Normal People Sally Rooney (2020) It's always fun to watch a piece of fiction that was shot in places you are familiar with. But I definitely wasn't prepared to what I saw. Normal People follows the tumultuous relationship between Irish teenagers Connell and Marianne, at the end of secondary school and as they enter College.…
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Video Game review: Gris
What if a simplistic game was one of the best things you ever saw? Nomada Studio (2018) I like "smaller" video games. I find myself drawn to those that present a different scale than impressive and imposing AAA games with tens or hundreds of hours of gameplay. Small is however not a quality in itself,…
Movie review: Venom
That is one big pile of s*** Ruben Fleischer (2018) I've been a big fan of Spider-Man since I was a child. It's probably my favorite superhero, and Venom is one of the best villains in that universe. I also like superhero movies a lot, I think Tom Hardy is a terrific actor, so on…
Movie review: Exodus Gods and Kings
Bale Out 2: biblical boogaloo Ridley Scott (2014) It took me years to finally see this movie, because I wasn't interested when it came out, and it had a lot of bad press at the time. But I was pleasantly surprised. Exodus presents a new take on the life of Moses, a valued member of…
Coding update: 2D Text Rendering
Making things a lot simpler I've reworked the code for bitmap fonts that I had before. What I had previously was working but in the end was very complicated for no reason. The new font library has the following (limited) features: request any TrueType font installed on the system, with some options (size, italic, bold,…
Movie review: Young Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes vs demonic cupcakes Barry Levinson (1985) Another movie to add to the list of those I've seen many times when I was a kid, and that I haeve rediscovered with pleasure as an adult. In Victorian London, young John Watson enrolls in Brompton Academy boarding school, and meets highly gifted fellow student Sherlock…
Movie review: Enola Holmes
And you thought Eurus Holmes was bad... Harry Bradbeer (2020) I really enjoy Sherlock Holmes (quite original isn't it?) and was very fond of the Sherlock BBC series, up until that dreadful last season, so I was interested to see an adaption coming back to the Victorian era. Enola, younger sister to famous detective Sherlock…
Movie review: Hidden Figures
Racism is unpatriotic Theodore Melfi (2016) When I saw a trailer for this movie and I thought two things: it looks very well made, and it looks preachy as hell. Hidden Figures follows three black women working for NASA in the 1960's, during a period of high tension with Russia over the space race, and…
Coding update – lighting and code removal
Slow progress is still progress These are the things I worked on since last article: Implemented the Lighting tutorials of LearnOpenGL - result visible hereAdded GLSL file types to code documentation (and added shader files to tutorial documentation)A LOT of code simplificationeffort to remove all needlessly complex structures and data typesremove all macros except dbuffer…
Coding update – tools, improvements and (re)Learn OpenGL
It's been a while since my last post, I was on holidays and also some of the things below kept me quite busy. Here is a non exhaustive list of what I've worked on: cmake scripts: I've finally managed to make targets dependent on files that are not source, so if that text or image…