Review

“Nearly is nothing,” yells commentator Peter Drury as I lash a shot wide with Philippe Coutinho – and it could be said that mantra applies to the whole of PES 2018. No feature has been left untouched, no piece of gameplay left untweaked and, truth be told, the final on-pitch …

The Defenders is Marvel’s best Netflix show, hands down. The series shows off its swagger instantly and never lets up, making Iron Fist (opens in new tab) seem like more of a hero in the opening 13 seconds than the standalone show managed in 13 episodes. While the crossover between …

I never thought a game about chucking purple and green paint at little cartoon men would have me sweating. As in, physically sweating. I’m bent over my Switch, hammering the buttons like my life depends on it. And it does, in a way. There are two guys tracking me down …

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is once again swinging onto the big screen with a solo movie after his rather sensational debut into the MCU in Captain America: Civil War. Despite two other adaptations of the web-slinger hitting cinemas in recent years, Tom Holland’s cheeky, actually-a-kid version of Peter Parker won …

A love letter from Edgar Wright to crime capers, diner romances and, above all, music, Baby Driver is a heist movie that nabs your heart. Wright’s first solo-scripted outing, it’s a more rounded work than his last venture across the pond, 2010’s enjoyable but scattershot Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World …

Nine films into the extended series, War for the Planet of the Apes finally features a monkey throwing poo. Be warned though, that faeces-flinging is one of very few moments of levity in what’s otherwise an extremely sombre closer to the reboot-trilogy. Beginning with some intense woodland warfare, and never …

After the scattered, restless previous episode (opens in new tab), Twin Peaks slows down again and focuses on just a handful of storylines—and is all the better for it. We return to the town itself for more than just nostalgic reunions with old characters, and we finally discover the identity …

When DC launched its expanded-universe entry bid with Man of Steel (opens in new tab), some die-hard DC-watchers grumbled. Who was this Mr moody-pants? Not Superman, surely. Batman v Superman (opens in new tab) and Suicide Squad (opens in new tab) drew similar gripes: Batfleck was deemed too murder-y, Deadshot …

Caution: big spoilers for this episode of Dr Who occur right at the start of this review. Reality is an odd thing. Imagination, the journeys we take inside our head, the dreams we have at night: each feel real in the moment. It’s only when we wake up that we …

HR Giger’s original Alien design featured a white, human skull (opens in new tab) under a transparent, exoskeleton dome. It’s barely noticeable in the first film due to the way the creature is lit, and has long-since dropped out of visual canon. It’s a weird thing to behold now, a …