I watched the steel box edition of Shoot ‘em up today. 83 minutes of pure action, running at 105% and only slowing down to 100% during the last few minutes of the movie. The body count is almost as high as the bullet count. I’ve never seen something like this before. It was unbelievable.
Except for [...]

My wonderful woman came home today with a freshly bought DVD of Pixar’s latest release Ratatouille, and later in the evening we made ourselves comfortable and watched it on my Powerbook.
Ratatouille is a beautiful animated movie in the best Disney-Pixar tradition, but without any of that embarrassing singing Disney used to torture us with. Of [...]

I inserted a Columbo DVD in my iMac Core Duo running Leopard, and it stopped in the “FBI warning bla bla bla” screen. I could not navigate, because it was ‘not permitted’. Now I could write a book about how much I hate that ‘feature’ of DVD players, and how much it demonstrates how much [...]