Though there weren’t any big reviews this week–look for that to change next week–but we have no shortage of topics to discuss. Henry and Cooper saw and enjoyed Wreck-It Ralph, Tom is furious with the ending to 007 Legends, and Ryan’s just happy to be there! This Week’s Hosts: Hollander …
Read More »Sleeping Dogs Halloween DLC gets details, trailer
Horror comes to Hong Kong in Sleeping Dogs’ first story-driven DLC, and it’s up to Wei Shen to stop the supernatural monstrosities and their vengeful leader. Square Enix today fully unveiled the Nightmare at North Point add-on pack, which will unleash several new missions and weapons inspired by Chinese mythological …
Read More »Tyler Perrys Alex Cross will be getting a sequel
Whereas most filmmakers have to wait until the success of the first film can be measured by box office figures and critical reactions before securing a sequel, Tyler Perry seems to have bypassed all that by negotiating a follow-up to Alex Cross before the original has even been released. Alex …
Read More »Retro City Rampage – The 21 coolest retro references
Back in the day We love nostalgia as much as the next aging nerd, and youd be hard-pressed to find a game more steeped in nostalgia than the recent indie game Retro City Rampage. Though we had mixed feelings about the game as a whole (see our Retro City Rampage …
Read More »WHSmith Special Offer On New Books By Joe Abercrombie And Terry Pratchett
Every issue, SFX teams up with WHSmith to offer you a special discount on a key new SF/fantasy book. And this month we’ve got offers on two titles. Red Country is the latest book by Joe Abercrombie, a typically bloody fantasy take on the Western, which sees the return of …
Read More »The Dark Knight Rises cinematographer Wally Pfister calls The Avengers appalling
[brightcove]1213024251001[/brightcove] The Dark Knight Rises ’ Wally Pfister is one of the pre-eminent cinematographers working today, thanks in no small part to his work on Christopher Nolan’s films. He’s currently working on his own directorial debut (details of which are very hush-hush), and he recently sat down for a chat …
Read More »Elena review
Set in suburban Moscow, writer/ director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “pitiless look at human nature” is a sombre, elegantly shot parable. When her wealthy husband Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov) announces that he plans to leave the bulk of his inheritance to his hedonistic daughter (Elena Lyadova) from a previous marriage, his dutiful second …
Read More »Hyde Park On Hudson
Essentially The King’s Speech with an American president, Roger Michell’s latest tells of a fateful weekend in June 1939 when George VI paid a house call to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the hope he might be so kind as to give Britain a hand in its impending war against Germany. …
Read More »Bond meets Svrine in new Skyfall clip: watch now
Skyfall has released a new clip online, in which Bond is introduced to the latest in a long line of femme fatales in the form of Bérénice Marlohe’s Sévérine. The new clip shows Bond and Sévérine exchanging a few words over a gambling table, as the latter pronounces how impressed …
Read More »OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million
Streaming game service OnLive had some pretty rough times over the summer, but it looks like the company’s narrow evasion of bankruptcy was even more razor-thin than suspected. The Verge reports that OnLive’s assets were sold off to investor Gary Lauder for just $4.8 million in August. For reference, news …
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