James Hanton

'Venom: The Last Dance' Review: A Flat Final Waltz For This Interspecies Bromance When Venom (2018) hit the big screen, it surpassed expectations at the box office. The first outing for Eddie […]

TV Review: 'Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft' is a Wild, Entertaining Adventure Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft was set to be a winning recipe: Lara Croft, recently voted the most […]

Ghost of Tsushima Player Numbers Soar After Sequel Announcement Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima has seen a significant increase in active player numbers since its […]

Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 Released For PC Larian Studios has released Patch 7 for Baldur’s Gate 3 on PC, which includes as its headline feature the […]

Hoarderz Is A Dystopian Drama Full Of Trash: Review ★★★ What would scousers do following a nuclear armageddon? Wait it out like tough nuts, it seems, if Hoard […]

Shadow Necropolis Is A Spooky And Uplifting Affair: Review ★★★★ Helping children understand what anxiety is and how to overcome it is rife with challenges. It is a te […]

Clownfishing Is A Funny And Inviting Hour Of Strangeness: Review ★★★★ Every regular internet user is likely to know what catfishing is, particularly those with less-th […]

YOAH Is A Circus Extravaganza Without Compare: Review ★★★★★ From the moment that the lights go down for Cirquework’s YOAH, you know this will be unlike anyt […]

Of the Land on Which We Meet Is a Magical Show About Belonging And Acknowledgement ★★★★ What does it mean to acknowledge the land on which you live? To recognise it for what it is besides […]

B.L.I.P.S Is A Varied And Moving Dive Into Psychosis: Review ★★★★ Have you ever been unable to sleep to the point where you start hallucinating? That you are diagnos […]

Only Bones v1.9 Is An Absurd And Physical Feast For The Senses: Review ★★★★ “Absurdist kung fu ASMR” is how performer Matt Pasquet describes Only Bones v1.9, a one-man dance perfo […]

Ava and Beaux: Tales of Magic Will Leave You Enchanted: Review ★★★ Ava Beaux has brought a myriad of magic shows to the festival in recent years, yet by the end of her l […]

Birdwatching Is A Triumph Of Horror Theatre: Review ★★★★★ Birdwatching sounds like such a pleasant activity on paper. You can look up into the trees, listen ou […]

The Santa Ana Is A Gripping Fable Of Nature And Mental Wellbeing: Review ★★★★ How can a spiralling climate send humanity tumbling down an emotional crevasse? This is the questio […]

Barbaren Barbies: A Wild Women Circus Is A Rip-Roaring Wild Ride ★★★ The Barbaren Barbies, an international collective of actors and circus folk, have already roared throu […]

Fallout: London Mod Released For Fallout 4 Fallout: London, an expansive new mod for Bethesda’s Fallout 4, has been released after over five years of d […]

TV Review: 'Fallout' is Post-Apocalyptic Nirvana Suit up and grab your Pip-Boys as James Hanton explores Prime Video’s post-apocalyptic […]

Hayao Miyazaki Authors His Own History With 'The Boy And The Heron' The Boy and the Heron (2023), Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a decade, is all about history. First off, it h […]

David Fincher's 'The Killer' and the Distancing Gaze Ever since Laura Mulvey famously penned ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ in 1975, the gaze has bec […]

Year In Review: The Indiependent’s Top 20 Films Of 2022 The first full year without cinemas being forced to close due to the pandemic has been graced with a wide […]