![]() An arrest warrant has been issued for Darrell Singleton. ![]() His indictment is scheduled for Decemat 3:15 p.m. The story has since been corrected.Two South Holland men are accused of robbing an armored truck and an ATM on Halloween (Chicago, IL) - Two brothers have been charged in federal court with stealing more than $1 million from an armored truck and an ATM in a suburb of Chicago on Halloween.Ĭorrie Singleton, 21, and Darrell Singleton, 18, both of South Holland, Illinois, are charged with robbery, bank robbery by assault and firearms offenses, according to an indictment in the US District Court in Chicago. Despite its sometimes excessive use of violence, Netflix’s newest thriller does not disappoint and is certainly worthy of a stream as cool autumn winds rise and Halloween approaches.Ĭorrection: A previous version of this story misidentified the Appalachian Mountains as the Catskill Mountains. Soaked in darkly memorable and religiously motivated imagery, the new film “The Devil All the Time” is filled to the brim with unforgettable performances, haunting narratives and stunning shots and locales. Overall, the film certainly leaves an impression. This left me feeling unsatisfied, especially after a hefty runtime of 2 hours and 38 minutes. The film is unflinching in its portrayal of the depths of human evil, but delves little into the psyche and motivation of the ghoulish players featured throughout. The film falters in that it offers no shortage of evil acts but shows little desire to explore why they are done. ![]() ![]() This had a wearying and almost exhausting effect on me, as there is almost no break from misfortune and calamity. From the start of the film, the events are laced with tragedy and misanthropy, almost to the point of gratuity. It is an unrelenting flood of gruesome violence and disturbing imagery. The time period and setting is richly explored and is almost its own character, highlighted by the music, accents and set pieces of a county town forgotten by the rest of a bustling post-war America. The film is also cinematographically gorgeous, with a score of beautiful shots that highlight the woody backroads and vibrant scenery of little-explored but captivating Ohio and West Virginia woodlands. The creative and at times heart-wrenching performances of every actor on the screen is by far the film’s greatest strength. Playing a tortured young man in the throes of evil and brutality, he convincingly sold the emotional investment to me and made me empathize with his battle against the cruel world he lives in.Įvery performer carries their weight in what could be considered a masterclass of character acting. This formidable crew of actors is topped off by an endearing lead performance by Holland. Preston Teagardin, Sebastian Stan as Sheriff Lee Bodecker and Jason Clarke as Carl Henderson, to name a few. The film is acted brilliantly by a veteran cast including Robert Pattinson as Rev. The dark narrative follows Russell’s tragic life and how it intersects with all manner of wicked folk - ranging from corrupt cops to deranged preachers - while exploring themes of guilt, loss, trauma and evil. The film is set between 19 and is based on the 2011 novel of the same title by Knockemstiff native Donald Ray Pollock. ![]() At the center of this grim drama of ghouls and foul deeds lies a young man named Arvin Russell (Holland) who tries to protect his family from sinister forces at work in and around the very real backwoods town of Knockemstiff, Ohio. Credit: Courtesy of TNSįresh off the heels of international Spider-Man stardom, Tom Holland and a troop of blockbuster regulars bring us a grim new thriller set a little too close to home in “The Devil All the Time.”ĭirected by Antonio Campos, “The Devil All the Time” is a tale about a twisted dark web of corrupt, violent and evil characters that spans from the islands of the South Pacific to the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. “The Devil All the Time” released on Netflix Sept. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There is nothing you can do downstairs inside his house without that red key. In fact, the neighbor patrolling his property at the start is a total decoy. The stealth horror aspects come into the game later, but as of now, there is close to none. In order to progress in Act 1, you must get on the roof, smash a window upstairs, flick some switches, turn on a fan, run outside, stand on a platform, break in again, steal a key and then finally unlock the basement. Well, maybe it’s as simple as going upstairs and retrieving the key? Of course not. ![]() There is no explicit or implicit instruction, ‘beyond a door is locked’ or ‘the key is upstairs’. There is no way on earth that if you started to play this game, you would accidentally stumble upon the right thing to do. Then an even quicker tutorial to explain each button and the rest is up to you. There is a quick cutscene