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Considering just about all mainstream news outlet did a paper or three on the PS4 and Xbox One and that consumer electronics stores as well as cultural goods stores around here have pre-order signs, I am pretty sure mainstreamers are well aware of the existence of the machines.

Thanks to this thread I googled the girl I was in love with in kindergarten more than 30 years ago! Actually, we were in kindergarten together, but it's a couple years later than she bite my hand after I confessed my love to her (the kind of stuff that makes analysts rich!). Anyway, thanks...

Only God Forgives was released in Europe a month or two ago, so I just walked 10 min and saw it. The Gangster I just saw at a movie festival (NIFFF: Neuch?tel International Fantasy Film Festival that also has a section called New Cinema From Asia). Found a trailer btw: PS: the...

For reference, I have seen all of Wong Kar Wai, most of John Woo (NB: John Woo 'early stuff' is mostly comedy - he made 15 movies before A Better Tomorrow) and most of Johnnie To (when he directs that is, because I doubt even him saw most of what he produced) and this movie is still a poorly...

The problem is not that the rom-com elements are bad (in fact Alison Pill and Emily Mortimer playing manic/clumsy is very amusing), the problem is that there is a pretty broad offer for rom-com on TV and a very narrow one for media/politics fiction, so, in The Newsroom, every minute spent on...

Three Leaf Clover ++?

Obviously, not a very serious endeavor:

That Q&A was worth reading!

Tele-training with 'Matthew' from New Delhi perhaps?

Just saw it today, so I'll drop the following track from 1985's Night on the Galactic Railroad (a meditative, metaphysical and dream-like movie about two anthropomorphic cats who take a train across the galaxy - original, often beautiful, but sadly extremely boring). The music is made by a...

Did they manage to resolve some/most/all of the storylines at the end of the 2nd season or does it end with the viewer massively frustrated?

I caught only 4 games of the match (from 4-2 to 5-5 in the second) and that took 30 min...3 hours for a straight set victory ongrassmust be some kind of record. 11 breaks out of 32 games on grass? Shame on them booo booo! Was Edberg also in attendance today? That must be so weird for him to see...

There is a TV related thingy for PS3 in Japan called Torne... I know nothing about Tivo, DVR or whatever, so I'll let people decipher this (old) video.

I saw nothing today as I was at a movie festival that always starts with the last week-end of Wimbledon... I skipped films last year for Federer vs Murray, but I won't for Murray vs Djokovic doing 87658764 strokes rallies from the back of the court (unless I catch some of it between two...

Modern video camera are very sensitive, so it can look bright on your TV screen while being pretty dark in reality. That being said, light declining or not, unable to get an answer from the umpire as to when the roof will be closed or not, losing focus in a grand slam semi final to the point of...

Obviously not related to 'Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead'

Even if all you said was true, it would make Tree of Life some sort of masterpiece, wouldn't it?

I think you are thinking of The Fountain. A movie that shares some of its ambitions with Tree of Life but falls waaaaay shorter (it is more gratifying as a narration though, there are characters with lines and a plot that moves forward, etc).

Day 8: Plastic man, glass man, canon man and lucky man. I only get to see the first two sets of the Berdych vs Djokovic :/ Djokovicis Plastic Man. His ability to stretch himself to reach the most ludicrous of balls and manage from these awkward positions to still produce very good shots is...

It is indeed over-hyped.Metacritichas it at 92/100 with a user rating of 8.7/10. Damned reviewers over-hyping stuff!

A masterpiece, albeit a flawed one.

There is entirely not enough Journey in your lists guys

I agree that Treme felt like it was missing at least one dramatic arc that gave a sense to where it was going, but in a way it serves the portrait of a city that does not know where it is going. It works more a sociological study than a fiction, but the study is fascinating in its own right.

With the PS3 I started the "Don't buy stuff if you are not done with what you bought" policy so suddenly the list got a lot shorter than in previous generations (also almost no japanese import or 2nd hand games): PS3 Disks (22): Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed Brotherhood(a gift!)...

waitwaitwait... I mentioned it to question it and got convinced in the process... I think it's Kreugen who mentioned it first so let's render unto Brell the things that are Brell's.

It should be noted that at that time PC games took a lot of real estate in stores because they were sold in humongous boxes with three floppies and a manual running around in it...

Day 7: Women tennis. I'll leave you with this quote from Youzhny's press conference after his defeat to Murray:

To be fair, during the 8-bit era there were computer games that we simply lost track of since there were made by garage developers who would code something, duplicate the tapes themselves and directly sell them to a couple stores in their area. For our sanity, let's assume it was small...

As previously mentioned, I was a bit worried about the game being infuriating, but it somehow manages to be tense, intense and yet have a hilarious 'oh shit!' effect on failure. I am not sure how it pulls that off... possibly because it's so snappy and ridiculously violent and because you...

He is 35 but he also will be ranked 11 in the world comes Monday. Considering he lost first round at the US Open in 2012 reaching 10 by the end of the year sounds a very real possibility, but he will need a great result or two if he wants to have a shot at playing the Masters Cup (realistically...

I find also pretty crazy that there are eurozone countries that are 'Tier 2'.

I still preciously keep a yellow rubber duck that has written on it: Playstation 3 17.11.2006 because the PS3 was supposed to be released in Europe for that date and ended up being released more than four months later... That said, I understand how Japan might not be a high priority market...

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song comes to mind for black culture of the '70s. The Conversation for some good old fashioned Nixon era taping. Killer of Sheep is also a reference for a sociological portrait of black suburbs in the '70s. I must admit that I did not enjoy the movie much when...

Btw I saw some of the Kanepi vs Robson match and I think she might achieve great things for British tennis, but not much for tennis in general. She has a useful serve (lefty always help) and some good groundstrokes (particularly the forehand which is rarer on the WTA tour), movement is not a...

Day 6: Poland Day I only got to watch some of the early afternoon matches and bits and parts of the late matchesBut we have our quarter finals: Djokovicbenefited from an erratic Haas to win the first set 6-1, he lost focus a little, Haas played a little better, and suddenly the german was...

Nice title! I wonder if they are somehow related to that chinese (?) guy would made stick figure kung-fu movies a few years back. If not related, they are indebted to him. (I found some swf on an old hard drive but they are too big to zip and attach).

You make a good point about the childhood drawings. It makes more sense for her to have kept them from back then than to have somehow found them while investigating Dexter.

The only problem I have with the dock storyline is that it starts and stops in season 2 while all the other storyline are additional layers that paint a picture of the city that is more and more complex.... well I write that but... the school system possibly also lasts one season or?

I don't think Vogel/Matthews had to be partner with Harry in the creation of Dexter. If Matthews called Vogel after Maria's death to check on Dexter and the Bay Harbor Butcher, she could have easily deducted that the moral guidelines in display in the kills had to come from a third party and...

I forgot Lam Suet was in Kung-Fu Hustle. A god among men! Here, some Lam Suet in PTU: