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Don’t be fooled by the lack of suicidal penguins and bear-loving oddballs in Werner Herzog’s documentary about Death Row. His tenacious curiosity, eye for absurd-yet-telling details and passionate humanism are upfront here, braiding a study of capital punishment in Texas with an incisive, compassionate portrait of life in death’s shadow. …

BOOK REVIEW Swift and sure London’s a city that knows its place in the history books; taking over 2,000 years of civilisation in its stride, it’s hardly surprising it’s become a favourite setting for urban fantasies: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere , Simon Green’s Nightside books, and now Kate Griffin’s Matthew Swift …

Whenever a game has gears, cranks or monocles, the term “steampunk” gets tossed around liberally, but how many games actually use steam as a key gameplay component? In Vessel, steam is kind of a big deal, and so is the water and molten metal you’ll mix to create it. Playing …

Writer/Director Daniel Edelstyn makes an affable debut with this personal doc chronicling the unexpected, vodka-flavoured turn his life took after he discovered his gran’s journals. Fixated on his ancestors’ titular empire, he heads to their now-defunct Ukrainian distillery, taking it on himself to re-launch the vodka, despite lacking business nous. …

“Lost” Douglas Adams adventure finally finished For Doctor Who fans of long standing, Douglas Adams’s “Shada” is something of an itch they can’t scratch. Written during the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy creator’s brief tenure as Who ’s script editor, it commenced filming but then fell foul of a strike …

The first rule of a successful spoof is ensuring audiences know the original material, so why the makers of this puerile, borderline-misogynistic, flatulence-obsessed pastiche of Eclipse actively alienate and vilify Twi-hards is anyone’s guess. Equally bemusing is why Twi-haters over the age of 15 might find any of the low-rent, …

Danish master Carl Dreyer’s ( The Passion Of Joan Of Arc ) penultimate film, Ordet ( The Word ) treats its intensely emotional subject matter – religious conflict, death in childbirth, a possibly miraculous resurrection – with cool, austere restraint. It’s set, and largely shot, in a village in Jutland …

The British hoodie genre edges uncomfortably into the world of professional football in Danny Donnelly’s grimy debut. Rising star Adam Deacon plays a premiership hotshot struggling to keep his shady past off the pitch after running into an old council-estate mate. David Ajala stands out as the psycho-gangsta blackmailing him …

When Top Gear went to India for its Christmas special, the show was deemed offensive enough to prompt an official complaint. Presumably the Indian High Commission will be more receptive to Michael Winterbottom’s newest, even if it does paint the country as one riven by gender inequality and class divisions. …

This should be absolutely rubbish. You spend £20/$30 on a game that’s basically just a shell, then you buy more content from the download store to pad it out. A car here, a track there… building the game you want to play until you’ve paid more or less full-price. Sure, …