at the beginning which effectively lowers your expectations of gameplay. Hello Neighbor drops you in the deep end with regards to what they expect you to do. Although both games are a similar “battle royale” style, they have different realities where different things are possible. In Fortnite, there are 100 players, lots of loot, last one standing wins, and you can build your own ‘fort’ for protection, a game-changing mechanic. Each game has its own reality (magic circle) where certain things are possible, for example in PUGB there are 100 individuals, lots of loot, last one standing wins. As a man who studied video games and is an avid player, I can comfortably say this game has made no effort in immersing the user in the game’s magic circle. Now let us talk more about gameplay specifically. What makes this even more frustrating is the file size, a 1.2GB mobile game should be filled with lots of content and decent quality graphics but instead it falls short. The graphics are very low quality, they may look quirky from a distance, but everything is unpleasant to look at close-up. When games like ‘Asphalt 9: Legends’ show up on the App Store with next-generation quality graphics, you really can’t afford to cut corners. Hello Neighbor didn’t just cut a couple corners, it cut them wherever possible. ![]() There is nothing worse than being caught in a stealth horror game, especially when you’re let down by the controls.Īnother aspect that really lets this game down is the graphics. Brilliant right? Well, this game requires stealth and the occasional run for your life situation, therefore by having a widget that repositions itself is incredibly frustrating. The widget that controls player movement sets itself based on where you press. The controls don’t work, and by that, I mean in terms of practicality and reliability. All that was needed was a good effort with regards to porting it over to mobile. As a game that was originally made for PC, the hard work was done in terms of developing. It sounds simple and straightforward, yet it all goes downhill from there. Gameplay involves navigating as the smallest child in history, trying to uncover what on earth “your neighbour” has hidden in their basement. That being said, I struggle to give it any more kudos beyond the aforementioned. ![]() It has several chapters, quirky graphics and a storyline that is surrounded by mystery. Hello Neighbor has a lot going on for a mobile game. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can almost hear Sinatra on the phonograph, and taste the martinis. Two attractive women in white dresses sit on 1950s-modern furniture, looking ready for cocktails. Shulman's picture shows the glass-walled corner of the living room, suspended from the edge of a cliff, hanging in space over the twinkling lights of a Los Angeles dusk. Designed by Pierre Koenig, the house is one of several affordable single-family homes commissioned by an architectural magazine after World War II. 22, was taken in 1960 and shows a house in the Hollywood Hills. His most famous photograph, called Case Study House No. Sometimes there are people in the pictures, but Shulman's focus is on the building - how it sits in its environment, the feeling it evokes. Shulman has taken thousands of photographs, mostly of houses in Southern California, but it's best not to ask him about going on a shoot: "Shoot?" he jokes. "But after the Second World War there was a whole generation of architects that became known thanks to work." "The famous architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler had already been building in this part of the world for quite some time," says de Wit. In 2004 the Getty bought Shulman's archive - some quarter of a million images documenting over 70 years of California architecture. Sometimes Wim de Wit, the head of architecture and design at the Getty Research Institute, phones. ![]() It's a clean, modern house that looks a bit like some he has photographed.Īt home, the photographer fields calls from magazine editors, architects, photography students and acolytes. Shulman himself lives high atop a California hillside in house off Mulholland Drive that he built in the 1950s. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't be able to see them." "He's the only one who really catalogs all. Michael Riva, the production designer for Iron Man and Iron Man 2. "You have to reference him when you're doing what we do," says J. In the movie Iron Man, the hero lives high atop a California hillside in a supersleek house inspired by photographs Shulman took in the 1950s and 1960s. But pictures by the 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman are in a league of their own, so distinctive that they are consulted by movie designers, collected by museums and cherished by homeowners who commission them. Magazines, newspapers, even family scrapbooks are full of photographs of houses - graphic examples of the American dream. The 98-year-old photographer continues to photograph L.A.'s homes. "It was just a photograph that captured the image of the home - the building itself - but also the experience of being in that building, of dreaming that Los Angeles dream on the hillside," says Chadwick. 