If there was ever a series that brings back memories of being on vacation, it’s the Mario and Luigi role-playing games. I vividly recall playing on my Game Boy Advance in 2003, guiding my plumbers through exciting battles while lounging in the sun. Brothership is the first new game in the series in nearly a … Read more
It may be tempting to draw parallels between Chromakopia and Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, the last event rap album that also served as a 73-minute-long therapy session. However, it’s important to remember that 15 years ago, Tyler Okonma introduced Dr. TC, his therapist character, on his debut record Bastard. The absence … Read more
In 2015, when I first played as Maxine Caulfield in the original Life Is Strange, it was only the second time I had ever played a game starring a teenaged girl. (The first time was The Last of Us: Left Behind, which came out the year before.) It was an awkward game in a few … Read more
Martha Stewart is often considered the original influencer when it comes to marketing a lifestyle and personal brand. She paved the way for others by showcasing how to embody elegance, culinary expertise, gardening skills, and interior decorating while still maintaining independence as a modern woman. However, a new Netflix documentary directed by RJ Cutler delves … Read more
What are the chances, eh? First you get picked for jury duty even though your pregnant wife might deliver your child before you can deliver a verdict. Then it transpires that you alone know for certain that the defendant accused of murder is innocent. How can you be sure? Because you are the guilty party. … Read more
The return of the slasher movie genre, which had long been dormant, came with some important conditions. The new films were either part of a well-established franchise (like the updates to Scream or Halloween, or next year’s I Know What You Did Last Summer) or they relied on a quirky gimmick. We saw time loops … Read more
Never has that been more true than with Here You Come Again, a new musical which combines memories of the Covid pandemic with the songs of Dolly Parton. Steven Webb, Tricia Paoluccio and musicians and singers in Here You Come Again (Picture: Hugo Glendinning)On paper it sounds too improbable, too contrived to be effective and … Read more
‘All day, all night the body intervenes,” wrote Virginia Woolf in On Being Ill. It “blunts or sharpens, colours or discolours, turns to wax in the warmth of June, hardens to tallow in the murk of February. The creature within can only gaze through the pane – smudged or rosy; it cannot separate off from … Read more
“ A swirl of concern and outright fear has long been following Robert Zemeckis’s unusual big bet Here, a 30-year reunion for his Forrest Gump co-stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The film, based on Richard McGuire’s comic strip turned graphic novel, was heralded as the most ambitious use of digital de-aging yet, following the … Read more
“Sequels can be very tempting when the first book has been successful,” a literary agent states early on in Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Sequel. The novel’s anti-heroine, Anna Williams-Bonner, responds with her characteristic pragmatism: “But they’re never as good as the first book, are they?” They both pause for a moment, trying and failing to … Read more