Entertainment

Passion for music, movies and games is something shared by everyone at Richer Sounds so we love talking about the latest releases and discussing our favourites. If you fancy some recommendations from our team on what to watch or listen to next, just scroll down and take a peek.

Album review: Martha Wainwright – Goodnight City

Album review: Martha Wainwright – Goodnight City

This is Martha Wainwright’s fourth album of original songs since her first, 2005’s eponymous debut. Up until now her career highlight has arguably been 2009’s album of Edith Piaf songs. How will this release hold up against her previous LPs?… As …read more

Album review: Common – Black America Again

Album review: Common – Black America Again

This month rap fans were treated to a monumental release from one of the scene’s all time greats, Common’s Black America Again is as the title suggests; an honest and frustrated look at the current state of affairs in the …read more

Film review: Arrival

Film review: Arrival

Looking strikingly like an earthbound Prometheus, can Arrival trump it by offering a spellbinding story as well as visuals?… Amy Adams plays Professor Banks, a leading linguist specialist, who must deal with the responsibility of making first contact with an …read more

Game review: Mafia 3

Game review: Mafia 3

I have loved the Mafia series since playing the first instalment. In many ways they have always failed to give a true open-world type of experience. Non-mission activities are few and far between, and those that exist are completed easily …read more

Game review: Gears of War 4

Game review: Gears of War 4

The ongoing Gears of War saga returns with its fourth sequential instalment (Judgement was a prequel). I’m disappointed to see it’s not called Gears of Four. This may be a massive marketing oversight but does it affect the game as well? It’s …read more

Game review: Battlefield 1

Game review: Battlefield 1

Stunning, emotive, sensitive and thought-provoking. Surely there must be a flaw somewhere? Pitched as game of the year from the moment the first trailer appeared, this game had a lot to live up to. Usually a review will keep you …read more

Game review: WWE 2K17

Game review: WWE 2K17

Much like Christmas, Black Friday and a new horrendous football away-kit, a new WWE game comes out but once a year; letting us all live out our inner wrestling persona through the safety of the screen. This year’s offering looks promising, but …read more

Top games for November

Top games for November

We finally made it! It’s finally “big game season”, where the prize-winning stags of the gaming world wander into the riflescopes of avid gamers, and get hunted down so quickly that if you don’t pick up a day-one release you may be missing …read more