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Shinya Arino, host of the cult Japanese television program GameCenter CX, challenges vintage video games through completion, pushing through sweat and sorrow. The show has been running for over 20 years, and what qualifies for retro along that stretch has inevitably changed. Still, that won’t stop his biggest fans from feeling their brittle bones creak…

Abigail De Kosnik admits it wasn’t love at first sight when the new show Widow’s Bayappeared in her Apple TV feed. It wasn’t that the horror-comedy looked bad — in fact, it boasted an extraordinary cast, including Matthew Rhys of The Americansand prolific character actor Stephen Root. “I just wasn’t in the mood to be…

The Odysseyis director Christopher Nolan’s spectacular take on Homer’s epic work – full of gods, monsters, love and very bloody revenge. Matt Damon plays Odysseus, who is trying to get home to his wife and son, played by Anne Hathaway and Tom Holland. But the journey home is not easy, as Odyssey and his crew…

Christopher Nolan’s take on the Odyssey is set to break box-office records. What made the director so determined to adapt the ancient Greek epic? And why does a poem from 600BC hold a vice-like grip on pop culture? Warning: contains 2,600-year-old spoilers