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Guy Maddin ( Canada’s answer to David Lynch) sets his black-and-white, loopily surreal twist on early-era noir in a dusty mansion teeming with ghosts.
Returning after a long absence, gangster Ulysses (Jason Patric) embarks on a journey through his home to reach his wife (Isabella Rossellini), who’s locked in her room.
The house not only reflects Ulysses’ mind but becomes a metaphor for cinema itself – a strange storage contraption for memory and the past’s spectres.
Though self-referential to a fault, the deadpan humour, frayed logic and monochrome dazzle cast their own richly peculiar spell.
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"
Spider-Man's ex Mary Jane Watson is officially Venom, but she and the symbiote are "not together by choice"
At a ridiculously detailed showcase of the open-world engine behind the RPG Crimson Desert, I asked a ridiculously detailed question about water and all hell broke loose
