My parents used to run a TV/Radio showroom in Jakarta, back in the 70’s and early 80’s. Consequently, I grew up watching a lot of television. I could distinctly remember watching a black and white in-a-cabinet television. There was only one channel broadcasting back then, and it showed mainly cheesy movies and loads of advertising. […]
I’ve been contemplating on getting a new TV lately. What has driven me to make such a decision is the look of a relatively new kind of LCD TVs equipped with 120 Hz frame rate “up-conversion”. For some odd reason, films are made with 24 frames per second (FPS). Most LCD TVs (and computer monitors) […]
The fun people at slashfilm.com has the Rambo death chart that pretty much describes the movie Rambo 4. In summary, this time Rambo is still the lonely, fully clothed killing machine who quickly kills (and encourage others to kill) bad guys, because the bad guys kill more good guys in the first place. Rotten Tomatoes […]
It’s inevitable. Star Trek is coming back. It’s a multi-billion dollar franchise. Too many legions of Trekkers and Trekkies are not about to be ignored. The TV series is reported to come back via a new Star Trek TNG spinoff with Wil Wheaton returning as Lieutenant Wesley Crusher. [Edit: It’s for Star Trek: The Tour, […]
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Found this short film by Mark Osborne. The story is thought provoking. However, I like the soundtrack better: New Order‘s “Elegia” – my favourite slow song. Ever.
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