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Google’s new adventure game takes a top-down trip through ancient Mesoamerica
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Google’s Arts & Culture division has released a charming new educational game all about ancient Mesoamerica. The game, The Descent of the Serpent, is available to play right now in your browser or via the Google Arts & Culture iOS and Android apps.
There’s a light plot to Descent of the Serpent, shown in a short video that plays at the beginning of the game. While exploring a museum, a large artifact is stolen by Tezcatlipoca, the Lord of the Smoking Mirror, and a living statue asks for your help to recover 20 icons included on the artifact to prevent floods from taking over the world. You, naturally, agree, and the statue says they’ll send you back in time to ancient Mesoamerica.
You’ll be able to pick from one of four adorable animal…
Jhene Aiko Earns Second Platinum Album With ‘Trip’
Jhene Aiko has just met a major milestone.
For, she has added another plaque to her wall thanks to her album ‘Trip.’
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Taking to press, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that her album ‘Trip’ has now been certified Platinum for the sales equivalent of 1,000,000 units sold in the United States.
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Follow In The Footsteps Of The Witches On A Day Trip To The Infamous Pendle Hill
Netflix’s ‘A Trip to Infinity’ trailer will make your brain hurt
![A large planet with stars in the background.](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/videos/051vz9lDBamgNjDt0hTWYaM/hero-image.jpg)
Struggling to get your head around the concept of infinity, and something actually going on forever?
Well Netflix has rounded up a bunch of particle physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians to try and help explain it to you.
In the trailer above for the streamer’s upcoming documentary we see various space-y shots paired with smart people saying things like: “Is infinity a number, an idea, a place? Probably all of the above.”
Intriguing.
Editor-in-chief of Russian state newspaper Pravda dies of ‘stroke’ during business trip
‘Ticket to Paradise’ review: Take a trip through classic Julia Roberts and George Clooney rom-com banter
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No one can elegantly argue under their breath quite like Julia Roberts and George Clooney.
The Hollywood superstar duo have reunited onscreen for the first time since 2016’s Money Monster, and brought back their swift Ocean’s 11 banter for Ticket to Paradise, the latest wedding-based destination rom-com from the director of Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again, Ol Parker.
In roles specifically written for them, Roberts and Clooney play Georgia and David, a bitterly divorced couple who simply cannot be in the same room without arguing through their teeth. Hissing over shared arm rests, throwing barbs across the middle-seat neighbour on their plane, throwing increasingly fierce public declarations of love at their daughter Lily’s (Kaitlyn Dever) graduation ceremony — the pair imbue Parker and Daniel Pipski’s quick script with every inch of Daniel and Tess Ocean’s combustible chemistry, and it’s a delight to watch them openly despise each other.
When Lily travels with her perpetually partying bestie Wren (Billie Lourd) to Bali, she meets and instantly falls in love with seaweed farmer Gede (Maxime Bouttier), and they decide to get married after dating for 37 days precisely. Worrying their daughter is going to end up making the same choices they did 25 years ago, Georgia and David agree to a rare ceasefire to stop the wedding.
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As you probably well know, this is nowhere near Roberts’ first rom-com rodeo, and she’s a surefire leading win for Ticket to Paradise, the eternal Girl Standing in Front of a Boy in everything from Pretty Woman to Notting Hill to Valentine’s Day and Eat Pray Love. And it’s not Roberts’ first time attempting to sabotage a wedding onscreen, having valiantly tried in My Best Friend’s Wedding and Runaway Bride. In Ticket to Paradise, Roberts employs the more subtle but confident elements of her rom-com repertoire for Georgia, who emotionally bounces off her co-star Clooney with the greatest of ease.
Clooney, meanwhile, hasn’t done a romantic comedy since 1996’s One Fine Day, and takes on the disgruntled, mansplaining, overprotective dad trope with less ferocity than Robert De Niro in Meet the Parents (who can top an FBI-level investigation hub in a trailer?), but all the mildly perturbed finesse you’d expect. No one casually pauses through a monologue like Clooney, who constantly sounds like he’s in a state of poignant reflection even when explaining the rules of beer pong.
