With the NFL season upon us this week, I always like to remind everyone about the “Madden Mobile” app, to play some fun digital football along with the football season. It is that time again! However, this year, things are a bit different.

“Madden” as a franchise has always been a yearly release title, and Electronic Arts has decided to push that into the mobile universe as well. In fact, “Madden” in its mobile form is now an entirely new game, so everything you might have had or the team you build in the old game is gone and everyone gets to start over! Yay? A bit sad for people who might have invested heavily in the old app.

So what is “Madden NFL 21 Mobile”? You take on the role of an NFL general manager, and your goal of course is to take your team to the super bowl. You do this just like the old app, by continually collecting, and upgrading your players. It is a bit like building a fantasy football team, except you start with low ranked players, and constantly swap them out with better players as you collect them, building your team to an overall rating between all players. The players can be anyone from current NFL players to legends from the past.

The GM mode takes you through the real NFL season, but of course, you can also play against other people online. There is also a new game mode called “The Yard” which lets you create a football player and play in an almost backyard football fashion in 5v5 scenarios like you would play with your friends at the local field. The offense has a quarterback, a running back, a center to hike the ball, a tight end, and a wide receiver. The defense has a defensive tackle, a middle linebacker, two cornerbacks and a safety. Your created player can be any of the offensive skill positions, which is nice for people who don’t just want to always play quarterback. You can edit how your player looks, how they enter the field, how they celebrate their TDs and how they act when they lose a game.

There is a lot to love from the new concept of “Madden NFL 21 Mobile,” but there is also a lot to dislike, as this newly released game can be a bit buggy. Still, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying it this NFL season. “Madden NFL 21 Mobile” is free to download on the Android and IOS stores. Get out there and hit the gridiron!

When we hear a movie described as a biopic, we have a general idea of what that means. Sure, the actual timeframe covered varies – some do snapshots, others go full cradle-to-grave – but the beats that are hit along the way rarely do. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; it’s the story of a real person, so a degree of structural familiarity makes sense.

However, sometimes you get a biopic that is not at all what you’re expecting. A biopic like “Tesla.”

The film, written and directed by Michael Almereyda, is a biopic in the sense that it tells the story of famed inventor Nikola Tesla – played by Ethan Hawke – from his early days working for Thomas Edison through his time of up-and-down prominence in the overlapping worlds of science and industry. We see the high points and the low as he seeks to make his mark on the world.

Stylistically, however, it is something altogether different. Whether it’s a motif of stage-like projected backdrops or moments of striking anachronism or a meta sense of razor-sharp self-awareness or any of a handful of aesthetic choices, “Tesla” doesn’t look or feel quite like any biopic you’ve ever seen. And with a narrative structure offering its own sense of fracture, the film is as weird and watchable as it is unexpected.