WHAT TO WATCH:
Game Night (2018)
This mystery thriller-cum-comedy takes you on a fun-filled ride that you will completely enjoy. Every scene of the movie is packed with genuine laughs and unexpected twists backed by superb performances by a great ensemble cast.
Max and Annie are a married couple trying to have a baby. Instead of their ordinary weekly game night, Max’s irritatingly successful brother Brooks stages a kidnapping murder-mystery game. Brooks is kidnapped and participants set out to solve the mystery. Things start to go awry as they realise the kidnapping was real and Brooks isn’t what they know him to be. What follows is a madcap adventure through one eventful night which teaches the characters some important lessons.
The movie is entertaining enough for a re-watch. How often can we say that about comedies these days?
WHAT TO BINGE-WATCH:
The Wire
Among the highest rated TV shows out there, this police procedural deals with the criminal underbelly of the coastal city of Baltimore. The series ran for five seasons, with each season focussing on one problem plaguing the city, from drug dealers, to the decline of the working class, to the failing public education system and more. The framing device are the investigations of a team of police detectives using wiretaps to unearth the nexus between criminals and people of power which is eating away at modern American institutions. Extremely well researched, gritty and hopelessly pessimistic, the series promises a gripping watch for the weekend.
WHAT TO TINKER WITH:
Stud.io
Has copying the answers from the poor Monday batch of ME119 kids left your object building creativity in a rut? Ever wanted to build your LEGO masterpiece, with your artistry unhinged by instruction sets AND free of cost? Well, the two seemingly unconnected questions have a not so distant solution manifested in the form of Stud.io , an open source software , based on the foundations of conventional CAM software , integrated quite smoothly with the core ideals of the LEGO culture. A intuitive drag and drop method makes it welcoming for novice builders to build their models with the freedom to use ANY LEGO PART EVER MADE , with advanced controls for the more experienced. It’s peer to peer building functionality lets your friends from around the globe work together in real time to build a model. The real kicker comes in it’s fusion with BrickLink . For the uninitiated , BrickLink is a LEGO powered website in which one can place orders for individual parts for their own makings . It’s ramification is that, one can make a model and order the parts on BrickLink to materialize their creations. 5/7 would recommend
For the link to the app, click here.
Pic of a 1984 Apple Macintosh made in Stud.io follows:
