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Phil Traill knows about being an underdog: he directed All About Steve.
The only way is up, then, for his sporting romcom, starring Cemetery Junction’s Felicity Jones as a teenage maid up to her ear-muffs in snobbery at a flash ski resort, where she takes a fancy to competitive snowboarding (and Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick).
The outlook’s grey: tatty production values, clichéd backstory (dead mum, crippled confidence), no laughs. But it’s steered to success – just – by Jones, a natural, likeable everygirl who will make you care, possibly against your will, about a story as old as the Alps.
After posting daily updates for 7 years, Prey fan account that was counting the days until a sequel reacts to studio closure: "It's over"
Helldivers 2 community manager seemingly fired after encouraging negative reviews over now-canceled PSN mandate: "I knew I was taking a risk with what I said"
After a year of Xbox execs celebrating Hi-Fi Rush as a "break out hit" and saying "we don't quit" on games like Redfall, everyone wants to know what changed