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It’s no secret that many fans of Dragon Age: Origins weren’t pleased with Dragon Age 2. And who could blame them? As a sequel to Origins, Dragon Age 2 buffeted all expectations. Almost every aspect of the game – its scope, combat, even character customization – felt completely different. What …

Abraham and Eugene were two of the most interesting additions to The Walking Dead‘s cast last season, but they’ve been largely on the sidelines ever since. No longer. With the survivors split into factions again, and Abe leading the journey to DC, this episode shines a spotlight on the apocalypse’s …

Love is made of sturdier stuff than sentiment in Edward Lovelace and James Hall’s moving but never manipulative docu-portrait of Scottish indie-pop hero Edwyn Collins. When Collins suffered two strokes in 2005, he began a harrowing trek to recover his motor skills and memory. The directors convey his existential fear …

“We’re explorers, not caretakers,” muses frustrated pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) – a man born “40 years too late or 40 years too early” – near the start of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar . The same could be said for the director himself. Not one content to rest on his cinematic laurels, …

Can best friends ever be anything more? Of course they can – romcoms have been proving that for decades – but that doesn’t stop Lily Collins and Sam Claflin proving it again in a soapy heartstring fiddler that follows their torch-holding through 10 ageless years, two continents and a couple …

The latest Skylanders game is about trying new things. The Skylanders Trap Team goal: make the characters come off the screen and interact with the real world. Trap Team achieves this with ingenious peripheral design that allows characters to interact with players. With the new Traptanium Portal, dozens of new, …

Few things scream 1984 like Spandau Ballet vs Duran Duran on TV’s Pop Quiz , a battle royale typical of George Hencken’s selective but evocative Spandau portrait. The rise/fall arc is familiar but a reliance on archive footage (no talking heads) offers an immersive plunge into Spandau’s journey from working-class …

Evoking François Ozon’s Sitcom (1998), Yann Gonzalez’s debut is a subversive, stylish, perverted parlour game, as a young couple host an exclusive orgy for four guests: ‘The Slut’, ‘The Star’, ‘The Teen’ and ‘The Stud’. Chief among them is Eric Cantona’s monstrously endowed Stud; and if you’ve ever wanted to …

Love is strange in co-writer/director Leigh Janiak’s overambitious but promising low-budget chiller. Brits Harry Treadaway and Rose Leslie play American newlyweds Paul and Bea, hoping for a week of marital bliss at a secluded lakeside cabin before Paul finds Bea battered and disoriented in the woods. Janiak mashes romance and …

“I’ve gone mainstream,” mutters Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) when the case of his missing wife, Amy Elliott Dunne (Rosamund Pike), leaps from local to national news. The same might be said of David Fincher, whose 10th film, based on the same-titled bestselling crime-thriller by Gillian Flynn, sees the filmmaker focus …