Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
From Wikipedia:
Wealthy Mississippian Big Daddy Pollitt celebrates his 65th birthday unaware
that he's dying of cancer. Big Daddy's son Brick is in a childless marriage
with Maggie, a beautiful woman who taunts Brick about his obsession with his
deceased best friend. When the truth about Big Daddy's health is learned,
Brick and his father resolve the issues that have created the tension between
them.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
Adapted from Wikipedia:
Two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness what looks like the Saint
Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. When the Chicago gangsters, led by ‘Spats’
Columbo spot them, the duo flee for their lives. They manage to leave town by
taking jobs as musicians in an all-girl band headed to Florida. The two
disguise themselves as women, join the band and board a train. Joe and Jerry
both fall for Sugar Kane, the band's sexy vocalist and ukulele player, and
fight for her affection while maintaining their disguises. In Florida, Joe
woos Sugar by assuming a second disguise as a millionaire. An actual
millionaire, Osgood Fielding II, falls for Jerry disguised as a girl. One
night Osgood asks “Jerry” out to his yacht. Joe convinces “Jerry” to keep
Osgood ashore while he goes on the yacht with Sugar. That night Osgood
proposes to “Jerry” who, in a state of excitement, accepts, believing he can
finagle a large settlement from Osgood immediately following their wedding
ceremony. When the mobsters arrive at the same hotel for a conference
honoring “Friends of Italian Opera”, Spats and his gang spot Joe and Jerry.
Jerry, Joe, Sugar, and Osgood eventually escape to the millionaire's yacht.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
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Wikipedia
Adapted from Wikipedia:
Holly Golightly meets Paul Varjak, a new tenant in her building. Paul helps
Holly prepare to visit Sing Sing, a weekly routine from which she earns $100
for an hour's conversation with Sally Tomato, an incarcerated mob boss. Holly
does not realize that she is passing coded messages for Sally's drug ring.
Paul is a writer but hasn't been published since 1956. Holly ran away from
home at 14. The next day Paul attends a party at Holly's where he is
introduced to José da Silva Pereira, a handsome, rich Brazilian. Holly, always
trying improve her lifestyle by marrying rich men, plans to marry José,
although she has started a relationshion with Paul. Months later, Paul has
moved out of the brownstone but is visiting Holly, who is leaving the next
morning for Brazil. They go out for dinner and upon returning are arrested in
connection to Sally's dealings with Sally Tomato. Holly spends the night in
jail. Paul picks her up in the morning, along with letter from José in which
he breaks up with Holly because his position won't allow him to marry someone
who has been in jail. Holly still refuses to marry Paul, but finally changes
her mind.
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Categories: [ TV ]
Completely useless, therefore absolutely essential: I made a synoptic
comparison of the cues that form MacGyver's title sequence in the first five
seasons.
One can notice that most episodes of the third season have a shorter title
sequence (unless this is made by the Finnish channel rerunning it?). Also,
some cues in season five have been re-shot, with an older and sexier-looking
Richard Dean Anderson (and an older-looking-only Dana Elcar), instead of being
taken from existing episodes.
Surprisingly, the first episode of the fourth season (The Secret of Parker
House) contains cues that have not been used before and are not resused later
in the season. The Pilot episode also shows the explosion and series title cue
on a background taken from the end of the teaser instead of the black
background that is used later.
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Categories: [ TV/Leffakone ]
Today when Leffakone was supposed to record MacGyver, it didn't record
anything. The DVB-T card was able to tune to the right frequency, but nothing
came out of it. I openend the case, removed the PCI card, unplugged the
wakeup timer,
blew on the PCI card, put the card back, and it worked. Then I unplugged the
card again, plugged the timer back (the WOL port is between two PCI slots, it
can't be reached without removing one of the nearby cards), plugged the card
back, and it's still working, currently recording Lois & Clarke. I just hope
it will continue to work.
It's not the first time I have trouble with the computer, two years ago, the
DVB-T card refused to record anything while I was connected to the computer
through the modem with a simple serial terminal. Computers work in mysterious
ways…
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The timer was
working almost correctly, except that the most significant byte of the timer
value was mishandled: there was a for 65536 loop
statement, but since the
PIC 16F84a is an 8 bit microcontroller, the value 65536 was understood as 0,
and the MSB of the timer was considered as null. Niko reprogrammed the PIC
using two nested for 256 loop
statements.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Voisin Blogueur
Juliette est une jeune femme ingénue totalement insouciante de tout et au
sommet de sa beauté. Elle fait d'un simple regard exploser les coeurs et les
moeurs de tous les hommes du petit village de pêcheurs des années 1950 où elle a
été adoptée, Saint-Tropez. Mais elle ne pense incorrigiblement qu'à s'amuser
et à aimer les hommes dans une communauté dure au labeur et traditionnellement
très attachée aux bonnes moeurs. (Wikipedia)
Afin d'empêcher d'être renvoyée à l'orphelinat pour mauvaise conduite, Michel
Tardieu la demande en mariage contre l'avis des parents de Michel et de
ses parents adoptifs. Juliette accepte qu'elle aie toujours été attirée par
Antoine, le frère aîné de Michel, mais déçue d'avoir appris par hasard que
tout ce qui l'intéresse est de coucher avec elle. Après le mariage, Juliette
habite avec la famille Tardieu et essaye de se comporter comme il se doit,
mais elle s'ennuie profondément. Elle finit par céder à la tentation et couche
avec Antoine. Michel l'apprend par sa mère qui lui enjoint de la répudier.
Il refuse, et Juliette et lui restent ensemble.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Wikipedia
Every five thousand years, Evil comes back to Earth in an attempt to destroy
it. It is usually repelled by the ultimate weapon, stored in Egypt and made of
the four basic elements (earth, water, wind and fire) plus the fifth element.
In 1914, the ultimate weapon is taken away from Egypt by the Mondoshawans to
be put in a safer place, and would be returned on time to face Evil. But on
its way back to Earth in 2263, the spaceship is attacked by Mangalore
mercenaries, the four elements are stolen and the fifth is destroyed.
