Review

Every now and then, in its own conservative way, Hollywood tries something a bit radical. This comedy-drama about sexagenarian sexy times marks one of those instances. Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a couple in late-middle age with a traditional marriage; he goes out to work with a briefcase …

Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ tales-within-tales curio is baffling – but it’s also an enchanting love letter to cinema’s bygone magic. From present-day Lisbon, where Aurora (Laura Soveral) is slipping into senility, we go back to her colonial African past, where as a young wife she had an illicit affair. It’s …

1864: A US civil war scout finds a mysterious something. 2039: a lone astronaut (Gunner Wright) is abandoned in space for reasons unknown. 2012: wunderkind William Eubank has our attention. While his debut will infuriate some in its adherence to Kubrick’s cryptic stargazing and Malick’s spiritual yearning, others will be …

Trent Richardson is hurting. The Browns’ rookie, fresh off an NCAA championship at Alabama, has gotten a painful introduction to life in the NFL. Somewhere in the midst of being tackled by several Philadelphia Eagles, his head was forcefully twisted one direction while his body continued forward in the other. …

Episode 2.08 Writer: Heather V Regnier Director: Seith Mann THE ONE WHERE: En route to the promised land of Charleston, the resistance encounter a harnessed girl. Baited by Pope, Maggie shares the secrets of her past with Hal. THE VERDICT: Quite a comedown after last week’s exemplary slice of Skies, …

Take a story based on the familiar mythology of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the lightning fast combat of combo action games, the item collecting of a dungeon-crawler, then give it the scope of a Zelda title, and you’ll have an idea of what to expect from THQ’s Darksiders …

Before the 2005 relaunch, playing the “imaginary Doctor Who spin-off” game was a regular pastime for fans, but now Big Finish are doing their best to make those dream projects into reality. Following on from the success of Jago & Litefoot , we now have another series starring a group …

Despite what the first half of its title may imply, Kingdom Hearts 3D is not Kingdom Hearts III. Sorry, long-time fans who’ve long been pining for that official console sequel. That said, with the wide variety of handheld Kingdom Hearts spin-offs to sift through – Chain of Memories, Birth by …

There’s something primeval about knocking stuff down. It’s powerful. It’s fun. It’s… basic. It’s why games like Boom Blox and Angry Birds are so successful, both with gamers and those who’ve never touched a game controller. Maybe it’s because it’s just easy to wrap your head around straightforward physics and …

“At university I was eager to publish some short stories and I found a list of print magazines that accepted unsolicited submissions and paid per word. There were not many of these, but one was a magazine called Cthulhu Sex , which only took stories that included ‘sex, tentacles, or, …