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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: …

The Walking Dead season 10 was meant to be a return to form. After season 9’s time jump, we all expected things to quickly kick off between the Whisperers and the survivors, especially with Alpha being such an intriguing villain. Yet, the first three episodes were slow, edging on the …

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 …

The Walking Dead is no stranger to the sophomore slump. Where the season premieres are often action-packed, the follow-ups are usually a lethargic return to business as usual, and the shift is almost always jarring. Unfortunately, The Walking Dead season 10 (opens in new tab) does nothing to change that …

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 …

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 …

The best gaming laptops have a lot to juggle, and the Acer Predator Triton 500 is no different. For starters, they need to be portable enough to justify not buying a desktop PC in the first place. Secondly, squeezing the horsepower you need into a machine that doesn’t require a …