Resident Evil Requiem: Xbox Series X Review

Developed by Capcom
Published by Capcom
Platform: Xbox Series X

The Resident Evil series takes a leap into the future in this graphically engaging, almost cinematic approach to the long-running franchise.

This time, it follows FBI Agent Grace Ashcroft as she investigates a series of murders linked to her mother's death at a hotel. But the further she begins to look into these matters, the more it places her on a collision course with series protagonist Leon S Kennedy and a wider conspiracy.

To say more about Resident Evil Requiem is to deny the game the shocks it has in store for those willing to submit to its mix of jump scares and atmospheric dread. But this is more than simple carny-level shocks - there's some deeply unsettling psychological stuff at play here in a game that's as technically polished as it is utterly terrifying.

From rain-soaked streets to dark corridors that hide their horrors, there's much to endure and enjoy with Resident Evil Requiem - and needless to say, the ability to switch between protagonists makes for a thrilling experience.

But it's more than just the immersion into the character world that makes Resident Evil Requiem work - there's a tension and suspense littered throughout Grace's section that feels like it's ripped from the best horror films in the world and the action that perpetuates Leon's sections is the perfect antithesis to what has gone before.

All in all, this coalesces into the kind of game that's rarely seen on consoles within its genre - an excellent, unsettling experience that's only all the better for how incredible it all looks.

The Oscars winners 2026: The complete winners list

The Oscars: Complete winners list

Here is the complete list of winners at the 98th Academy Awards, taking place in Los Angeles on March 15, 2026.

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"Bugonia"

"F1"

"Frankenstein"

"Hamnet" 

"Marty Supreme" 

"One Battle After Another" - WINNER

"The Secret Agent"

"Sentimental Value"

"Sinners" 

"Train Dreams" 

Directing

Paul Thomas Anderson, "One Battle After Another" - WINNER

Ryan Coogler, "Sinners" 

Josh Safdie, "Marty Supreme"

Joachim Trier, "Sentimental Value" 

Chloé Zhao, "Hamnet" 

Actor in a Leading Role 

Timothée Chalamet, "Marty Supreme" 

Leonardo DiCaprio, "One Battle After Another"

Ethan Hawke, "Blue Moon"

Michael B. Jordan, "Sinners" - WINNER

Wagner Moura, "The Secret Agent"

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessie Buckley, "Hamnet" - WINNER

Rose Byrne, "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You"

Kate Hudson, "Song Sung Blue"

Renate Reinsve, "Sentimental Value"

Emma Stone, "Bugonia"

Actor in a Supporting Role

Benicio del Toro, "One Battle After Another"

Jacob Elordi, "Frankenstein"

Delroy Lindo, "Sinners"

Sean Penn, "One Battle After Another" - WINNER

Stellan Skarsgård, "Sentimental Value"

Actress in a Supporting Role 

Elle Fanning, "Sentimental Value"

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, "Sentimental Value"

Amy Madigan, "Weapons" - WINNER

Wunmi Mosaku, "Sinners"

Teyana Taylor, "One Battle After Another"

Animated Feature

"Arco"

"Elio"

"KPop Demon Hunters" - WINNER

"Little Amélie or the Character of Rain"

"Zootopia 2" 

International Feature

Brazil, "The Secret Agent"

France, "It Was Just an Accident"

Norway, "Sentimental Value" - WINNER

Spain, "Sirât"

Tunisia, "The Voice of Hind Rajab"

Documentary Feature Film

"The Alabama Solution"

"Come See Me in the Good Light"

"Cutting Through Rocks" 

"Mr Nobody Against Putin" - WINNER

"The Perfect Neighbor"

Documentary Short Film 

"All the Empty Rooms" - WINNER

"Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud"

"Children No More: 'Were and Are Gone'"

"The Devil Is Busy"

"Perfectly a Strangeness"

Animated Short Film 

"The Butterfly"

