ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Infamous (15)
Directed by Joshua Caldwell
2*
A MODERN-DAY teenage Bonnie and Clyde become a social media sensation with their criminal postings in this morality tale about the evils of courting online fame.
Bella Thorne and Jake Manley play the charismatic young lovers from troubled backgrounds who rob their way across the country.
She is the driving force who just wants to be famous whatever the cost as long as she racks up the “likes” but he has the moral sense to know that killing cops and livestreaming your armed robberies isn’t going to end well.
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