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I'm a writer and film critic from Australia. I'm the weekly film critic for the Star Mail newspaper chain (10+ years), and write articles, essays and science fiction. I enjoy movies, prog-rock, video games, collecting vintage Macs and walking for exercise
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My FTL play-style is so cruel. Enemy crew are psychically forced to kill each other as they burn and suffocate. 😱

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Death Stranding was a PS4 exclusive first in 2019, then got a Windows port in 2020 and came to Mac and iOS in 2024. Given Kojima Productions' success with the first game's ports, the Windows port of Death Stranding 2 might come sooner, and the Windows and Mac ports may come out together. 🤞

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Needless to say, the knee-strike is my favourite combat move in Death Stranding. I also love how power gloves, including the Silver Hand from Cyberpunk 2077, can send enemies flying with one punch. By the way, I wish I'd gotten the hang of throwing objects at enemies sooner. 😆

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Fragile's rejuvenated appearance in Death Stranding 2 supports a theory I have about Timefall. Could controlled, limited exposure to Timefall effectively inoculate against ageing and slow its natural progression?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

@katwatchesfilms.bsky.social Do you think I can count Cade: The Tortured Crossing as a 2025 film? It only just came out for home media (aside from a DVD you could only order from Neil Breen's website), but had its international cinema run in 2023, not last year.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I have a feeling that Ben Shapiro would probably hate Death Stranding, as he’d view the in-game systems of porters sharing resources and vehicles, building and repairing structures to help each other out and equitably claiming what you need from a unified pool as socialism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The two settlements in Death Stranding I have the most affinity for are Mountain Knot City and the Distribution Centre South of Lake Knot City.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Death Stranding just had its first crash on my M1 Max Mac Studio. I’m not concerned, though, as one crash in 128 HOURS of gameplay is pretty damn good.

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It's weird how in the 1998 video game Ring, which is a bizarre epic sci-fi adaptation of Wagner's Ring opera, the Norse gods Woden/Odin and Loge/Loki have more of an ancient Egyptian aesthetic than a Norse design.

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A Minecraft Movie isn't very good, but one aspect I appreciated was how Natalie (Emma Myers) is the main ass-kicker of the group.

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We finally have a release date — April 30 — for the Mac port of Robocop: Rogue City! The Mac game I'm looking forward to the most is Cyberpunk 2077 (now that Control for Mac is already out), but I'm still eager to play Robocop: Rogue City on my Mac Studio.

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As a suspenseful but very funny monster movie full of brilliantly witty dialogue, I enjoyed Death of a Unicorn so much that it's currently number four in my list of this year's films thus far (under Mickey 17, Companion and Nosferatu).

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I really enjoyed Death of a Unicorn, and my review for next week’s paper ends with the line ‘Like Gorgo in the trappings of Saltburn.’ I’m not sure if I’ll ever write a better line than that.

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I’m an only child, so I’m not certain how I would behave under these circumstances, and I know films like The Monkey exaggerate for comedy, but it honestly upsets me that some siblings can be so cruel to one another. I don’t blame Hal for wanting the monkey toy to kill his sadistic brother Bill.

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This Apple TV synopsis for Companion is REALLY misleading. [MILD SPOILERS, BUT THEY'RE ALL IN THE TRAILER ANYWAY] Iris, the android protagonist, doesn't go haywire; she is hacked and manipulated into murder by her abusive boyfriend, and spends much of the movie trying to escape from him.

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