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Future Games Show 2022: Games from Ukraine

As if game development wasn’t challenging enough, creating video games in the shadow of war amid a still ongoing global pandemic really is a remarkable feat. For the Ukrainian game developers who featured in the Future Games Show Powered by Mana‘s ‘Games from Ukraine’ segment – Weasel Token, Sowoke Entertainment …

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Jurassic World Dominion: Every dinosaur, listed

Jurassic World Dominion is out now on the big screen, bringing the dino franchise to an end (for now). Set four years after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the new movie sees humans and prehistoric creatures uneasily existing side by side. Matters are complicated further by the threat of an ecological …

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Thunderbolts #1 is the greatest trick Marvel Comics ever pulled

25 years ago, writer Kurt Busiek and artist Mark Bagley introduced a new Marvel superhero team – the Thunderbolts.  Thunderbolts #1 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) Promoted and marketed with great hype as a replacement team of superheroes stepping into the shoes of the then presumed …

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Is it just me, or have Agatha Christie adaptations had their day?

Watching Sir Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded, CGI-assisted and deliriously old-fashioned movie version of Death on the Nile, this pundit was struck by a number of questions. Why did writer Michael Green feel the need to give Hercule Poirot’s moustache a tragic backstory? Why were so many comics, Russell Brand and French …

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Is it just me, or do we need a one-person-comedy revival?

The 1990s and early 2000s were a terrific time for one specific type of film: comedies in which a single actor plays a dozen different roles. In 1996 came The Nutty Professor, in which Eddie Murphy played not just the professor, but also his mother, brother, father and grandmother, plus …

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