Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit.

Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit

CUNNING STUNTS: SPECIAL VEHICLE CIRCUIT COMING MARCH 14

Speed through tunnels and parachute to the finish with the Ruiner 2000 in Damned, one of 20 new Stunt Races featuring Special Vehicles launching next week.

Next week, a different breed of high-flying vehicular competition hits GTA Online with 20 new Stunt Races custom built for the Rocket Voltic, Ruiner 2000 & Blazer Aqua in Cunning Stunts: Special Vehicle Circuit. Designed with each of these vehicles' unique characteristics and abilities in mind, this collection of Stunt Races comes to GTA Online on Tuesday, March 14. Also on Tuesday, Legendary Motorsport adds the classically-styled Progen GP1 to its formidable roster of supercars. 

The all-new Progen GP1

And to gear up for next week's Special Vehicle Races, we've also got a flight of new GTA Online bonuses kicking in this weekend and running through Monday, March 13th (on top of ongoing specials including Double GTA$ & RP Stunt Races). Aspiring kingpins can claim their own high-rise for 25% off Executive Offices and Office Garages before taking advantage of CEO bonuses all weekend long. To help satiate your thirst for carnage and gear up for Tuesday, Warstock is slashing the SecuroServ prices on Special Vehicles. Special Vehicle Missions will also dish out Double GTA$ & RP throughout the weekend, allowing you to earn big while getting acclimated with the Special Vehicle of your choosing. Bodyguards and Associates are also getting a Double GTA$ salary bump this weekend

Quake Champions | Arena First Look: ‘Blood Covenant’ Trailer Released

Quake Champions | Arena First Look: ‘Blood Covenant’ Trailer Released

Everybody remembers the amazing multiplayer maps from Quake games past. Deadly Arenas purpose-built for incredible mobility, brutal conflict, and intense, competitive gameplay. Today we’re excited to offer a first look at one of the Arenas from Quake Champions – the unholy Blood Covenant.

Based on one of the most beloved and played maps from Quake III Arena, The Camping Grounds (Q3DM6), Blood Covenant is a modern re-imagining of the legendary Arena. All the favorite sections remain, including the long Jump Pad to the Rocket Launcher, the Quad Damage spawn, the Railgun ledge, and the tightly spaced battles in the Pillars. However, new tricks and secrets await both veterans and new players alike, offering fresh ways to fight, move, and use Champions’ Active and Passive abilities.

As a reminder – Blood Covenant will be available for fans to try themselves this week at PAX East in the Bethesda booth (#18007 and 20007).

Below we’ve included a trailer showcasing Blood Covenant in action as well as a set of screenshots. For more information on Blood Covenant, including breakdowns on key areas of the Arena, you will find the Arena page updated at www.Quake.com.

RiME launch date is

RiME launch date is

GREY BOX, SIX FOOT AND TEQUILA WORKS’ RiME WILL LAUNCH ON PLAYSTATION^®4, XBOX ONE AND WINDOWS PC ON MAY 26

Captivating Puzzle Adventure Game Will Be Available on Nintendo Switch^TM Later this Winter

Sydney – March 10, 2017 – Grey Box, Six Foot and independent developer Tequila Works have announced that RiME, the highly-anticipated puzzle adventure game, has a confirmed release date of May 26 for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, and Windows PC. It will arrive at Australian retail store shelves with a suggested retail price of $69.95 (PS4/XB1), and $59.95(PC).

​Shortly afterward, RiME will launch on Nintendo Switch™, allowing players to take the adventure with them anywhere on the go utilising the system’s portability, with a suggested retail price of $89.95.

RiME is a single-player puzzle adventure game about discovery, experienced through the eyes of a young boy who awakens on a mysterious island after shipwrecking off its coast. Players must navigate the island’s secrets by making use of light, sound, perspective and even time. Inspired by the rugged, sunbaked terrain of the Mediterranean coast, RiME paints its breathtaking world with a fusion of vibrant colours and moving musical undertones to set the stage for the deeply personal journey that awaits within.

Sunset Song: DVD Review

Sunset Song: DVD Review

Terence Davies' adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel about one woman's life in Scotland certainly looks the part.