Thankfully, a single cell is found and the fifth element is reconstructed,
taking the shape of a woman called Leeloo. She escapes from the military and
meets Korben Dallas, a taxi driver who used to be an elite commando. Dallas
takes her to a priest, member of a secret order who has guarded the ultimate
weapon over the millenia. Leeloo reveals that the four elements were not in the
destroyed ship, but are with an opera singer, on a luxury cruise ship on
planet Fhloston Paradise. The army riggs a contest the grand prize of which is
a trip to Fhloston Paradisein order to send Dallas there to retrieve the
elements. He goes with Leeloo and the priest. They manage to recover the
elements, while the ship is destroyed first by Mangalores sent by Zorg, the
emissary of Evil, and then by Zorg himself. The heroes manage to get to Egypt
just in time to activate the ultimate weapon and save Earth.
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

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In 1969, Martin Brice escaped arrest by chance while hacking with his friend
Cosmo various bank accounts and transferring money to various charities. In
the present, Martin is hiding from the FBI, has changed his name and is
running a security firm that points out the flaws in security systems. He is
contacted by two NSA agents to steal a universal cryptographic decoder made by
a genius young mathematician. The NSA agents happen not to be working for the
NSA after all, but for the organised crime. Cosmo (who didn't die in prison
after all) is one of the leaders of the organisation, and he asks Martin to
join him and make the world better by causing a major financial crash and
making the rich equal to the poor. Martin refuses, and Cosmo changes his
former record to make it easier for the FBI to find him, and also frames him
in the murder of a Russian diplomat. Martin then tries to contact the NSA and
exchange his freedom for the decoder. He and his team go the Cosmo's
headquarter, a heavily guarded and protected complex, to retrieve the device.
They get caught but manage to escape. They finally get caught by the NSA, but
Martin manages to exchange the device and his silence against his and his
team's freedom, knowing that the NSA wants the device for spying (illegally)
on the US internal communications. But he gives the NSA a non-working device
(they don't know it doesn't work) and keeps the core component for himself,
using it for transfering money to charities once again.
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
The crew of the spaceship Palomino finds the lost ship Cygnus near a black
hole. They suffer damage from the black hole and manage to dock on the Cygnus,
hoping to be able to repair their ship. There is only one human on board the
Cygnus, one of the head of the lost expedition, but he is helped by a bunch of
robots he made himself (most of the robots are actually brainwashed/robotized
crew members from the Cygnus). The crew of the Palomino senses that something
is wrong and tries to escape, but the captain of the Cygnus decides to take them
with him into the black hole, which he wants to explore. The crew of the
Palomino manages to escape before the destruction of the Cygnus, only to fall
themselves into the black hole, where they find a surrealistic evocation of
Heaven and Hell.
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
Three beautiful women are the only survivors of the collision between a space
cruise liner and an asteroid. They are stranded on the nearest habitable
planet, where they are taken prisoner by pirates. Jack Wolff receives a
broadcast alert and goes searching for the women, because of the very high
reward. On the planet, he meets Nikki, a young girl who helps him in exchange
for food, guiding him to the lair of Overdog, a local villain. Soon after,
they meet Washington, another bounty hunter and old accointance of Wolff's.
After several encounter with mutants and such, they infiltrate Overdog's lair,
during local games (where slaves have to survive through a labyrinth full of
traps and dangers). Wolff and his team save the women, but Nikki get caught.
He finally saves her, kills Overdog and destroys his lair.
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
Fourty-three years ago, pregnant Rosie Jones killed her husband and his
lover, and was sentenced to a secure unit for the criminally insane. Today, Walter
Goodfellow the vicar is very busy, and his wife Gloria, desperate for sex, is
having an affair with her golf instructor. Soon arrives Grace, the new
housekeeper, and things start getting better (the neighbour's dog who used to
bark all night long disappears, soon to be followed by the dog's owner… all
killed by Grace). In the meanwhile, the vicar is taught by his housekeeper
how to be funny again and what are his wife's needs. Later, when the vicar
leaves for a conference, his wife plans to leave with her lover (but changes
her mind at the last minute thanks to her husband's changed behaviour), while
the lover is already dead, killed by the housekeeper who surprised him peeping
on the vicar's daughter the night before. The mother and the daughter finally
discover the truth about the housekeeper (escaped from her jail), but since
she happens to be Gloria's mother, they decide to keep it a secret from the
vicar. Grace eventually leaves the house for good.
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Hitchcock ]

Wikipedia
Melanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner in a pet shop in San Francisco. She
decides to follow him to his home in Bodega Bay. There she and other persons
get repeatedly attacked by large flocks of birds, for no apparent reason.
After spending the night under attack in Mitch's house, they take advantage of
a period of calm to escape and drive to San Franciso.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across
Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as
proof of his inventions worth. But the British Prime Minister convinces him to
go to the West in order to claim territories near the Volta river before slave
traders claim it themselves. He has about five weeks to complete the journey
and plant the Union Jack. Fergusson is accompanied by his aid, Jacques, as
well as by Sir Henry Vining, special envoy of the Queen, and Donald O'Shay, an
american journalist who will be a neutral witness to the planting of the flag.
Makia, a slave freed by O'Shay just before leaving also travels with them, at
first secretely. During their journey, they take more passengers: a chimpanzee
found in the forest, and later Susan Gale, an american taken as a slave, and
Ahmed, the slaver who caught her. The party met them while being the hosts of
a sultan, by whom they had to stop and repair they balloon. During a stop in
an oasis, Susan, Makia, Fergusson and Sir Henry are taken as slaves by bandits
and taken to Timbuktu. Makia is sent to the slave market, and the others are
to be killed at sundown, because no infidel is allowd to enter the sacred
city. But Ahmed, Jacques and O'Shay rescue them all in the nick of time. They
finally arrive at the Volta river and, after loosing the baloon, manage to
plant the flag before the slavers.
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

Wikipedia
À une époque post-apocalyptique, Louison, un ex-clown, est embauché comme
concierge dans un immeuble délabré au pied duquel se trouve une boucherie. Les
animaux sont en voie d'extinction, le maïs sert de monnaie, et le boucher vend
en secret de la viande humaine. Louison est censé être la prochaine victime,
mais Julie, la fille du boucher, tombe amoureuse de lui et tente d'epêcher son
père de le tuer. Pour ce faire, elle prend contact avec les troglodytes, un
groupe de rebelles végétariens qui vivent dans les égouts. Elle leur demande
d'enlever Louison en échange du maïs que son père accumule dans sa réserve.
