American Animals review: An audacious and twisting heist movie September 7, 2018 Director Bart Layton is the man behind 2012’s audacious docu-thriller The Imposter, about a French con artist who bamboozles a Texan family into believing he is their long lost son. The film braided fact and fiction into a chunky dramatic rope, drawing on talking head testimony from the real world players, interspersed with very credible [...]
Super Soco review, price, specs and details: Could this be the Tesla of motorcycles? September 6, 2018 The first time I rode a moped, I immediately crashed it into a parked car near my house. Just ramped up onto the pavement like Steve McQueen and smashed into a Fiesta, causing several pounds worth of damage. I was 15 years of age, which is so long ago now that no policeman can arrest [...]
Marvel’s Spider-Man review: Insomniac’s web-slinging open world brawler is Spidey at his absolute best September 5, 2018 There’s a very simple recipe for making a decent Spider-Man game, or at least there seems like there is to people who think that making games is simple. First, it needs to be open world. Not even open world, just open Manhattan, a city that has been accurately recreated in games so many times now [...]
New car hire app Virtuo sidesteps all the usual pains of London car rentals August 30, 2018 By far the least entertaining part of renting a car is having to stand around inside a hermetically sealed fartbox of a portacabin on the edge of some rainy industrial estate, before a 17-year-old in an oversized suit throws you the keys to an old banger that you suspect was built in East Germany. Recently [...]
Donut County review: A charming and bizarre physics puzzler about a mysterious hole August 29, 2018 Ben Esposito is an indie games developer whose previous works include mysterious-house-in-the-woods simulator What Remains of Edith Finch. A rising star in the industry, he seems drawn towards the abstract. In 2012 he worked on The Unfinished Swan, a PlayStation exclusive in which you exist in a blank white world that only reveals itself as [...]
The Logitech MX Vertical is an ergonomic mouse that looks as good as it feels August 29, 2018 Ergonomic mice are among the least cool objects ever invented. They are the NHS glasses of peripherals, and while you’re dimly aware that there have been studies into how they reduce, reverse, and then write a sternly worded letter to the mother of RSI, they’re not something you’d ever willingly grab a hold of. Now [...]
Dinosaur World Live is a chilling prophecy of climate disaster, or it might just be a fun kids’ show about some cool dino-puppets August 23, 2018 Ostensibly a 50-minute long children’s show in which a series of realistically animated and life-size dinosaur puppets stomp around on stage, Dinosaur World Live at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is, beneath the veneer of Jurassic spectacle, an unflinching treatise on the irreversible effects of climate change, and the energy industry’s plundering of the remaining [...]
The Spy Who Dumped Me review: Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon star in this surprisingly violent spy-spoof comedy August 23, 2018 A spy-spoof action-comedy starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, The Spy Who Dumped Me is way more violent and funny than the lazy, mid-90s punning title would suggest. But the pair work remarkably well together on screen, making for an unexpectedly sparky and entertaining duo in a movie that swings madly from some actually-very-good gunfights [...]
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy review: The return of the series’ winning formula disguises a lack of new ambition August 23, 2018 You would think that by this point, about half a dozen games into the Uncharted series, we’d have explored every tomb that ever was. That we’d have plundered every haunted crypt filled with swinging blades and little piles of dusty skulls, pillaged the very last mausoleum’s worth of goblets and swiped the world’s only [...]
Samsung’s super-powered Galaxy Note 9 is back, but has it made enough progress? August 22, 2018 The supersized Galaxy Note series of phones first appeared in 2011, and with each subsequent version the professional-focused device has loaded more and more features into its huge frame. If the Galaxy S9 is the Bugatti Veyron of the phone world, the Note 9 is the Range Rover. If a work horse and a kitchen [...]
