This is of course another famous film based on an equally famous novel and it was directed by Miloš Forman who everyone surely knows due to Amadeus. Plus it stars Jack Nicholson in a film set in a mental institution. What could be more perfect, right? It turns out that the premise is actually that he plays the sole sane man in an asylum and that is even more awesome.
I confused myself by having two films with the same English language name released so close to one another though they are completely unlike one another. This one is a Chinese film by Feng Xiaogang who my wife notes is more of a mainstream director. Despite the plethora of awards this film racked up, it is utterly conventional and therefore uninteresting.
It has been a long, long time since I last wrote about this game, so long indeed that the post was on my old blog. I only revisited this because I was curious about the video game adaptations of some of the board games I already know and so bought the Humble Bundle of board games. It also happened to include this mini-pack for Sentinels of the Multiverse and I didn’t want it to go to waste.
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This film made the news for all the wrong reasons as it was released digitally by Netflix instead of a more conventional distribution and that apparently upset its director Alex Garland. I didn’t have high expectations of it but the director did make Ex Machina and this was adapted from a science-fiction novel that managed to win the Nebula Award in 2014. I haven’t read it however and after watching this I have no desire to at all.
It’s been a while since we’ve watched a Woody Allen film and as the director is currently out of favor in Hollywood due to the #MeToo movement, his career may very well be over. I added this one to my list after I read about it as being among his best work and I note that it’s also notable as being one of those in which he does not himself appear in it.
This came to my notice via the usual routes but I was apprehensive about it after learning that it contains gory content. I thought that it would be some variant of a torture porn film and I detest those. While the initial premise appears to bear this out it turned out to be a complete subversion and this is a far more original and effective film than I gave it credit for.
This is the first novel of The Witcher series proper as the first two books were collections of short stories. Intriguingly, it feels less like Geralt’s story than that of Ciri and one does feel the stage becoming bigger as we gear up to events that change the fate of nations, including the human-scale stories of the previous books. It also marks the first appearance of Triss Merigold and it’s rather surprising that Triss plays the part of the mother figure to Ciri before Yennefer comes into the picture.