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Kim, Lee and Park make out 45% of the surnames in South Korea.

I don't get why people are surprised that people whose job it is to watch movies have relatively obscure things on their "bests of the year" list. Unless these surprised people work on the very flawed assumption that if something is good, then it must be widely distributed, well known and...

I jumped in the thread to mention sevral indies I played recently and ended up writting a too long review of Haven... meh. In the past month I also played: Donut Country: Comedy game in the spirit of Katamcy Damacy but less mechanically interesting. Amusing and short still. A Short Hike: A...

Beat that the other day. It's a game with a bunch of cool ideas, nice music, great art, and an amazing animated intro in watercolor, but the implementation of these ideas is a bit meh. The core concept is that you play a couple stranded on a planet and that the experience system and combat...

One is not incompatible with the other, but he does have Tourette.

Ok.... Kimengumi High School? In 2026? What's going on? I saw the '80s anime on TV back in the days. Also, odd idea to finally make an All You Need Is Kill anime movie, considering it has almost no shot at being better than Edge of Tomorrow.

My guess is that it came from the other end of the problem. They probably did some focus group polling to find out why Metroid as a franchise is not more popular and the answer was the oppressive atmosphere of loneliness and isolation. So they decided to add a chatty companion, not understanding...

You must be confusing her with someone else. Pokimane, due to personality and/or business acumen, is one of the most brand safe streamer there is.

Saw that a few months back. It is sadly bad. It is a kind of spoof of '60s/'70s spy movie, but 99% of the effort is spent on posturing and in the retro visuals, so the plot is a total mess that lost me in double quick time. I am not a specialist of the type of movies it's inspired by, but even...

Not a big fan of this season. It feels like the characters were mainly victims of the plot instead of taking matters in their own hands and in the first third of the season a lot of time is spent on the hacker character who is aggressively stupid and unlikable with zero redeeming qualities. I...

I am surprised by the lukewarm reception of this season. I guess the mix is slightly different, with almost no cloak and dagger anymore, so if it's the aspect you enjoyed the most about the show, maybe you feel let down. Personally, I love negotiations and verbal jousting and it's basically...

I have a somewhat hot take: Elementary is a lot better than Sherlock.

It was released last year in my area. The very hard thing to do with this kind of mystery based plot where a number of things you don't understand happen and you and the main character are trying to connect the dots, is to find the right balance. Too obvious and its bland, too complicated and...

Saw it a few months back. My hopes are always high for this type of south korean movies and this one was just ok. Not great, not terrible.

The internet was not a thing when Tron was released, so all data that is on imdb has been recovered from archives like old issues of Variety. I am going to guess that overseas data is harder to get and compile that US data and therefor has not / almost not been added to imdb. That seems a much...

Historically, when shooting in film you just have no idea of what you have until the film is printed. So you hope the cinematographer did a good job measuring the light, the focus puller did not mess-up and the camera operator caught any and all problems peering through the viewfinder. If not...

Yeah.... I also saw that at the NIFFF. I don't want to be mean, since it's one of those film truly made on a shoestring budget that I am sure is a labor of love, but... let's just say that back in the '90s a group of people I know spent a week-end in a cabin and for shit giggles, since they had...

I am told the Switch 2 is the fastest selling console in history, but ok (I also don't get why).

Saw this in a film festival. It is well done, but I must admit it did not move me. Looking at the faces at the end of the screening, I was more the exception than the norm it seemed.

I am not a dentist, but what you are describing are crowns which are not done on healthy teeth. Veneers requires little to no alteration of the teeth to be applied.

Saw this in theater back then. It falls in the "almost great" category. There are some issues with the logic of the world, but the main problem I had with it was the dub. It's a french film and I saw it in french and the dub is some weird distanciated delivery throughout. It's probably a choice...

Based on a recent novel. Unrelated to very famous (and for my money, not very good) 1960 korean thriller of the same name, nor its 2010 remake.

I assume this is one of those compilation movie that is the last 3 episodes of a season and the first of the next, all with minor touch ups here and there and voilà?

How come Virgin Punk and the Lupin the 3rd movie (Immortal Bloodline) are supposed to have been released in June and yet I can't seem to find them on the high seas?

Is there a date in that trailer I am not going to watch?

Aaaaaaaah! It makes sense. Glad to know I am not totally insane just yet.

I thought I already commented on this thread? Or is it a duplicate? Anyway, it's a pretty good film. Tsangari has been a pillar of the Greek new wave, by writing, directing and also producing a bunch of key movies (most notably several of the Yorgos Lanthimos film). Her previous film is an...

A few months back I plod through the recent season. It has its moments here and there, but 99% of it is non-sense or bad jokes that should last 10 min stretched over 10 episodes (EDIT: I rechecked my notes, the bad joke lasts 15 out of the 18 episodes). A big disappointment.

I am getting close to 100 films seen in 2025 (but a bunch are not new releases), but my Top 10 would pale in comparison to my 2012 one posted earlier in the thread. Let's pick 5 for the fun of it: Way above the rest : Afternoons of Solitude (Tardes de soledad) : a kind of anti-documentary...

Saw this at a film festival the other day. Never played the game. The film is surprisingly entertaining and a kind of tour de force as 90% of the film is spent in that minimalistic set.

Saw it today at a film festival. The pace of the plot keeps us engaged through the 2h30 duration, but the satire suffers from what I would call the GTA effect : everyone is dumb, corrupt, hypocritical or a mix of the above (with the exception of one secondary character). That does not make for...

American sign language was developed at a time schools in the South were segregated. Apparently there are a lot of local dialects of American Sign Language because there are not that many schools and not a lot of interactions between people that learned and taught in different schools, add...

It's still far from his bests, but at least the pace is good, the plot somewhat streamlined and the comedy hits from time to time. A tad better than Asteroid City in my book which was already a slight step up from earlier works. For me the drop in quality comes with Grand Budapest Hotel and I...

There are (at least) two The Dig novels : one is from 2007 and is the basis for the film in this thread, the other is from the mid-90s and is a novelization of the video game. Never read those and never played the game. I seem to remember there was a lot of hype around it back then and that it...

Not to be confused with : The Dig (video game) - Wikipedia

Were you doomscrolling tik-tok at the same time or what was going on there? It's true that there is a slightly confusing element which is people chatting about past events that for a while are not shown in flash-backs, so you have four or five names of people and places you can't immediately put...

Solid show. A lot of somewhat cliché "gritty cop drama" stuff, but it's done well enough for it to not be an issue. After seeing the season, there was a slight sense of familiarity to me, but it's because the same novels this show is based on have been turned into a bunch of danish films and I...

David Mamet has written and also directed some classics, so for that alone it's worth checking out. Also his last film as a director, Red Belt, was a while ago, but pretty good.

There is only one answer : Space Funeral. https://thecatamites.itch.io/space-funeral

Bump! This show got canceled after one 8 episode season. Does it reach some sort of conclusion in these 8 episodes or did it all become de facto unwatchable because it stops in the middle of the story?