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Watched Anora in the cinema, excellent movie. I would say it’s about equally as good as The Brutalist, but if I had to give the nod to one, I would give it to Anora. Mikey Madison certainly deserving of her Best Actress award.

Reviews: Gamespot - 10 Destructoid - 9.5 IGN - 9 PC Gamer - 87% Eurogamer - 5/5 RockPaperShotgun Polygon

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/03/suikoden-i-ii-hd-remaster-gate-rune-and-dunan-unification-wars-launch-trailer

Never say never, again? https://www.eurogamer.net/hideki-kamiya-still-wants-to-resurrect-the-cancelled-scalebound

Down on Furiosa? It’s brilliant.

Finally caught up on the other big action film that I missed from last year, Mad Max Furiosa. While Dune Part 2 was a bit of a swing and a miss for me, Furiosa blew me away again. Wow. Part western, part action spectacle, just brilliant. Totally on board for more of this.

Been a while since I watched FNL but I think I’ve watched it through twice. I loved it at the time, it’s more about human relationships than sports, and it has an excellent soundtrack by Explosions in the Sky.

Glad The Brutalist won Best Score and Best Cinematography, and Adrien Brody was a deserving winner of Best Actor. Can’t argue with any of those. Going to see Anora this weekend so I’ll see how it compares.

About 15 hours in, on mission 5 now. This is fine. I can kind of see why it’s already been forgotten to time though.

I think it’s From’s worst game.

Watched The Wild Robot at the cinema and Dune Part 2 at home on Netflix. The Wild Robot is a solid animated film that won me over as it went on. I watched it dubbed in Japanese so I don’t know if it’s funnier in English. It’s not a particularly subtle or original film but I enjoyed it. I’d give it 8/10. Dune Part 2 I had much higher expectations for but enjoyed less. I was a huge fan of Blade Runner 2049 and Dune Part 1, this one dragged for me. Admittedly, Villeneuve makes “cinema” movies and watching this at home is gonna hurt it a lot. But I struggled to get into it or be engaged by it. Like I said elsewhere, every time it started to build up steam it slowed down again. I don’t hate it but I hope the third part is much stronger. 6.5 or 7 out of 10.

https://www.eurogamer.net/metroid-dread-studio-announces-new-action-adventure-blades-of-fire New game from Mercury Steam. Unfortunately, you have to click the link to watch the video.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/former-metro-devs-reveal-singleplayer-fps-la-quimera-a-latin-american-cyberpunk-shooter-with-hollywood-credentials One of the better game announcement trailers I’ve seen.

Reviews: Destructoid - 9.5 PC Gamer - 85% Gamespot - 8 IGN - 8 Eurogamer - 4/5 Polygon RockPaperShotgun

I saw Fontaines DC live on Sunday night. They were brilliant. Here’s the setlist for anyone who’s a fan: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/fontaines-dc/2025/toyosu-pit-tokyo-japan-6b51aee2.html On a side note, they released a brand new song on Friday and I was curious if they would play it - they did. Nice to experience the live debut of a song. I highly recommend seeing them live if you have the chance, they are even better live than on record I think. I do think their most recent album, Romance, is a big step forward for them. All the songs they played from Romance sounded so good live. Their sound has come a long way from their (still excellent) debut album. I’m excited to see if they can continue to evolve and somehow top it. Hopefully the first of many times that I get to see them live.

Image is broken for me Snaggle, can’t see what you’ve posted.

Watched The Brutalist today. I wouldn’t let the running time put you off, the movie doesn’t feel long and the 15 minute intermission breaks it up nicely. That being said, I definitely preferred the first half of the movie to the second half. There are elements of the movie that felt unnecessary. I wouldn’t call it a classic or a masterpiece but it is a very good movie and a good cinema experience. The soundtrack and camera work are great, the two central performances from Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce are both excellent. I’d give it a solid 8.5/10.

I saw that this had an incredible 820,000+ reviews on Steam (the game only came out last August) and googled the sales figures. Apparently this has sold 25 million copies already? That must make it one of the most successful games of all time.

Glad to hear The Brutalist has an intermission, going to see it tomorrow. Recently, I watched Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch which I really enjoyed, especially the first, second and last segments. Btw, I love some of the movies on that too ten westerns list but there are some amazing movies missing. Off the top of my head - The Wild Bunch, My Darling Clementine, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Dances with Wolves. Johnny Guitar. And loads more.

Reviews: Eurogamer - 4/5 PC Gamer - 80% RockPaperShotgun

Quite significant day one patch: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/avoweds-huge-66gb-update-includes-major-improvements-for-the-games-whole-progression-system-along-with-key-bug-fixes-and-buffs-for-companions/

Reviews: IGN - 8 Gamespot - 7 PC Gamer - 70% Eurogamer - 4/5 Polygon RockPaperShotgun

Rogue Trader is probably worth a punt.

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/02/tides-of-annihilation-11-minutes-of-gameplay

Reviews: Destructoid - 9 PC Gamer - 82% IGN - 7 Gamespot - 6 Eurogamer - 4/5 Polygon RockPaperShotgun Interesting mix of reviews. The Eurogamer reviewer really liked it. Either way, between this and Kingdom Come 2 it’s been a solid start to 2025 for rpgs.