"Forever Green"

"The Girl Who Cried Pearls"  - WINNER

"Retirement Plan"

"The Three Sisters"

Live Action Short Film

"Butcher's Stain"

"A Friend of Dorothy" 

"Jane Austen's Period Drama"

"The Singers" - JOINT WINNER 

"Two People Exchanging Saliva" - JOINT WINNER

Adapted Screenplay

"Bugonia," Will Tracy

"Frankenstein," Guillermo del Toro 

"Hamnet," Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell

"One Battle After Another," Paul Thomas Anderson - WINNER

"Train Dreams," Clint Bentley and Craig Kwedar

Original Screenplay

"Blue Moon," Robert Kaplow

"It Was Just an Accident," Jafar Panahi, Script collaborators – Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin and Mehdi Mahmoudian

"Marty Supreme," Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein

"Sentimental Value," Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt 

"Sinners," Ryan Coogler - WINNER

Original Song 

"Dear Me" from "Diane Warren: Relentless"

"Golden" from "KPop Demon Hunters" - WINNER

"I Lied to You" from "Sinners" 

"Sweet Dreams of Joy" from "Viva Verdi!"

"Train Dreams" from "Train Dreams"

Original Score 

"Bugonia," Jerskin Fendrix

"Frankenstein," Alexandre Desplat

"Hamnet," Max Richter 

"One Battle After Another," Jonny Greenwood

"Sinners," Ludwig Göransson - WINNER

Film Editing

"F1," Stephen Mirrione

"Marty Supreme," Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie

"One Battle After Another," Andy Jurgensen - WINNER

"Sentimental Value," Oliver Bugge Coutté

"Sinners," Michael P. Shawver

Production Design 

"Frankenstein," Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau - WINNER

"Hamnet," Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton

"Marty Supreme," Jack Fisk and Adam Willis 

"One Battle After Another," Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino

"Sinners," Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne 

Casting

"Hamnet," Nina Gold

"Marty Supreme," Jennifer Venditti

"One Battle After Another," Cassandra Kulukundis - WINNER

"The Secret Agent," Gabriel Domingues

"Sinners," Francine Maisler

Cinematography

"Frankenstein," Dan Lausten

"Marty Supreme," Darius Khondji

"One Battle After Another," Michael Bauman

"Sinners," Autumn Durald Arkapaw - WINNER

"Train Dreams," Adolpho Veloso

Costume Design

"Avatar: Fire and Ash," Deborah L. Scott

"Frankenstein," Kate Hawley - WINNER

"Hamnet," Malgosia Turzanska

"Marty Supreme," Miyako Bellizzi 

"Sinners," Ruth E. Carter

Makeup and Hairstyling 

"Frankenstein," Mike Hill, Cliona Furey and Jordan Samuel - WINNER

"Kokuho," Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu 

"Sinners," Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry

"The Smashing Machine," Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein 

"The Ugly Stepsister," Anne Catherine Sauerberg and Thomas Foldberg

Sound

"F1," Gareth John, Al Nelson, Juan Peralta, Gary A. Rizzo and Gwendowlyn Yates Whittle - WINNER

"Frankenstein," Greg Chapman, Christian Cooke, Nelson Ferreira, Nathan Robitaille and Brad Zoern

"One Battle After Another" Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor

"Sinners," Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker

"Sirât," Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas

Visual Effects

"Avatar: Fire and Ash," Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett - WINNER

"F1," Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson

"Jurassic World Rebirth" David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould

"The Lost Bus," Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin

"Sinners," Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean

Hoppers: Movie Review

Cast: Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm, Kathy Najimy, Dave Franco
Director: Daniel Chong

For those worried Pixar's animation arm has lost its way, Hoppers is the perfect rejoinder to such complaints.

