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No, not the Michael Caine classic. Orlando Bloom bulks up, slaps on a few tats and adopts an accent to play a South African cop in this middling post-apartheid thriller directed by Jérôme Salle. Bloom co-stars with Forest Whitaker as a baggage-laden duo investigating the violent murder of a white …

Based on the riveting novella in his Full Dark, No Stars collection, this is Stephen King’s first self-adapted feature screenplay since 1989’s Pet Sematary. But King going to the movies is not always a good thing – he adapted and directed Maximum Overdrive from his short story ‘Trucks’, after all. …

The previous Stealth Inc. – or, to give its original, better title, Stealth Bastard – was a simple game about sneaking, Splinter Cell-style, around a facility full of robots, lasers, laser-wielding robots, and other things put there to make you dead. The difference, compared to most stealth games, is that …

This is fortysomething… For the first time in my life,” says middle-aged documentary-maker Josh Srebnik (Ben Stiller), “I’ve stopped thinking of myself as a child imitating an adult.” The latest mordant satire from writer/director Noah Baumbach (The Squid And The Whale, Frances Ha) explores what it means to grow up …

Potential is a bastard. It’s near impossible to completely fulfill, but still an aching disappointment when it inevitably seems to falls short: a promise never kept. As a grungey two-piece thrashes out a tribute to River Phoenix, reintroducing us to the plaid delights of Flashback 1994, it’s a timely reminder …

You’d think that I’d be tired of the Borderlands series after spending more than 100 combined hours wandering the harsh wastes of Pandora, shooting skags in the face, and looting their corpses for better weapons. Then along comes Borderlands: The Handsome Collection to completely annihilate my weekend; such is the …

We need to talk about Steve. Dazzling in places, infuriating in others, the fifth feature by French-Canadian writer/director Xavier Dolan (Tom At The Farm) is not exclusively a love-it-or-hate-it proposition – even its admirers will have moments when they can’t stand to watch. By turns noisy, nasty, sweet and upsetting, …

Factor in the handheld games and this is technically the thirteenth Mario Party. We live in a world where there are only five F-Zeroes and 13 Mario Parties. I imagine it’s cheaper to build Party’s signature playing boards than anti-gravity rollercoaster tracks, but it makes it no less easier to …

After five episodes with one-word titles ending in the letter “O” it’s good to see a change of format. And there’s something pleasingly appropriate about “Alpine Shepherd Boy”, for here we see Jimmy acting as something a shepherd himself – in terms of the word’s “protective” associations. His Kim-inspired interest …

Living through the Red Wedding the first time was bad enough, so it’s evidence of Telltale’s sadistic streak that it wants us to revisit the scene of the Stark-slaying crime. In fairness, your participation during the developer’s debut Game of Thrones (opens in new tab) episode is slightly less harrowing, …