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Oups! A bit late: R32 got played and the surprises were few and far between. In fact all the matches were pretty one sided in favor of the favorites, except Bautista Agut, you know that guy I thought would be too tired to compete, who discarded Cilic in straight sets! The surprise guest of the...

This analogy would kinda work if black actors were complaining about not being in enough sun screen commercials... Anyway, it's a complicated situation that has more to do with movie production than the academy.

I would watch that for sure. Even more if the comedy aspect was dropped.

You are a bit harsh. There are some very good jokes (the muslim/skinhead alliance) and scenes (Todd at the airport desk) through the whole thing, but the main problem is that the possibly brilliant structure is lost on anyone who did not see the previous two seasons just before checking this...

Round 2 is over! SEEDICIDE WATCH: The top half of the draw was totally uneventful with all the favorites winning. The bottom half saw a couple minor heads rool. Chardy [30] probably not fully recovered from his first round marathon fell to Kuznetsov (not related to Kuznetsova but that last...

That would be my vote.

To make things clear, I knew Hayakawa was a big star during the golden age of Hollywood, making him likely to have won an Oscar. That was the entirety of what was on the top of my head. The rest is google-fu and imdb browsing.

About asian nominations, the first thing that came to mind is Sessue Hayakawa for The Bridge on the River Kwai (best supporting actor). That same year (1957) Miyoshi Umeki, a japanese actress who later became american, won for best supporting actresse in a movie called Sayonara (which also...

I am not sure if they weight the votes to create the nomination list, but, at the end of the day, if not enough people see the movie, it can't be nominated, so half the battle is getting the members of the academy to see the movie. A battle that is significantly harder for Beasts of No Nation...

It's very difficult to comment on it because the story amount to "Betting sites reported several occurrences of suspicious betting patterns to the anti match fixing body of the ATP and no one ever got suspended for it." We don't know at this point who are the players and matches involved so it's...

The thing also is that Creed is a pretty good movie, but the best thing in it really is Stallone and he got nominated. I mean you can't get a best director nomination because you decided to put a single take fight in the middle of your movie and you don't get an original screenplay nomination...

So... first round is over, let's run through the top seeds and their draw. DJOKOVIC[1] won in Doha, including a trashing ofNadalin the final. Played a decent enough first round against korean rising starChung. R64:Halys, a french wild card with a good serve who beatDodig. R32:Seppi, who...

Was Beasts of No Nation even eligible considering it was released on Netflix? Or was it also released in theaters?

Very curious to see how it fares compared to Ace Attorney.

Australian Open the next two weeks! I'll probably only see the night sessions, but stay tuned!

Verdict: a 3 hours long short film. ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

Lubezki and I??rritu are mexicans.

Shouldn't Fury Road compete for bestpracticaleffects?

Just saw the first one for now. It's a great idea to make the polar opposite of the first season, the problem though is that people who saw it 5 years ago, like I did, spend the episode thinking "Mmmmmh that must be a funny reference to something I should remember but don't..." So... yeah...

I saw Dogtooth from the same directors a few years back. It was original, intriguing and it had its moments, but it was mostly dumb. I am cautiously pessimistic about that one.

I personally did not see how the spinning added to difficulty considering there is only one type of input per column. The challenge presented by the cross eyed reading is pretty clear though!

I think it was less impressive than Tetris because of the lack of decision making, but that was still very very insane. I liked the fact the guy said he made the notes scrolling faster to not have time to think and just let pattern recognition and muscle memory play through the songs! Anyone...

Wait... are we saying the runners suck now because the guy with the 3rd best time in Axiom Verge Any% died 10 times in total in 3 supremely bullshit passages of the game even though he breezed through everything else and the last quarter of the run is him doing some beastly throw/switch/cancel...

I consider myself a well above average Tetris player and these Tetris runs where insane.

Cool games don't necessarily make for cool speed runs thought. For me it's high skill and/or cool glitches/exploits and/or cool runner and/or nostalgia. I usually get the full combo with PJ running Super Famicom classics. It's also an opportunity to see games I did not play, even if...

Does 80 Days count for 2015? It was released on mobiles in 2014 but on steam in 2015. It's like the Tales of the Arabian Nights board game, but through the whole world, with a time limit and in a Jules Vernian XIXth century. It's both very simple and very deep and pretty crazy. Not a very...

Pretty sure I killed the Cleric Beast on my first try (had played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls before though). I believe I also (intentionally) gun parried only a single type of enemy through the whole game (the fat guys with bricks). I summoned helpers for a lot of the bosses though.

They should paint it all red apparently...

Spoiler alert obviously. My gut feeling is that there must be a version of the scenario where Del Toro's character is the main protagonist. I mean, he is the titular character and is the only one with a back story and personal motivations. From there, to take some distance from an ambiguous...

Nah... I can make a pretty big pile with the eastern european films I love and Guy Maddin is a Canadian fascinated by early Hollywood. I guess what sets Element of Crime apart in this little 'fever dream' selection is that, in it, the form is justified by the fact it's all the memories of...

I hope it's the worst because it's the one I did not play!

Hard to be a God is monumental but I must say that I have no love for these films that feel like never ending fever dreams such as The Hourglass Sanatorium or some (but not all) of the movies of Guy Maddin or Aleksandr Sokurov... now that I write that, I remember enjoying Lars von Trier's The...

I went to check that tonight as I noticed it was playing in a theater nearby, and while very well directed, it left me lukewarm. I am not a good customer for this type of slow burn psychological tension / para-horror films though.

At first I was like: 'What a terrible misspelling of Dunkerque' and then I realized that's how it's spelled in english... Anyway, can he do better than Joe Wright in Atonement? Because its Dunkirk *cough* sequence was great.

My list is still a work in progress as there are several films I have yet to see (The Revenant, Creed, Star Wars, Inside Out, Bridge of Spies, Crimson Peak, etc) and in my notes I have like 50ish movies that I rated 3 or 4 stars. Some of those where 2014 films in the US though (Birdman, Inherent...

Not shower related, but there is a french actor / music hall artist, Darry Cowl, whose first job at a cabaret included kissing the nipples of topless dancers to make them pointy. Food for shower thoughts!

Maybe there is a bunch of new PS4 owners trying to patch their consoles at the same time?

Played Undertale and that game is consistently clever both in writing and game design. I am not sure I have the patience to try to go through the different endings, but I had a good dose of entertainment even when doing a middle of the road play through with a kinda lame ending. I can understand...

Wouldn't Kobe win a game of one on one?

Religion was a little more present this season, but it was there from the start with Brody's secret praying, etc. I have very little taste for the religious and thought it was pretty well managed here. You add a bit of color to Durig with his chapel, you add a bit of PC complexity with the...