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Right? I think this was the first Need for Speed game I played in my teen years, as it was the most recent at the time. I remember playing it on the computer of some primary school friends, and it was awesome. It dropped the numbering scheme, although in popular lingo around the neighbourhood, it still was called “NFS 4”, habit that stayed in place up until Underground. Immersive, fast and with some really nice cars, while listening to Metallica. But before we go and test the PC version, let’s…

From our overlords at Electronic Arts, here comes a game who’s got a lot of hype over the year, but which I didn’t get to play this year, because it requires one of the hardest to find hardware in the Universe: a friend. So I was very happy when my good friends, Sorana and Marius, gave me a copy for my birthday, so we got to playing! They did play it together before, so I got a lot of help from them, but it didn’t alter the experience at all. At first I was a bit distracted by the split screen…

Influential industrialist Vanger’s niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. I did watch the 2011 US-version of the movie back when it appeared because it had Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. If I had known that the original Swedish version has Noomi Rapace in it, I would have watched this 15 years ago. This has a nice story, great pacing and the performances of Noomi Rapace and…

The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals, Fun sequel to the great animation by Dreamworks, suitable for the entire family, which provides a bit over an hour and a half of entertainment. The voice cast is great as always, with Sam Rockwell, Richard Ayoade, Craig Robinson, Zazie Beetz. Hell, even Awkwafina manages to stay non-annoying…

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don’t go as expected. A story about corporate greed, humanity, telling the story of an oil executive that leaves Houston to the wild parts of Scotland to set the things in motion for an oil refinery. However, the city conquers his soul with its beauty and people. A laid-back comedy deeply rooted in the life of the 80s that is still funny and a treat to watch even in 2026.…

Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila’s sexually explicit overtures. Great coming-of-age movie, based on a story published under a pseudonym, telling the encounter between the author and Lila, a beautiful young woman. It’s a story about passion (teenage passion), self-discovery, teenage relationships, but it also portrays a reality of mixed cultures. It describes very well the shock between different cultures which stand side-by-side in the French…

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When a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into his life and is unrelenting. The Japanese surely are special. Even after watching this, I don’t know if it’s the funniest erotic movie or the most erotic comedy I’ve ever seen. As far as the nudity goes, this is basically soft porn, but the story is well layered, the humour is absolutely great.…

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There’s this millenium-old saying: “If nothing works, use a ThinkPad”. And here we are now. Unfortunately, I’m going through laptops faster than I’d wish and I didn’t even play one single game. While it is bad and unfortunate, I guess it’ll do. This IBM is still going strong, but it runs Windows XP which might be an issue for the first iteration of Need for Speed. Also the hard drive seems to be particularly crunchy, which is either sign of approaching failure, or it’s just crunchy and I’ve…