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Six years ago, Dallas filmmaker Alex Kinter set out to make
Poolside, a short film set in the 1950s. Starring Anne Beyer, it tells the story of a lonely, isolated high society housewife who starts to hear voices in her indoor swimming pool. The film was completed in early 2021 and is making the rounds on the festival circuit, earning prestigious selections at the Indie Short Awards Cannes and the Prague International Film Festival and collecting numerous laurels (Best Indie Short Film at The New York Movie Awards and Best Thriller Short at Indie Short Fest, to name a few). Yet the journey to bring the movie to audiences has been rife with tumult and heartbreak; it’s not simply a success story, but an example of an artist’s extreme perseverance when life interrupts moviemaking.
Returnal review
Availability: Out April 30th on PS5
The history is going to be important here, if we re going to pull all of this apart. Returnal is the latest from Housemarque, the Finnish team behind masterly arcade-style shoot-em-ups like Resogun, twin-stick shooters like Dead Nation and Alienation, and the superlative Nex Machina. It s their first triple-A one though, and with big budget comes big scope. Returnal s is vast - it wants to be everything. It s a roguelite, insofar as death returns you to the start and the dungeonlike world procedurally changes with each run through it. But it s also a metroidvania, handing out new abilities after boss kills which open up new paths. And it s a third-person shooter, obviously. But also a bullet-hell arcade game. And a first-person narrative horror. And a soulslike. It picks from Ridley Scott, Eugene Jarvis, Hidetaka Miyazaki, H.R. Giger. From Metroid, P.T., Control. From Defender and Vanquish. Pick your poison - Returnal stocks eve
Returnal Details Its Story in New Trailer
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Returnal developer Housemarque has released a new trailer for the upcoming PlayStation 5 video game that details the title s story. Up until this point, we had largely seen just gameplay footage focusing on the wild weapons and aliens that players will come across, but now we have some idea as to the narrative at the center of it. In short, players can expect a sci-fi action thriller about a recon mission gone wrong. Our story follows Selene, a Greek-American ASTRA deep space scout who is a complex and layered character that is driven to a fault, intelligent, and resourceful, the new PlayStation blog post from Greg Louden, Narrative Designer at Housemarque, reads in part. For the first time in her career she goes against orders to travel to the alien planet Atropos to follow the “White Shadow” broadcast signal. Upon arrival she crash lands in an alien forest. Here she discovers the ruins of an alien civilisation filled with stat