Film review: ASSASSIN’S CREED, from ‘Built For Speed’

The adaptation of video games to the cinema screen has generally been an unhappy one. Without the thrill of interaction and with a game’s wafer thin plot barely providing a decent film narrative, video games adaptations – from the execrable Super Mario Brothers to last year’s lumbering Warcraft – have usually been silly and dull. Assassin’s Creed promised a little

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Film review: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, from Built For Speed

Clearly encouraged by the phenomenal success of the Twilight series, writer director Richard La Grevanese tries to capture that lucrative mix of teen romance and supernatural horror in his adaptation of Kami Garcia’s novel Beautiful Creatures.  For some this will be a daunting prospect as the Twilight films weren’t exactly artistic triumphs.   Thankfully, Beautiful Creatures undercuts the typical tedious po-faced

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