Classic

If you grew up in the 1980s, then chance are you remember a board game called HeroQuest. The fantasy board game made its debut in 1989, and would remain popular throughout the early 1990s. It also had one of the best television adverts for a board game, complete with ominous voice over, shirtless barbarians, and cheesy monsters (check it out below). I used to own the game as a kid, and have always regretted getting rid of it - the worst thing is, I can't even remember what exactly I did with it.The good news for me is…

Max Carver, one of the Iceberg Lounge twins in The Batman, revealed a surprising cinematic tie to Matt Reeves’ 2022 caped caper. Instead of auditioning for their intended roles as the bouncers of the aforementioned establishment, Max and twin brother Charlie were instead asked to read lines from the 1971 masterpiece The French Connection. As Max told The Illuminerdi, he and his sibling didn’t even know they were up for The Batman at first. “It was a trip, man, because we didn’t know it was The Batman when we…

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Trophy support is a big surprise for some of us Classic PlayStation games are coming to PS4 and PS5 in June with the new $120-per-year PlayStation Plus Premium tier, and as it turns out, they’ll have trophies — at least, some of the games will. In a tweet this afternoon, Bend Studio shared a surprise clip featuring an all-new trophy, “An Explosive Start,” for the PS1 classic Syphon Filter. In a response to a fan on Twitter, Bend Studio design manager Eric Jensen said he “helped out with a few of , mostly naming.”…

One of the most beloved board games of all time, Monopoly has been a staple of family gaming sessions since the 1930s. It kind of goes without saying, but a game with as much history as Monopoly has undergone countless changes over the years, including the removal of some of its more iconic tokens. In news that's sure to delight long-time fans of this classic board game, Hasbro is giving the general public the ability to bring back a retired token from yesteryear.Fans who visit the Monopoly website can vote to bring back…

A Norwegian housing estate becomes the village of the damned in this icily brilliant supernatural tale from film-maker Eskil Vogt, who as a screenwriter is known for his collaborations with Joachim Trier; rather amazingly, his movie before this brutal chiller was their co-scripted romantic comedy The Worst Person in the World. As for The Innocents, it might yet become a scary-movie classic: it greased my palms with anxiety and incidentally has some of the best child acting I have ever seen. See it now before Hollywood…

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Carl Theodor Dreyer’s macabre gothic romance from 1932 is now rereleased for its 90th anniversary. It’s an eerie, semi-silent classic which really does have the uncanny quality of a bad dream, in which event follows event with an unhurried somnambulist confidence. All early cinema, or maybe all cinema of any period, has that unspoken I-see-dead-people fascination: the spectacle of dead or forgotten actors revivified and brought back to undead life – and this is very appropriate for Vampyr.It’s a film which took as its…

Paul Verhoeven, directorInitially, I rejected the script because it was so different from what I’d been doing in the Netherlands. Later, on set, I was helped enormously by having one of the screenwriters, Ed Neumeier, with me at all times, preventing me from doing stupid stuff. There were so many moments where I could’ve gone wrong. In the script, somebody would say, “Hey brother”, and I would ask, “Who is the brother?”I originally thought Nancy Allen, who was playing RoboCop’s partner Anne, should have a secret affair…

With an almighty clang, Jane Campion has hit that tipping point at which the awards-season groupthink clusters around one particular movie. Her western psychodrama The Power of the Dog leads the tally list with a whopping 12 nominations. It is about a toxically dysfunctional confrontation between a rancher played by Benedict Cumberbatch in 1920s Montana and his sister-in-law, played by Kirsten Dunst, brother played by Jesse Plemons and his brother’s sensitive stepson played by Kodi Smit-McPhee.Clearly, the Academy has…