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1 week ago | screensphere.co.uk | Sam Smith

MindsEye is finally here, and as expected, the game is an unfinished mess that wastes some of the very real potential it had. By now, you’ll likely already know that MindsEye has, rather sadly, been the disaster that pundits predicted it would be. The action is set in Red Rock, a fictional and futuristic town based on Las Vegas, where technology, robotics and augmetics have started to become part of everyday life.

1 week ago | screensphere.co.uk | Sam Smith

Days Gone is back with a fully remastered and definitive version of Sony’s open-world, zombie horde-blasting, survival horror game – but is it worth your time? The original trailer for Days Gone screamed “The Last of Us meets Sons of Anarchy,” and this was enough for many of us to say, “I’m in.” And for the most part, it succeeded in offering this blend of these two beloved media franchises.

2 weeks ago | screensphere.co.uk | Sam Smith

Black Phone 2 will be flipping the premise of the first movie, and in doing so, conforming to the tried and tested rules of the traditional ghost story – and we should all be even more afraid. Spoilers for the first Black Phone movie lurk below. M.R. James, the father of the classic ghost story famously once said, that he had “no use for the friendly ghost”, and generally, this is advice horror writers tend to live by.

2 weeks ago | screensphere.co.uk | Susan Hornik

Benecio del Toro had a delicious time diving into his character, Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda, a quirky European business tycoon, for writer/director/producer Wes Anderson’s latest comedy, The Phoenician Scheme. “We had many conversations, about the story, about the character,” del Toro said at a recent press conference. “It’s layered, it’s full of contradictions, which makes it really yummy for an actor to try to bring to life.

2 weeks ago | screensphere.co.uk | Susan Hornik

Benecio del Toro had a delicious time diving into his character, Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda, a quirky European business tycoon, for writer/director/producer Wes Anderson’s latest comedy, The Phoenician Scheme. “We had many conversations, about the story, about the character,” del Toro said at a recent press conference. “It’s layered, it’s full of contradictions, which makes it really yummy for an actor to try to bring to life.