Review

Post-apocalypse. The word conjures up images of desolate wastelands, dust, and dogged survival. But what about post-post-apocalypse? When all the calamity has died down, what’s left? Horizon: Zero Dawn provides the answer. A lush, fascinatingly intricate world awaits you, but it’s one that belongs to machines. They mastered it long …

Holy shit. Holy shit.  So, the Mormons are, indeed, pissed (opens in new tab). But they’re Mormons, so they’re pissed in a very polite way, not that they have much choice, given that Fred Johnson’s men have commandeered their ship and jammed their comms so they can’t tell anyone about …

Three decades on from its Broadway premiere, August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play finally arrives on the big screen with its two leads – Denzel Washington and Viola Davis – reprising their Tony-grabbing performances from a 2010 revival that was one of New York’s hottest tickets. Small wonder the film, which Washington …

On paper it looks like a scam. The sort of take-the-money-and-run job that Renton (Ewan McGregor) pulled before striding off into the freeze-framed future at the end of Danny Boyle’s 1996 era-defining masterpiece. Get the gang – director Boyle, novelist Irvine Welsh, under-sung screenwriter John Hodge, producer Andrew MacDonald and …

The twelfth – twelfth! – Doctor Who Christmas special goes easy on the festive decoration. No flesh-eating snowflakes, no sentient alien tinsel, no Weeping Angel plonked on top of the tree. The Return Of Doctor Mysterio riffs on an altogether more recent tradition: the comic book blockbuster, those shiny, mega-budget …

At their absolute best, Telltale’s adventure games impart an overwhelming feeling of consequence in games where most of your time is spent talking to people, picking things up, giving meaningful looks and often doing nothing at all. In The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead and others, the focus on …

Thirteen years ago on from Bad Santa (opens in new tab), Billy Bob Thornton’s foul-mouthed low-life Willie returns, as pee-and-puke stained as ever – not to mention politically incorrect, misanthropic and just nasty. When we meet him again, Willie’s at such a low ebb he tries to stick his head …

The balance of power has shifted in Westworld (opens in new tab). Sure, the overarching theme of this show has always been the slow awakening of the artificially intelligent (and created) Hosts within a futuristic theme park built for the wealthy, but this episode, more than any before it, sees …

Many fans argue that it’s impossible to have a five-star wrestling match; the same could be said of a five-star wrestling game. That’s partly because they want an experience which feels like wrestling, but plays like a competitive fighter – a false hope given that in reality combatants work to …

Prepare to (man)crush on Shia LaBeouf. Returning from a career wasteland to play a wastrel roaring across dustbowl America in a people carrier housing a peripatetic party posse, his charisma burns radioactive from the moment that we, like heroine Star (superb newcomer Sasha Lane), first spot him: hopping onto a …