After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. Yeah, it’s that moment that I go through every 5 years or so when I revisit the entire Alien franchise. And what better point to start it than a movie that defined a genre and created a...

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a half-assed review -- Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (2000)"> … yeah. So, this happened. When we were starting to git gud at NFS4, the follow up dropped. AND IT’S FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH PORSCHES! And I don’t mean a third, or half. ALL of them are Porsches. And while I remember that some people were annoyed by...

I had to work these days on a Woocommerce store that had change its hosting provider and I noticed that some downloadable products kept failing after being moved to the new infrastructure. I did check the admin, and the problem was that the files were pointing to an older domain, one that doesn’t exist anymore for a...

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Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. The movie looks fantastic, the movie is great, the story is crap. It’s beautiful, but empty. The bad guys are...

Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court. The follow-up of the The Girl Who Played with Fire, it closes the story properly and gives us...

As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name. The second part of the Millennium trilogy continues the story of Lisbeth and Mikael, presenting them with a new mystery to...

a half-assed review -- Need for Speed: High Stakes (1999)"> Right? I think this was the first Need for Speed game I played in my teen years, as it was the most recent at the time. I remember playing it on the computer of some primary school friends, and it was awesome. It dropped the numbering scheme, although in...

a half-assed review"> From our overlords at Electronic Arts, here comes a game who’s got a lot of hype over the year, but which I didn’t get to play this year, because it requires one of the hardest to find hardware in the Universe: a friend. So I was very happy when my good friends, Sorana and Marius, gave me a...

Influential industrialist Vanger’s niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. I did watch the 2011 US-version of the movie back when it appeared because it had Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. If I had...

The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals, Fun sequel to the great animation by Dreamworks, suitable for the entire family, which provides a bit over an...