Saturday, April 7, 2018
Maggie (2015)
A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.
Slow-paced and thoughtful zombie drama, more artsy than horror flick; cast is excellent, and Schwarzenegger surprises with a subtle and subdued performance.
Le Couperet (2005)
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing, but, two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Off-kilter satire is lively and well-played, but not thoroughly convincing.
Toys From My Childhood
Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year. As of January 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It is widely considered to be the world's best-selling toy.
On a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours: white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. In currently sold models, white is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and orange is opposite red, and the red, white and blue are arranged in that order in a clockwise arrangement. On early cubes, the position of the colours varied from cube to cube. An internal pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be returned to have only one colour. Similar puzzles have now been produced with various numbers of sides, dimensions, and stickers, not all of them by Rubik.
Although the Rubik's Cube reached its height of mainstream popularity in the 1980s, it is still widely known and used. Many speedcubers continue to practice it and other twisty puzzles and compete for the fastest times in various categories. Since 2003, The World Cube Association, the Rubik's Cube's international governing body, has organised competitions worldwide and kept the official world records.
New York
Ken Schles (American, b. 1960, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - From photo book Invisible City, 1988 Photography
Friday, April 6, 2018
Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Unusual Thriller with a twist ending, well executed, but the main attraction are the the tree lead performances.
Cassandra's Dream (2007)
Two brothers with serious financial woes become enemies, when a third party proposes they turn to crime, and things go badly.
Seamless production, presented as if it were an experimental set-up, simulating depth where there is none.
Maltin**: "Well-intention but flawed - and far too predictable - morality play...Allen deals with issues similar to those he explored more successfully in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS."
Thursday, April 5, 2018
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