As I grin at the simple pleasure of seeing Goldie, an old Animal Crossing favourite, pottering around her tiny one-room house in a Wee Willie Winkie-style nightcap and pyjamas, I realise how good it feels to be home. Not home in the sense of being curled up on the sofa …
Read More »Calm With Horses review: “Cosmo Jarvis leads crime drama with the magnetic charisma of a young Gary Oldman”
When you think of Irish crime yarns, what usually comes to mind are films that lean towards the comic: Paddy Breathnach’s I Went Down, for example, or even Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges. So there’s something refreshing about Nick Rowland’s feature debut, Calm With Horses. A hard-as-nails tale of a multi-generational …
Read More »Misbehaviour review: “Enjoyable, frustrating, and stubbornly refuses to pick a side”
Beauty queens and women’s libbers clash at Miss World in Misbehaviour, a playful recreation of the 1970 contest in London, famous both for being briefly halted by stage-mounting protesters and for crowning the competition’s first black winner. Philippa Lowthorpe’s film, inspired in part by a Radio 4 programme that brought all …
Read More »Ori and the Will of the Wisps review: “A short but sublime action-platformer”
Something very important happened between the 2014 release of Ori and the Blind Forest and the 2020 release of Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and that thing is Hollow Knight. Clearly, when Hollow Knight schooled everyone on Metroidvanias in 2017, Ori was in the front row with a …
Read More »SteelSeries Apex 5 gaming keyboard review: “Silky smooth with a click”
If $200 seems a bit steep for SteelSeries’ Pro model, the Apex 5 gaming keyboard offers a strong compromise as an alternative. You’re paying much little less and dropping a few mechanical-only features, but if you can forego that extra layer of customization, you’ll find an excellent set of specs …
Read More »Corsair HS60 PRO review: “Decent sound meets great build quality and results in pretty good value”
Like a house party you’re surprised you were cool enough to get let inside, the budget gaming headset market is absolutely crammed at the moment. Also like that aforementioned soiree of social superiors, it’s quite hard to navigate too because manufacturers are basically spamming the market. The Corsair HS60 PRO …
Read More »Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 episode 1 review: “Hammers home the tragedy of the clones”
Warning: This review contains major spoilers for season 7 episode 1 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been absent from our TV screens for just over six years – and it’s been a long wait. Sure, we’ve had five Star Wars movies and The …
Read More »Alienware 510K gaming keyboard review: “low profile in more than one sense”
The Alienware 510K is a good example of why you shouldn’t ‘judge a book by its cover’ – or a gaming keyboard by its appearance. It’s an unassuming keyboard that you could argue is too plain, and somewhat light on features – particularly for a device that’ll set you back …
Read More »Corsair Void Elite review: budget gaming headsets grew up
The Corsair Void RGB gaming headset offers an intriguing proposition for those seeking a decent set of cans with 7.1 surround sound and a mic for under $100. There are plenty of options for those after a pair of cheap gaming headphones in this day and age, but if you’re …
Read More »Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite gaming mouse review: “the ultimate in instant control”
Corsair’s original Scimitar gaming mouse, released in 2015 to the bafflement of many gamers, was a breath of fresh air. It wasn’t for everyone, and some critics derided it as a joke; an oversized, absurd contraption that nobody could use effectively. Fitting seventeen buttons and a scroll wheel onto a …
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