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The post-Get Out influx of “elevated” horror films, more focused on the construction of a smug metaphor than coherence or cohesion, has become a blight on an already blighted genre. It’s an incredibly difficult web to weave - even Jordan Peele himself facing the odd stumble since his ground-shifting breakout – yet still so many keep trying, dissertations clumsily disguised as films.But in I Saw the TV Glow, a buzzy, brilliant new film premiering at the Sundance film festival, the writer-director Jane Schoenbrun has made…

Decolonisation, cultural restitution and repatriation are increasingly hot topics, dividing the world of culture and politics. From the Benin bronzes to the Koh-i-Noor diamond, books such as Dan Hicks’s The Brutish Museums and Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland have studied extractive colonialism and questioned how cultural artefacts have travelled to, and been curated within, collections in western museums – often alongside distorted versions of their origin stories, or without credit where it’s due.American author Tania…

The film-makers Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson know their way around the peaks and valleys of the everyday. Their breakout 2019 feature Saint Frances, written and starring O’Sullivan, sublimated what could be big strokes of drama – abortion, postpartum depression, getting older, lost time – into the unremarkable (on the outside) relationship between an aimless 34-year-old and her six-year-old nannying charge. The daily humors and challenges in one woman’s life were not particularly dramatic or arresting, but rendered…

A Case Study Examining the Impact of the Data Act, the GDPR and the AI Act on Connected CarsOne of the newest additions that might make the lives of a lot of smart product manufacturers just a bit more complicated is the EU Data Act, that now comes on top of the GDPR, only to be smushed in a sandwich once the AI act comes into force. Will this sandwich always have all its layers? Well, most certainly not, but this will be the case in a wide variety of situations and for a wide variety of products. Why? To answer this…

Riot Forge Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is the latest game from League of Legends indie game label Riot Forge, and it’s decidedly different from everything that came before it. While Riot Forge games like The Mageseeker, Convergence, and Song of Nunu have been more intense action League of Legends affairs, Bandle Tale is a comedic, cozy adventure with gameplay that shares more in common with Stardew Valley than League of Legends. The adventure is set in Bandle City, which is home to the adorably weird…

It’s wild to think that knowledge and information wasn’t as easily and readily available just a few decades ago. Thanks to the internet, it now reaches billions of people on demand, and the world is better off because of it.Now, old wives’ tales were among the many things that worked before the internet in terms of spreading information. Granted, they were often dubious or even superstitious, but their prevalence was strong.Well, turns out, not all of it was hogwash as folks on Reddit were recently sharing old wives’…

2024 is here and with a selection of free games! Sony has released its lineup of PS Plus games and the list looks really good. We have got A Plague Tale: Requiem, Evil West and Nobody Saves the World. Further, PS Plus subscribers will also get access to Warframe: Syrinx Collection, a pack that is exclusive to them. All the games will be available for download till February 5th.Here’s a closer look at these games.A Plague Tale: Requiem (PS5)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIbzwb8vzNIA sequel to the popular game, A Plague…

Picks of the weekThe Traitors: Uncloaked Available on BBC Sounds and watch after every episode on BBC Two and iPlayerAs we all settle down to watch the second series of Claudia Winkleman’s backstabbing smash (below), there is an accompanying visualised podcast, hosted by comedian and presenter Ed Gamble, that will take fans deeper into the castle with dissection of the episodes and exclusive access to the banished and murdered players. As soon as viewers have finished with their latest fix of the show, they’ll be able to…

Identical twins are always a source of fascination, and Jacqueline Roy’s novel charts the lives of a pair, Selina and Zora, who seem even closer than most. “We were joined at the hip – that’s not a metaphor,” insists Zora, in a striking first line; she claims to remember the operation that severed their tiny, conjoined bodies as babies. But separating herself emotionally from her sister in adulthood will prove more difficult.Zora and Selina are born to a white mother and Black father in south London. We get two accounts…

In the late 1930s, shortly before the outbreak of the second world war, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton – played here by Johnny Flynn, and in later life by Anthony Hopkins – visited Czechoslovakia, to see with his own eyes the humanitarian crisis and rising panic among the exiled Jewish community in the country. So shocked was he by what he witnessed that, with the help of his indomitable mother, Babette (Helena Bonham Carter), he helped secure the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, a feat for…