Btw so happy the right winner had the crown in Belgique!

With all the reservations I should have of replying to you, I find it funny you missed that the reference is not the non linear but the plot of The Navidson Record.

I am starting to believe that I am not a fan of musicals because I see t h e lack of self awareness and humour in Sweet Charity and Chicago. I like a lot of things about those musicals, but the edginess is not one of them. 

I saw the film adaptation of Chicago the other day - and binging many Fosse, Sondheim etc aadaptations in prep for this season - and I totally get the self serious critique: these musicals even present themselves as “you are going to see the most epic and transcendent story ever” without a touch of irony. To me that…

... out of sixteen! 

I would say not only Nintendo but a gradual realisation on the industry (Prince of Persia had unlimited deaths but limited time, Another World just had an unlimited lives cheat in game so to say) that makes the 1990-1995 years the golden era of gaming to me

one of my better experiences as an uncle is to try with my nephews and nieces which movies worked for them that I loved from the 80s, and generally the most outrageous the fantasy the better: Dragonslayer, Krull and Labyrinth as the better received ones. 

I only finished “A tale of two cities” and “A Christmas Carol” and I loved both to pieces. Dickens is lovely at his most grotesque. 

Kings was such a beautifully shot show, so weird. Part of the many shows I binged that were dramatically cancelled and that taught me not to get involved with any tv show unless I knew how it ended. 

Really, this is very mild to take into “insulting Sanderson” and so on. I liked his books at the time, devoured them, and 10 years later I tried to re read them and they fell out of my hands - one of the most brutal cases of my tastes changing with age - but in any case, as a friend told me, Sanderson is a ticking…

Sorry but that is selective memory and not true. Articles and interviews have been like that forever. There was never such a time, this is just nostalgia for a time that did not happen [again]

I love Kobayashi, always forgotten in the panteon of Japanese directors, and Kwaidan is great but I would not recommend it as an entry point for Japanese Horror - it is just too weird, too unique, moving at a very deliberate pace. But of course I don’t know what the rest of the catalogue there is.

Going to say I am enjoying Sweden a bit more than Belgium, but Belgium has even more dead weight on the judging panel. Even though, the makeover episode was lovely.

Agree! MIB makeover made her partner look harsh, old, and just a blob of a back hole of fabric, absolutely hideous. Loosey had no place whatsoever in the bottom.

So many b sides and no Death's Door

but... why do you have to chose? I would die for OMD, love Depeche Mode, love Yazoo, love The Human League. 

I was going to answer kind of angrily as if Depeche Mode was my favourite band in the world but actually it isn’t and I remembered something I learned when I moved to London: you Brits love your new wave and post punk and even idm way less than many other countries including Spain where I come from. You are not aware…

What disappointments

My God the obsession with “players should not need this” or “players are dumb”. Look, Return to Monkey Island has a hotspot tool, a recap for every saved game, a lot of accessibility options (even an in game hint system), and that does not detract from the game design, but adds to it, and thankfully it has been…

I mean, “anyone remember” when it is an AAA game with a very famous casting and it is done by Remedy Entertainment who basically are doing the same game since Max Payne until the very stylish Control, and with steamdb statistics that show that is very much a popular game ( https://steamdb.info/app/474960/charts/ ).…