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Well... the final ended up being a tad underwhelming. There were some great points here and there, but ultimately it boiled down to Federer not serving nor playing as well as he did in the group phase and, for my money, not playing with the best of game plan. Obviously, he wanted to avoid the...

So, Nadal got demolished by Djokovic. The spaniard spent the whole match on his heels, hardly ever able to deal with Djokovic's length of shots and totally unable to read where he would hit next. Since the World N?1 played a very clean match, had a very clear game plan in mind (open Nadal's...

Day 6 With Nadal certain to be top of his group and Ferrer certain to be out no matter what the result, the Nadal vs Ferrer match was "only" about 200 ranking points, a big stack of cash and pride. Also about professionalism and putting a good show for the crowd at the O2 arena. The crowd...

The ranking mystery is solved: The criteria go like this 1) Nb of matches won 2) Nb of matches played (2-1 beats 2-0 - take that alternates!) 3) Direct confrontation if 2 players are tied and it applies. So, even if Nadal loses today he will be at 2-1 as the will the winner of the Murray vs...

Day 5: Federer did not serve particularly well today and, as a result, found himself in a number of rallies against a very much eager Nishikori. The swiss found a way to bag the first set 7-5, cementing him at the top of the group and looked at first like he would run away with the second...

This is patently false. The main problem of the first film was that it felt like it was the result of 20 rewrites by 20 different people: it was a total mess that did not know what it wanted to tell. Also, Theron going bananas as the queen is probably the worst acting she has ever done, but...

As far as Marvel film-verse go, isn't dropping an origin story for Hydra a pretty huge chunk thing to do in the TV serie rather than in a movie? Or is that origin very well known in the Marvel comics-verse? EDIT: On a side note, I am glad that Roz was not a double agent, but, in a way, it's...

Lomu died of an heart attack today at age 40. He had severe kidney issue for years. He had a kidney transplant, played some rugby again, but got ill again and was waiting for another transplant, spending 6 hours a day getting dialyses... It's not clear to me if the heart attack is related to the...

I probably got that in the part where you describe going "the shemale route" for porn as "growing out their hair, getting breast implants and putting on make up and tattoos." The blog post you linked was interesting, though it's not very clear if the stats about prostitution it presents...

Day 4! Pretty balanced match between Nadal and Murray with, as expected, a number of rallies and ridiculous time between points. It took them an hour to complete a set than Nadal won and in the second Murray really seemed like he ran out of gas while Nadal grew in confidence. The theory is...

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You explicitly stated that (without proof) and also that gay men where doing that (without proof). Why not straight men by the way since many perform in gay porn anyway? On a side note, I seriously doubt one could become a trans porn star without hormone therapy, even with implant. Maybe in...

Not to be a dick, but that was not your original claim. Your original claim was that gay men transitioned (which in hodj's world means grow hair, get fake boobs and get tattoos) to work as MtF transsexuals in the porn industry as it pays better and, once they are done, they detransition (in...

When I saw the pictures, the thing that surprised me the most, given the short time the module could stay on Venus before melting, is how they managed to transfer the data fast enough.

The animations in this trailer are extremely bad. I mean the flying armor thing is the kind of result you would expect from a guy that hardly ever animated anything in his life. Buuuuuut... I am sucker for movies set during the antiquity so I'll keep a little optimism for this project.

I suspect that she turned a CIA asset (the living dead guy) into a KGB asset.

Petty Crocker is screwed in the head... *cough* More seriously though, what is that contraption on the hood of that car?

The Berdych - Nishikori was a stange affair, with both player rarely playing well at the same time. They both played a little better than in their first match though. I did not get to see the third set where apparently Nishikori found a "get out of jail free" card on break point at 3-3 and then...

Obviously the info is innocuous for all but a select few people. Things are not super clear, but since it involves former assets that Carrie managed, they probably don't want the info reaching Carrie or the assets themselves.

The thing that is a bit sad is that it's probably more profitable to shoot a remake that has 99.9% chances of being inferior to the original and release it than it is to rerelease the original movie in a crisp digital remaster.

Day 2 was a bit lame. Murray and Ferrer played a relatively close match, but the spaniard, who struggled with double faults though the whole thing, blinked at the end of both sets. The Wawrinka vs Murray match started very strangely by two breaks to love before turning into a pretty good battle...

Pershing and Pigs : snopes.com Oups! FSRPT!

It's the Masters' Cup this week, aka The World Tour Finals. You know the drill: two pools of 4, best 2 go to knock out phase with the first of a pool playing the 2nd of the other. POOL A: DJOKOVIC: Did not lose a match since the US Open. Hardly lost a set. FEDERER: Suffered a...

What lead to this situation and why can't a pacemaker or artificial heart help?

Even if you don't like the music, do yourself a favor and check the dancer on the 2nd track (2:50 onward... at first it's like 'huh?' and then it turns into 'WHAAAAAAAT? HOW?'). Apparently it's a traditional dance from Ivory Coast called Zaouli (not sure if it's the name of the dance or...

I am not too sure what to think about it. Further analysis would be needed to be sure, but I suspect that it is a pretty elegant use of the James Bond mythos and a pretty clever thematic/symbolic work, mainly around the idea of the old vs the new (old headquarters, new headquarters, old style...

Same. I think it was accidental misdirection, because Fitz said he would check the content of the phone for clues, so we were stuck in that mindset and expected him to find something when he checked the video clips. Not too easy to write it differently though. Maybe have Simmons mention the...

After all, comedy is not about the story, it's about the way the story is told. You have to admit The Martian is much more a comedy than it is a drama. It's almost a musical too!

It should be mentioned that Catwoman was the 2nd feature film of Pitof, a french special effect specialist, known for his work with Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. You know, the Jeunet who a few year prior graced us with Alien 4... Patty Jenkins of Monster fame should bring the base level of...

I thought Common was good in Hell on Wheels.

To make it clear to Lumie: if they don't live very long, it's not because they get killed by the government.

You must have a strange definition of an "event": the episode was choke-full of spying and counter-spying stuff and it resulted in a total shift of dynamics between the CIA characters and in Carrie getting the documents. They can't blow a plane every episode.

I saw it the other day and thought it was pretty cool (what's up with the morphing every three frames when there are close ups of Samus' face though?), but I am really not a fan of the reorchestration of the score.

I have never been a huge Tom Hanks fan, even if he stared in a number of movies I enjoyed, but he is very good in Captain Phillips.

Saw it today in a film festival and I think it just got released in the US. The movie is solid with a great cast, it's entertaining and engaging from start to finish. I feel the movie is a bit at odds with its closing statement though (see spoiler below) and there is something that bothers me a...

They did a full digital remaster of it a few years back for the 3D re-release. I believe it involved scanning in 4k the Super 35 material. The idea being that, since you only use part of a 4:3 Super 35 frame for a film that will be screened in 2.35:1, scanning the Super 35 stock allows to show...

Episode 3 was a notch under the first two. It also makes a strange narrative choice about the treatment of syphilis. The introduced the sweat box in a previous episode and now that they want to give someone a fever, they go for malaria (wikipedia spoiler: both techniques were used historically...

I know very little about the rules of american football... what's the rule about passing? In that Miami play, it's obvious that, like in rugby, you can only make passes backward. Does that mean you can only pass forward when you are the team on offense? Or is the quarter back the only player...