Mega Drive kid, reporting for duty!
I'm finally diving into Sonic's Master System adventures after reading @keefstuart.bsky.social's excellent (and highly recommended) SEGA Master System glory-days piece. Prepare your eBay alerts and your wallet!
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My beautiful little boy, Westy.
13 years young, still mischievous, always hungry, and always up for cuddles.
#Caturday #Torties

Nothing says springtime like a plateful of mince pies.
Ho. Ho. Ho.

2024 was another exceptional year for cinéma.

Seen a few snooty reviews of GENERATION Z (Wheatley, 2024), but I think this is easily Wheatley's best production since 2016's FREE FIRE. Some great gore, effects and a fantastic cast - Viola Prettejohn is excellent as Finn.
Available to stream for the next 10 days.
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This demonstrates the lad culture ‘attitude’ of ‘Loaded’. Sharing is not an endorsement.
The player’s difficulty select screen uses a homophobic slur for players that choose to play the game on easy.

My first proper play on my new SEGA Saturn and I opted for ‘Loaded’. This is such a ridiculously mid-to-late ‘90s video game. It wreaks of lad culture ‘attitude’.
Played through the first three levels. Fairly fun but can see this getting tedious.
However, the soundtrack is ‘gnarly’ 🤦🏻‍♂️

Opening this, cleaning it and getting it all set up totes recaptured the joy I had upon unboxing my Japanese Mega Drive in the early '90s. Oof! I love Sega hardware. What's more it's in an EXCELLENT used condition, looks beautiful for its 30+ years on this earth and it works like a dream.

I managed to find a console relatively cheaply and the seller claimed they'd owned it from day-1 and that it was in good working condition.

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2023 was another exceptional year for cinéma. 
Simon's obligatory 10 favourite films of 2023 (with honourable mentions).

Scorsese's Film Foundation is currently screening the 4K Restoration of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (Corman, 1964). I loved the film's colour palette and the DoP was none other than Nicolas Roeg!

This before and after comparison of the restoration really demonstrates the improvement achieved.

Enjoyed Sept’s Film Foundation screening of HER MAN (Garnett, 1930). What I admired most was the camera’s movement; easy to take for granted in 2023, but the cameras of the 1930s were huge, so the scene in the bar where the camera follows a waiter delivering some drinks, is especially striking.

Scorsese's Film Foundation has its latest couple of restorations available to watch, for free, in their digital screening room - Shadi Abdel Salam's AL MOMIA (1969) & THE ELOQUENT PEASANT (1970).
Register and watch now: https://delphiquest.com/film-foundation/restoration-screening-room/al-momia