Recent content by Szlia

Man... I was about to brag that I own Fighting Street, which is considered the first CD Rom game ever released (a very bad port of Street Fighter 1 on PC-Engine CD-Rom released on the 4th of December 1988), but while I was 99% sure to own it, I actually don't... I'll have to limit my bragging...

For those who were into gaming at the time of its release, the 7th Guest was known, since it's one of the first few CD-Rom games for Windows PC (there are a lot of earlier CD Rom games on different japanese systems, mainly PC-Engine aka TurboGrafx-16 since 1988, but also on Mega CD aka Sega CD...

If anything, the fact Elden Ring does not have a straight forward narrative, but is a fleshed out world that has a lot of lore and history, make it more likely that the story they will choose to tell will be good. They are given a setting and can tell anything that they feel would work well for...

Oh... I saw this. It's nothing much, but it is somewhat entertaining. I have not seen the previous movies of the director, but if I have to very unfairly put him in a category based on a single film, it would be "very enthousiastic film lover who might not be the brightest". A category he would...

My bad, I think I formulated my point poorly. My point is that Norway is one of the safest country in the world and also one that has a rather small population. In an average year, there are about 30ish murders in total, mostly by knife, mostly by people who knew the victim and had a criminal...

Obviously "no one" is a bit of an hyperbole, but I think it's more about conveying the fact that it's an unusual brand for Norway and that it might indicate that these go into the country through a single channel. And to be fair, with my personal gun knowledge that is limited to video games and...

Not familiar with the books. This first season adapts the 5th book of the Harry Hole serie (out of 13) which was the first to be translated into english and also the first that, looking at the pitch of books one to four, sets the bar pretty high when it comes to suspension of disbelief. In this...

Actually released in theater in my city. This dark comedy was not my cup of tea. It's original for sure, around the theme of how one perceive oneself and get perceived by others, but it got maybe a couple smiles out of me and that was not enough to counterbalance a surprisingly high level of...

I had high expectations for this one but left a bit underwhelmed. I did not enjoy the music that much (apparently mostly based on actual shaker songs) except maybe the Hunger & Thirst one. I also was left scratching my head as to what the film is trying to tell. A good looking movie for sure, a...

How many Hollywoodian actors playing lead parts do you know to be homosexuals? It's not a public opinion or peers perception issue, it's a career decision, it's about being able to be considered for as broad a range of parts as possible.

Hah! Saw that in a film festival last summer (The Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival where I also saw The Thing With Feathers, Touch Me, Reflet dans un Diamant Mort, Obex, Exit 8... maybe kroenen is part of the selection committee there?). It's ok. It feels like South Korea has been...

Just saw Hamnet. Having seen 8 out of the 10 nominees (I doubt I'll ever watch F1 and Frankenstein), my Top 3 is 1) Hamnet 2) The Secret Agent 3) Sentimental Value. Hamnet is not without problems, but you get a very solid film and, in an ending that is already very strong and moving, there is...

This movie has a very dated feel in its lack of subtlety. That's for the worst (the way the main character and the executives are depicted) but also the better (it dares some pretty extreme and crazy sequences and the plot is also over the top). Still enjoyed it overall, but I am the president...

Is it entertaining though? The actions scenes are brief, few, far between and not that great, and the plot is barely serviceable. It's watchable, but it's not much.

As I mentioned above, the hairy leg articles were real. Because of the censorship that happens in a dictatorship, journalists could not cover police brutality. So to go around the censorship, they invented an absurd boogeyman, the hairy leg. Readers understood what it meant. Here is a Gemini cut...