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Assassin's Creed

November 2020

  • Assassin's Creed Valhalla

    '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

  • Under the Silver Lake and Donnie Darko

    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

  • The Angry Birds Movie

    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

  • A still from the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    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

  • Michael Fassbender in The Snowman.

    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

  • Composite of the films Assassin’s Creed, Atomic Blonde, Unforgettable and The Girl on the Train with Kanye West

    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, 2017, film still

    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

  • Michael Fassbender in the ‘surprisingly dull’ Assassin’s Creed.

    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.

    Assassin’s Creed director Justin Kurzel: ‘We went old school with it’

  • Michael Fassbender Assassins Creed

    Michael Fassbender on Assassin's Creed: 'Genetic memory makes a lot of scientific sense to me' – video interview

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

    Box office analysis: UK
    Rogue One opens well in the UK – but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts

  • This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch in a scene from "Assassin's Creed." (Kerry Brown/20th Century Fox via AP)

    Assassin's Creed review – Michael Fassbender game movie achieves transcendental boredom

May 2016

  • Assassin's Creed

    Is the Assassin's Creed movie actually going to be good?

  • Assassin's Creed

    Week in geek
    Assassin's Creed: five things we learned from the first trailer

December 2015

  • Fiends reunited … Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth.

    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

  • Assassin's Creed - Victory.

    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.
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