Martin Cid Magazine

Every child in one classroom gets out of bed at the same minute, opens the front door and runs into the dark. All of them except one. That is the premise of Weapons, and it is the best thing about the film: an image so simple and so wrong that it lodges in your head before the first chapter is over.

Spain are the world champions, and the favourite for the Ballon d’Or is English. That is the oddity hanging over this year’s gala, which France Football has moved from its traditional home in Paris to the London Palladium. The prediction market Kalshi gives Harry Kane, Baye...

The film opens in a São Paulo soaked in neon green. Babi (Giovanna Lancellotti) rides her motorcycle through the streets with a man behind her, and the chase ends in a place Decider describes as part Fast and Furious hangout garage, part steam-filled factory from an ’80s action movie. They kiss. Then she wakes at her dining table, wine glass half full, laptop open, sample f...

The crescent Moon, the blazing morning star and the knot of stars at the centre of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night line up with a real sky, according to a new study, and the sky they match is not the one art historians assumed. A team in South Korea reports that the arrangement fits the dawn over Saint-Rémy-de-Provence about a month after the painting’s accepted date, when a thi...

There is a particular kind of cruelty that only the old MacVenture games understood. Shadowgate, Déjà Vu and Uninvited handed you a window, a list of verbs and an inventory, then killed you for touching the wrong thing, and somehow that made every room feel dangerous in a way modern adventures rarely attempt. Jeff Canam, the solo developer who works as GrahfMetal, has spent ...