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There's a lot to love about "USS Callister: Into Infinity," the first official sequel episode in the anthology show "Black Mirror." The episode, which largely takes place inside a virtual-reality video game, features main characters who are digital clones trapped inside it. When they get killed in the game, they die for real. Contributing to this problem is that "Infinity" is an online, multiplayer game, which means the gang is constantly coming across real-life players who don't understand that the stakes are real for them.

For most viewers, the "real" players feel like a fun satire of the real-life gaming community. Most of the gamers are young, kind of rude, and still live with their parents. But for viewers who also watch gaming streamers in their spare time, two of those gamers in the show made for a fun surprise. During the final act, when the crew is being attacked...

Countless YouTube stars have hit the road on tour, though few can claim to have exclusively played arenas.

Daniel Middleton -- the YouTube Minecrafter known to his 21.7 million subscribers as DanTDM -- has concluded his latest interactive outing , dubbed DanTDM Presents The Contest, which hit a handful of U.K. arenas in recent days. The Contest kicked off at the Wembley Arena on June 28 and then hit the Manchester Arena and Arena Birmingham before concluding at the Sse Hydro in Glasgow on July 7.

Middleton produced the show in conjunction with Cut and Mustard -- an Endemol Shine-owned production label that has worked on tours alongside other YouTube luminaries  like Ksi, WillNE, Stephen Tries, Ali-a, Vikkstar, Syndicate, and Miniminter. The show's presenting sponsor was Nintendo Switch.

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Hugh Grant, Jodie Whittaker and Letitia Wright are among 386 new BAFTA members. The 2018 intake span the film, games and TV industries across eleven countries. Scroll down for the full list of new members.

Among new members are BAFTA-winner Grant, Doctor Who star Whittaker, BAFTA-nominee Willem Dafoe, Black Panther star Letitia Wright, La La Land producers Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger, Mad Max: Fury Road costume designer Jenny Beavan, Toni Erdmann director Maren Ade, and UK broadcasters Sandi Toksvig and Simon Mayo.

BAFTA comprises around 8,000 members worldwide. The UK org tweaked its membership requirements in 2016 in a bid to improve diversity of intake.

Amanda Berry, Chief Executive of BAFTA, said, “We’re delighted to welcome our new members to BAFTA. Our members represent the breadth of the ever-evolving film, games and television industries. They sit at the heart of everything BAFTA does, from mentoring emerging talent, voting in the Awards, sharing...

Elijah Bynum’s directorial debut and A24 release, “Hot Summer Nights” is not a by-the-numbers coming of age story as an unlikely teenager winds up in a sticky situation dealing drugs to the locals in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Not the ideal way to cross the threshold into adulthood, but still—a right of passage nevertheless.

Navigating the space between self-expression and simply fitting in, “Hot Summer Nights” follows Daniel Middleton (Timothée Chalamet), a scrawny, inward-thinking and socially awkward young man struggling to escape the trappings of his teenage years.

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Imagine a wistful hooking-up-on-the-boardwalk coming-of-age film, set on Cape Cod during the long hot summer of 1991, starring Timothée Chamalet in a variation on the passively precocious owl-eyed dreamer he played in “Call Me by Your Name.” Now imagine a scuzzy underworld drama that takes that same Chalamet character, in all his hooded sensual innocence, and turns him into a pot-dealing version of Mark Wahlberg in “Boogie Nights”: a cold hard opportunist who gets hooked on the life.

Put them together and you have “Hot Summer Nights,” a weirdly “romantic” drug drama that wastes no time burning plausibility to the ground. Yet even when it does, the actors keep it alive (sort of). Still, you can’t stop wondering if the first-time writer-director, Elijah Bynum, who has a talent for atmosphere, meant for us to actually take the story on the level. If so, it was a miscalculation. He has...

A playlist in search of a movie, the teen melodrama “Hot Summer Nights” flips through its atmospheric, music-saturated visuals with the confidence of a carnival barker, but very quickly the pileup of influences, postures, and tones makes for more of a hot mess than a sweltering good time.

The debut feature of writer-director Elijah Bynum, “Hot Summer Nights” carries that unmistakable first-film vibe of breathless assurance combined with wince-worthy sense of direction, in which the pointing out of movie references becomes the only noteworthy constellation in a superficial coming-of-age yarn.

Bynum wants so badly for you to feel the full force of his brooding, violent, sex-drenched vision of a momentous Cape Cod summer, whereby a James Dean-esque story of the young, wounded and beautiful can be made without Dean. But also — unintentionally — without the coalescing, original psychological insight through which Dean became Dean.

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