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11. “Soul Food” “Soul Food” features two white-collar workers out for lunch and ordering food at a black-owned restaurant. To prove that they’re more in touch with their culture than the other, they back-and-forth order increasingly ethnic dishes until they’re both dining on preposterous meals, still unable to let their pride go. 10. “The Telemarketer” “The Telemarketer” does what a lot ofKey & Peeleskits do: take an everyday situation and reverse it....

11. Unreal Tournament Straight out of the box,Unreal Tournamenthas one of the strangest control schemes for a first-person shooter on a console ever. Once you take the time to swap the controls for a more familiar layout,UTtranslates relatively well on the PS2. Single player is non-existent, other than bot matches, so local multiplayer is where it’s at, including a number ofUnreal Tournament’s legendary game-changing Mutators. 10. Crash Nitro Kart Crash Nitro Kartisn’tCrash Team Racing, and there are people who will never forgive the game for that....

11. Exiled Kingdoms Exiled Kingdomsmay not look like the prettiest game, but I promise the gameplay makes up for it. This is a classic RPG adventure in the best sense: hundreds of NPCs, unique dialogue paths, and an expansive world that you actually need to explore. No hand-holding! The free version ofExiled Kingdomsallows you to play as Warrior or Rogue with around 30 hours of gameplay. A single in-app purchase unlocks the full game: Cleric and Mage classes, 5x more areas, 3x more quests, and enough content for 120 hours of gameplay....

11. Chain Reaction Chain Reactionis a casual strategy game where you’ll both be saying “WTF!” when the eponymous chain reactions pop off. You take turns placing dots on a large grid of cells, where each cell can hold up to four dots. Once a cell reaches its max, it pops off and sends one dot to each adjacent cell, claiming the dots in those cells—and if those cells reach their max, they also pop off....

11. Surf’s Up (2007) It’s odd to include a 2007 animated film from Sony Pictures Animation, but bear with me—this movie is actually worth checking out. Surf’s Upchronicles the journey of aspiring penguin surfer Cody Maverick who participates in a surfing contest with other competitive surfers. Along the way, he meets his idol Big Z (voiced by Jeff Bridges) who mentors him. What’s unique here is the movie’s presentation. The animators do their best to replicate the feeling of a real-life documentary, down to the directors inserting themselves as “documentarians....