Modern Matrix Times...

This is quite excellent:


(initially spotted by Ecrans)

Je trouve ca drole...

...donc je partage: http://lefebvrotron.fr/.

:)

L'article ou je l'ai trouve vaut aussi le coup d'oeil...
Haaa les politiques et internet... :)

This is not an add.

I came accross a game description on Steam that made me laugh (I blanked the game's name because this is no advert):
"Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. ##### cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets."

That's the spirit! :)

Harry Brown.

This should work as a British companion piece to Gran Torino.

However, despite the fact that they both feature 2 elderly retired from the military type characters, they take 2 very different paths.
When Eastwood's character shifts from a racist & cantankerous old git towards someone more accepting and even self-sacrificing, Caine's taking something of an opposite direction: from quiet retired to avenging angel. Because this is a revenge movie. So it's actually closer to Dirty Harry.

Caine's Harry saves the movie from any misplaced far-right extremism though. He depicts a faillible character, who doesn't quite enjoy the path he takes but takes it anyway because he's just fed up in a sense. He's lost too much and sets himself to do something.
Thanks to that, the movie manages to navigate in this grey area that is vengeance. The "baddies" are also interesting in the sense that they're not likeable in any way (they're dispiseable thugs), but they're caught in a system, adding a relevant social commentary.

It's quite a tough movie, violent and bleak, hard to stomach at times, yet it's a fine example of what British cinema can produce.

The Myst

I missed that one in the cinema although it came very highly recommended, both by critics & friends. I finally have taken the time to watch it.
And I have to say the "hype" was well deserved.

This is possibly the best horror movie I saw since John Carpenter's The Thing.
It shares with it the fact that it's more interested in its atmosphere and actual scares. Which is fine by me, as I'm not too fond of jumps and it doesn't dim down the experience. Instead, fear is always there, creeping (I did have to make an awful lot of pauses, even though I watched it during the afternoon. Yes I'm a big wuss).
Also, there's some parallels with Spielberg's War Of The Worlds, as it shows a world collapsing.
And the horror comes as much from "what's out there" as from the characters depicted. What people are capable of doing when what they took for granted falls to pieces...

It's not for the faint of the heart, not specially for the gore (there is some but it's not the emphasis here), but for the situations. The ending is especially upsetting.

What would I do? I hope I'll never know, but it's entirely possible that this movie shows what would happen... A lot of the questions and the images will certainly stay with you after the credits roll...
Essential viewing.