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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 …

A new trailer has arrived for Jupiter Ascending , in which the Wachowski siblings pull back the curtain on the fantasy universe in which the film is set. The new teaser establishes the back story to the film, in which we learn that a powerful alien dynasty controls Earth, and …

The first full trailer has been unveiled for Joe Carnahan’s Stretch , in which Patrick Wilson’s limo driver needs $6,000 by midnight in order to pay off some pressing gambling debts. With a threat having been made against his life, Wilson takes on a gig with an unpredictable billionaire, who …

“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 …

Yet another young adult novel gets squashed into a bland, Saturday afternoon time-waster. Brenton Thwaites ( Oculus ) stars as young adult Jonas in a grey-colored world where emotions are seeped out of people’s lives via medication, resulting in a harmonious but humdrum existence for all. Jonas is chosen to …

More clever than a CD key In this increasingly digital era of gaming, many are succumbing to the dark allure of piracy as they look for a way to avoid paying for their interactive entertainment. For as long as there have been games, there have been pirates: people willing to …

So, there’s this new thing called Destiny (opens in new tab) that one or two of your friends might be playing. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Anyway, all joking aside, we’ve decided to set up a Clan within the game. You can join the clan and play Destiny with other …