Le boucher tente d'abattre Louison durant l'opération des troglodytes, mais il
échoue et se tue par accident.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Impawards.com
The inhabitants of planet Spaceball have used up all their atmosphere and plan
to steal the one from the peaceful planet Druidia. For that purpose, the evil
Lord Dark Helmet plans to kidnap princess Vespa of Druidia in order to force her
father King Roland to give them the code for opening the shield that protects the
planet. Meanwhile on Druidia, the princess escapes her marriage with Prince
Valium and just before being kidnapped by the Spaceballs, is rescued by Lone
Starr, a space cowboy. Trying to escape the Spaceballs, they get stranded on a
desert planet where they meet Yogurt, a wizard who teaches Lone Starr how
to control the Schwartz. Soon after, Vespa is kidnapped by the Spaceballs
who then extort the code from the King. After rescuing the princes from planet
Spaceball, Lone Starr and his friends infiltrate the Spaceball's giant
spaceship. There he faces Dark Helmet in a duel of Schwartz, before activating
the self destruct just before the Spaceballs managed to steal the air of
Druidia. At the end, Lone Star learns from Yogurt that he's actually a Prince
and he is then allowed to marry the princess.
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/James Bond ]

Source Wikipedia
James Bond is getting old, and MI6 doesn't need 00 agents any more. After
failing a combat test, Bond is sent to a specialized clinic in order to get
back in shape. He discovers something fishy there, and almost gets killed.
Soon after, two nuclear bombs are stolen from the US Air Force by SPECTRE, and
00 agents are sent back to the field in order to say the world once more. Bond
investigates Maximilain Largo, in relation with an Air Force officer, now
dead, who is suspected to have been involved in the the theft of the bombs,
and whom Bond has met at the clinic. Largo lives on a yacht in the Bahamas,
and Bond meets him there once. Largo then leaves to Nice where he owns a
casino and where he holds a charity event. Bond meets him a second time, and
manages to escape death again. He later gets invited on Largo's boat for
lunch, and is made (politely) prisonner, and taken to North Africa, where
Largo owns an antique fortress. Bond manages to escape, find out where the
bomb is located, fight Largo, disarm the bomb and save the day. At the end, he
quits MI6 and moves to Bahamas with Largo's ex-girlfriend.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
Craig Schwartz, an unemplyed puppeteer, discovers at his new job place a door
leading to John Malkovich's head. With Maxine, his new colleague with whom he
just fell in love, he starts a business for people who want to be someone else
for 15 minutes. His wife Lottie also tries the door and becomes immediately
addicted to being a man. This happened while Maxine was dating Malkovich, and
the two women fall in love in a strange fashion, leavin Craig out. But Craig
sequestrates his wife at home and forces her to invite Maxine to meet
Malkovich more often, while himself being John Malkovich and pretending to be
Maxine. Craig soon discovers how not to get expelled out of Malkovich's mind
after only 15 minutes, and becomes a permanent resident. Meanwhile, Lottie is
adopted by Craig's former boss, who knows about the door, being himself a
mind living in someone else's body. Malkovich changes his career from acting
to puppeteering, but Maxine, pregnant, drifts away from home. Eventually,
Maxine and Lottie meet again, Craig leaves Malkovich's head so that his former
boss can continue his quest for immortality through renewed bodies. Craig
wants to go back into Malkovich, but it is too late, and his mind goes into
Maxine's baby instead, trapped forever.
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
Le manchot empereur migre tous les automnes vers l'intériieur des terres pour
y retrouver sa compagne et pondre un oeuf. La femelle, épuisée, retourne alors
pêcher pendant le le mâle couvre l'oeuf, puis elle revient nourrir le petit
tandis que le mâle part à son tour se nourrir en mer. Enfin, les petits qui ne
sont déjà plus si petits vont à la mer à leur tour pour se nourrir et
commencer un nouveau cycle.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper is a cooper's apprentice who, after being disowned by his dying
father, seeks a new trade in the city. Since the kingdom is threatened by a
terrible monster, the king organises a tournament to find a champion
who will go and kill the monster. After many misfortunes, Dennis ends up as
the knight's squire and goes with hime after the beast. The knight is killed
by another knight, sent in secret by the burgers of the city who considerer
the monster as a asset to their business, but the second knight is in turn
killed by the monster, and the latter is then killed by Cooper and by
accident. Cooper gets half of the kingdom and the princess as his wife,
although he'd wanted to marry a peasant girl who didn't even like him.
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Monty Python ]

© Wikipedia
From Wikipedia:
King Arthur is recruiting his Knights of the Round Table throughout England.
He is frustrated at every turn by anarcho-syndicalist peasants, a Black Knight
that refuses to give up despite losing both his arms and legs, and guards that
are more concerned with the flight patterns of swallows than their lord and
master. Finally he meets up with Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the
Brave, Sir Galahad the Pure (also called "the Chaste"), Sir Robin the
Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot, and "the aptly named Sir
Not-Appearing-In-This-Film", and declares them the Knights of the Round Table.
They are given a quest by God to find the Holy Grail.
After they split up, Sir Robin encounters a Three-Headed Giant, Galahad runs
across the perils of Castle Anthrax, Sir Lancelot massacres a wedding at Swamp
Castle, and Arthur and Bedevere encounter the dreaded Knights who say Ni. They
each overcome their individual perils and reunite to face a bleak and terrible
winter. Surviving the winter by eating Sir Robin's minstrels, they venture
further to a pyromaniac enchanter named “Tim”, who takes them to a cave
guarded by a killer rabbit.
After killing the vicious Rabbit of Caerbannog with the Holy Hand Grenade of
Antioch, the knights face The Legendary Black Beast of Aaargh, and cross the
Bridge of Death that is guarded by “the old man from Scene 24”. Arthur and
Bedevere survive to arrive at Castle Aaargh, and face the French Taunter once
more. The film ends abruptly when a group of police from the 1970s interrupt
the climactic battle scene to arrest Bedevere and King Arthur for the murder
of Frank, the “famous historian”.
