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Solve the Mystery of ‘Her Story’ on June 24
It wouldn’t be a stretch to call the first season of NPR’s Serial podcast a cultural phenomenon. It wasn’t original, but it was new to the still “niche” medium of podcasting, the personal nature of which I think paired nicely with the show’s very human tale of a woman’s obsession with a real-life murder case. If you were one of the millions who fell in love with Sarah Koenig’s story — yes, the case is about Adnan, but the podcast is all Koenig — you may want to keep an eye out for a game called Her Story, as it may soon become its gaming equivalent.
Set in 1994, Her Story is a narrative-driven adventure game about a British woman who had been interviewed seven times following the disappearance of her husband. Our goal is to search the video archive for information that can answer the questions you’re undoubtedly already thinking.
This welcome experiment in storytelling comes from from Sam Barlow, the creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, which is easily one of the most narratively ambitious games in the series.
Her Story releases on June 24 for PC, Mac and iOS. More information can be found on its website.
“She’s mine, and I’m hers.”
The prison movie is a cornerstone of the cinematic landscape. Often adjacent to horror, there’s something inherently horrific about a building full of “convicts” jockeying for power. Criminal masterminds and the wrongfully convicted alike become pawns in a dehumanizing system and struggle to stay alive in the restrictive environment. Claire Denis pushes this genre to its outer limits with sci-fi and horror elements comparing incarceration to the prison of the human body. Her 2018 film High Life follows a group of prisoners turned astronauts who struggle to retain their humanity after the world has cast them out.
When we first meet Monte (Robert Pattinson), he’s raising a toddler on an isolated space station in the galaxy’s outer reaches. His daughter Willow was conceived through assault by fellow inmate Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as a part of her mission to reproduce in space. As Denis unpacks the story of this troubled crew, they slowly realize they have been discarded and forgotten. Some find freedom to enact their violent agendas while others try to retain a semblance of normalcy in the extreme environment. Essentially guinea pigs, Monte and his crewmates hurtle through space and grope for a reason to keep existing.
The Lady Killers continue Killer Moms Month with Claire Denis’ beautifully complex film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, Rocco T. Thompson, and Sammie Kuykendall chart the mysteries of the cosmos in their quest to understand the glacial plot. They’ll chat about screaming babies, space gardens, black holes and spaghetti along with heavier themes like reproduction and bodily autonomy. Why is Dr. Dibbs so obsessed with pregnancy? Why doesn’t Monte partake of the sex box? Does Mia Goth actually have a big booty and what really happened on that spaceship filled with dogs? They’ll approach the black hole and try to withstand spaghettification while zeroing in on the unpleasant themes of this exceptional film.
Stream below and subscribe now via Apple Podcasts and Spotify for future episodes that drop every Thursday.
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