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NICKELODEON KART RACERS 2: GRAND PRIX
PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PEGI 3 ★★★★ ★
NICKELODEON makes use of its breadth of shows once again with some 30 playable racers, including the likes of SpongeBob SquarePants, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, faces from Hey Arnold! and the babies from Rugrats.
A huge 70 supporting characters are also available to be unlocked, each with their own unique abilities.
The slime-filled tracks certainly add the sort of fun one should expect from these Nick staples.
Aside from the main Grand Prix element, there are different challenges such as hitting targets or avoiding obstacles.
The added bonus of local and online play make it perfect during a pandemic, too.
■ The last word: A chilled play during socially distanced times, with plenty of challenges to extend the game’s longevity
■ Price: £34.99
FOLLOWING her fabulous turn as Becky Sharp in the period drama mini-series Vanity Fair, Olivia Cooke plays another mischievous schemer with a silly amount of confidence in this enjoyably raucous comedy thriller.
As Pixie, she finds herself on the run after a heist goes horribly wrong and results in compromising photographs, a body in a car boot and a stolen bag of drugs.
Swept along in Pixie’s wake are her hapless smitten accomplices, played with agreeable self-delusion by Ben Hardy and Daryl McCormack.
A modern-day Irish Western set in the er, west of Ireland, it’s a foul-mouthed and loose-limbed affair, and wears its many influences on its sleeve.
Barnaby Thompson previously directed 2009’s St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, and does a decent job of aping the tone of the superior 2008 Colin Farrell thriller, In Bruges.
The script lacks that film’s flair but there’s an enjoyable swagger to proceedings, some lovely production design, and Alec Baldwin gives a much-needed boost of energy as a pistol-packing priest when the pace begins to flag.
THE LIGHTHOUSE HHHHH
EPHRAIM WINSLOW (Robert Pattinson) arrives on an isolated island off the coast of 1890s New England as monstrous waves crash onto the jagged landscape.
He will serve the next four weeks as lighthouse keeper alongside a cantankerous old coot called Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), who makes mysterious night-time visits to the lantern room. There is friction between the two men as Wake delegates the most physically gruelling and arduous tasks to Ephraim such as carrying heavy canisters of kerosene across the island’s rocky terrain.
As tensions rise, Ephraim experiences hypnotic visions of a beautiful mermaid (Valeriia Karaman) and a menacing one-eyed seagull.
Shot in stunning black and white, The Lighthouse is a stylish and unsettling horror, which was deservedly nominated for Best Cinematography at this year’s Academy Awards.
Watch on Sky Cinema Premiere.