Review

Magic Johnson is standing at center court, hands extended in disbelief. This can’t be happening, he seems to think. Despite – or perhaps because of – his superhuman efforts, the 1991 Lakers have just lost for the fourth time in a row to their counterparts from Portland. As he trudges …

Everything’s different in season four? How will the Fringe team respond? (opens in new tab) 4.01 Neither Here Nor There Writers: JH Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman Director: Joe Chappelle THE ONE WHERE It’s a normal day at the office for the Fringe team as they investigate a series of …

It’s kind of nice to play as an amicable dumb guy every once in a while. The Master Chiefs and Marcus Phoenixes are fine and dandy, but stepping into jiggly John Rochard’s unfashionable boots is something of a nice surprise. Everything from his southern drawl to his by-the-book mentality just …

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It’s 1980, the text across the screen tells us. Jason Statham in a perm wig, you hope? Sadly not – but Killer Elite’s period setting does provide an excellent excuse for a retro action movie, based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ controversial “factional” novel The Feather Men. Danny Bryce (Statham) is …

Killing with kindness

If you’ve been looking forward to a stylish, breezy 2D hack-and-slashing foray into the BloodRayne canon with Betrayal, the new XBLA/PSN release, get ready for a digital bitch-slap. BloodRayne: Betrayal is immensely difficult – so much so that I gave up trying to beat it, and I’ve beaten Hard Corp: …

There’s more than just men on the moon in this found-footage chiller, which purports to be the edited highlights from 84 hours of recently discovered film of a secret lunar landing that went tits up in 1974. To say more would detract from the nasty surprises director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego has …

Like Tony Manero, Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s previous film with lead Alfredo Castro, this is a chilling portrayal of a deeply unsympathetic protagonist. Unfolding in Santiago during the 1973 military coup against President Allende, it follows the ghostly figure of coroner’s assistant Mario (Castro), who begins an affair with the …

Talk about repetitive beats. Stressing early-’90s nostalgia and yoof-speak over fresh narrative swerves, Karl Golden’s rave romp commits errors common to films about clubbing. It’s all “Mental carnage!” as Manc lads Matt (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) and Dylan (Jack O’Connell) discover they can make moolah and get mashed promoting raves; then things …