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Shudder’s time-looping horror thriller Lucky is Groundhog Day meets a murder mystery

By Trevor Davies
February 19, 2021
in :  Entertainment
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Life takes a sudden turn for May (Brea Grant, After Midnight), a popular self-help book author, when she finds herself the target of a mysterious man with murderous intentions. Every night, without fail he comes after her, and every day the people around her barely seem to notice. With no one to turn to, May is pushed to her limits and must take matters into her own hands to survive and to regain control of her life.

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Kickstarter game Day of Dragons gets luckiest marketing break, raises over $500 000 on the back of Harry Potter Wizards Unite event

By Geoffrey Tim
October 11, 2019
in :  Gaming
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It’s incredibly difficult to get a game kickstarted these days. The crowdfunding model – once a great big life line for many developers – isn’t as popular and successful when it comes to video games anymore. That’s likely because there have been too many big failures; games that never really got off the ground despite reaching their targets. Day of Dragons, an “online creature survival sandbox PC game set in a large, beautiful, open world with multiple biomes” seemed like it would be one of those games.

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Super Lucky’s Tale Review – A charming platforming blast from the past

By Darryn Bonthuys
November 21, 2017
in :  Gaming, Reviews
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All ages gameplay, a colourful world to explore and a platforming mascot who has some potential to join the legends of the genre in the years to come. Super Lucky’s Tale won’t push your skills too far when it comes to its imaginative level design, but it’ll still be a cathartic way to wrap up the year thanks to its nostalgic focus on the past.

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Movies out today: Scares, strippers, soldiers and orphans

By Noelle Adams
July 20, 2012
in :  Entertainment
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If you are on South Africa’s east coast for the next week or so, there are dozens of movie screenings to choose from as part of the 2012 Durban International Film Festival. For everyone else across the nation, you have 4 new cinema releases to check out from today. The Woman in Black: Daniel Radcliffe’s first role post-Harry Potter sees …

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That Modern Warfare 2 Knife Kill

By Gavin Mannion
November 16, 2009
in :  Gaming
3

I got a couple of hours of Modern Warfare 2 in over the weekend and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this is the best multiplayer experience that I have encountered this year. The previous MW was good but if you got stuck in a game with some really good players it quickly became incredibly frustrating …

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