Mystery mazes, screams and more: T Magazine picks of the week

WATCH: Kill Boksoon

Boksoon is a kick-ass contract killer gifted with foresight, but nothing works when it comes to her teenage daughter who she is trying to have a decent relationship with. This Korean dark action comedy has tons of action, punches and blood mixed with glib jokes about death and heavy melodrama. If you don’t find it all over the place, or too long at 137 minutes, you might find the fight flick comparable to Kill Bill and actually quite progressive as it veers between straight-laced action and poignant family drama.

PLAY: Trek To Yomi

If you’re a fan of classic black and white samurai movies, you will love the stylish presentation, from its boot-up logos and main menu all the way to the closing credits, makes up for many of its gameplay shortcomings. The story features the stoic, young swordsman Hiroki who is sworn to protect his town and the people he loves against all threats. Swordplay is more tactical and involved than it looks, letting you control the direction of slashes, combining parries with stance changes and light and heavy attacks. Slash away!

BINGE: Black Mirror Season 6

The sixth season is finally here and Netflix calls it the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected season yet. Telling a different story in each episode, five episodes are written by showrunner Charlie Brooker who has won several Emmy Awards for his work on the dark anthology series. The form of the show might have evolved, but the tone or outlook hasn’t. Rarely a cheerful watch, it’s never boring or predictable, but scathing and sadistic as ever. Things are fresh and recognisably Brookerish in Netflix’s most original and best mini-series ever.

READ: Doom ― The politics of catastrophe

Told with zest, and extracts from Monty Python, Daniel Defoe and John Donne’s poetry, Ferguson’s historical analysis of how disasters occur, are the most interesting part of his book. Plenty of new insights, criticisms levelled at Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and others and that it’s facile to blame the person at the top for all that goes wrong when usually the real culprit in a catastrophe is a system failure. It is well-researched, well-argued, and all-encompassing. Ferguson uses his knowledge to argue for a new understanding of catastrophic events.

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