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From the point of view of a subsidized film industry like it is the case in most of Europe, funding a movie is all about getting a cut of the many different subsidizing sources. In Switzerland for instance, you can apply for a writing subsidy with a synopsis. When you have a script you can...

Day Four: -Murray,Tsonga,Del Potro,Cilic,Gasquet,KohlschreiberandRaonicunsurprisingly won in straight sets. - More surprisingly,Federeralso had a comfortable straight sets win overDavydenko. - Even more surprisingly,Ricardas Berankis, lituanian PFG only allowed the 25th seedMayerto...

Racing against the black car in the original Ridge Racer remains one of my bestvideogame memory. There was an aura of mystery about it, the sudden intrusion of a narrative element at the very end of a racing game even heightened by the marvelous dramaturgy of the race: the black car giving you a...

As far as heavyweight japanese composers go, it's tough to beat Joe Hisaishi who got a rain of awards for his works for Miyazaki and Kitano (amongst others).

It's a bit difficult it seems to trace back exactly when systems were unveiled, especially for the pre-internet era systems, but I could find dates for the PS2, PS3, Xbox and X360 and for these four, the delay between the unveiling and the launch has been a year or more, except for the X360 that...

Day 3: - The only upset of the day: russian youngster Donskoy prevailed over his compatriot Youzhny in five sets. The guy discarded the talented romanian Ungur in the first round and won five challenger events in 2012 with two in november. He'll face Nishikori next. - Very tough wins for...

Day Two is done - The strong seeds went through with ease.Federer,Murray,Del Potro,Cilic,Simon,Raonic,Gasquet,Tsonga: all through. -Dolgopolov(18) was victim of bothMonfilsand a shitty draw (as Monfils is only unseeded because he comes back from a long injury). -Haas(19), the in-form...

As far as I am concerned, the latest great game developed by Nintendo is Rhythm Heaven in 2008 or possibly it's Wii sequel Rhythm Heaven: Fever.

Day One is done. -Monacowas seeded 11 and lost 6-1-1 to youngsterKuznetsov. Not sure what happened there, but Kuznetsov is one of these 'potentially future great' (PFG from now on). It's the only big upset of the day. -Djokovic, imperial on his serve, sailed pastMathieuwith ease...

A good game for a child who is learning to spell is Scribblenauts. It manages to be educative without being some boring edutainment pseudo-game.

The washed out colors and the not so terrible resolution made me think Commodore 64 and I was right!http://www.mobygames.com/game/gi-joe...ro/screenshots

Oh the infamous Token Female Director Vote, responsible for all these ridiculous nominations of female directors unworthy of being nominated on their directorial merits. I remember in 1964 when Edith Evans picked the statuette... Oh! She did it on behalf of Tony Richardson. So what about...

Harvard education for googling "myst walkthrough"?

The intro to Ys sold many PC Engine CD-ROM? back in the import days! Anyway, for me the most emblematic cover discrepancy is for Prince of Persia for SFC / SNES:

You have attachment problems (not sure if you can see them and not us or something). Only Astal works... I would say it's a draw because both covers are terribad.

What is the goal here? Trying to find your own definition of what you think is a sport or find a concise definition that covers all activities that are 'generally' considered as sports and leave out activities that are 'generally' not? For the second I propose:"A competition format for...

Is it coming?

I suspect that most of the time it was because these covers were made by artists that were not in-house: famous japanese illustrators who were paid for the use of their artwork in Japan, but not abroad. As a result, paying the guy and retouching the artwork for localisation would probably have...

As far as I am concerned, something very attractive about Taylor Swift is that she is almost

OrAmazon Women on the Moon!

I assume it will be twelve comedy short films. The trailer has: Poop on me Fembot Truth or dare Period Leprechaun Homeschooled Emma Culkin Black men can jump Something with Kate Winslet ... Will they be one after the other or all mixed though... there are probably too many to mix.

You need to turn the stupid down at least two notches or you will force me to defend a movie I did not like that much! Btw another friend of mind saw it and loved it. For him it's a kind of idealistic love letter to cinema. A bunch of guys with no money, gathering a bunch of people who are...

I may be wrong, but I think there is no rule to determine if a part is lead or supporting. It's the producers who enter the actor in the category they see fit (usually the one they feel s/he is the most likely to win) or at the very least lobby for the actor in a category or the other (Academy...

The draw of the Australian is out! Let's check it in four chunks from the POV of the four top seeds: DJOKOVIC Mathieuin the first round. The french veteran made a great come back in 2012 after many health problems and is known to be fighter. Tricky draw, but... yeah. Harrisonpossibly...

fat12 and Wombat saw it and seem to have enjoyed it. Ham saw it and gave it a 6/10 feeling nobody misses out by not seeing it. I saw it and while I respect its occasional beauty and its raw energy, it left me 'narratively' unsatisfied. I should add that one of my friends saw it and, while we did...

I have one and five or six games for it. The main problem is that it sits with its ass between two chairs. Just because you did not need a TV to play it, the bright minds at Nintendo decided it was a handheld, so it's a low tech machine that works on batteries (surely a bunch of suits got in the...

Giving the nod to a 5 year old for being a 5 year old and to the mixed bag performance of Emmanuelle Riva while snubbing the stupendous acting of Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina is perplexing.

Oh shit! It's out soon! The US/EU release date was announced so long ago, I put the game in the back of my mind to not torture myself needlessly and now here it comes!

For me 'mature' is not only a question of content, it's also a question of delivery. There is a lot of light-hearted silly comedy in there, but it goes beyond that through the meta-humor, the narrative experimentation, the take on the high school anime tropes, etc. Also, I am slowly going on 40...

The internet being what it is, I tracked down and read the french comic book this movie is based on. It's is a one shot from the mid '80s (Le Transperceneige) and a sequel in two volumes made at the turn of the century, but I suspect they will mix the two stories into one. Both are pretty dark...

There is something mysterious about this movie: it's made by a couple of Uruguayan guys who prior to that only made a handful of short films together and the screenplay is co-written by Diablo Cody!

A little selection Movies: Ninja Scroll: a masterpiece. Great classic plot and a brilliant and surprisingly rare mix of medieval japan with a zest of dark fantasy. Perfect Blue: Hitchcockian thriller in the not so rosey land of idols. Mind Game: a wacky mix of styles and an...

In what scenario is that a pro?

It's ok, in five seconds your fishes will have forgotten you too.

Primer is, for my money, the best movie about time travel there is, not only because of its amazing narrative structure (a number of key events are talked about, not seen), but because it chooses to go at the theme the hard sf way. That said, I am both happy and pissed off because I just saw...

Dredd gets much credit for being a focused, humorless and violent mix of sf and action with a couple plot ideas that allow for neat 3D effects (a drug that make people feel time slows down, a mind reader). So many action movies are unfocused, filled with unnecessary humor or romance and made PG...

Buy a nice plot of land and have a world class architect build a house on it. Like, say,Shigeru Ban. Better be a big win!

There are still some 2012 movies I want to see (without mentioning the films that will be 2013 for me), but my Top 10 should pretty much look like this: 1)Himizu- arty japanese drama that goes from black humor to just black about a teenager fighting against all odds to be a stand up guy...

Super Long Nose Goblin, Magical Chase, Splatterhouse, Bomberman '94, Parasol Star, Legend of Hero Tonma... but my favorite HuCard: Ninja Spirit. The sound chip of the PC-Engine / Turbografx 16 is pretty shitty and tend to produce coarse, grating sounds, but the musics of Ninja Spirit are just...