Essentially a coming of age story, it's the tale of Agyness Deyn's Chris Guthrie, who toils under the yoke of an oppressive father (Peter Mullan) on their homestead. As time rolls on, Chris' life changes under the circumstances and in the distance, the rumblings of the First World War roll ever closer.

Sunset Song was a passion project for Davies (as evidenced by his introduction that he "made it with his heart, and I just ask you to watch it with yours") - and from the very yellow opening title card that fades into the corn of a field, it's fair to say the director's passion springs from the screen.

While focussing repeatedly on Deyn's face gazing wistfully into the distance (perhaps a little too often does he bathe her in light), Davies' careful framing, slow panning and scene building is clearly in evidence. His is a film that oozes class on the screen and that feels like a sublime telling of a tale he clearly holds true.

From the brutality of the father via beatings in the barn to the eventual drums of war being sounded, the film's desire to have its audience luxuriate in its trappings is obvious. And yet, with the narration of proceedings, and Deyn's graceful and committed performance, Sunset Song lacks a certain engagement within the audience. It commands your eyes and Davies' attention to detail pours from the screen.

In lighter moments, Chris' character comes through, and there's a playfulness with the language and it's delivered in a spry fashion. But this is a film that knows what it's doing and does so with relative ease of execution. The shine comes from some of the shots, as the familiar story plays on - Davies' lavishing of events with his directorial eye, coupled with Deyn's performance are the reasons to watch Sunset Song. It's a wistful piece that is perfect Saturday afternoon viewing of yesteryear, but at times, totally emotionless. 

Telltale Games and Marvel Entertainment Reveal World-First Look & Cast Details for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

Telltale Games and Marvel Entertainment

Reveal World-First Look & Cast Details for

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Mar. 9, 2017 - Award-winning developer and publisher of digital entertainment, Telltale Games, along with Marvel Entertainment, today shared the world-first screenshots and cast details for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series, set to premiere digitally this Spring on consoles, PC, and mobile devices.    Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series is a brand new story of the universe's unlikeliest heroes: Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot. In the wake of an epic battle, the Guardians discover an artifact of unspeakable power. Each of them has a reason to desire this relic, as does a ruthless enemy who is the last of her kind, and who will stop at nothing to tear it from their hands. From Earth to the Milano to Knowhere and beyond, and set to the beat of awesome music, you wear the rocket-powered boots of Star-Lord in an original Guardians adventure, where your decisions and actions drive the story you experience.   This week at PAX East in Boston, MA on March 10th at 6pm in the Albatross Theater, join the team from Telltale Games as well as Marvel Games Creative Director, Bill Rosemann, to hear more about the series as they discuss the creative process behind this stellar new adventure. The panel will also be streamed live on Twitch. For more information on the panel and PAX East, please visit http://east.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/telltale-games-interactive-storytelling-in-2017   One week later on March 17th at SXSW in Austin, TX, be the first audience in the world to Crowd Play an early version of the first episode at a one-of-a-kind premiere event at the Paramount Theater, with doors opening at 6:30pm. Audience members will be able to control the story from their seats using their mobile devices to help decide what happens on the big screen! The event will be open to all badge holders of SXSW or SXSW Gaming on a first-come, first-seated basis. For more information on SXSW Gaming and how to obtain badges, please visit https://www.sxsw.com/exhibitions/gaming-expo/   The series will feature a star-studded cast of voice talent, including Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights, The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series) as Star-Lord, Emily O'Brien (The Young and the Restless, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor) as Gamora, Nolan North (the Uncharted series, Pretty Little Liars) as Rocket, Brandon Paul Eells (Watch Dogs) as Drax, and Adam Harrington (The Wolf Among Us, League of Legends) as Groot.    Premiering this Spring, the series will also be coming to retail as a special season pass disc, which will include the first episode in the season, and will grant access to the subsequent four episodes as they become available for download via online updates. Specific platform details are yet to be announced.   Revealed in December on stage at The Game Awards 2016 in Los Angeles, you can watch the announcement teaser trailer on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Koy_e_ipwng    For more information on Telltale Games, visit the official website, Facebook, and follow Telltale Games on Twitter @TelltaleGames.

First Film Announcements for Autumn

First Film Announcements for Autumn

The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) today reveals the first four films for its annual Autumn Events programme, which will screen in the four main centres in April and May.

