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By Elle Hunt Kirsten and her close friend August stick together to survive HBO Max/Warner Media TV Station Eleven Created by Patrick Somerville EARLY in the covid-19 pandemic, as people struggled to make sense of the unfolding global crisis, many turned to stories almost as often as the latest news and science. In January 2020, … Read more
Specs Price: $33 Recommended age: 8+ Batteries? 4x AA (not included) Ammo: 20x included, 10x clip size We had high hopes for the Nerf DinoSquad Rex-Rampage. After all, it’s a Nerf gun essentially inserted into a T-Rex, with a ten-shot clip. What’s not to like? And, for sure, it looks the part with a suitably … Read more
By Sally Adee Even a post-apocalyptic Earth retains a certain charm for humankind gremlin/Getty Images Goliath Tochi Onyebuchi Tordotcom SCI-FI dystopias of a ruined Earth are thick on the ground these days, filled with the wreckage of climate change: drowned continents, great extinctions and air that is no longer safe to breathe. In the more … Read more
Let’s get this out of the way upfront: the Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 S-Line lens is easily one of the best lenses out there. Period. In terms of versatility and overall quality of the images you pull out of it, there are few lenses that come close to this telephoto zoom. If you’re looking for … Read more
By Gege Li HAVE you ever become angry about something that, in hindsight, had more to do with the fact that you were having a bad day? Most of us have had moments like this, where we let our emotions get the better of us or allow them to influence our decisions. It isn’t necessarily … Read more
By Elle Hunt CHASTENED by the sight of her newborn baby’s face lit up by the blue light of her phone, Catherine Price set about limiting the time she spent in front of screens. The journalist and her husband stopped mindlessly scrolling on social media and started taking 24-hour “digital sabbaths”. By cutting down on … Read more
We enjoyed building the Lego Star Wars AT-AT far more than we thought we would. While you expect detail and authenticity from a $160 kit, the actual finished model doesn’t look all that exciting – it’s a large, gray mechanical space-horse noted for the fact it falls over relatively easily in the Star Wars movies. … Read more
By Jacob Aron You can run a safe theme park. Or you can unleash chaos. Which is more fun? Frontier Developments Game Jurassic World Evolution 2 Frontier Developments THE original Jurassic Park was released in 1993, and as a dinosaur-obsessed 7-year-old, I simply had to see it. I badgered my parents to take me, even … Read more
By Elle Hunt BBC Studios/Paul Williams TV The Green Planet BBC One January HOUSEPLANTS are the new pets. According to the US National Gardening Association, sales rose by nearly 50 per cent in the three years up to 2019. Then, through the pandemic, they rose even further as we sought to bring nature indoors. Yet … Read more
By Francesca Steele Jessica searches every corner of Colombia for the source of the noise Neon Film Memoria Apichatpong Weerasethakul “IN THIS town, there are a lot of people who have hallucinations,” a doctor tells Jessica (Tilda Swinton) at the beginning of Memoria. Then, in a neat encapsulation of the mix of the mystical and … Read more