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#2186

Today my grandma would have been 80. Yes, just a little bit longer, and she could have had a considerable anniversary, but с'est la vie.

I think my grief is still pretty muchdelayed. I had somewhat of a meltdown sometime last summer, but it was brief

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

#2185

The Witcher 3"at home", PG version.

It is clear that Witcher series and other similar games were an inspiration here. Witcher probably was the main one. Concept is somewhat similar, but here we only have one type of "monsters" - ghosts (although they

The Gorge (2025)

#2184

Mostly forgettable. Not bad, but forgettable.

The movie is essentially split into 2 parts. First part is "love theme", which was ok, but probably a bit too long overall. Can't say I buy into this "love", though, since it's mostly out of boredom rather

Nosferatu (2024)

#2183

Reminded me of 2022's "The Batman". The way the shadows (and lighting) were used to obscure things, the relatively high amount of "dirty" frames. The purpose was obviously different, of course. "The Batman" was shot that way to make it feel more "

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep

#2182

I guess Japanese animation has spoiled me. And Arcane, too. This one felt very cheap to me. The mouths' animation felt especially so with just very quick closing and opening, which did even try to match the spoken words. Japanese know that their

Samsung: Media Picker

#2181

They were silent for almost 2 weeks and then ignore all the previous conversation again, suggesting general stuff for battery longevity. I do not get it. They did acknowledge the need for them to coordinate with MS/Google even.Screenshot_20250211_141845_Samsung Members.webp

Chance

#2180

I have one big regret in my life. Although, maybe "regret" is not the right word. Perhaps, "guilt" is more appropriate. Once you read the next sentence, you will know how this ends already, but maybe it still needs to be told. I had a dog.

Technically

Solo Leveling, Season 2

#2179

Episode 5:

I remember I read somewhere, that if a person seems to smell nice for you, when bot using any pefume, it means that you are chemically compatible, whatever that means. 

Medalist

#2178

Episode 5:

This is how 2nd season of Tonbo should have been. 

Medalist

#2177

Episode 4:

Good episode, probably a good thing to see for some parent,  but... Now I do not understand the mother at all. Inori's sister seemed completely fine, positive and in no way jealous or  whatever of Inori skating at all, while she can't (or

Patience (2025)

#2176

Tries to do 2 things at once and fails at both.

First thing it tries to do is depict an autistic person. While I would not say there are necessarily "errors" in depictions of certain behaviors or reactions, they seem mostly shallow. On the other hand

Dune: Prophecy

#2175

I am conflicted about this show.

On one hand it definitely has very high production quality. Actors play well, camera work and shot composition is amazing and work really well, at least with cases of minimalistic aesthetics The music is good, and

Believe Me

#1134

Interestingly, the same topic is seen in TV show I watch the next day:The Crow Girl. It's not the main theme there, but still. And in a way it's even worse than in "Believe Me", but I can't get into it without spoiling the show a bit, so just watch

The Crow Girl

#1133

This one is an exception for me. Usually, if I see a show or movie, that starts in a way, that suggests that we should know something about what's already happening (no matter how small those things are) and does not start with some flashback like "

Believe Me

#1132

It was supposed to be a review of the movie, but I think the topic begs a longer and wider discussion. And to be honest, as a movie this one is so-so. I will start with a few words about it, though.

Fiction and reality

The movie does not do the story

Timestalker

#1131

This is supposed to be a comedy, right? Because I was not laughing. I clearly saw moments that were meant to be funny. Or maybe not "meant" but "expected to be". Maybe under different conditions, in different setting, with different tone, or even

Palm Springs

#1130

I heard quite a few good things about this movie. Perhaps it made my expectations too high. It's not a bad move, but I think I will forget everything besides Cristin Milioti, who did not have that much screen time, to be honest.

The approach to

Moana 2

#1129

If you are a kid - you probably will like it. Don't know if to same extent as kids loved Frozen, but still. If you are braindead or watch this in a braindead-like state - maybe as well. But otherwise this will be forgettable.

To be honest, I can't say

In the Mouth of Madness

#1128

Reminded me of Alan Wake. And probably some Stephen King's story (at the least he had similar concept in one of the books in "The Dark Tower" series). Not that the concept of a story blurring the distinction between a story (book or movie) and

The Shadow (1994)

#1127

They don't do them like they used to. This is one more movie from my childhood that I rewatched recently, and it just hits differently than modern movies. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely quite a few things that one can find to be "silly" or

Star Trek: Section 31

#1126

What is this atrocity? Don't get me wrong, Discovery, Brave New Worlds were quite bad after their first seasons, too. Even Picard was, with its saving grace being more frequent nods to The Next Generation, especially in the last season. But this...