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
Fernand Naudin est un ex-truand reconverti dans le négoce de
machines agricoles à Montauban. Sa petite vie tranquille va basculer lorsque
son ami d'enfance, le Mexicain, un gangster notoire, de retour à Paris,
l'appelle à son chevet. Celui-ci, mourant, confie à Fernand, avant de
s'éteindre, la gestion de ses « affaires » ainsi que l'éducation de sa petite
Patricia, au mécontentement de ses troupes et sous la neutralité bienveillante
de maître Folace (Francis Blanche) son notaire, qui ne s'émeut pas trop de la
querelle de succession à venir. Fernand Naudin doit affronter les frères
Volfoni Raoul et Paul qui ont des visées sur les affaires du Mexicain : un
tripot clandestin, une distillerie tout aussi clandestine, une maison close,
etc. Fernand tente de faire rentrer les Volfono dans le rang, mais les
attentats contre sa vie se multiplient malgré la paix signée entre les Volfoni
et lui. On découvre rapidement que c'est le responsable de la distillerie
clandestine qui tire les ficelles, et Fernand finit par s'en débarasser, en
même temps qu'il marie Patricia et confie la gestion des « affaires » au
père du marié, vice-président du Fonds Monétaire International.
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
A.J., read the end of this post.
Zak Gibbs' father is a physicist who is working on a watch-shaped device, sent
to him by Earl Doppler, a former student of his, capable of accelerating the
wearer so much that averything else seems immobile. That's called hypertime.
Zak takes the watch without knowing what it is, but soon discovers its powers.
He then discovers that strange people are searching through his father's
papers. He meets Doppler while trying to escape them, and soon learns that
since Doppler managed to escape from the bad guys (whose boss is incidentally
called Mr Gates), they have kidnapped his father in order to continue the work
on a device that prevents people in hypertime to get older at an accelerated
rate. With Doppler's help, they enter the secret lab, wreak havoc, free Zak's
father and get the bad guys arrested by the F.B.I. who was on its way anyway
(the cavalry is always late…)
I watched the movie because it looked like SciFi from the description. And also
because it was directed by Jonathan Frakes. But this movie is not something to
be proud of, Number One (especially the part where a room full of nitrogen
explodes because of a naked flame).
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Hitchcock ]

Wikipedia.org
From Wikipedia:
When an high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer defects to the West with a
story of an agreement between the Russians and Cubans and the existence of a
“mole” within the French intelligence service, CIA agent Nordstrom enlists the
aid of his friend and French agent André Devereaux, encouraging him to
accompany his daughter Michèle on her honeymoon with journalist François
Picard as a premise to get him to New York. André accepts, but his wife Nicole
is worried for him.
After managing to get hold of some seriously damning papers from the visiting
Cuban official Rico Parra, in New York to appear at the United Nations and
staying in Harlem to show solidarity with “the masses”, sneakily of course, a
concerned Devereaux jets off to Cuba and catches up with his mistress Juanita
de Cordoba, who is now secretly involved with a local underground movement
whilst also being involved in another way with Parra. Parra finds out and
kills Juanita. Devereaux then is recalled to Paris, where he attempts to get
to the bottom of this whole leak problem. Michèle wants to reconcile her
parents.
Nicole cheats on André after his Cuban affair with the man who proves to be
the leader of the spy ring, “Topaz”, Jacques Granville, their old friend from
their days together in the French Resistance. François goes on to find out who
“Topaz” is by interrogating NATO official Henri Jarré. A short time late
Michèle finds the murdered Jarré and François is missing. A short time later
François arrives at Michèle and her parents and shows her a drawing of Jarré.
Nicole knows him and tells André, that Granville is the head of “Topaz”.
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Prathamam.com
Un film d'Ang Lee (1994).
Chu est le meilleur cuisinier de Taipei, mais il souffre d'anosmie depuis
longtemps, et c'est son collègue et ami Wen qui lui prête son nez. Chu a trois
filles, une qui est prof de chimie, l'autre est cadre dans une compagnie
aérienne et la troisième travaille dans un fast food. Les trois filles sont
célibataires et vivent chez leur père, mais elles rencontrent toutes les trois
un homme : pour la première, il s'agit d'un prof de sport, fraîchement
arrivé au lycée où elle travaille, la deuxième (qui a un ex copain qu'elle
revoit régulièrement), un collègue qui était auparavant en poste à Amsterdam,
et la troisième récupère le copain de sa collègue qui n'avait pas l'air d'y
tenir tant que ça. Quant au père, veuf depuis 16 ans, il tombe amoureux de la
voisine, mère d'une petite fille à qui il prépare chaque jour un repas
somptueux qu'elle emmène à l'école (la mère de la voisine avait bien essayé de
lui mettre le grappin dessus, mais elle était vraiment trop insupportable).
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Monty Python ]

Wikipedia.org
Too much to summarize. Check the Wikipedia article.
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Allocine.fr
« Les contes de Terremer » est un film de Goro Miyazaki, le fils de Hayao
Miyazaki, d'après un roman d'Ursula K. Le Guin.
Sans raison apparente, le prince Arren tue le roi son père, s'empare de son épée et
s'enfuit à travers le pays. Il rencontre en chemin un magicin, Épervier, qui
l'accompagne jusqu'à une grande ville, qui est le royaume des traficants
d'esclaves. Arren sauve la vie de Therru, une jeune fille traquée par les
trafficants, mais il est lui-même pris un peu plus tard. Épervier le délivre
et l'emène se cacher à la ferme de Tenar, une amie de longue date, chez qui
habite (comme par hasard) Therru. Cette dernière a peur d'Arren, car elle voit
le mal qui l'habite, mais ils finissent par devenir amis après que Therru aide
Arren à prendre conscience qu'il a peur de la mort que cette peur est devenue
partiellement indépendante du corps d'Arren. Quelques temps plus tard, les
traficants d'esclaves arrivent chez Tenar, et prennent cette dernière en otage
pour attirer Épervier chez Cob, un autre magicien, de qui il veut se venger.
