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With Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree due to launch this June, now’s the prime time to jump into an older From Software title with mods installed. It just so happens that one of the most impressive Dark Souls 3 mods we’ve yet seen, Archthrones, now has a demo available. Dark Souls: Archthrones is, essentially, a total conversion mod for Dark Souls 3 that takes up the monumental task of restructuring and retelling the core narrative of the franchise. Archthrones does come with its own lore, of course, which is “informed…

Dumb Money, the film chronicling GameStop's 2021 stock market frenzy, just got a trailer. The film marks director Craig Gillespie's foray into adapting real-life stories — since 2017's I, Tonya — and is slated to release September 22 in theatres. With Paul Dano in the lead, it essentially serves as a David v Goliath dramedy about the real-life YouTuber Keith Gill, who took on billionaire hedge fund managers, who were betting that the stock price of brick-and-mortar retailer GameStop would fall. The shocking events were…

The strange, sad story of Anna Nicole Smith is retold in this Netflix documentary by Ursula Macfarlane, who made Untouchable, about Harvey Weinstein. Smith was the former Playboy centrefold and Guess Jeans model who wound up dead of a drug overdose in 2007 at the age of 39, soon after her 20-year-old son had tragically died the same way. There are eerie similarities with the life of Pamela Anderson, also a recent Netflix subject, though Anderson survives and thrives.Smith was a smalltown Texas girl from a tough background…

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Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men, which began as an Instagram account highlighting female artists, has been named Waterstones book of the year.The book was chosen by the retailer’s booksellers, who vote each year for the books they have most enjoyed recommending to customers. As well as book of the year, they also named Bonnie Garmus, who wrote Lessons in Chemistry, as author of the year, and awarded children’s book of the year to Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by AF Steadman.‘A feast for the senses, as well as…

The era of dark and edgy parodies and twists on classic tales is well and truly upon us, with Winnie the Pooh, Bambi, and now The Grinch being reborn as horror icons. One of the most highly anticipated has now seen its first trailer just days before its release in The Mean One. Starring David Howard Thornton, best known for his comedic and sadistic killer clown Art from the Terrifier duology, The Grinch becomes one of the most horrifying slashers ever. The unauthorized parody saw its first peek recently via production…

Winnie the Pooh isn’t the only beloved children’s character to be given a grim slasher update, with The Grinch himself set to star in one of his own titled The Mean One. Better yet, it’s arriving earlier than expected. The return to the public domain and a culture keen on parody has led to the beloved Christmas character, The Grinch, brandishing a knife and slaughtering innocent people. Exactly what Dr. Seuss had in mind when he wrote his original books. The Mean One was originally set for a Dec. 15 release date but has…

The Academy Award-winning 1930 masterpiece on the senselessness of World War I, Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet On The Western Front, is an almost untouchable movie. Its incredibly progressive view of the Great War as pointless violence in the name of a country that only saw you as a pair of boots and a rifle was as universal and timeless then as it is now. All Quiet On The Western Front was equally revolutionary for centering the side which has been labeled by history as the loser, in a war where every party lost so much.…

For a reader unfamiliar with Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, India Knight’s reimagining would be a perfect comfort read: the kind of book you take into the bath and keep reading even when the water has gone cold, a one-sitting dark-at-four joy.Briefly, then, for that reader: teenage Linda Radlett lives in “the very definition of emptiness” (north Norfolk). Marooned in a tiny hamlet with her rock-star father Matthew, wafting bohemian mother Sadie, many siblings and narrator cousin Frances for company, Linda dreams of…

via Netflix As unsavory as it sounds to say, true crime and anything relating to grisly real-life murders is big business these days, whether we’re talking documentaries, podcasts, or feature films. Seeking to capitalize on that, Netflix unleashed The Catholic School this past Friday, and it’s already taken charge of the charts. As per FlixPatrol, the dramatization of the horrifying 1975 event known as the Circeo massacre has become a Top 10 hit in no less than 51 nations, and currently ranks as the fourth…