Review

Healing hands

Directed by childactor-turned stuntman-turned-B-flick huckster David R Ellis (Snakes On A Plane), SN 3D gamely aims to deliver on dumb-fun expectations with a straightforward beast-vs-co-eds tale. Sadly, it’s hampered by a commercial coyness that skimps on the grue and cuts out celebrity skin entirely, leaving you with nothing more than …

Are you ready for the series finale?

Jonah Lomu has left a wake of human destruction in his path. Bullying through a couple of tacklers and sprinting toward the goal line, he appears superhuman. Several opponents have tasted the dirt and grass of Eden Park, wondering exactly what hit them. Meanwhile, the rest of his team, a …

The N64’s biggest fault as a system was probably the fact that it had a very small library of games, with owners playing and replaying a new Nintendo release every four months or so with little else on the horizon. That’s partially the reason Star Fox 64 is so well …

With its desiccated plains and rotting crops, the Africa depicted in the Ford Brothers’ zombie flick proves an evocative setting. Starting strongly, with American engineer Rob Freeman washed up on a ghoul-filled shore after a plane crash, The Dead has much to recommend it: head-splatting brutality, great cinematography and make-up, …

Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari. Danny McBride and Nick Swardson. Two comedy duos for the price of one? Or four character actors in search of a leading man? Either way the casting dynamic is one interesting aspect of Ruben Fleischer’s curiously unambitious follow-up to Zombieland. Stoner pizza-delivery guy Nick may …

We have to talk about George

Departing from the Polity

If you’re over twelve years old and/or don’t eat crayons, you probably won’t much care for Phineas and Ferb’s first console outing. If you have spawned small offspring, however, it might be a budget title worth picking up. See, in a world where children’s shows are overflowing with bratty (wizard) …