Cob est obsédé par la vie éternelle, et il est persuadé qu'Arren (qu'il a
fait prisonnier et soumis à sa volonté) est la clé qui la lui donnera.
Finalement, Therru part au chateau de Cob apporter son épée (magique) à Arren,
et ensemble ils parviennent à défaire Cob. On apprend aussi que c'est Therru
l'immortelle (et qu'elle est aussi un dragon, allez comprendre).
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Hitchcock ]

Wikipedia.org
From Wikipedia:
“Two brilliant aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, plan the perfect
murder inspired by lectures on the art of murder once made by their erstwhile
housemaster, Rupert Cadell. They invite a former classmate, David Kentley, to
their apartment for drinks, strangle him, and hide his body in a chest, thus,
they believe, demonstrating their superiority. Straight afterwards they throw
a party in their apartment. Among the guests are the victims father and aunt,
his fiancee and her former boyfriend. Rupert Cadell also attends.
To impress Rupert and to gain his approval, Brandon subtly drops hints
throughout the party about the murder of David, and begins a discussion on the
art of murder. David, his connection to the guests and his curious absence
forms much of the conversation during the evening.
In contrast to Brandon, Phillip gets more and more nervous throughout the
party. Rupert quizzes him over Davids absence and some inconsistencies that
have been raised: Phillip denied strangling a chicken at the Shaws farm when
Rupert knows that he did. Phillip later complains to Brandon that he had a
rotten evening (a reference to Ruperts probing, not Davids murder).
At the end of the party Rupert is handed another persons hat by mistake. In it
he sees the initials D.K. (as in David Kentley) and becomes rather uneasy.
Highly suspicious Rupert returns to the apartment after everyone has departed,
claiming he has misplaced his cigarette case. When he arrives back in the
apartment, he plants his cigarette case, finds it, but then stays to theorize
about the murder of David, encouraged by Brandon who seems eager to have
Rupert discover it. When Rupert lifts open the chest to reveal the body still
tucked inside and realizes that his two former students have indeed murdered,
he is horrified and ashamed of his own rhetoric that had led them to perform
the morbid deed. He then takes Brandons gun and fires several shots into the
night in order to attract police attention.”
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/Harry Potter ]

© Imdb.com
Harry is attacked near home by dementors. He protects himself by magic but
he's then asked to defend himself in front of a court of wizards. The point is
that the Minister of Magic refused to believe him when he claimed that
Voldemort is back, and tries to silence him. He also meets the Order of the
Phoenix, an organisation founded by Dumbledore to fight Voldemort over a
decade ago, which all his adult friends are members of. Back at Hogwarts,
Harry and his friends face their new teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts,
Dolores Umbridge, a member of the minister who reforms the teaching in order
to prevent the students to learn any useful fighting magic and become
“Dumbledore's Army” that would, in the Minister's paranoia, take over the
Ministry. Therefore, Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to create a secret
association for teaching proper defensive magic to the students, without
Umbridge knowing. Harry also has weird dreams, induced by Voldemort, where he
see Ron's father being attacked inside the Ministry while patrolling by night.
At Hogwarts, the situation has become worse than ever, with Umbridge getting
appointed Inquisitor, and then Headmaster. When Harry sees his godfather being
killed by Voldermort in the Ministry, he decides to go there, along with his
best friends. Umbridge tries to stop them, but they manage to get rid of her
and fly to London, to the Ministry. There they fight Deatheaters, who are
trying to get their hands on a prophecy on ehalf of their master. Harry
manages to listen to it before it gets destroyed. It was about him and
Voldemort not being able to be alive both at the same time, one having to kill
the other. During the fight, Sirius gets killed. Then VOldemort himself comes
and attacks Harry, who is saved just in time by Dumbledore. The Minister
arrives on the ground just before Voldemort escapes; he now has to acknowledge
his return.
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
Chris Kelvin is a psychiatrist who has been sent to the Solaris space station,
located near an mysterious space stellar object called Solaris in order to
investigate strange phenomena. When he arrives, the station is empty except
for the captain and an engineer, all other crewmembers are dead. He soon
discovers that his dreams (about his dead wife) are becoming reality i.e., a
creature looking exactly like his wife appears in his cabin overnight. She
doesn't know where she is or why she is there, though, but she remembers her
husbands memories. The other crewmembers have experienced the same thing. The
captain wants to get rid of the creatures, but Kelvin refuses to loose his
wife a second time. She tries to commit suicide because she understands she's
not real, but she resurrects, as it seems that the creatures cannot die. The
captain has however built a device that desintegrate the creatures. The
“wife” wants to use it on herself, but Kelvin won't let her leave the cabin,
and even stops sleeping in order to keep an eye on her. He however gets
eventually sick and she takes advantage of it in order to take her own life
for good with the help of the captain. Some time later, they discover that
the space station is being attracted towards Solaris and that they must
abandon ship. They then discover that the engineer is actually a clone that
had killed his human counterpart some time ago. And Kelvin discovers just
before take off that he himself is a clone (he probably died when he was sick
and dreamt himself alive). He then decides to stay on the station. When it
enters Solaris, his mind joins the one of his wife ad they can be together
again.
It seems that the director of the movie tried to compete with 2001: A Space
Odyssey to make the slowest movie with the smallest amount of action where it
is the hardest to understand what happens.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

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Lau Xing just stole from the Bank of England a jade Buddha recently stolen
from his village in China. Trying to escape the police, he enters at the
service of Phileas Fogg under the made-up name of Passepartout. Fogg is an
inventor who is ridiculled by Lord Kelvin, the head of the Royal Academy of
Science. He then makes a wager with Lord Kelvin where the stakes are Lord
Kelvins position against Fogg's giving up tinkering and inventing. The wager
is about going around the world in 80 days (the idea being discretely
suggested by Passepartout, who needs to bring the buddha back to China). They
soon leave for France, where they meet Monique La Roche, a painter who wants
to travel across the world to get inspiration. They are also followed by
chinese bandits who try to recover the Buddha (it had been stolen by their
leader, who is an accomplice of Lord Kelvin, who wants to colonize a part of
China). They are also followed by Inspector Fix, a corrupt policeman, paid by
Lord Kelvin to stop them, under the pretense that Fogg is the thief. Because
of the bandits, they missede the Orient Express, but manage to catch it later
using a hot air balloon. In Turkey they are “invited” by a local prince who
then wants to keep Monique as his seventh wife. They manage to escape and go
to India (whre they fight some Chinese thugs and Fix), then to China where
Passepartout returns the Buddha (and fights some thugs). Fogg discovers that
he has been cheated by both his valet and Monique, and decides to go on alone.