One New Zealand premiere and three classic films will be presented by the charitable trust responsible for the cinematic winter extravaganza that is the NZ International Film Festival (NZIFF). Further Autumn Events titles and on-sale dates will be announced through March.

The four films are Terrence Malick’s journey through space and time, Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey, narrated by Cate Blanchett; a return to the peace, love and music of 1969 with seminal documentary Woodstock; Werner Herzog’s legendary Fitzcarraldo, and Woody Allen’s definitive love letter to New York, Manhattan starring Diane Keaton, and Meryl Streep.

“We’ve jumped at the chance to present these giant screen spectacles on the grandest screens in the country. Bigness is definitely a criterion when it comes to selecting our annual line-up of classics. And when it comes to scale, it’s hard to think bigger than Terrence Malick does in the one premiere we are announcing today, which take 90 minute to encompass the beginning and end of time. NZIFF July is still a while away, and programming is well underway, but we encourage you to start booking out your diary now for those winter weeks at the movies.” says NZIFF Director Bill Gosden.

Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey

Forty years in the making, Terrence Malick’s mind-boggling Voyage of Time takes us on a breathless trip through the birth of the stars, the evolution of life on earth and sea, and its eventual obliteration. Narrated by Cate Blanchett.

“It’s an experience that I haven’t been able to shake, like a waking dream.” — Richard Brody, New Yorker

http://www.nziff.co.nz/2017-autumn-events/film/voyage-of-time-lifes-journey/

Woodstock

Over four days in August 1969, 400,00 young Americans travelled to farmland in NY State for a music festival. Facilities could not cope. But The Who, Janis, Sly and the Family Stone and Jimi were on fire. A spectacular 70mm multi-screen documentary by Martin Scorsese was released the following year, and now almost 50 years later, there could be no better way of exploring mythology than a giant screen experience of this newly digitised director’s cut.

“Describing Woodstock as a concert movie is a little like calling Notre Dame a house of worship.” —  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

http://www.nziff.co.nz/2017-autumn-events/film/woodstock-three-days-of-peace-and-music-directors/

Manhattan

Shot in ravishing black and white CinemaScope and backed by an all-Gershwin score, Woody Allen’s romantic comedy from 1979 surely earns its title: it is one of the great cinema’s great odes to New York. It’s also Allen’s best and definitive film. Presented in 4K digital format scanned from the original camera negative.

“Manhattan is a great film about love in and love for New York.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

http://www.nziff.co.nz/2017-autumn-events/film/manhattan/

Fitzcarraldo

Part fiction, part inspired true-life story, Klaus Kinksi plays an Irish adventurer in early 20^th century Peru who dreams of building an opera house in a remote Amazon port. Local indigenous people were persuaded to assist in a quixotic adventure that took four years to make, three changes of cast, and the dragging of one 40-tonne steamboat from one river to another over a steep isthmus.

“Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo is one of the great vision of the cinema, and one of the great follies.” – Roger Ebert

http://www.nziff.co.nz/2017-autumn-events/film/fitzcarraldo/

Autumn Events screens in Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch in April and May. Schedule and ticketing information will be advised later in March. The confirmed dates are:

Dunedin, 21 – 23 April, Regent Theatre

Wellington, 6 – 7 May, 13 – 14 May, 20 – 21 May, Embassy Theatre

Christchurch, 6 – 7 May, 13 – 14 May, 20 – 21 May, Hoyts Riccarton

Auckland, 11 – 14 May, Civic Theatre

NZIFF and NZIFF Autumn Events is run by a charitable trust and encourages lively interactions between films, filmmakers and New Zealand audiences. NZIFF screens in 13 towns and cities around the country. The full NZIFF programme will be available from Tuesday 27 June for Auckland, and Friday 30 June for Wellington. NZIFF starts in Auckland on 20 July and in Wellington from 28 July in 2017

New Thor Ragnarok images

New Thor Ragnarok images

Entertainment Weekly has just revealed some new images from Thor Ragnarok, the upcoming Marvel Taika Waititi directed film.

Chris Hemsworth's unveiled a new look as Thor and there's also a look at Jeff Goldblum's character.

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