Lara Croft is back (again), but how does the new adventure stack up? When 2013’s reboot of Tomb Raider received mostly positive reviews, and that game’s sequel Rise Of The Tomb Raider did equally well back in 2015, it has been clear that we have been slowly but surely getting back to the Lara Croft […]

8 years ago

The end of the beginning. The very first Tomb Raider game was released back in 1996, and while it was a massive hit with fans and spawned many, many sequels, it did also feature Lara Croft battling a T-Rex, as well as a dragon in an alternative dimension version of The Great Wall Of China. […]

8 years ago

Better than you feared, but still not as good as we’d hoped. When the first Tomb Raider video game was released in 1996, it involved the independently wealthy archaeologist Lara Croft solving puzzles and fighting a T-Rex (yes, for real) in order to stop an ancient rule from the Lost City Of Atlantis from being […]

8 years ago

‘Do I need to practice my grunts? Do I need to do them in front of the mirror?’ Last time we had a Tomb Raider movie, Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie was holding the duel pistols and solving ancient puzzles, so it stands to reason that the bar for the character has been set pretty high. Enter […]

8 years ago

Has he fixed the curse of great video-games becoming bad movies? First things first: have you listened to our interview with the new Lara Croft yet? We sat down with Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander to discuss everything from grunts to stunts to coddle (yes, coddle) in the lead up to the release of Tomb Raider. […]

8 years ago

She’s back. You’ve probably spent months playing the seminal Playstation game Tomb Raider when it was first released in 1996 because just like Goldeneye or Super Mario 64, Lara Croft’s adventures were revolutionary. This being said, the films which starred Angelina Jolie as the female archaeologist were pretty so-so. Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Jason […]

9 years ago