salvation

Is AI a panacea or a Pandora’s box? It’s a question that divides the British government. Ask the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, and he’ll fill your ears with promises about a glorious future. AI is a “game-changer” that can “revolutionise public services,” Dowden gushed yesterday. Healthcare, education, and crime prevention are all prime targets for the technological transformation — and that’s just the start. “I could go on nearly forever to cover all areas of public administration,”…

If you crave romances about beekeepers in the Algarve, or sagas of whimsical poisoning in Kensal Green, Nicolas Lunabba’s memoir probably isn’t for you. The clue is very much in the title. Will You Care If I Die? is a raw, intimate story of desperate trust and betrayal, of people perpetually balanced above a terminal abyss. Elegantly translated by Henning Koch, the prose juggles twisted humour, poetry, love and polemic in an aching, challenging journey. Lunabba anatomises what happens when a guarded heart surrenders and…

It’s a shame Arkane Studios’ Ravenholm was cancelled. That would have definitely filled the large Half-Life hole us fans have felt for some time. However, a modding team has been on the case with a custom story that lets us experience the creepy mining town some more. From the people that brought us the Raising the Bar project – an overhaul of Half-Life 2 that breathes new life into the iconic FPS – comes Raising the Bar: Salvation. In this mod, we fill the shoes of Father Grigori, the pastor of Ravenholm who…

via Lionsgate Hundreds of years on from his death, and William Shakespeare remains one of film and television’s premiere sources of inspiration, whether we’re talking faithful adaptations or modern-day reinventions. Based on the title alone, there are no prizes being handed out for guessing where Die in a Gunfight falls on the spectrum. While the Bard’s work being updated and interpreted as a bullet-riddled slab of action-orientated insanity is hardly the newest trick in the book – as proven by Baz Luhrmann’s…

via TWC When you think of the most famously troubled or even cursed productions in history, it’s usually those with massive budgets that come to mind first. However, history should never forget the infamously nightmarish existence of Jane Got a Gun, which went through hell or high water for the sole purpose of cratering at the box office. Initially, Lynne Ramsay was announced to direct a script written by Brian Duffield, with Natalie Portman in the lead role. That was in 2012, but by the time the finished…

The latest from evangelical Christian producers Pinnacle Peak – formerly Pure Flix, the money behind the surprisingly enduring God’s Not Dead series – is an adaptation of a Francine Rivers novel that remaps the biblical tale of Hosea on to a western goldrush setting. That synopsis suggests a level of creative imagination and ambition, possibly something like Michael Winterbottom hauling The Mayor of Casterbridge further west for 2000’s The Claim. Yet this movie thinly scatters a parable’s worth of plot across 134 minutes…

The road to Halloween Happy Friday! Tonight we’ve got a request from the community for a scary game called The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation. If you were here a few months back when we scoped out a similar Indonesian folklore horror game, Pamali, you’ll see some similarities with this one as it features Taiwanese folklore instead. You know we love all that good spooky stuff! I’m extra excited that Halloween is finally back on the horizon, too, so let me know all the horror games you want to see over the coming…

via Gravitas Ventures The recent cancellation of Batgirl with only the final touches of post-production still to go indicates that Hollywood isn’t above washing its hands of a movie it wants nothing to do with, but the team behind The King’s Daughter evidently did not get that memo. You may not have even noticed that the $40 million adaptation of Vonda M. McIntyre’s fantasy novel The Moon and the Sun even released earlier this year, given that it scored a disastrous domestic debut of just $723,000 from over…

Life in the city is shocking, its din so overwhelming that inhabitants learn to dull it into an incessant ambient roar. It is this bewildering clamour of urban living that sets the rhythm for Sussie Anie’s London-based debut novel, To Fill a Yellow House. It is the story of the unlikely friendship between Kwasi and Rupert. In the course of the novel, we see Kwasi grow from shy infant to artistic and socially unsure young man. Rupert is the ageing owner of a charity shop. He and the shop, poorly maintained after the death…