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After slaughtering thousands, I question my moral fibre
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When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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SUE TURNER is compelled by a history that shows how far a country can turn in on itself to collude with abuses of power
RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump
In this comparison of Britain pre- and post Thatcher, WILL POMORE applauds the analysis, but distrusts the solutions offered
MARIA DUARTE defends a solid, late-career Spielberg conspiracy flick that calls for empathy in a hostile world
ONE thing you tend to do over and over again in video games is brutally kill things.
Over the years I must have shot, slashed, butchered, beaten, blown up and eviscerated millions of gangsters, soldiers, monsters, tyrants, animals and occasionally even innocent passers-by.
I’ve been bingeing on a game called Uncharted 4 lately. For anyone unfamiliar with Naughty Dog’s seminal PlayStation exclusive action-adventure games, the Uncharted series is basically a riff on Indiana Jones, complete with cinematic graphics, a motley cast of loveable rogues, arse-clenching climbing, tense shootouts, crumbling buildings and a loose grasp of ancient history.
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