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Agatha Christie’s Death on the Cards asks a simple question: how do you get away with murder? By being a sneaky git, according to this social deduction card game. Someone around the table is responsible for a crime most foul, but their identity is unknown. They’re also working behind the …

The Jaws board game has proven that I’m a monster. It’ll do the same to you. But that’s a good thing – honest. Although it’s bristling with the sort of tension you’d expect considering the source material, what you might not anticipate is how much fun you’ll have chowing down on victims …

A true-life death-row tale of wrongful imprisonment, racial prejudice and the battle to overturn injustice, Just Mercy is a drama cut from classical Hollywood cloth. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12, Marvel’s upcoming Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings), it’s a tale not of 12 Angry …

In December 2017, it looked to be game over for Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle before it even hit our screens. A reboot of a family fantasy franchise (Jumanji and sorta-sequel Zathura: A Space Adventure) that had laid dormant for 14 years? A videogame movie? And opening mere days after Star Wars: …

Following its debut game, Night School Studio had the unenviable task of keeping up its momentum. 2016’s Oxenfree was a surprise hit that innovated on the choose-your-own-adventure genre in ways that have still yet to be outdone. Afterparty, in many ways, feels like a spiritual successor to Oxenfree, but it …

Forget your troubles, come on, get happy, because the Renée-ssance starts here. The divine Miss Z makes a major comeback, starring as the fragile, pill- and booze-addicted Judy Garland in this poignant, deep-digging biopic.  In 1968 we find America’s songbird exhausted, broke and homeless, her only offer a London nightclub …

The latest addition to ASUS’ TUF Gaming headset line is the H3, which joins the more expensive H5 and H7 sets but as a cheaper option for players on any console, on PC or mobile. The H3 gives the impression of being a headset not for audiophiles or those who …

We don’t really talk about the other Blair Witch games, the strange early aughts trilogy featuring were-bats and zombies. So when Bloober, the developer behind the brilliant psychological horror game Layers of Fear (opens in new tab), announced it was taking a whittled-stick stab at a game steeped in Blair …

A semi-autobiographical portrait of an artist that is at once severe and compassionate, painterly and spontaneous, formally rigorous and fluent (much of the dialogue is improvised), The Souvenir sees writer/director Joanna Hogg bring meaning to the memories of her formative years as a filmmaker. It also offers a fascinating study …

It all starts with love. A woman called Karen logs into her computer, plugs in a hard drive filled with illicitly obtained videos recorded on webcams and smartphone cameras, as well as the documentation explaining how best to access them all. ‘Love’ sits there in the search bar. It has …