Funny, random and emotionally scary when it wants and needs to be, this tale of all living together and trusting crosses both generations and species. It's the story of Mabel Tanaka (Curda), a young eco-warrior in training who starts the film jail-breaking animals kept in school classroom cages during term time and ends with her sitting atop a rock with a beaver.

When the mayor of Beaverton Jerry (Jon Hamm) decides to build a flyover across Mabel's beloved glade where she grew up with her grandma, she decides to spring into action. Upon learning that all it takes to make the area decreed a nature reserve is a beaver, Mabel sets about to achieve what she believes is a simple goal.

However, she soon finds herself part of the animal kingdom after her consciousness is transported into a robot beaver...

Wildly inventive, deeply heartfelt and above all, completely engaging and joyous, Hoppers is a madcap adventure that is Pixar at its very best. With characters feeling rounded as well as grounded, and the emotional journey a complex and well-executed one, what emerges from it is a story that's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny as well as affecting when it needs to be.

But it's also not afraid to take some swerves into genre territory too, mixing in Fly-like body horror and sci-fi tropes as it all plays out.

The end result is that Hoppers, with its wild array of characters, manages to juggle action sequences and character moments with real aplomb - and never losing sight of any of the basics along the way. From the stand-out creation of the natural world where everything feels aligned to the empathy of loving all creatures, foibles and all, there's just something cohesive here that's utterly charming and exquisitely clever when it needs to be.

However, what's most impressive about Hoppers is the ease with which it manages all of these elements, and leaves you wanting more of the world it's created. It's inevitable there'll be spinoffs here - and quite frankly, they'd be unbelievably welcome.

Project Hail Mary: Movie Review

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Huller
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

Based on Andy "The Martian" Weir's 2021 novel of the same name, Project Hail Mary finds Ryan Gosling as Dr Ryland Grace, Earth's last hope when the sun threatens to wipe out all human life.

Waking on board an interstellar ship, Grace realises he has no idea where he is, what he's doing and why...

28 Years Later: Neon NZ Movie Review

Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, Jodie Comer, Jack O'Connell
Director: Danny Boyle

Three decades after the original 28 Days Later leant into the vibe of a disease being released from a lab and infecting the whole world, director Danny Boyle has returned to the scenario that gave the world the then-unknown Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy.

This time around, the story follows a group of survivors quarantined on a heavily guarded island. But when one of them heads away from the island, what they discover rocks the core of their foundations of belief...

To say much about 28 Years Later is to steal away from what threadbare plot there is - which sounds like a disservice but is anything but. The story revolves around the loss of innocence of a child, of discovering a role model is not what you thought they were and of the lies we tell ourselves and others to survive.

Taylor-Johnson is Jamie, who, as the film begins - after a brutal massacre of children watching of all things Teletubbies - is taking his younger than hunting age son Spike (a terrific Williams) out for his first kill on the mainland they live over the water from. However, things don't go entirely to plan...

The best thing to say about 28 Years Later is that it's a film that does everything new with the post-apocalyptic zombie genre that's been run ragged by countless copies and revitalised by The Last Of Us. Not once does Boyle follow the pack, and spends most of the film breaking out from doing so. Even a coda at the end delivers one heck of a punch that will land with those au fait with British pop culture. ("Let's be pals" will be the most terrifying of words uttered this year for those who know about tracksuits and children).

From having the zombie kills play out like elements of the X-Ray cam on Rebellion Games' Sniper Elite to an entirely elegaic ending that is not what you'd expect, but is entirely what you deserve, 28 Years Later delivers nerve-shredding moments mixed with a disturbing calm, and a rich world that brims with contemporary allegories and parallels. (An isolated Britain filled with rage-hating populace covers so many bases right now).

But central to it all is Williams' brave portrayal of the coming-of-age Spike, forced to kill out of goading from his father and uncertain of his right to do so before inevitably having to take the lead and become his own man.

The film looks spectacular too - lush green run-riot plants curl over decrepit buildings; the infected have evolved into different types of creatures and the passing visuals are nothing but upsetting in a hope-less way.