He arrives in San Francisco, but gets robbed of all his money and clothes. He
ends up as a beggar, until Passepartout and Monique find hime again. Together,
they cross the desert, meet the Wright brothers, then arrive in New York,
where they fight the Chinese thugs and their leader again. They defeat them,
but miss their boat to England, and hire a small boat to attempt to cross the
ocean. Lacking coal, the boat must resort to using sails, but it won't be fast
enough. Fogg then builts a flying machine, inspired by the plans the Wright
brothers had shown him. They at last arrive in London, crashing their plane in
front of the Royal Academy, but Kelvin attempts to prevent them to enter the
hall before noon, which was the time and place where they were supposed to end
their trip. They are saved by Queen Victoria, who reminds them that because of
their traveling east, they actually are one day earlier than they thought.
They finally enter the building and Fogg wins the wager and Kelvin's position
as Ministry of Science.
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Allocine.fr
Le mur d'une cellule d'un monastère lorrain se met à saigner lorsqu'un novice
y plante un crucifix. Un maçon y est retrouvé emmuré, mur qu'il avait aidé à
réparer quelques semaines plus tôt. Le commissaire Niémans mène l'enquêtei
aidé du capitaine Reda. Un peu plus tard, un homme ressemblant étrangement à
Jesus est retrouvé blessé par balle par la police, et un prêtre à la force
surhumaine tente de l'assassiner à l'hôpital où il a été conduit. Puis un
douanier et deux joaillers sont assassinés, suivis par l'administrateur d'un
supermarché et quatre pêcheurs sont retrouvés noyés. Ces personnes étaient au
nombre de douze, portaient les mêmes noms et pratiquaient les mêmes
professions que les douze apôtres, et étaient des disciples de Jésus. Ce
dernier, dans son délire, parle de l'apocalypse et des septs sceaux qui sont
brisés un à un. L'enquête de Niémans le mène à une section de la ligne
Maginot, qui a été occupée par les allemands et modifiée par ces derniers
pendant la guerre. Avec l'aide d'une spécialiste des religions, Niémans
apprend que les mystérieux assassins sont à la recherche du livre écrit des
mains de Dieu, qui pourra être lu par celui qui brisera le dernier sceau. Ce
livre avait été un trésor du Vatican et volé par Lothaire II puis enfoui dans
un tombeau secret. La clé du tombeau, le sceau de Lothaire II, est en
possession du douzième « apôtre », un prêtre, qui l'a récemment volé.
Niémans tente de récupérer le sceau, mais les prêtres le devancent. Le tombeau
avait été découvert par un officier allemand, Heinrich von Garten, pendant la
guerre, durant des travaux dans les galeries de la ligne Maginot. Il tente
maintenant de prendre possession du livre afin de créer une nouvelle Europe,
blanche et chrétienne, en passant par la ligne Maginot. L'entrée originale du
tombeau se trouvant dans le monastère, Niémans et Reda y pénètrent et tentent
d'arrêter von Garten. Le socle sur lequel repose le livre est piégé, les
galeries se remplissent d'eau et seuls Niémans et Reda parviennent à
s'échapper. Le livre est détruit par l'eau.
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/James Bond ]

© DVDToile.com
The MI6 has just obtained a fake Fabergé egg in East-Germany from the hands of
a dying 009, and decide to investigate the murder. They discover that the real
egg is going to be auctioned soon at Sotheby's, from an unknown origin. Bond
goes to the auction and manages to replace the real egg with the copy and
notice the buyer, Kamal Khan, who is usually a seller rather than a buyer.
Bond follows him to his palace in India, where he meets him and lures him with
the real egg, equiped with a transmitter. The egg gets stolen by Khan's
girlfriend Magda and Bond is kidnapped and taken to Khan's palace where he
remains a prisoner. Khan presents the egg to the mysterious Octopussy, who
lives on an island populated only by women and who makes a living from
smuggling jewels. Later, in Khan's palace, Bond manages to witness a dialog
between Khan and rogue Red Army General Orlov, about making copies of a lot
of Russian historical treasures and about an attack that will taking place in
Karl-Marx-Stadt. Bond then escapes and pays a visit to Octopussy, where he
discovers that she owns a circus that is currently in Karl-Marx-Stadt. Going
there, he learns that the circus is going next to West-Germany on a U.S.
military base, and that the jewels are hidden on the circus'train. The wagon
hiding the jewels is however secretely switched with another one, identical
the the first one, except that it holds an nuclear bomb instead of the jewels.
Bond discovers that Orlov's plan is to detonate the bomb in the U.S. base, to
make it look like an accident and discredit the U.S. presence on German
territory. Once the americans would have left, Europe would be vulnerable
enough to be invaded by the Soviet Union. Bond manages to disamorce the bomb
and to follow Khan back to India where he is preparing to flight. With the
help of Octopussy's troops (who have been betrayed by Khan) he attacks Khan's
palace, chases him to his airplane, saves Octpussy who had been made prisoner
during the attack and get rid of Kahn.
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
This documentary features Al Gore (the same ex-next president of the U.S.)
lecturing about global warming, interspersed with pictures and clips from
different locations and various topics. Gore basically tries to convice
americans that global warming is actually hapenning despite the claims of the
current government, and shows various scientific proofs (CO2 levels
in the atmosphere in the past 650,000 years, temperature levels over the same
period…). He also explains the consequences of global warming on the natural
disasters such as hurricanes (getting more powerful when passing over warmer
sea) and drought (caused by higher evaporation due to higher temperatures),
on the desynchronisation of the birth of baby birds and of caterpilars, their
usual food, as well as the influence of the melting of ice crusts in Groenland
and Antarctica on sea currents (especially the Gulf Stream), which could
disappear if the sea gets colder because of more intensive melting of the ice.
