Devilishly

Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky LetaThis week’s puzzle is difficult. Not because it has an exceedingly complicated solution, but because the idea that underlies it is deep and ingenious. I only know of one method to solve it, but I’m curious whether alternative approaches exist. Feel free to spitball half-baked ideas in the comments. You might find working together on solutions an enriching experience. But also, your life depends on it.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoDid you miss last week’s…

Cards on the table: I've never played a Diablo game before. Yes, I know, I'm a bit late to the party, which is strange considering this hellish franchise is sprinkled with all the right ingredients from ghoulish monsters, perilous dungeons, loot drops, and lots of blood — elements that would normally have me giddy with excitement. It's a household name that still holds some well-deserved clout, despite last year's Diablo Immortal tarnishing it with pay-to-win mechanics, which for obvious reasons didn't sit well with the…

Trying to explain the Y2K panic to the younger generations runs the risk of making you sound like a crazy person, with the dawn of the millennium creating widespread fear that the entire world was going to end. Sensing an opportunity, Hollywood sought to turn the concerns into cash, but End of Days ended up slapping the festivities with a stupendously silly coat of satanic paint. The late 1990s were a strange time, which was perfectly encapsulated by one of the year’s final blockbusters revolving around a despondent…

via Screen Gems History has shown that horror movies don’t need to find anything even remotely resembling universal acclaim to succeed, but based on the talent gathered together to craft 2014’s Deliver Us from Evil, both critics and audiences were expecting much better. Sure, the supernatural thriller earned a respectable $88 million at the box office on a $30 million budget to turn a tidy little profit, but respective Rotten Tomatoes scores of 29 and 42 percent from the aforementioned sides of the divide was…

Dir: Damon Thomas. Starring: Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller, Cathy Ang, Rachel Ogechi Kanu. Cert 15, 96 minutesThe “BFF Quiz” was a staple of the Eighties teen girl magazine. Back then, the media treated young women with open contempt. Female friendship was deemed too fickle and too poisonous to be determined by feelings – no, the only way to know if your bestie was really your bestie was to have them answer 12 hypothetical questions. Would they tell you if your new Esprit skirt was actually hideous? Would they get jealous if…

via Mars Distribution Netflix subscribers can always be relied on to propel even the most forgotten of horror movies back to prominence, but even experienced of genre fans may left wondering what the hell they’ve just seen by the time the credits come up on 2006’s French flick Sheitan. The title is derived from the Arabic word for “devil”, just to give you a hint as to what’s in store. In all honesty, though, it’s impossible to even try and explain the madness that permeates co-writer and director Kim…