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I find it more mysterious that John Cusack and Adrian Brody find themselves in Dragon Blade (a Jackie Chan vehicle directed by B list HK director Daniel Lee), than Matt Damon finding himself in a chinese blockbuster directed my Zhang Yimou, who has been internationally acclaimed since the early...

My take is that, if you are writing a review, everything that is in the exposition is fair game. That being said, the idea is to give a sense as to what the movie is about and here it seems to me some of the details are not really needed to achieve that. If you are writing a critique though...

@kudos If you did not have a PS3, Last of Us Remastered and Journey should be played too.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Balotelli, Messi proved once again he is a magician by remaining invisible during the 94 minutes of the PSG vs Barca! 4-0 for Paris in Paris, winning just about every duel, conceeding almost no opportunities thanks to a constant collective effort and creating...

La La Land - That movie left me lukewarm. The romantic comedy element of it is underdeveloped. The music is... well... let's just say Hurwitz is not Gershwin nor Bernstein (in all fairness the two songs nominated for an academy award are the one that is good - City of Stars - and the one that...

Some key scenes and shots will be replicated but that's about all. The whole origin story that sounds like the one of Robocop has nothing to do with the original movie. I smell a massive treason brewing.

Cream of the crop of a bunch of movies I saw at a film festival this past week: Her love boils bathwater (Yu o Wakasu Hodo no Atsui Ai): a japanese dramedy about a women with terminal cancer trying to have her family in working order before she dies. To quote the guy that presented the movie...

On my phone, so I'll be brief (for now): what an incredible scenario in this slam and in this final! Federer a break down early in the fifth and winning? Get out of here! What a disgusting lack of respect for the health of the fans! This final could have been one way traffic, but instead we got...

This film is also known as The Strangers. The guy who made this film made two others before that. One I did not see (The Yellow Sea aka The Murderer) and The Chaser which is an extremely good thriller. The Wailing is a well crafted film, but I must say the plot left me a little unsatisfied and I...

Probably one of the strangest AO ever. Top seeds were falling left and right, it looked like we would get some new blood to lift the trophy and when the dust settled, the young blood was spilled and we ended up with Federer vs Nadal and Williams vs Williams in the finals, just like at the All...

I was not aware Walter Hill was still directing movies!

It's supposed to be very good. It's been in my download folder for a couple weeks but I have yet to watch it. Sometime next week probably...

@Tanoomba what's up with the big Batman Returns review without mentioning the amazing music! Some of it is reorchestrations of the Danny Elfman score for the movie, but I believe some of it is original like the crazy circus music that is played during a train level ( I have not played it since...

In strange twist of fate only 2 of the top 8 seeds reached the quarter finals of the men's draw: Wawrinka and Raonic! Having Federer and Nadal out of the top 8 helps, but still! At this rate we'll get Misha Zverev vs David Goffin on Sunday! More likely: a Federer vs Raonic with a Raonic win.... :/

I am a Shyamalapologist so take it with a grain of salt, but I loved Unbreakable and, while the discourse in Signs is atrocious, there is like a dozen amazingly directed scenes in that movie.

At least you did not lose to a dead guy!

Nice Faille! I did not get to see much sofar and it's not looking that good ahead. Just a note on Istomin, he was ranked 30ish at his best and if there were such a thing as hardcourt ranking, he would have been a little higher even. It's a guy who, without a doubt, can play some very good...

I remember the magic system in Mage being extremely open ended and as such good players and a good storyteller were needed for it to work. That seems like something very difficult to do properly in a video game, so you are left with something that strays away from the main interest of the system...

Does he have a work laptop with him? Those can be tracked too... I have a friend who works for a major computer manufacturer and he told me that they have a pretty broad spectrum of tools when it comes to try and find stolen/lost laptops (including remotely activating the webcam and other chill...

Neruda, or what would happen if a poet-politician wrote his own biopic, half self-aggrandizing and half self-deprecating. A movie that manages to be supremely smart, beautiful and very often funny. My only problem with it is that the game of cat and mouse between the policeman and the communist...

No Mario Maker this year. A team relay thing was entered just like the previous year, but it was not selected by the organizers, possibly because it was a bit more of the same and that it can easily go over estimate. They also have a Mystery Game relay race going at some point that kinda scratch...

I recommend watching Grandpoobear's run of Super Dram World. It's a Super Mario World mod that is pretty clever and ridiculously hard.

I missed the whole Contra block, but Metal Slug 3 was a pretty neat run. It's true though that the most interesting aspect for me was that it's much easier to see the insane amount of crazy detailed animations in the game when not playing it, something that a simple "let's play" also allows.

Somehow, no one killed for the GameCube...

@Amzin You're probably right /nod

TARANTULAR! On a side note, Xelna in the Zelda: A Link to the Past race just casually had the 2nd best run of the game ever. Oh and he is the guy who is the record holder... just about everything went perfectly through the whole run. I suspect that with a little bit of luck in the final Ganon...

I have never played any Dragon Age, but at HowLongToBeat, Origins is listed as 40ish hours for an average playthrough of the main game and at 28ish hours for a rushed playthrough of the main game. PS: Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening is listed as 9ish rushed 13ish average. It's a DLC though, but...

Considering they raised more than $500k in 4 days, I seriously doubt that.

I am not going to rewatch the movie to be sure @Hoss , but I am reasonably certain the planet they go to is not colonized yet and

There are different types of commentary. I really enjoyed Blechy's commentary during the Mario races, where he talks non stop through a very prepared and informative script, but I also like humorous commentary like, say, Spikevegeta. For longer runs like the one fo FFIV it's pretty neat also how...

The Mario runs about to start! It should be good! This stuff is so ridiculously optimized.

The problems are that the frame story is a melancholic drama, but it does not have enough room to be effective, and the story within the story is a dramatic crime story, but since it is presented as fictional, it's very difficult to care about what happens in it. If there was something clever at...

Currently playing Beyond Oasis on Genesis via the official emulator available on Steam. It's an action adventure game a bit like Landstalker or Zelda, but more linear. It's not flawless, but still enjoyable with nice visuals using huge sprites at time and very little of the dithering technique...

Not according to the guy who went through the shipping manifest! But as I said in my review, you better not think too much about it all because the sci-fi element is just here to create a situation and its conundrum for the romantic dramedy. If it was an actual sci-fi movie other themes would be...

If we want to explore plot holes,

I hate TCM because when I want to watch a movie I end up watching three... anyway, that allowed me to watch again a film I first saw a long time ago: Nicholas Ray's 1954 proto-anti-western Johnny Guitar. The movie did not leave me with a strong impression the first time around (to the point I am...

Debatable!

Pro tip to enjoy the Yakuza serie to the fullest: relatively early on in every game there is a character (usually in a bar) that gives you hints as to where you can currently start side quests. Never progress the main story before you run out of side quests. The main story is an over the top...

Gigli of SF would be Prometheus. The guy who wrote Passengers had a hand in that though! Also this movie is not even the worst reviewed movie of the month. That dubious honor would go to Assassin's Creed.

It is a romantic dramedy in space and, for what it is, it's not that far from being great. You need to suspend a little more than disbelief to enjoy this plot though.