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Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Demo Review

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A New Hope Another Star Wars film, another Lego game follows. Developer: Traveller's Tales, returns to give its usual serious-to-awesomely kooky spin on Force Awaken's epic adventure in video game form. Creating Lego franchise entries based on all other Star Wars films that have come before, the stakes are set even higher for Traveler's Tales when creating a game around The Force Awakens, which met such high levels of critical acclaim. A look into its available set of playable characters, set pieces and gameplay innovations included, the demo for this new instalment shows that it may just bring enough new to the table to be worth it's anticipation.  D'awww! Visuals from the minute you dive into the demo make you realise this is a Lego game in all the right ways. The entirety of the demo covers the chase sequence on the desert planet: Jakku. From on-screen inhabitants, characters and the set pieces surrounding them, visuals pop onscreen with t

Chef (2014) Film Review

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Chef is an independent comedy-drama written, produced, directed and starring Jon Faverau. It follows Faverau’s character, Carl Casper: A California chef whose creative style of cooking becomes stifled by the manager of his restaurant and an unfolded event. This leads him to go out on his own in a food truck to discover and cook as he pleases.  In a film industry with several blockbusters coming out each month, it becomes easier to get drowned in explosive, wow-factor escapisms that their $100 million (at minimum) budgets try to create. Some of these large-scale endeavours bring interesting narratives to the table, sure but it’s becoming less often we have the opportunity to be drawn into genuine human stories that have their productions based on their characters instead of the special effects. Alongside making you crave every meal you see onscreen, Chef does just that with it's explored themes and joyful spirit. A chef's wondrous creativity at it's best. A