Tag Archives: Computer Game

Review – Tomb Raider

Lara Croft is back on the big screen. 15 years since Angelina Jolie made her second, and final, appearance as the heroine of the computer game series Tomb Raider, Lara Croft returns – this time in the form of Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, Jason Bourne), directed by Roar Uthaug. The film serves as somewhat of a prequel

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Review – Company of Heroes

Letter ‘C’ in the Alphabet Challenge takes us to the 2013 military mess Company of Heroes. This shameful piece of cinema is directed by Don Michael Paul (who brought the world other such films as Tremors 5 and Kindergarten Cop 2). The film includes performances by Tom Sizemore, Neal McDonough and Vinnie Jones. All of whom should have kept a

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Review – Assassin’s Creed

The new film starring and produced by Michael Fassbender and Marianne Cotillard is Assassin’s Creed – and directed by Justin Kurzel whose previous work includes the 2015 version of  Macbeth that had Fassbender in the lead role. The film is based on the  Ubisoft game (that led to a series of games) with the same title. The film sees Callum

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Review -Angry Birds

Angry Birds – the smash hit computer game franchise – takes to the big screen with the new release from Columbia, directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly. The basis of the game would see various skilled birds being launched at the defences of green pigs that had stolen the eggs of the birds. The basis of the film doesnt

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Review – Hitman:Agent 47

Hitman : Agent 47 is the second film born from the computer game franchise, and is also the directorial debut of Aleksander Bach (previously having worked in music videos). Many years ago, Doctor Litvenko worked on a  programme creating humans without fear or remorse that would become perfect killing machines.  Once the programme began to be successful, Litvenko vanished and

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