Baldur’s Gate 3’s first major patch is now live, and just as promised, it includes over 1,000 fixes for various problems, including bugs and balancing issues. It’s fixed so many things, in fact, that the patch notes don’t actually fit within Steam’s news post character limit.
It’s Kill List summer, baby
07.08.2023 - 18:05 / polygon.com / Idris Elba
Idris Elba may lend Apple TV’s gripping new series Hijack star power, but his co-star, Neil Maskell, is the one who grabs the premise by the throat. As the lead terrorist hijacking a flight from Dubai to London, the scruffy British actor barks orders, jerks passengers around, and sweats profusely as things don’t exactly go according to plan. Any actor can perform ticking-clock drama, but few have the goods to let the weight of a situation completely crush their psyche. Rage, confusion, spiraling crisis — this is the Maskell special.
The creative team behind Hijack clearly watched him in Kill List, one of the all-time great horror-thrillers that’s having an unexpected moment… that only people in the Kill List hive would possibly notice. But you want to be in the Kill List hive.
Maskell has been all over British TV in the last decade, playing gruff cops, gruff robbers, and even gruff Winston Churchill on Peaky Blinders. But the apex of his particular raw energy, the kind that Hijack confines to a jet’s suffocating cabins so that Elba’s master negotiator character can worm his way into the hijack plans, is in Kill List. In the 2011 film, the actor plays Jay, a tortured hitman recruited for a series of missions that lead him into dizzying, cult-ish conspiracies. Stricken with wartime PTSD but swimming in bills, Jay can’t say no to the lethal missions issued to him by shadowy employers, but every kill seems to shatter him even more. Maskell’s blowups on Hijack can feel explosive thanks to the page-turner construction of the story, but in Kill List — where violence and Blair Witch-esque mythology give Jay’s descent an eldritch quality — his performance is downright ballistic. It’s ugly. It’s great!
Kill List is the nightmare vision of writer Amy Jump and filmmaker Ben Wheatley, who is also in the news right now: After playing in the indie genre sandbox for years, the director recently took a swing with Meg 2: The Trench. And while that swing may have been a miss, there is no amount of rotten tomatoes that will sour me on Wheatley — Kill List made me a lifer on his, at times, sadistic need to experiment with form and push the audience. For Wheatley and Jump, Kill List was as much an image-forward film as something like Meg 2, but instead of a shark, there was a sigil. Early in Kill List, a woman Jay believes to be the girlfriend of his friend and mercenary accomplice Gal (Michael Smiley) escapes to his bathroom to scrawl a symbol behind the bathroom mirror. Jay has been marked, quite literally, and the moment haunts the more grounded drama that unfolds.
“The idea of the film was that the whole film was a curse,” Wheatley told me back when doing press for his Rebecca remake at Netflix. “You start with the
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rockpapershotgun.com
25.08.2023 / 14:31
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wccftech.com
24.08.2023 / 16:30
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rockpapershotgun.com
24.08.2023 / 16:05
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pcmag.com
23.08.2023 / 18:51
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21.08.2023 / 08:53
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21.08.2023 / 01:33
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11.08.2023 / 23:53
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