22" photograph captures the experience of modernism itself: 22," a nighttime portrait of a modern glass house that juts out from a cliff over the Los Angeles skyline.Īlex Chadwick, who interviewed the photographer for NPR three years ago, tells Madeleine Brand that the "Case Study House No. Known for his sleek and cinematic portraits of California's modern homes, Shulman was often recognized for "Case Study House No. According to his daughter, his last assignment was only two weeks ago. Shulman loved his work, and was still an active photographer. Julius Shulman, the photographer who showed us what modern architecture looks like, died at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. ![]() Julius Shulman spent more than 70 years photographing Los Angeles' iconic architecture. ![]() ![]() They’re both enhanced with ferocious lead guitar by Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots. Angell told P&W that he later realized this song is “a request for acceptance a nobody-is-perfect manifesto.” Tracks three and four – “Divine Intervention” and “Stood Up at the Gates of Heaven” are special for several reasons. Lines like “You’re still holding on to something / 100% of nothin’” hit like daggers. Its catchy melody has a swagger that somehow feels like an ‘I told you so’ in musical form, matching the attitude in Jeff’s delivery. If you can sing “What Did You Expect?” without a satisfied snarl on your face, we’ll be shocked. Angell also told us that “‘The Value of Zero’ is about freeing oneself from the dead weight of others’ opinions with the hope of finding a more personal truth.” Run that through a bunch of effects at a loud volume and voilà! I’ve always liked the idea of noise as an instrument.” Increasing the suspense, Lothian’s warm and distorted sax melts with deep drones of key bass by Anderson. So touching the end of a guitar cable produces a circuit, which creates a buzz. As Angell explained, “The human body is electrically conductive. The album artwork, a gritty black-and-white capture of a hand clutching metal scissors, nods to a recurring line, “I’m the scissors you’re the string / I’m letting go of everything” in “The Value of Zero” – and later, “I’ll choose the path of least resistance / I am the scissors you’re the string” in “Money Isn’t Everything.” Opener “The Value of Zero” introduces a neat rhythmic addition: a mechanical sound that makes you feel like you’re inside a submarine. ![]() The Light Below is like a sonic trip to a place where neon signs and car headlights illuminate leather-jacketed late-nighters. ![]() From Andrews’ strikingly precise drumming to Anderson’s vivid keys to the vibe-setting saxophone by Lothian, it’s a colorful base on which Angell paints his pensive lyrics. Walking Papers’ The Light Below is a sit-down-and-listen, edge-of-your-seat kind of record, but it’s equally pleasing when you might be listening more passively a gripping life soundtrack that makes everyday moments feel like film noir. Even so, it still fits right into the wider Angell universe that includes the work of Post Stardom Depression, The Missionary Position, and Staticland too. This mesmerizing third LP – which also features Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo – was produced by Aaron Spiro and has a uniquely cinematic feel. Walking Papers’ Jeff Angell, Benjamin Anderson, Will Andrews, and Gregor Lothian have brought us a powerful rush of dark rock with new album The Light Below, due for release next Friday, Feb 5th ( pre-order it digitally here, or on vinyl/CD here ). ![]() ![]() ![]() and if that doesn't seem to get people interested, do it with more and more graphic gore, more superheroes, keep trying all these gimmicks that everyone has tried 100 times in the last 2 decades. they could keep making these side-on 1v1 3D games on a 2D plane, with dudes with a lion head, dudes with a bear head that all stand in front of each other and perform the 200 memorised combos per character in front of each other, with zero interaction with their surrounds, without anything fundamentally changed since Street Fighter 2. Hell, take advantage of the battle royal/fall guys craze, put 30 people in the fight and last one standing wins. I think a more powerstone/gangbeats/sifu style 3D 3v3 or 4v4 'brawler' with heavy focus on online play/matchmaking/ranking, lots of cooperative attacks, physics randomness (not just canned attacks and responses), lots of taking advantage of the surroundings/level to move/attack/coordinate, environmental destruction via the fight, etc, could be a hit. ![]() I also like what Gang Beasts tried to do. Fighters that tried to evolve and operated on more of a 3D plane like Virtua Fighter lost out to those that kept it flat, 'boring' and 2D.