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Protect your meat Consumer Softproducts has announced the arrival of a patch for the deranged 2021 meatpunk title, Cruelty Squad. Unlike many late-arrival patches, this patch does more than just fix compatibility issues and squash minor bugs. It makes the armor in the game actually do something. Update: Armor now works for the first time in Cruelty Squad, a game that has been out for more than two yearshttps://t.co/DDQ9jUtw4T — Consumer Softproducts Oy (@CSoftproducts) March 27, 2023 Because Consumer Softproducts gets…

Emily Watson had big plans to turn up for our interview looking immaculately made up, but then family members started getting sick and her morning fell apart. “When my husband’s ill, chaos descends,” she says, with a sigh. Despite this, she doesn’t seem ruffled. If anything, she is serene and calm, her skin glowing and those expressive blue eyes as piercing and soulful in life as they are on screen.We meet at the BFI Southbank in London, a regular haunt of hers over the years, to talk about her new film God’s Creatures.…

Shot on the misty Achill island off Ireland’s west coast, Finnish director Klaus Härö’s English-language debut grapples with the rough currents of late-in-life regrets and resentment. Cranky retired sea captain Howard (James Cosmo) – once content with shutting himself off from the outside world – is forced to open his disorderly home, and subsequently his heart, to Annie (Brid Brennan), a housekeeper hired by his overworked daughter Grace (Catherine Walker).What begins as a lighthearted autumnal romance gradually evolves…

Screenshot: YouTubeA robotic elephant was donated to an Indian temple to replace having a wild creature living in captivity.PETA India donated the elephant named Irinjadappilly Raman, to the Sree Krishna Temple in Kerala to “help conduct ceremonies at the temple in a safe and cruelty-free manner,” the animal rights organization said in a press release.The robotic elephant stands at 10 feet and six inches tall, has large moving fan-shaped ears, and roving eyes, and “took about six months to build,” Khushboo Gupta, the…

When Alice Robb was little, she wanted more than anything to be a ballet dancer. After two rejections from the School of American Ballet, the feeder school for the prestigious New York City Ballet, she finally won a place at the age of nine, a few days after 9/11. “The city was in mourning but it was the best day of my life,” she recalls in Don’t Think, Dear. Ballet became Robb’s obsession and her identity, though her dream of turning professional unravelled when she reached puberty. Her hips widened, she grew tall and…

| Crime in Greendale is way up as Salem is attacked on the street by a gang of pets gone bad in this preview of Chilling Adventures of Salem #1. Check out the preview below. CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SALEM #1ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONSAUG221167AUG221168 – CHILLING ADV OF SALEM ONE SHOT CVR B FRANCAVILLA – $3.99(W) Cullen Bunn (A / CA) Dan SchoeningSalem the Cat has always been known as Sabrina's familiar, but what happens when Sabrina's not around to protect him (or, as is more the case, when he doesn't have to protect her)?…

| Cheetah is in desperate need of some catnip in this preview of Wonder Woman #792, but she gets the crap beaten out of her by Wonder Woman instead. Check out the preview below. WONDER WOMAN #792DC Comics0822DC2150822DC216 – Wonder Woman #792 Joelle Jones Cover – $5.990822DC217 – Wonder Woman #792 Lucio Parrillo Cover – $5.99(W) Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire (A) Marguerite Sauvage, Paulina Ganucheau (CA) Yanick PaquetteCHEETAH'S GONE WILD! After serving as the test subject for an immoral corporation's…

Ian McEwan was on holiday on the remote coast of north-west Scotland when he heard the news that his great friend Salman Rushdie had been attacked in New York. His wife, the writer Annalena McAfee, let out a cry from the next door room in the small hotel where they were staying. The numbness of his first response was quickly followed by a feeling of horrible inevitability: “How could I have been so blind?” Like Rushdie, McEwan had hoped the threat of the fatwa was over. “The tragedy of this is Salman always wanted to get…

“On a hot night in Apartment C4, Blandine Watkins exits her body. She is only 18, but she has spent most of her life wishing for this to happen,” begins The Rabbit Hutch. “The mystics call this experience the Transverberation of the Heart, or the Seraph’s Assault, but no angel appears to Blandine. There is, however, a bioluminescent man in his 50s.”So whatever happens next, you know that debut author Tess Gunty can nail an opening. What happens next is the gradual, chronology-hopping revelation of who Blandine is, what…