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Will PlayStation’s Bare Autumn Help Xbox Close The Gap?

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Samuel Brace on whether PlayStation’s bare autumn could help Xbox to close the gap… PlayStation is winning. There is no doubt about it. In all likelihood the Sony console is 10 million units ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox One. Now, Xbox isn’t doing badly, not by any stretch of the imagination, but PlayStation 4 — for […]

Kathryn Bigelow tops shortlist of directors for Tomb Raider reboot

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Tomb Raider is heading back to the big screen, but Tricia Brock (Girls, The Walking Dead) will not be joining the ride having stepped aside from the director’s chair. Now Tracking Board are reporting that the shortlist for her replacement is now down to three names. Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) is leading the […]

Second Opinion – Tomb Raider (2018)

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Tomb Raider, 2018. Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost. SYNOPSIS: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Movies […]

Movie Review – Tomb Raider (2018)

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Tomb Raider, 2018. Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost. SYNOPSIS: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Alicia […]

First promo artwork for Shadow of the Tomb Raider

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Earlier this month Square Enix officially announced the next chapter in the Tomb Raider video game series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and with a full reveal set to arrive next month, we now have a piece of first-look promotional artwork featuring the iconic adventurer Lara Croft; check it out here… Shadow of the Tomb […]

Tomb Raider opens to $108 million worldwide

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Lara Croft made her return to the big screen this weekend, with Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander taking on the role of the iconic video game character for the Tomb Raider reboot [read our review here]. Despite losing out on top spot in North America, grossing $23.5 million in second place behind Black Panther, Tomb Raider ruled […]

Movie Review – Tomb Raider (2018)

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Tomb Raider, 2018. Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Nick Frost and Derek Jakobi. SYNOPSIS:  Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. From a critical standpoint, the […]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider officially announced with teaser trailer

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Ahead of the release of the Alicia Vikander-headlined movie reboot this Friday [read our review here], Square Enix has officially announced the next chapter in the Tomb Raider video game series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is set for release in September 2014. Watch the teaser trailer here… https://youtu.be/vYabycdHYs0 Shadow of the Tomb Raider […]

Exclusive Interviews – Director Roar Uthaug and producer Graham King talk Tomb Raider and video game movies

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Ahead of its release this coming week, Flickering Myth’s Jack Gracie got a chance to speak with Roar Uthaug and Graham King, director and producer of the latest big screen adaptation of the classic video game series Tomb Raider, starring Alicia Vikander as the iconic adventurer Lara Croft. We discuss how the story for the […]