He also accuses the big corporations to try to hide the scientific results
proving the existence of global warming, the same way the tobacco industry
tried in the past to deny and hide the existence of a link between smoking and
lung cancer. Finally, he gives some hints to the audience about what to do in
order to produce less CO2, showing that the technologies are
available but the U.S. refuse to use them, putting the country behind most
other countries in the world on that matter, including China.
The movie was interesting, well built and easy to understand. I wonder though
if Gore has a political agenda, because he's so many times pointing fingers at
the current administration and its supporters.
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
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Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
Sophie, une jeune femme, a été victime d'un sort jeté par la sorcière des
terres perdues : elle est devenue vieille. Elle décide de quitter la ville et
de partir à la recherche de la sorcière pour lui demander d'annuler le sort.
Le chemin est ardu, et elle finit par trouver refuge dans le château ambulant
de Howl, où elle fait connaisance de Calcifer, le démon de feu qui fait
fonctionner le château et l'empêche de s'effondrer, et de Michael, l'apprenti
de Howl, et de Howl lui-même, qui est sous l'emprise d'un terrible maléfice.
Devant le désordre et la crasse du château, elle se proclame femme de ménage
et entreprend de nettoyer le château. Au fil du temps qui passe, elle fait
davantage connaisance avec les habitants du château. Un jour, la guerre éclate
et le roi fait demander à Howl de se battre pour le royaume. Howl est un
couard, et Sophie se propose de se faire passer pour sa mère et d'aller
expliquer à la reine qu'il ne peut pas se battre parce qu'il a trop peur. Sur
le chemin du palais royal, Sophie rencontre la sorcière des terres perdues et
lui demande d'annuler le sort. La sorcière prétend ne plus se souvenir comment
l'annuler. Tandis que Sophie explique son cas à la reine, la sorcière est
victime d'un sort anti-magie protégeant le palais et perd toute sa magie ;
elle devient vieille, montrant son age véritable, et passablement gaga. Sophie
la prend en pitié et l'emmène habiter avec elle chez Howl. Howl est tombé
amoureux de Sophie (il a d'ailleurs remarque que lorsqu'elle dort ou exprime
ses sentiments, elle redevient temporairement jeune) et redécore le château
par magie pour donner davantage de place à ses nouveaux habitants. Il se
confie aussi à Sophie qui apprend qu'il a perdu son âme, volée par Calcifer,
lorsqu'il était enfant, en échange d'une grande puissance magique. Lorsque la
guerre se rapproche du château et menace de le détruire, Sophie évacue tout le
monde, y compris Calcifer, ce qui provoque la destruction du château. La
sorcière tente de s'emparer de l'âme de Howl en prenant Calcifer pour la
garder pour elle, mais Sophie réussit à rendre son âme à Howl et à libérer
Calcifer du contrat qui le liait au sorcier.
Je croyais que Chihiro était passablement délirant, mais ce film là est encore
pire. Le seul vrai reproche que je lui ferai c'est le scénario trop touffu et
le manque d'explications par endroit, qui fait nettement ressentir qu'il
s'agit d'une adaptation d'une œuvre beaucoup plus complexe (un roman de Diana
Wynne Jones). Le pire est
probablement l'épouvantail qui, d'un baiser de Sophie, se transforme en Prince
Charmant et annonce qu'il est justement le Prince du pays voisin et qu'il va
rentrer chez lui pour arrêter la guerre. Ça tombe vraiment comme un cheveu sur
la soupe.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
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© Imdb.com
A truck containing an unknown toxic explodes on the motorway, killing numerous
people from an unknown disease. Faye, hunting another pery, manages to catch a
glimpse from the driver of the truck, who then disapears mysteriously. Later,
her and Spike learn that the driver is worth a huge bounty. Spike and Fay
investigate separately. Spike discovers that the mysterious disease is
actually caused by a bioweapon made of nanomachines hidden in lymphocyts. The
bioweapon is secretely manufactured by a pharmaceutical lab which tries to
hide the existence of the weapon and its vaccine. Meanwhile, Faye manages to
find the lair of the mysterious truck driver, but she's made prisoner by him.
Helped by Electra, a security agent from the pharmaceutical laboratory who has
learned too much about it employer and has been disavowed. They are thrown in
a cell, but manage to escape and take with them numerous doses of vaccine that
they are going to spread over the city on Halloween night, which is the time
and place chosen by the truck driver to contaminate all the inhabitants. His
plan fails, and he is confronted by Spike. He then tells Spike that he was a
soldier sent to Titan as a guinea pig to test the bioweapon. He was the only
survivor, and he's very angry about the whole world. Spike defeats him, and
everything ends well, more or less.
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Leffakone ]
Thanks to Niko, my Leffakone project is finally
complete. He built the timer I designed already two and a half years ago, that
enables Leffakone to boot automatically when it is time to record a TV show.
The device is based on a Microchip 16F84A PIC and is connected to the Wake On
LAN connector of the computer, as well as to the parallel port. The WOL
connector provides +5V to the device even when the computer is powered down.
The parallel port is used for sending the 24-bit timeout value to the timer,
one bit at a time (one line is data, another line is a “data available”
signal). The timer then ignores all input for three minutes, giving enough
time to shutdown the computer (when the computer shuts down, some garbage is
sent to the parallel port, which would be considered as input if it were not
ignoring it). After that delay, it counts down to zero, and then sends a
signal to the WOL connector that boots the computer. It's as simple as that.
The device has two LEDs, one indicating that power is on, and one status LED.
The status LED is:
- On when the device is in standby, waiting for input.
- Off when the device has received partial input and waiting for more.
- Blinking at 0.25 Hz when ignoring all inputs.
- Blinking at 0.5 Hz when counting down.
When the timer is in the process of receiving input, and the procedure does
not complete, the internal watchdog timer makes it reboot after about two
seconds, putting the device back to standby mode.
The timer is supposed to accept timeout values in seconds, but the programming
contraints in the device are such that the actual time unit is worth about 1.02
seconds.
