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I've just watched The House of the Devil (2009) and would like to comment on it. It's a horror movie, but fifteen minutes into the movie it already becomes apparent that it's not like any other modern horror picture. Not only the story is set in the 80's, the movie style itself obviously pays tribute to the style of the horror features of the same era. The flick was even released on VHS (among DVD and Blu-ray of course). VHS release of The House of the Devil What is really special about The House of the Devil is how slowly and steadily it builds up the suspense. In the first hour and fifteen minutes of the movie there is almost no story progress at all, almost nothing is happening. Samantha, the main heroine, is a sophomore. She shares a room with a wench who's lifestyle is rather messy for cleanly Samantha. The girl decides to move out and finds just a perfect place. The only problem is she doesn't have money to pay for it. So happens Samantha stumbles upo...

Yesterday I watched Locked Up (1989), an action prison movie starring Sylvester Stallone opposite Donald Sutherland . Now, I must admit, even though not a huge fan of Stallone, I have a very soft spot for this actor and enjoy most of his movies. I definitely wouldn't say that I can get the kicks out of every movie featuring Sly, I found it painful to watch Tango & Cash (1989) for example, but I do like some of his lamest movies nonetheless. Egyptian poster Back to Lock Up. There is no denying that the movie had a myriad of plot holes, and still, I found it completely enjoyable and would undoubtedly have fun watching it again in the future. It's really hard to explain why I liked Lock Up: the plot is not original, there are so many goofs in the story it's better not to mention them at all, the characters, even though memorable (at least for me), are rather 2-dimensional. Still, it was quite easy not to think about all the flops but just go with the flow of the movi...

Yeah, the title says it all. Recently, I tried to remember all the games I've played on NES, there was quite a few of them. Even though it was a long time ago (about 15 years) since the last time I played NES, I still can recall pretty much every game title I've ever seen. At the time, I didn't really have access to any game magazines and relied on pure luck when buying or renting a NES cartridge, so I managed to miss a bunch of really exceptional games. Without a slightest doubt, I pick Darkwing Duck as my favorite NES game of all time. I actually never watched a single episode of the TV series by the same name, but the game was a gem. The music, the boss mechanics and the level design - it was all of the highest quality. Even though pretty short, the game never got old, and I had great fun completing it over and over again. I found this list of 100 best NES games: http://www.sydlexia.com/nes100/ . To my considerable surprise, Darkwing Duck is not even on that list, alth...

Couldn't help myself but to mention this: Robin Tunney is the ugliest creature I've ever seen on or off the screen. The first season of Prison Break was severely spoiled by her appearance, and now she poisons The Mentalist , the show which has a pretty interesting cast otherwise. I seriously don't understand how someone like Robin Tunney manages to get any kind of acting job. She is so ugly I literally get nausea every time I see her. I can admit she has something attractive about her eyes, but every other single feature overwrites it in an unpleasant way. As if this wasn't enough, her voice is very annoying. What is more important, she is not even acting. I've seen her on screen quite a few times and can say without a doubt she can't perform for shit, she just opens her eyes wide and starts crooking her already crooked mouth. The moment she gets shot in the first episode of second season of Prison Break is the most satisfying moment in the history of televisi...

Started watching Royal Pains just recently. Not that bad of a show really, the first episode was a pleasure to watch to my big surprise (I didn't expect much beforehand). But, as usual, I have a tiny-winy complaint about one of the actors. Meredith Hagner portraying Liby , this emotional sixteen years old girlfriend of an ultra-rich but deprived of parents' attention charismatic boy. The moment I heard Liby was sixteen, I went "what the..." The girl's skin doesn't seem too fresh and she is heavily wrinkled (we get to see all that thanks to extreme close-ups). In my head she didn't look younger than twenty-five. I have never heard of that actress before, so I had to turn to iMDB for reference. Meredith Hagner currently has only two credited works, and she is twenty-two years old. OK, I was wrong (although I still think she looks bad even for her actual age), but still, she is not even close to sixteen. I kinda got used to actors in their thirties playin...

There are five games in the Fantasy Wars series and I have already covered the first one - Fantasy Wars. This time I am going to review the Fantasy Wars successor, Elven Legacy. Elven Legacy - There Will Be Blood Fantasy Wars established itself as a very intelligent wargame with a memorable story and lovable heroes. Elven Legacy continues the tradition, but brings exiting innovations and is quite different from the original. One thing found its way to the sequel unaltered - the game mechanics which made the game so amiable in the first place. As can be derived from the title, the game story pivots around the Elf folk. The noble Elves were introduced back in Fantasy Wars as one of the playable races of the Alliance Campaign. Instead of having a full-blown army of mighty Elves, we were served only a few Elven units and had to rely on a Dwarven-Elven-Human vinaigrette overall. This time around it's going to be Elves exclusively, new types of units come into play. Elven army can't ...

I was planning to devote myself to playing AGS games for at least a month, but got sidetracked. While browsing for games to buy, I stumbled upon the Gold Edition of Fantasy Wars . I was aware that the title was well-received by both, the press and players, but never had a chance to play it. I was greatly enthused over the find and thought it would be the perfect specimen for my vast video game collection. Unfortunately, I decided to install and run the game, just to check if it was as exciting as everyone else thought it to be. The game sucked me right in and didn't let go for three long evenings. After completing it (only the original Fantasy Wars ), I felt horribly tired. Not only I barely got to sleep, but also struggled to have a single normal meal during the hours I spent playing. So captivated I was. Quick Reference Fantasy Wars was developed by Ino-Co , a Russian video game development company, a subsidiary of one of the biggest (if not the biggest) Russian video game publi...