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Ealing director Robert Hamer ( Kind Hearts And Coronets ) had a passion for french cinema, and with Rains he made a fair stab at transposing the poetic realism of Marcel Carné/ Jacques Prévert ( Les Enfants Du Paradis ) into a British context.
Released in1947,it depicts a drab, austerity-era East London of pinched lives and petty crime.
Googie Withers is on top form as the discontented wife of an older man whose sexy, dangerous ex-lover (John Mccallum) comes back into her life after escaping from jail.
At the end–as so often in Hamer’s work–family life closes in again like a trap.
Ex-Bethesda dev turned indie says "good things often happen by accident," like that time Skyrim players convinced themselves the RPG's foxes were leading them to treasure
Palworld dev says the studio went dark for months because "the team was getting burnt out from all the social media stuff, I was getting burnt out, our CEO was under attack in Japan"
Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