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Categories: [ TV ]
For years I've been especially following three TV series: Murder, She Wrote,
MacGyver, and Lois & Clarke: The New Adventures of Superman. All three of
them came to an end within a couple of weeks. The last episode of Murder, She
Wrote aired on February 28th, the last Lois & Clarke on March 3rd and
MacGyver March 17th. I feel empty, like I'd have lost several friends at
once, especially since I had been watching Murder, She Wrote assiduously for
over three years.
Thankfully, the wonderful world of television has brought relief to my pain
through the remarkable concept of rerun: Jessica Fletcher still shows up
regularly in my set from season eight, as do Lois, Clark and MacGyver, since
the two shows are broadcast again from the start! This allows me incidentally
to see the first six or seven episodes of Lois & Clarke which I missed last
time, and to re-record the episodes of MacGyver which are incomplete in my
collection.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema/James Bond ]

© MoviePoster.com
Bond recovered a large sum of money belonging to Sir Robert King, a personal
friend of “M”. When getting close to his money at MI6 headquarters, King gets
killed by an explosion; the bank notes have been covered with an explosive
triggered by King's lapel pin, which had been replaced by a fake. While
investigating about King, Bond notices that the money he retrieved is exactly
the sum that had been paid as a ransom to free King's daughter Elektra some
time ago. M had helped King to retrieve his daughter, but had refused to pay
the ransom, rather using the daughter as a bait. The kidnapper was Renard the
Anarchist, who took a bullet in the brain when MI6 was trying to kill him,
after Elektra managed to escape. The bullet is moving towards the center of
the brain, making him progressively loose his sense of touch and smell and
insensitive to pain. M sends Bond to protect Elektra. He meets her at a
pipeline construction site inherited from her father in Azerbaidjan but she
refuses his help, not trusting MI6 anymore. Bond later saves her life from an
attack; he also tears a piece of cloth bearing a russian marking from one
attacker. He then meets Valentin Zukowski, an acquaintance of his in his
casino in Baku. Zukowski recognizes the marking as that of an antiterrorist
unit of the Russian ministry of energy. He tells Bond that Elektra's pipeline
has several competitors who may be willing to get rid of her. Later, while
snooping around Elektra Bond notices that her chief of security is somehow
related to the former attackers. He follows him and takes his place at some
meeting with who were waiting for him. They trust him and take him to a
facility in Kazakhstan where nuclear weapon are being disabled and destroyed.
He meets there Dr. Christmas Jones, the nuclear scientist in charge of the
process and pretends to be a Russian scientist. Bond notices that Renard is
also working at the facility and is trying to steal plutonium. Renard manages
to escape with a nuclear head, blowing up everything, and Bond and Jones
barely escape themselves. Bond then suspects that Eletktra and Renard are
actually working together because of something they both said in different
occasions, but Elektra convices him otherwise. Elektra then lures M to Baku
and kidnapps her, while Bond is sent with Jones to investigate a possible
terrorist attack in the pipeline. Instead of defusing the bomb (which appears
not to be nuclear), he lets it explode in order to make Elektra believe that
he is dead. They then go meet Zukowsky again on the Caspian Sea, because Bond
made a connection between him and Elektra. Zukowsky admits providing her with
material with the help of a nephew of his who is the captain of a russian
submarine. He also tells Bond that they are currently in Istanbul, and takes
them there. They then discover that Renard has taken over the submarine and
plans to put the plutonium into its nuclear reactor in order to provoke a
meltdown that would look as an accident. This would destroy all the pipeline
of King's competitors. Bond and Jones get then caught by Renard because of
Zukowsky's assistant being an accomplice of him. Jones is taken to the
submarine while Bond is left with Elektra who tries to torture him, but he is
saved by Zukowsky who died just after. Bond kills Elektra and manages to enter
the submarine. There is then an big fight between Bond and Renard; Bond wins
and saves the world.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Categories: [ TV/Cinema ]

© Imdb.com
A fishing boat saves a man from the sea. The man has two bullets in his back,
a small device under his skin which shows a Swiss bank name and account
number and no clue about who he is. After reaching the shore, the man spends
the night in a public park where he's awoken in the middle of the night by two
policemen. Without even thinking about it, he fights them barehanded and
flees. The next morning, he goes to the bank in Zürich and finds in his safe a
collection of passports, loads of money in various currencies and a gun. He
learns that his name is (probably) Jason Bourne. He leaves the gun and goes to
the US embassy, just in time to escape the Swiss police. There he is about the
be arrested again but manages to escape, with the help of Marie, a girl who had
trouble at the embassy. They go to Paris, where Bourne has an appartment.
There, they get attacked by an unknown man crashing through the window, but
the man dies before Bourne is able to interrogate him. Before the attack,
Bourne manages to find a trace of his past: he has spent time in a hotel under
another identity, and he is supposed to be dead. Marie manages to get a list
of the phone numbers he called when he resided at the hotel, which gives him a
clue about what he did in the past: getting interested in a boat owned by a
former African dictator, buying diving equipments… During the night, the
ex-dictator is assassinated, and Bourne understands that he had been sent by
the CIA to kill him (because the man threatened to expose the CIA actions in
Africa if they didn't help him to get back to power) but failed. Bourne and
Marie then go the morgue to see the body, but it has been taken away already.
They then flee together barely escaping the French police. Marie manages to
reach a former boyfriend who lives in the countryside, where they find shelter
for one night. The next morning, Bourne notices that someone is watching them
and will probably try to kill them. He finds and neutralizes the killer, from
whom he learns nothing except the name “Threadstone”. He sends Marie to hide
with her friend, then uses the mobile phone of the killer, to contacts whoever
had ordered him killed and gives him an appointment in Paris. Bourne doesn't
show at the appointment, but uses the event to follow the man (his former
boss) to a CIA hideout where he almost got killed again. He however learns
that he has been specifically trained to be the perfect invisible killer (the
Threadstone project), and his memory comes back to him: he was supposed to
kill the ex-dictator and put the blame to one of the man's collaborators, but
didn't complete his mission because children were present on the scene.
Bourne's boss is then eliminated in a CIA attempt to conceal the failure of
the Threadstone project. At the end, Bourne finds Marie again somewhere on the
Mediterranean coast.
Loads of car chases, fight scenes, stereotypical camera movements, and a
disappointing plot. But I really liked the Richard Chamberlain
version TV movie when I was a kid.
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