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Zoom out enough from the modern games industry and the slate of recent games can seem sort of binary; some games are about moments, like defying death and boss battles and saving the world, and others are about feelings, like melancholy and grief and hope. Zombie Army 4: Dead War …

Back in 2015, Robert Eggers made a blistering first impression with New England horror The Witch. He makes an even stronger second one with his follow-up, an oppressively nightmarish two-hander starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as a pair of lighthouse keepers who go mad off the mainland after a …

First appearing in a series of kids’ books by author Hugh Lofting, John Dolittle is a pet doc who can speak to and understand pretty much any animal. This latest iteration of the oft-adapted character serves as the first post-MCU gig for Robert Downey Jr, sporting a warped Welsh accent. …

Believe it or not, it’s been 11 years since Guy Ritchie made RocknRolla, his last foray into the geezers, gangs and guns genre that made his name. Since then, he’s toyed with the likes of Sherlock Holmes, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., King Arthur and Aladdin, with varying degrees of success. …

“The World Before”, The Walking Dead season 10’s eighth episode before its annual Christmas break, picks up the pace to a steady tempo that’s more befitting of a mid-season finale, but the chapter’s more focused series of set pieces still can’t quite scrub away the sour taste left by what …

Warning: Spoilers for The Walking Dead season 10 episode 7, “Open Your Eyes”, ahead “Open Your Eyes”, the penultimate episode before The Walking Dead season 10’s mid-season break, certainly gives us all the justification we need to take its title seriously. For almost the entirety of its 45 minute runtime, …

Loosely inspired by Wham!’s perennially popular 1984 hit, Last Christmas casts Emilia Clarke as a down-on-her-luck Christmas shop elf, with Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) as her charming-stranger love interest. Their romance plays out in a twinkly London so Richard Curtis-esque you keep expecting it to cut to Hugh Grant …

After all the conspiracy theories, conjecture and just plain hype, Death Stranding (opens in new tab) turns out to be about carrying boxes from A to B. And, often, back again. That’s it. That’s the game. This is going to be a spoiler free review in terms of story, but …

Becky Lynch and Roman Reigns share the cover of WWE 2K20, yet you can’t help but wonder if a more appropriate choice would have been Kassius Ohno. Visual Concepts’ already infamous brawler is, in parts, surprisingly good. It is, at others, one of the most peculiar sports games of this …

Even with the leaks and rumours that led up to the official announcement, many people (myself included) couldn’t foresee a future where The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt would be available in its entirety on the Nintendo Switch. On a technical level, it seems inconceivable. Yet, by some force of nature, …