As someone whose bedroom walls are adorned with Back to the Future and Jurassic Park posters, with Stranger Things figures dotted on my shelves and an unopened special edition of The Goonies propped up on the desk next to a PlayStation VR, the mostly 80s-driven nerdgasm that is Ready Player One sounds like it should be utterly captivating. The trailers have promised just as many pop culture ref...
If the new big screen incarnation of Lara Croft was intended as an extended advert to tempt you into playing the recently rebooted games on which the film based, then it can be considered mission accomplished. But based on how seriously Tomb Raider appears to take itself, one assumes director Roar Uthaug was keen to craft something that could stand on its own as an experience worthy of breaking...