Balance
A small game about keeping a Mondrian painting from falling over. Built for a game jam celebrating the art that entered the public domain in 2026.
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Manic Miner in Go
Manic Miner, Matthew Smith's 1983 platform game, rebuilt in Go from William Humphreys' Z80 disassembly. All twenty caverns, the original physics, and the gloriously grating piano.
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Atic Atac in Go
A faithful Go port of Atic Atac, Ultimate Play the Game's 1983 ZX Spectrum maze game, built by reading the original Z80 machine code rather than guessing at it.
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Avatar - Fire and Ash (2025)
Cameron takes the third Avatar somewhere darker, with a hostile Na'vi tribe and a grieving family. The world-building is still the best in the business, even at three hours and a quarter. 8/10.
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The Running Man (2025)
Edgar Wright takes Stephen King's nastiest dystopia back to its roots, hands it to Glen Powell and turns it into a furious chase picture with a satirical streak. Loud, fast and angrier than it lets on. 8/10.
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Predator - Badlands (2025)
Dan Trachtenberg flips the franchise inside out and puts the Predator at the centre of its own story, with an android sidekick and a planet that wants everyone dead. It should not work as well as it does. 8/10.
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Tron - Ares (2025)
Fifteen years after Legacy, the Grid spills out into our world to a Nine Inch Nails pulse. The story is thin and the critics are cool, but as pure neon-and-noise spectacle it delivers what I came for. 8/10.
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Superman (2025)
James Gunn takes the keys to a new DC Universe and bets the whole thing on Superman meaning it. The reboot machinery shows, but the sincerity lands and the world is a pleasure to be in. 8/10.
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The Fantastic Four - First Steps (2025)
Marvel's most-fumbled family finally get the film they deserve, a warm retro-futurist origin that trusts its own world rather than the machinery around it. 8/10.
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Gareth Edwards reboots the dinosaurs as a lean tropical survival picture, handing the franchise back to scale and suspense rather than lore. The story is thin, the monsters are not, and it is a far better night out than the scores suggest. 8/10.
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