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A friend of mine will be spending the better part of a year in Brisbane as an exchange student (17 year old). Obviously she will have some classmates to guide her around, but I thought I could ask around here too for some Aussie wisdom beforehand. My only guess is: be sure to use sunscreen...

Nice OT choke by Harden...

That Houston vs Dallas game 5 is pretty fun. A little bit of everything and a two points game at the half.

The NBA may be retarded, but in the MLB they are playing baseball...

Cont... Hamon: Yakuza Boogie - 4/5. A semi slacker that works as a middle man between mobsters and contractors finds himself teaming with an old school yakuza to find an old hustler more slippery than an oiled fish that conned too many powerful people. Nothing spectacular, but consistently...

Quick notes on some of the best asian films I saw at a festival out of the 60ish: I am not Madame Bovary - 5/5. Chinese arthouse administrative comedy about a women trying to get her fake divorce anuled so that she can divorce for real. A kind of satirical tongue in cheek version of Yimou's...

And the Real scored at least one goal in their previous 50ish matches or something equally silly, so the Atletico might need five goals in the return leg.... Let's just say that the Atletico is not Barcelona and that the Real is not Paris, so... yeah.

Crazy first half in the Real-Atletico match. The tempo is very high and the technical mastery is impressive. I am not sure the players can survive another 45 min with such intensity.

Not all movies can be Roar!

Saw this the other day... it's bad in many ways. That being said, even in such terrible film, totaly disconnected from reality and that feels like it's being produced by the ministries of tourism of India and Dubai, you still find here and there moments of brilliance in fight choreography and...

@Kiroy I am curious, I have a lot of free time and I pay $40 a month to see as many films as I want in a chain of multiplex (15 screens in my town). :)

I am not sure this movie exists. I wish it would have been Logan and that's why I said the project is kinda cool. I am not a comic book reader, but my understanding is that one of the interesting things with super hero comics is that many different authors can offer non-canon takes on some...

The last Werner Herzog (Salt & Fire) was some incredibly craptacular stuff though. It makes Logan looks like some sort of masterpiece in comparison! Really enjoyed his amazingly crazy take on Bad Lieutenant from a few years back though (it danced the whole way through on a fine line between...

To be fair, the project of the film is pretty cool (a kind of anti-superhero movie / road movie / post western with a R rating and cinephile influence), but what parts of it are well executed? Not many. The action is nothing special (other than having Wolverine cutting people... yay?), the plot...

I think this movie mostly suffers from being an adaptation. The main problem being that the changes made to the plot and world shift the themes toward something that is a lot less interesting. Namely, it goes from a universal questioning about the nature of identity and the very poetic dawn of a...

I have not seen it yet, but from what I hear, people are unhappy with this adaptation because of the lack of this:

We are leaving the ridiculous to enter the realm of the legendary... Federer just won in Miami beating US youngster Tiafoe, Del Potro, an in form Bautista Agut, Berdych (saving match points!), Kyrgios (in three breakers!) and Nadal in the final with a clean 6-3 6-4. It's the second time in his...

I was in Paris for a few days at the end of last year. It was maybe my 10ish trip there and a few years back I worked in Paris for three months. The two main differences since the last time I have been there a couple years ago? Bags being checked when entering Les Halles (big shopping and...

It's not about being PC or not, it's about conventions that exists and are not the same for all productions. If you take a movie like, say, Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, there is a great work done to create a feeling of realism. You hire mexican actors of mayan decent, you carefully recreate clothing...

In theater, opera and ballet, it has been for a while an established convention that, unless the story requires it, any part can be played by any ethnicity. The logic behind it is that you have a huge repertoire of european and american works spanning centuries with very few parts for...

This is getting a little ridiculous now. In Indian Wells, in the most packed quarter of a draw ever devised for a Master 1000 (Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, Del Potro and with the youngsters Zverev and Kyrgios for good measure), it's Federer who found a way through. Djokovic barely edged past Del...

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Philip Glass and Michael Nyman are my go-to guys, but Alexandre Desplat has his moments also:

I guess you now have to watch Forbidden Planet (apparently a disguised adaptation of The Tempest) and, of course, Prospero's Books! Most clips on youTube are NSFW and some probably even illegal in this day and age, but let me see if I can find something.... there I found one:

It would take some exceptional writing (good or bad) to have the spectators hate the humans with a cast like that!

In the entire history of the C1 there has been 185 matches were a team lead 4-0 in the home match and precisely 0 failed to qualify after the away match... now there is one: the PSG! I think the craziest part is that it's not because the Barca played an amazing match, it's a mix of the PSG...

I have not seen the movie yet, but I read an interview of the director a few weeks back and he mentioned the deliberate effort to have an aesthetic that is not what you would expect for this type of story. I guess a similar idea can be found in Manchester By The Sea's choice of music: the film...

Unlike Adebisi I would posit that this sequel is better in just about every way. Much to my surprise, the whole 'secret society of assassins' stuff that I found to be very lame in the first movie managed to be not only entertaining but a decent engine for the plot and some of its twists. In...

I don't think this movie is great, but Shyamalan managed to control McAvoy to good effect, his scenario works well enough and its core idea is pretty original (not the multiple personality disorder itself, but the story he decides to tell with a character that suffers from it). I was a bit...

Maybe it's because I read in many places that it's slow and too long, but it did not bother me. I feel this movie manages to do something pretty difficult: turn this kind of story into something else than one of the following three crappy scenario 1) It was all a dream! Hahaha that's why it made...

@Campbell1oo4 I could paraphrase but I might as well just quote wikipedia:

On the up side, the making of this film probably* killed less kitten than The Adventures of Milo and Otis! *The allegations that kitten were killed during the filming of Koneko Monogatari (aka Chatran aka The Adventures of Milo and Otis) came from Australia and animal protection groups were...

I have to admit this Zelda game looks pretty cool. I might even buy a Wii U to play it!

Playing once a week with a friend, after playing 40ish hours, we just reached chapter 13, so we will probably take a break until the end of march for the patch but.... this game is a bit like Assassin's Creed. Not the game: the movie. So terribad it's almost poetic. Almost.

For the better part of a decade, the floor level for this kind of productions in korea has been significantly higher than the one of their hollywoodian counterparts. So, as expected, this movie is pretty solid, even if it is nothing extremely original. The same director released at about the...

I wonder if all these substantial planets bunched up in relatively close orbits does not result in some intense and weird tidal/tectonic effects.

@Qhue In that space telescope unfolding.... what is the purpose of the multilayered triangular "base" under the actual telescope?