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As in Mamma Mia!, the engaged couple aren’t nearly as much of a draw as their parents in the film, but Dever and Bouttier make a sweet core pair as Lily and Gede, clinging to each other through the meeting of their sets of parents and perfectly cringing through Clooney and Roberts’ moments of drama, including an arak-fuelled dance-off to Jason Nevins and Run-D.M.C.’s “It’s Like That” and House of Pain’s “Jump Around” that is as face-palmingly ridiculous as Pierce Brosnan singing “S.O.S.”
Parker sets up the pieces for the ol’ lovers-to-enemies-then-back-to-lovers arc, throwing bitey dolphins, Georgia’s overly keen boyfriend Paul (a spectacularly silly Lucas Bravo), and rainy nights in the Balinese jungle in Georgia and David’s path. Parker uses every trick in the classic rom-com book for Ticket to Paradise, even opening the film with a Los Angeles city skyline shot — it’s no surprise the director took the film to Working Title, the studio responsible for ’90s/’00s rom-com cornerstones like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, and Love Actually.
But more specifically, the film borrows from Parker’s Mamma Mia! experience to tick off the crucial elements of that rom-com subgenre: the destination wedding rom-com. Characters find themselves out of their depth in a beautiful part of the world, navigating new family members, getting acquainted with cultural differences and customs, and building up to the film’s natural finale: the big wedding — think Crazy Rich Asians in Singapore, the fictional Greek island of Kalokairi in Mamma Mia!, Kakadu and the Tiwi Islands in Top End Wedding, and Pam and Greg’s Owen Wilson-pan-pipe-scored Miami wedding in Meet the Fockers. Even Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder played intolerable wedding guests in stunning San Luis Obispo, California, for the self-consciously named Destination Wedding.
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With Judy cinematographer Ole Birkeland as director of photography, Ticket to Paradise tries to offer the audience exactly that, with grand sweeping shots of spectacular beaches and mountains, water-level shots of aquaculture farms heaving with bright seaweed, and picture-perfect frames of the main stars clad in lush wedding outfits from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert costume designer Lizzy Gardiner.
The exact location of “paradise” is never given; it’s just generally located on the Indonesian island of Bali (though it was actually filmed off the coast of Queensland, Australia, in the Whitsunday Islands). But the film does take pains to get this element of the film right, casting Indonesian actor Bouttier as the romantic lead for a start. According to producer Tim Bevan, the team had cultural advisors from script to filming, including cultural consultant Agung Pindha, who also happens to play Gede’s dad in the film. According to the studio, Pindha was heavily involved in decisions around the film’s representation of Hindu Balinese wedding rituals (like Gede’s teeth filing ceremony as a rite of passage), traditional decorations, and food served, such as the babi guling (roast pig) feast.
Ticket to Paradise is exactly that, a fun destination wedding rom-com with Hollywood megastar leads and a savvy script, filmed in a truly magnificent location. You’ll probably add it to your regular Mamma Mia!-adjacent rotation.
Ticket to Paradise is coming to cinemas Oct. 21.
God of War Ragnarok’s story trailer teases a hellish trip ahead for Kratos and Atreus
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Today’s just been a day of pleasant, video game flavored surprises. To cap off a neat but ho-hum State of Play, Sony dropped the story trailer for God Of War Ragnarok.
Ragnarok sees the return of Kratos and Atreus as the two seemingly fend off (or, perhaps initiate) the arrival of Ragnarok — the end of the world in Norse mythology. Along the way, it seems like the father-son odd couple make new friends and enemies as they beat the shit out of every living creature in their path.
The trailer talks of fate, and features Kratos imparting his hard learned lessons about what it means to defy the fate destiny has laid out at their feet. And Atreus, just like his father, seems to have secrets of his own that will require him to build an even…
Pacific Drive is a road trip through cryptid hell, due out in 2023
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If I see one more schism in reality, I’m turning this car RIGHT AROUND