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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...

I played many games of Descent and while it was globally a fun experience, I can see how that can be frustrating for some. We started playing it after playing the Doom game that has similar mechanics so we had a sense of how we should play, but the first few times we played Doom we got...

Who are these young fans who see and then ask as Christmas present an R rated movie?

They get a special 5 out of 4 stars award from me if the movie ends with Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins high-fiving each other in a control room.

Well... I am using Famtasia which is at 6.4%! I remember picking it ages ago because there was something it did that other emulator did not, but... I don't remember what!

And how old were you when you read The Hobbit?

For shit and giggles I checked youTube to see if there was stuff on there from the one album of prog-rock I own that is from a swiss band and guess what: NB: Quality is enhanced if you are a regular of the Astronomy thread!

If you don't have trouble falling asleep, couldn't your problem be fixed by a nap or two during the day?

Sub topic: best cover art for terrible games. Drop Rock Hora Hora on PC-Engine (Breakout clone... yep) Curse on Megadrive (terribad shoot-em up)

not sure which, but it must be someJunji Ito.

There are other games with similar design, like Tower of Druaga. On top of hidden items and hidden rules there is also an element of randomness in it. This sub-genre should be called Weird Japanes Torture or something...

The Ancient's idea, Milon's Secret Castle seems a strong contender for a adventure platformer game that requires a lot of 1-900 calls. Are you sure it's not it (setting is not asian though). My google fu made me find this blog calledChrontendothat is attempting to review all NES games and...

Let's make a little selection of (semi) recent italian movies. We could start with some Nanni Moretti... a kind of political version of Woody Allen in a way. He made two very funny auto-fictions in the '90sDear DiaryandAprileand followed that by a drama about a family of analysts ravaged by...

A very solid indie puzzle game isEnglish Country Tune. As you play it feels like the game mutates as new rules come into effect, new problems arise, old problems are suddenly seen through a different lens. Very carefully and cleverly done and very...

This is a great movie even if not flawless. There is a whole lot of mesmerizing night cinematography, each scene as its own flavor and is memorable, it's a bit on the slow side and the movie is long, but the diversity and the welcomed addition of some weird tongue in cheek humor makes for an...

There are some beautiful moments and, despite being the adaptation of a play, it has this raw energy, this narrative freedom, a bit reminiscent of these movies where the story is improvised or written by children. It suffers from the same problem though: it's ultimately unsatisfying as a fiction...

So my score is 29... I had to add the famicom disk system, the turbo duo and a tele-sports radotin (Pong clone), but if I cheat and add some that are co-owned, I can add a GBA SP, a GBA, a Gameboy Color, a Wii, an Xbox, an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo 64 for a total of 36! Oddly I was 99% sure to own...

At least you can't accuse them of trying to please everyone!

Who is the main character of Freecell? Shit... I guess I am

Man you ruined a perfectly good setup for a cinnamilk joke!

For what I see from the few and not super reliable data we have, the WiiU is the only home machine to sell well in Japan (5 times more than the PS3), it's lagging behind the PS3 and X360 in the US at about 2/3rd of the sales of its competitors and the PS3 dominates Europe with the Wii U a...

This has been a huge success in France. Both actors are very very good in it, Cluzet dealing blows with cold sarcasm and Sy being greater than life with a communicative energy, so the comedy works well and often. Often enough in fact that you can almost forget and forgive the bland film-making...