Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)

BATTLE FOR THE

- JOHN DEFORE

ROLLICKING adventure through worlds both bleak and fantastic, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One makes big changes to the specifics and structure of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel.

The setting is 2045, in the fastest-growing city in the world: Columbus, Ohio. Around the globe, people spend as much of their free time as possible in an online virtual universe called the Oasis, where the focus is as much on living in a fantasy character’s skin as on shooting things and keeping score.

You can look like Beetlejuic­e and drive a Batmobile; you can dance in zero gravity with a greenskinn­ed swimsuit model; you can do anything to forget that, beyond your VR goggles, your physical body lives in a slum made of stacked trailers.

The tech-artistic genius who created the place, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), died not long ago, and left Oasis members with one last game: Whoever can solve a series of

ARussell Crowe has a scar on his right forearm from sword fighting in “Gladiator”. Alongside a photo, Crowe wrote: “Strange little scars #2 Sword strike from Gladiator. Right forearm. Didn’t notice it at the time, was a busy day with lots to get done, but there it is , 19 years after we made the film… (sic)”. Anna Faris isn’t sure whether she still believes in marriage.

The 41-year-old actress has already tied the knot two times and she’s admitted she isn’t certain if she still believes in the institutio­n.

“I just don’t know if I believe in a ceremony of a wedding,” she said. Brad Pitt has reportedly been dating.

The 54-year-old actor and his estranged wife, Angelina Jolie, announced their split in 2016, but Pitt has since been dating women who are “not in the public eye”.

Pitt has decided to overhaul his lifestyle since splitting from Jolie.

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Ready Player One
EGG HUNTER: Tye Sheridan in a scene from Ready Player One

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