• Tomb Raider

    Friends is on Netflix, Steps are selling out arenas, and Tomb Raider is back. Lara Croft, that odd 90’s relic of semi-mortification pixelised banter, has been rebooted for a Millenial sensibility, Alicia Vikander slipping on the tanktop Angelina Jolie had two goes at in the early 00’s films. And director Roar Uthaug (The Wave) and screenwriters Alastair Siddons and Geneva Robertson-Dworet play it safe, too safe in the end. First-time writer Robertson-Dworet is down for future female-driven Marvel projects Captain Marvel and Silver & Black, and she and Siddons construct their Lara revival like a superhero origin story. Dead parents,…