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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...

They have Ivan too. And I am not even sure having both to be able to somewhat corroborate their stories would be a plus or a unwanted source of complexity. About the light, I read that as Carrie being about to kill Quinn but not going through with it at the last moment because of the change...

Adding flaws to sound more human is one of the basis of pseudo AI designed to pass the Turing test.

It felt very artificial to me. It's like the writers were looking for an additional gut punch and retconned one out of thin air. The brother being a psychopath is not a lot better. Still, I think the worst resolution was the absence of one for Lucy. She is one of the main characters and her...

You mean the upside of doing it now? Because the upside of having self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colonies is pretty clear.

Not related to the Breaking Bad character. This is a hungarian art house film about a member of the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz (prisoners being cogs in the death machine) trying to get a child a proper funeral. It just got released in the US. For most of the film, the camera is glued to the...

Tokyo Godfathers is still the answer to this question.

Pants will not be refunded:

In this style I prefer Louis CK, but I must say I am more a Stewart Francis / Mitch Hedberg kind of guy.

30 years ago: Also 30 years ago: Less than 30 hours ago: A new Retro Sabotage release! (see sig)

In all fairness, we do not know exactly what her instructions were, so maybe she just had to craft something that could be believable for 3 hours as she knew she was about to get exfiltrated. But yeah: prints, gun residue, anyone hearing the delays between gun shots, shot angles... CSI: Berlin...

I enjoyed the episode, but it's hopping over a number of baby sharks... No cell phone coverage in a german station? A fake shootout that cannot withstand 10 minutes of scrutiny? Zero follow up or "just in case" evacuation of the train station despite a credible lead that it might be the target...

So I spent several hours on Algebraic, filled the two multiplication tables before reaching the last board and of course something is fubared in the last one. Very strange when you consider that the other 8 boards are proper chess situations with checkmate in one move for white. You would think...

Real color or simulated color?

I solved the 3rd sequence of step 4! 321, 444, 675, 680, 370, 268, 949, 206, 851, ?, ... You have to consider each digit independently, like a 0 to 9 wheel. and from the first three digits you kind of weave a +1 thread a +2 thread and a +3 thread. What I mean is that each thread goes 1st...