The French Sex Murders
Mediocre giallo from Dick Randall and Mondo Macabro.
UPDATE: This one really grows on you when you realize how crazy it all is despite the lack of traditional giallo style.
The Dark Knight
Even better than Batman Begins.
Sabata
A better-than-most Spaghetti Western with high-flying acrobatics.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Super stylish Japanese tribute to Spaghetti Westerns. Only hindered by the thick Japanese accents.
Wall-E
A fun movie but it felt shallow in the the end to me.
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
Very good ghost story from the producers of Pan’s Labyrynth.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Dark story of child abuse and drugs.
Get Carter
Still not sure what I think of this. A brutal character study of an anti-hero with a confusing plot.
My Media Consumption Journal
2007
Music List 2007
- My God is Alive! Sorry About Yours. by The Knights of the New Crusade
- The Austerity Program…?
- A Challenge to the Cowards of Christendom by The Knights of the New Crusade
- On a Tight Budget by Budget Girls
- The Giallos Flame by The Giallos Flame
- Rating: 7/10
- L’Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo by Ennio Morricone
- Rating: 10/10
Game List 2007
- The Last Battle
- Rating 3/10
- Impossible platform brawler for the Sega Genesis.
- The Orange Box
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Rating: 7/10
- The jumping puzzles are more fun than the combat.
- Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
- Rating: 9/10
- Wonderfully done video game. Simple mechanics and a good story.
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
- Rating: 8/10
- Nothing new here. Just a great mario game.
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Rating: 5/10
- Took me forever to finish because it’s pretty boring. Tries to tell a story and fails.
2006
Game List 2006
- Half-Life 2
- Rating: 9/10
- Very good, but starts to drag in the 3rd act
- Heretic II
- Rating: 6/10
- Bad voice acting, decent gameplay, but suffers from early FPS monotony.
- Day of Defeat: Source
- Rating 10/10
- Great multiplayer FPS
Music List 2006
- Hello Young Lovers by Sparks
- Rating: 10/10
- A masterpiece of epic, symphonic goofiness and left-of-center pop structuring. Sparks best since Kimono my House.
- Fear Box Set by Ennio Morricone
- Rating: 10/10
2005
Game List 2005
- Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
- Rating: 10/10
- Excellent plot, really fun game play, and excellent voice acting. Who cares if it was a bit short. This is a perfect video game is ever there was one.
- Neverwinter Nights
- Rating: 6/10
- Great graphics and enjoyable story, but the gameplay is monotonous and lacks and sort of serious skill or strategy element.
- Serious Sam the Second Encounter
- Rating: 6/10
- Farcry
- Rating: 8/10
An Art-Related Quote for You…
“For decades, the liberals have pretended that they can be anti-big-business, anti-commerce, and anti-marketing — while still being staunch defenders of free speech. But in a free society — where art and literature are not monopolies of the state — the private sale and marketing of books, movies, music, etc., is the indispensable means by which artists and intellectuals express their ideas. The phrase ‘a free marketplace of ideas’ is not just a figure of speech — and it’s no coincidence that the Federal Trade Commission, created to impose sweeping controls on business, is now being used to spearhead controls on art.”
“As a last ditch attempt to hide the truth from the public (and, I suspect, from themselves), the censors have claimed that they prefer to have the industry accept new ‘voluntary’ guidelines — backed up by the threat that if filmmakers don’t ‘volunteer’ to muzzle themselves within six months, the tanks will start rolling in.”
“It is the job of our intellectual leaders to expose these smokescreens and sound the alarms against would-be censors. They haven’t been doing their job, so we have to do it ourselves. “