Jake Abatan

Nintendo’s E3 strategy was simple and effective: games, and lots of them.

The announcements at this year’s E3 came so thick and fast with many of the games slated for a 2021 release, that it was hard to build […]

Whilst we still don’t know the title of the sequel to 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, we know a lot more about the game now ahead of its slated 2022 release.

With no news of Breath Of The Wild […]

In our Blue Filter series, we are inviting our writers to reflect on the films that they have connected with through challenging or upsetting times, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and before. In the latest e […]

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Though charming, Earwig and the Witch doesn’t meet the high expectations we have for the studio who made it.  

Earwig and the Witch, the first CG animated film from Studio Ghibli, has been overrun […]

“Now, where was I?”

The infamous words uttered by Leonard Shelby in the final moments of Christopher Nolan’s puzzling thriller Memento, in effect, kick off the events of the film we have just witnessed. Told […]

If I ever were to write down my life story, films would play a crucial role in helping me sort out the chronology. For every standout moment, I can roughly work out the year it happened using films I remember […]

Sony is still struggling to keep up with demand for the PlayStation 5 and expects stock shortages to continue into next year. 

According to Bloomberg Sony shared the details at a private briefing in late […]

Stuck on what to stream this month? Unlike other lists, we’re on hand to recommend a variety of films for every mood: from tear-jerkers to trailblazers. Here are our picks for the best films to stream in the UK t […]

Sony has filed a patent for a new system that would allow players to connect with “experts” when they are struggling with a game. 

Sony Interactive Entertainment filed the patent last month in the United Stat […]

According to a new report the PlayStation 5 is the most popular console amongst game developers. 

The findings come from the State of The Game Industry 2021 Report published by the Game Developers Conference […]

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Tove, a new biopic of Tove Jansson—famous for creating the children’s comic book characters the Moomins—explores a pivotal decade in the artist’s life. The film, directed by Zaida Bergroth, is set i […]

Rebel Dykes, a new documentary—directed by Harri Shanahan and Sîan Williams and produced by Siobhan Fahey—is a wild and wicked retelling of the lives of a group of feminist lesbians in 1980s London, at the fore […]

Black high schooler Tunde Johnson is trapped in a time loop where each day ends the same way: with the reading out of his obituary. 

There’s a sight we’ve become all too familiar with over the past deca […]

Max Winslow and the House of Secrets borrows its story from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but fails to inject any intrigue.

In Max Winslow and the House of Secrets, five teens are invited to the mans […]

The Sound of Fury has had a hard time gaining the attention it deserves.

Considered a flop on its initial release in 1950, it was later rebranded Try and Get Me with a poster focussing on deranged criminal Je […]

The first images we see in Rocks emphasise verticality. Cell phone footage, bordered by black bars, captures a rapturous gathering of girls on an outer London rooftop. The girls dance and shout with their e […]