Star Wars Battlefront consists of short bursts of exciting conflict, leading to a speedy, untimely death, followed by reincarnation and a quick jog back into the action for more punishment and – less likely – glory. The foolhardy experience can be best compared to the death montage from Edge of Tomorrow in which Tom Cruise finds himself caught in the same fatal battle over and over again. … Read the rest
While investigating the disappearance of two colleagues, U.S. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) gets into an accident. He regains consciousness in a town where things are not as they seem. People live according to a strange set of rules, the entire hospital is run by one creepy nurse (Melissa Leo) and the Sheriff (Terrence Howard) is a sociopath without any deputies to keep him in check.… Read the rest
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is a ‘walking simulator’ made by The Chinese Room, the same company who made Dear Esther. It is really a story and an experience more than a game, as there isn’t much gamey to do.… Read the rest
Deadpool started out as a fairly generic mercenary in the Marvel comic book universe during the nineties. I am not sure at what point he picked up the moniker ‘the merc with a mouth’, but he ended up changing into a morally dubious smart-ass who was always looking out for number one.… Read the rest
10 Cloverfield Lane is a movie best seen knowing as little as possible about it beforehand. That makes it hard to review. I saw the trailer, which was very well made and misleading in a good way, but it contained shots that I had remembered and knew would be coming up at some point.… Read the rest
Until Dawn is an interactive horror movie that features a pleasing amount of cliché’s and an entertainingly convoluted mystery. You as the player are tasked with navigating eight foolhardy teens through a night filled with peril at an isolated cabin on a snowy mountain.… Read the rest
Binge-watching used to be shameful, but nowadays it is something to boast about. And there is indeed something joyful about taking a whole day or weekend to dunk your mind fully into a hot pop culture phenomenon. The fact that these days more and more series are released a season at a time, with all episodes instantly available, feeds into this. … Read the rest
Weird camera angles, crass humour, slapstick and self-aware, campy, over-the-top gore. Welcome to the Evil Dead universe. If you object to any of the previous, you may want to skip Ash vs. Evil Dead. It is an odd concept, a tv-sequel to three horror movies, the last of which (Army of Darkness) came out in 1993.… Read the rest
The Halo series is revered by many, specifically by fans of the original XBox and its successors. It is a series tied to these consoles, not available elsewhere, as it was developed by Microsoft (the company behind the XBox). Halo is a scifi-shooter featuring a gruff-voiced space marine whose face we never get to see as it is always hidden behind a helmet.… Read the rest
Mockingjay – Part 2 didn’t seem likely to be the best part of Katniss Everdeen’s story. First off, it was based on the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, considered the weakest by a lot of readers. And that book was split into two movies, which could easily be interpreted as a cynical cash-grab rather than something artistically motivated.… Read the rest
