May 2026 movie/music/etc recap
We're already nearing the middle of the year and wow that's stupid
Speedons
This month was the time of Speedons, a french speedrun charity marathon, and as always it was a lovely event! The public was a little too rowdy at points tho. Some of the runs I really enjoyed were (french vods):
- Pico park; it's a 8 runner speedruns!
- The Typing of the Dead is a classic in my book, and the runner was really cool
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Deltarune chapter 4, esp the bonus fight against Mike with the public at the end
- Öoo, I'm adding this one also because it's one of the best games that came out recently-ish and the speedrun is great, but you definitely should first play it!
- Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble
- Rain World: Downpour, the french commentary was great
- Super Mario Odyssey Kaizo%; as it's a kaizo variant, the run was incredible with the added difficulty!
Games Done Quick did their restream of the event as well, and the vods are up on their channel! I'm just linking the video from Day 1, the rest can be found pretty easily.
Movie
Dikkenek (2006)
This is a Belgian movie about said dikkeneks, which can be translated by arrogant boasters. It's one of those super stupid movies from the mid 2000s that I would have loved to watch as a teenager, but might not go as well nowadays, especially with the women that are deemed the sexy chicks in the movie. But this being said, dudes are also naked in there so there's at least that (but they are not as good looking as their female counterpart).
But still, there's a lot of good lines that are really, really quotable. Like "Better a little clic than a big "claque" (smack)!", said by the teacher to the kids in the museum of road accidents, talking about seat belts (that make a small clic noise) and accidents (claque). I love that kind of lines so much lol
Project Hail Mary (2026)
What a gorgeous, gorgeous movie
Ryan Gosling was the perfect actor for Grace, he has such a presence on screen and is so, so good at physical humor; the scene where he opens the sample container and then remembers contamination protocole was great. Rocky was adorable as soon as he appeared on screen! He was really well made and the team deserves all the awards for how much he seemed real and expressive for a five legged rock.
The story was really good, with heartfelt moments with these two (but not only, the earth parts are great too) and I will definitely read the book at some points. I know there are quite a few aspects that were changed for the movie but still, I have to read it one day.
Overall it positively reeked of hopecore and scientific optimism despite the adversary, but that's exactly the type of things we need right now and I loved it for it.
In Bruges (2008)
I haven't written down much during this movie, I just watched it without any distraction. The town was beautiful, the dialogues were very, very good, flowing from serious to humorous seamlessly, and the characters were all really interesting.
Colin Farrell being a petulant child is a++ in this, and his acting afterward is fucking phenomenal; the other actors are all great but he definitely stole the show in this one.
Overall a fantastic movie that I know I will rewatch in a few years.
Fracture (2007)
... I think I watched at least a part of this movie like ten years ago? Some of the scenes around the end got me a sense of déjà vu. Anyway!
Anthony Hopkins is so good at being a villain, it's unfair. I got surprised to see Ryan Gosling and his baby face appearing on screen, I didn't take a look at the cast beforehand, but he was excellent as the arrogant lawyer who then gets to want to find the truth.
The movie definitely scratches that "will they/won't they" itch up until the end and it's really well done. Great stuff!
Copycat (1995)
Like In Bruges, I don't have many notes for this movie because I ended up just watching for the fun of it. It's a damn good movie about serial killers!
Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter were so good! Hunter has a no nonsense attitude about her that were great with the rest of her male colleagues. Speaking of, the rest of the cast was excellent as well, and except for one thing that you could see coming from a mile away (though this is not the actor's fault but the writers'), they all felt important and useful for the plot. There were some overly dramatic scenes here and there, but nothing too exaggerated.
Les Tontons flingueurs / Crooks in Clover (1963)
I had never seen one of the biggest classic movies from french cinema, and it's now done. And I understand why it's considered a cult classic! If the first hour got me a bit hesitant - not that it's bad, but it sets the movie as a classic gangster movie with some fun bits - the second part is so fucking good, starting form the kitchen scene that is so, so iconic and then keeping that momentum and humour until the end. The dialogues are incredible as well, but since Michel Audiard was one of the main writers it's no wonder. The man is a wizard at his craft and created so many quotable lines, it's criminal.
Lino Ventura is perfect in his role as Fernand, he looks so done for the whole movie and it adds so much to his character. His repeated punch scenes with Raoul are a++, and it never fails to make me laugh. Speaking of, the sounds in this movie are great, between the music during those punch scenes and the gunshots, you could say there's also a great dialogue when it comes to sounds only in this movie.
The whole rest of the cast is great! Also, Pascal has so much aura. I won't elaborate.
So yeah, I get why this is a classic. It was awesome.
Music
The usual albums I liked from 1001 Albums:
- Green Onions by Booker T. & The MG's (I love Green Onions so much, and the other tracks are so good)
- A Night At The Opera by Queen
- Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J
- Vivid by Living Colour
Some links/videos
Stumbled upon The Necromancer's Spawn, a webcomic about said spawn trying to find his place in the world, now that he's not under his master's influence anymore.
Jack Ververis's Touring Museums That Don't Exist is an interesting video about digital museums! (And it reminded me I still need to check out the Museum Of All Things)
tanks for nothin's Making a Hidden Cavern Aquarium Inside My Desk is great! Love how he narrates the aquarium inhabitants' life, and the little added sounds are adorable (the shrimps are especially cute).