From a single account on YouTube, here’s a selection of obsolete movies that can be seen in their entirety, split in chunks of about 10 minutes each:

• Ministry of Fear (1944) - Fritz Lang
• Lady in the Lake (1947) - Robert Montgomery
• Night and the City (1950) - Jules Dassin
• House by the River (1950) - Fritz Lang
• Murder, My Sweet (1944) - Edward Dmytryk
• Nightmare Alley (1947) - Edmund Goulding
• Secret Beyond the Door… (1948) - Fritz Lang
• Le locataire (1976) - Roman Polanski
• …and so on.

…so far, seems to be this one: Recipe for an ‘Ice Age’ mess: Thaw, rehash, refreeze:

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs seems to be suffering from freezer burn. Once fresh, the story is now buried under a hoary coating. [...] Its consistently sweet message notwithstanding, the retread plot is a bore. [...]

The species are more plentiful this time, but Ice Age resorts to bathroom humor and gross bodily fluids to fill the landscape.

A much more favorable article from the same newspaper: ‘Ice Age’ warms up to dinosaurs in third installment:

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That’s it. I was so curious to watch this movie that I had to buy the DVD ($19.99 at Target), and then to spend about 3 hours with it — deleted scenes, making of, all the extras had to be seen.

I didn’t know anything about Revolutionary Road (I have not read the Wikipedia page, for it tells the whole plot), except that:
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With their fucking style of making everything aggressive, fast-paced, macho, spectacular, “dynamic” and shallow, these “people of our times” managed to completely screw Sherlock Holmes (2009), with Robert Downey Jr.

At least, the trailer makes me sick — find it here, here or here. What a shit. Screw Guy Ritchie: he betrayed the old British common sense. Screw Warner Bros: Hollywood is like brain cancer. Screw America: I’ll visit Utah between June 21 and July 2, and I feel I already hate it.

Lewis – Series 3 (2009); Poirot – Collection 7 (2008)

The first episode from Lewis 3, Allegory Of Love, was quite good, but the murderer was virtually impossible to guess.

I’ve just watched on the national television the Episode 19 (Season II) of the famous Dr. House: “House vs. God” (don’t read the Wikipedia article, it’s a spoiler!).

Great lines!

I then found that the Chinese are streaming all the episodes (English sound, Chinese subtitles). Should I ask how illegal this is?!

Via this site, here’s “House vs. God” in a Flash player:
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Normally, I strongly dislike a movie made after a comic strip. (That’s even more true when comes to French bédés.) However, as I’ve rather enjoyed the movie “V for Vendetta”, I gave Watchmen a chance.

As a quick assessment: it’s definitely not the best way to put a comic book into motion pictures, yet not the worst way either. I still don’t know whether I liked it or not…

Two crucial quotes though:

• “Every day the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it… Well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.” (Sally Jupiter, to Laurie)
• “How would this be improved with a pipeline or a shopping mall?” (Dr. Manhattan while on Mars)

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Now that Watchmen is also a movie, I am curious to see whether the movie can keep up with the comics, the way V for Vendetta was a good cinematizing of the homonym graphical novel. I’m afraid that this time the movie is a shallow production, no matter Dave Gibbons liked it. Here’s what I could find at a very quick search:
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O cronică la “Revolutionary Road” / “Nonconformiştii”.

Încă un film oscarizat: Note de cinema - miercuri cu Harvey Milk.

CPB ne laudă prezentarea câştigătorilor premiilor Oscar din acest an, făcută de NYT.

Nu ni se spune exact unde anume, dar cică în Bucureşti s-a deschis o “Paul – Pâtisseries et Viennoiseries”. Ni se dă un link în engleză, dar iată şi l’original. În lista de adrese mondiale, nu găsesc nimic în România. Nu-i nimic, aflăm din Metropedia: Calea Dorobanţi nr. 135, colţ cu Washington.
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There is one main reason I keep watching and watching again the 50-min episodes of the “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” TV series featuring David Suchet, whenever available: I love the Art Deco architecture, and many such episodes show such a building fictitiously labeled “Whitehaven Mansions”, when the actual building does exist in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, under the name of “Florin Court”!
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Comme je ne vis pas en France, je n’ai pas vu ce film, car en Roumanie les cinémas sont soit des décombres, soit des multiplexes pour des cons. Pourtant, ce film qui m’intrigue et qui semble excellent selon plusieurs opinions est en salles depuis le 4 février en France : “Picnic” (“Pescuit sportiv” en original), réalisé par Adrian Sitaru, avec Adrian Titieni, Ioana Flora, Maria Dinulescu.
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