īut on the 3D space, things like Powerstone were going directions I l liked. Very little real innovation in the concept since then. The whole genre kinda stagnated for me not long after when it moved from 2D to 3D. I feel like if it is to happen for fighting games it's going to be something more fundamental than a gimmick like morphing into wolfman on command. His unique AoE-based ducking attacks (22P and 22B) let him set up for air combos, with his 236P Izuna Drop working as both a. Still rooting for an RTS comeback, and still rooting or a fighting game comeback. Bakuryu is a fast, tricky, hit-and-run style character designed to frustrate his opponents and then capitalize on their mistakes he has many teleports, evades and command runs to help him achieve this goal. But to be honest, RTS deserved it, so few of them were good, or at least so few had good online/multiplayer/matchmaking focus. bloody roar bloody roar 2 bloody roar 3 bloody roar primal fury bloody roar extreme bloody roar 4 kenji ogami bakuryu bakuryu the mole mole beast. It's the same with RTS, that genre kinda died, everyone who liked it moved to those terrible MOBA games. I think Smash Brothers is probably the closest thing to a fighting game that mainstream people play. I dunno anyone who plays fighting games anymore, and I haven't known anyone for many years. 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There’s something to be said, too, for a game that recognises its limits. Draugen masterfully builds atmosphere and its soundtrack is an integral part of that. The gorgeous, evocative music is another highlight, drawing on strings and piano arrangements and even choir ensembles to set an ethereal, and sometimes haunting, tone. If there’s one thing that lets down the visuals slightly, it’s the overly tiled-looking textures in places, but this is a minor grumble. Its minimalist user interface respects this, with subtle focus points and fittingly styled interaction text that avoid obstructing the lavish scenery. If you didn’t gather, Draugen is quite the looker. In your short stay, you’ll experience a full spectrum of striking weather and lighting, from drizzly mist that obscures your vision to glorious sunshine and raging thunderstorms – seemingly, at times, a pathetic fallacy of Edward’s state of mind. The town is thick with lush flora and trees with leaves turned an autumnal apricot. Graavik is also a delightful setting to escape to for several hours, with rolling hills and snow-capped mountains on one side, calm waves of the sea on the other. But without revealing too much, you’ll unravel the secrets of this old mining town, experience a taste of Norweigan folklore and get blindsided by a couple of brilliant twists along the way. It’s a very pedestrian affair, a peaceful saunter of a game in both a literal and figurative sense. Stick with it, however, and Draugen rewards your persistence. The disappointingly robotic facial animation also undermines her expressive voice acting. On the other, Lissie is somewhat caricature-like, her designations of “old bean,” “old sport” and “old boy” getting old pretty quickly. On one hand, the dialogue menu is a joy to use, with a slick design and extra information provided about each option to help you decide. Interaction with your sole compatriot, Lissie, doesn’t help matters. This obfuscation is very much by design, but the result is an ultimately meaningless-feeling – albeit still mildly interesting – first third or so. It takes a while to even get your head around who the main characters are and what their relationship is to each other. I found it difficult to feel particularly invested in my search for Betty, knowing little of her. Speaking of story, however, Draugen doesn’t instantly hit the ground running. ![]() In fact, if it didn’t already ring a bell, Draugen shares much more in common with Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture in its old-timey portrayal of a village mysteriously abandoned. On the whole, it’s a decidedly more grounded story than the fantastical, otherworldly adventures of their previous game. ![]() But when we arrive, she’s nowhere to be found – in fact, no-one is anywhere to be found.ĭraugen is the latest release from Red Thread Games, the developers of Dreamfall Chapters. The purpose of my journey is to find my estranged sister, Betty. It’s 1923, and as Edward Charles Harden I’m travelling to the sleepy coastal town of Graavik in Norway. I can’t decide whether she’s charming my pants off or doing my head in. A cocky lass by the name of Lissie, she’s headstrong with an infectious positivity towards everything. Everything is quiet and still, save for the chatter of my companion. I head towards the shore in a small rowing boat, the evening air shrouded in a dim fog. ![]() |
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