Synopsis: A group of refugees come through the wormhole in search of Kentanna, their fabled homeworld. Memory Alpha Summary: Alien hair is the best hair Review: A straightforward episode about refugees and Bajor’s unwillingness to help. I like that they had an episode where the universal translator takes time to catch up to a foreign … Continue reading 147. Sanctuary (2.10)
Year: 2019Director: Bong Joon-hoRating: 10 An observation my wife made that struck a chord was that one of the joys of watching a foreign film is that typically you aren’t familiar with the actors and have no preconceived notions or biases about them. Of course a brilliant actor can overcome this anyway, but there’s something … Continue reading Parasite
Publisher: Strategy First Developer: Momentum AS Year: 2007 Platform: Windows Many in the adventure game community fall all over themselves praising ambitious new games (see: Syberia), seemingly regardless of the quality. Culpa Innata is no exception, an incredibly ambitious game, that while excellent at times, needs to be held to a higher standard if the genre has any hope … Continue reading Culpa Innata
Developer: Square Publisher: Square Year: 1999 Platform: Playstation, Playstation 3, PSP I never finished Chrono Cross thanks due to a bug (either with the game or with my disc) that left me perpetually stuck in one area. I thought about not ranking this game, but from what I played, I know I would rank it … Continue reading 12. Chrono Cross
I use the amazing site Criticker to rank the movies I’ve seen. While the site doesn’t contain near the gluttony of information that IMDb does, it has a fantastic algorithm predicting what movies I’ll like and it’s almost always right. Anyway, I was looking for some patterns among my scores based on who was involved … Continue reading Director Series
I know this doesn’t really fit in with my theme about directors, but there’s at least one director here I’ve seen three movies from, so I figured while I was honoring him I’d throw in the embarrassingly short list of other foreign films. Recommendations, please! Three Colors: Blue Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski Language: French The French flag … Continue reading Every Subtitled Film I’ve Seen
Monday: Jonathan Lynne Tuesday: Robert Zemeckis Wednesday: Steven Spielberg Thursday: Every foreign film I’ve seen Friday: Wrap-up
Death By Troggles 