Evolution (2001)

#1125

I watched this movie a lot as a kid. Tried it again, and it's still good in my opinion. At least if you do not expect "high art" from it (similar as you should not withFaculty, that came out a few years earlier). Premise is simple, jokes are

Übel Blatt

#1123

Episode 3:

"Long rain" is the name of the episode. No wonder it felt so long, that I could not finish it. It was extremely boring. The elf guy was stopped in his revenge and suddenly became completely mellow, unmotivated and practically suicidal. The

アラフォー男の異世界通販生活

#1120

Episode 3:

"I have only one bed" for the cat-girl, but for the human one - he bough a new one. "I am too old" for the blond, but for the cat-girl or the bar-girl, neither of which look any older, - he is not. He seems to be careful spending the money

マジック・メイカー ~異世界魔法の作り方~

#1119

Episode 3:

"Gather everyone upstairs", and then there like 8 people behind the barricade and more "civilians" are coming much-muchc later. And the fact that no one was even attempting to help the boy even when the goblin was on the ground... The

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#1118

Episode 3:

It really should have been a movie. As is they are just wasting a lot of time on little things, that do not add anything to... Well, anything. Not to world-building, not to character-building. Just superfluous stuff. If it was a 100 (maybe

F*** Marry Kill

#1117

Good for 1 evening, and does not expect you to need it for more. It is a comedy of misunderstandings, in a way, but with mystery and dating. Ok, maybe the comedy part is quite subtle, and won't cause a lot of laughs from you. But surprisingly was

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

#1116

Reeves overshadows Carrey. Kidding, he does not, simply because he has less screen time (if you even count voice-over as such), and I just thought it would be a good pun, since Reeves voices over Shadow.

Puns aside, it's an ok movie. Others have

Event Horizon

#1115

It did not impress me. I do think it's better than2001: A Space Odysseyoverall, but not that much better. It definitely has much better pacing, and a proper story stretched through-out, and not spread like blobs in certain places. It is worse

EaseUS: Backup Scheduling

#1114

I did get a refund withing a couple of days, and in the end had to settle for Acronis, after all. I had a touch case with them, as well, where some stupidity was present initially, but in the end we were able to resolve a pretty difficult and obscure

Don't deal with OP

#1101

FINE case is still open, there is not much going there, unfortunately, just some back-and-forth, but meanwhile I do have a potentially related update. Last Saturday I tried to withdraw some bitcoins, so that I can use them. I wanted to withdraw them

Super Mario Bros.

#1091

So much undeserved hate for this movie. Yes, it does not. Yes, it has very little to do with the games, but I am not sure it was aiming for that even. It was like that Pacman episode fromSecret Levelanthology: thoughts on a theme. Nothing more,

What If...? Season 3

#1087

Good thing this was the last season.

In first episode, I do not get how some code on USB key was supposed to help them Just because it unlocked some hidden software? I know Banner is one of the smarted men in Marvel, but does it mean the rest were so

Bad TV Streamer

#1082

Unfortunately I was not able to remember what was the  provider for this service 😟

Venom: The Last Dance

#1079

I figured out what they were inspired by: Jackie Chan's "The Tuxedo".

No, really, it the bar scene just made it click for me, but thinking back, previous movies were kind of same. And being "same" is probably the main problem of the whole franchise:

Kraven the Hunter

#1078

Is it me or it's worse thanMadame Webeven? At least I managed to watched that one till the end almost without fast-forward. This one... I managed around 15 minutes.

They s ay that first 8 minutes of this movie are good, but when I was watching them

Samsung: Media Picker

#1077

At  least they admit that Samsung needs to coordinate checking for compatibility problems. Question is why aren't they doing that?

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My Little Universe

#1066

Was going through my old posts in search for reviews to add to the site and found what I wrote about the mobile version back in January 2022:

Dune (2021)

#1065

Was going through my old posts in search for reviews to add to the site and turned out I tried watching this in 2021, and liked it far less. Here's what I wrote then:

薬屋のひとりごと 第2期

#1052

Maomao baobun is back! Let's go!

Quite a solid start already, I think, since we are already in detective mode with suspicious activity happening, far sooner compared to1st season. Wonder where this will go, though. Can it be that all of this will

Solo Leveling, Season 2

#1051

Based on first 3 episodes, this seems a tad better than1st season. At least the pacing is more stable. There are more hints on a bigger threat now, too, although at the same time it felt like that island thing from 1st season was kind of forgotten.

ЕДРО - Говно!

#1050

Какой же я был наивный мальчик 13 лет назад. В России всё ещё все терпят, ничего не поменялось.

Übel Blatt

#1045

Not impressed. I hear quite a lot of good reviews about the manga, but anime adaptation felt kind of "meh". Generic, bland. I get it, revenge plot, resurrection of some sort, extra power through that resurrection and from moonlight... I bet

Babanbabanban Vampire

#1044

Episode 2:

I see. They are going for a love triangle. The way they've set it up, it even has a chance to become (somewhat) wholesome at some point, but they would need to stop with those erections filling up the whole screen. Not for me, as expected.

Medalist

#1043

Healing anime of the season? It is really wholesome and seems to have great balance between humor and serious topics. I was never in skating or any serious sports, but I totally get it how parents may be worried, how child can be frustrated if

Sakamoto Days

#1042

Not my thing. It is, indeed, similar to "Way of House-Husband", but I find it less funny and more... Mellow? Chill? At least less humorous, I think. It is also somehow both less intense and yet more "insane" at the same time. Possibly because of the

Babanbabanban Vampire

#1041

Is this supposed to be related toDandadan?  I really hope it's not and it's just coincidence that Dandadan ended and now we have a show which sounds similar to an unprepared person. And you better be prepared, because it definitely starts as a