'Game of Thrones with parkour': how will Netflix adapt Assassin's Creed?
I can see how a live-action TV series based on the hit video game series might just work. Forget the tortured mythology – just stick to running around and fighting
March 2019
Steve Rose on film
‘Difficult second album syndrome’: why auteurs struggle to follow their debut
Just like the follow-up to Donnie Darko, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake fails to live up to its acclaimed predecessor
March 2018
Movie adaptations of video games are still mostly terrible. Why has no one cracked the code?
Games creators and writers give their theories on how an upcoming crop of adaptations could avoid the same pitfalls as Assassin’s Creed, World of Warcraft and Super Mario Bros
November 2017
Teaching in alternative settings
Teaching on a film set: 'I’ve found myself in all sorts of bizarre locations'
Judith Phillips has taught child actors for a decade. She reveals the joys and challenges of squeezing in lessons between costume fittings and scene takes
October 2017
Film blog
Can Michael Fassbender survive his year of flops?
The Snowman is melting at the box office. It only continues what Assassin’s Creed and Song to Song started: threatening to ruin this actor’s previously sparkling career
May 2017
Harder? Better? Faster? Stronger? Why is every trailer soundtracked by Kanye?
The first look at moody Netflix thriller Ozark is yet another preview backed by a Kanye track, a trend that’s rapidly becoming as ubiquitous as that Inception noise
March 2017
Kong: Skull Island – why do Hollywood blockbusters have such Trump-like politics?
James Robert Douglas
From Godzilla to Assassin’s Creed, Hollywood is churning out fantasies of authoritarian rule, but it doesn’t have to be this way
January 2017
Assassin’s Creed review – like a Dan Brown movie on steroids
Pyrotechnics and Michael Fassbender can’t save this preposterous adaptation of the computer game
December 2016
Assassin’s Creed director Justin Kurzel: ‘We went old school with it’
Michael Fassbender on Assassin's Creed: 'Genetic memory makes a lot of scientific sense to me' – video interview
Box office analysis: UK
Rogue One opens well in the UK – but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts
Assassin's Creed review – Michael Fassbender game movie achieves transcendental boredom
May 2016
Is the Assassin's Creed movie actually going to be good?
Week in geek
Assassin's Creed: five things we learned from the first trailer
December 2015
Assassin's Creed star Michael Fassbender had 'never played the game'
The star of Steve Jobs and X-Men: Days of Future Past had never played Assassin’s Creed before signing on to star in forthcoming film adaptation of the video game
August 2015
Week in geek
Can Michael Fassbender's Assassin's Creed save the video game movie?
Will Ubisoft’s bloodthirsty romp through history consign previous celluloid terrors to the dustbin of history?
December 2007
Games blog
The ten games your children shouldn't play this Christmas, according to US media watchdog
It turns out you musn’t buy your five-year-old Manhunt 2.