Most of us are familiar with the ingredients by now. It all begins calmly enough, a happy group laughing and joking before the screw steadily, inexorably begins to tighten. There’s an agonisingly slow build, a gradual sense of creeping dread, and that awful sinking feeling as plans go horribly awry. …
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When it comes to collecting Funko Pops (opens in new tab), chances are everyone’s got at least one piece of Game of Thrones merch (opens in new tab) in there. And of all the extensive sets out there, Thrones is one of the biggest and most sought after. In total, …
Read More »The secret messages movie camera angles send you (without you realising)
It’s no secret that a lot of work goes into making a movie. Some of it you never (or only ever briefly) see on screen. From costumes to lighting, there’s a multitude of people behind the scenes thinking about every little movie-making detail and making sure it all tells the …
Read More »Is it just me, or does anyone else miss video stores?
As a kid, I adored going to the pictures to gawp in awe at the big screen. But it was in my local video store that my love of cinema was truly cemented. Ask any film fan aged roughly 30-plus about this and their eyes will twinkle, a wistful smile …
Read More »VR, lies, and video games: the weird origin story of Accounting+
You might be shocked to know that one of the most perfect work marriages in the gaming world – Stanley Parable designer William Pugh and Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland – is built on a foundation of lies. Sitting down to speak with them about the virtual reality mindfuck …
Read More »Great games need a great bad guy – why the perfect nemesis is everything
Does anyone, other than politicians and teenagers, have real-life true enemies? It takes so much energy and effort to constantly hate someone. But in games it’s a different matter. They serve as narrative cocaine: keeping you focused and singularly determined to do whatever it takes – it doesn’t matter how …
Read More »This amazing Star Trek Discovery theory suggests Tyler isnt all he seems…
Star Trek Discovery (opens in new tab) has its fair share of fan theories and Easter eggs (opens in new tab). Like any other iteration of the show, viewers have poured over the details to try and find clues about what might happen next, or to dig up secrets from …
Read More »Games you completely forgot happened in 2017
As you no doubt know from our list of the best games of 2017 (opens in new tab), it was an outstanding year for games, with the spotlight shining on deserving superstars like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab), Horizon Zero Dawn (opens in …
Read More »The Fly at 30: Revisiting Cronenbergs body horror masterpiece and its rocky journey to the big screen
The Fly’s journey to the screen began in the early 1980s, after screenwriter Charles Edward “Chuck” Pogue had returned from England, where he had just written two Sherlock Holmes films, starring Ian Richardson. Pogue hooked up with a young producer named Stuart Cornfeld, today co-producer and business partner of Ben …
Read More »Hotline Miami’s cleverest surprise is that it’s not a shooter – it’s a puzzle game
Gunning down, knifing, and battering mobsters you have no personal truck with is Hotline Miami’s central, bloody hook. Yet despite scoring a full house in indignant headline bingo – casual slaughter, blood, the gamification of human suffering – Hotline Miami (opens in new tab) escaped the shouty tabloid wrath that …
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