28 Years Later is visceral cinema at its finest - and it's an unmissable in-cinema experience.

Pretty Lethal: Movie Review

Cast: Uma Thurman, Lana Condor, Maddie Ziegler, Millicent Simmonds, Iris Apatow
Director: Vicky Jewson

Sometimes, all a film needs is a killer hook and a simple premise.

The idea of a group of ballerinas forced to fight for their lives in a hotel surrounded by gangsters is one such killer hook, but Pretty Lethal's relative inability to build on this - despite an 82 minute execution -leaves it somewhat floundering.

With action choreographed by unit 87 North, who are known for their work on JohnWick and The Continental TV series, you'd expect something slick and breathtaking - almost balletic given its subject matter.

But while Pretty Lethal does manage to deliver some impressive beatdown moments, its propensity for lack of originality means there's a creeping indifference as it plays out.

When a group of bickering ballerinas' car breaks down en route to a competition in Hungary, they're forced to seek solace in a local tavern run by Uma Thurman's prowling owner. However, after their handler is shockingly executed by mistake in front of them, the group finds themselves in a desperate battle for survival with only their wits and prowess to rely on.

Mixing Hostel, Abigail and also John Wick: The Continental, Pretty Lethal isn't shy in embracing its predecessors, nor does it believe in holding back the action. Yet in between bursts of brutality, there's scant little in this that really ramps up any tension - and even Uma Thurman's character embraces the camp as a former dancer whose leg was destroyed by a gangster, who's she held a grudge against for years.

The end result is that Pretty Lethal is anything but en pointe as it hurtles towards its denouement. As the dancers pirhouette around supposedly seasoned gangsters, they're underestimated fodder as the group's rife for a working together message that can be seen coming a mile off.

Consequently, Pretty Lethal is pretty disappointing in its unoriginality and pretty frustrating, given it looked like it had a shot at doing something different.

What's on DocPlay in April

Here's everything that's streaming on DocPlay in April.

This April, enjoy a diverse slate of programming from across the globe. Festival favourites André is an Idiot and Lowland Kids premiere exclusively on DocPlay; while Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore offers a rousing portrait of the trailblazing Academy Award®-winning Deaf actress. A must-see for cat lovers, The Cats of Gokogu Shrine offers a Wiseman-esque study of a Japanese village’s dozens of feline residents. Plus, discover over 60 design and architecture-themed short-form episodes from local production company Never Too Small, streaming for the first time on the platform.

 9 April

André is an Idiot (Exclusive)

Fun-loving André delayed getting a colonoscopy only to discover that he’s dying. In this Sundance Audience Award-winner, join André on his hilarious and heartfelt journey to the end. 

9 April

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (Exclusive)

Marlee Matlin becomes the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award® for her performance in Children of a Lesser God. Catapulted into the spotlight, she challenges an industry that's unprepared for her immense talent, emerging as a trailblazing actress, author and activist. 

16 April

The Cats of Gokogu Shrine

In the picturesque small coastal town of Ushimado in Japan’s Okayama Prefecture, a Shinto shrine has become home to an ever-growing colony of stray cats. A film festival favourite from Japanese documentarian Kazuhiro Soda.

20 April

Never Too Small

Discover over 60 episodes of this popular premium short-form series, streaming for the first time on DocPlay. Produced by Melbourne-based production company Never Too Small, the architecture-focussed programming features award-winning global designers and their compact apartments, studios and self-contained projects, as well as stories that bring to life a vision of small, sustainable living.

23 April

Seeking Mavis Beacon

The most recognisable woman in technology lives in our collective imagination. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software’s Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence. 

30 April

Lowland Kids (Exclusive)

Set on Louisiana’s rapidly vanishing Isle de Jean Charles, this quietly powerful documentary captures the lives of two teenagers and their uncle as they navigate the slow erosion of their home.