemy for salvation, the Doctor enlists Amy and Rory for a perilous mission into a madhouse. But who is the girl with the Carmen fixation? And where did she get …

Grimm 2.03 “Bad Moon Rising” TV REVIEW (opens in new tab) Episode 2.03 Writer: Richard Hatem Director: David Solomon THE ONE WHERE Hank finally realises how Grimm life is in Portland when an old friend with supernatural origins of his own (played by genre stalwart Mark Pellegrino) comes to him …

Leigh Francis, one of the shrewdest comics of the noughties (man with big chin pisses pants = career), has made the perilous walk from terrestrial TV to cinema. It’s a move that crushes him just like it crushed Dad’s Army , Steptoe , On The Buses and many better British …

The core elements of the Counter-Strike series haven’t changed much since the original Half-Life mod emerged in 1999. That trend continues with the newest update, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for better and worse. Though the $15 downloadable title keeps the core of the series’ gameplay alive, preserving the traditional maps, gun …

The core elements of the Counter-Strike series haven’t changed much since the original Half-Life mod emerged in 1999. That trend continues with the newest update, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for better and worse. Though the $15 downloadable title keeps the core of the series’ gameplay alive, preserving the traditional maps, gun …

For all its desperate attempts at tension, suspense and edge, this Brit-thriller is dismally dull. Two men – club-owning businessman Ian (Kenny Doughty), and assassin Issac (Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson) – are separately ordered to kill each other. Able to track their opponent’s location via GPS, they have 12 hours to …

Warehouse 13 4.04 “There’s Always A Downside” (opens in new tab) Episode 4.04 Writer: Drew Z Greenberg Director: Constantine Makris THE ONE WHERE Pete and Claudia team up with Hugo Miller to track down his lost marbles while Myka and Jinks tackle a jazz musician with the serious case of …