Thanks to the latest addition to our electronics department we are now able to beef up our social life by hosting weekend DVD screenings.

Sunday two weeks ago was the first such event, with an audience of seven (partly on the floor, we have to come up with better seating arrangement, I believe). With our current equipment we are still at the very low end of what can confidently be called a home theatre -- No screen (just projecting against the wallpaper), no sound system (just very cheap 2.1 speakers that also emit an annoying blue light), no means to block outside lights (and Tokyo is quite bright even at night), very cheap DVD player (I still have to find out how to set it to 16:9), and annoying colour wheel effects if you look for them -- but hey, it's big !

Casino Royale

A real train wreck. Star-packed ensemble (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen), but quite incoherent, probably because of the large number of directors and writers involved. On the other hand, not worse than Austin Powers.
4 points

The Hudsucker Proxy

You cannot go wrong with the Coen brothers, and this one has Paul Newman, too.
8 points

And one more session today:

Ghost World

In the brief period of time between high school graduation and working life Thora Birch and Scarlett Johannson play a cruel joke on record collector Steve Buscemi that eventually back-fires. Goes to show that comic book movies do not have to involve super heroes in silly costumes.
7 points

Out of Sight

Solid Soderbergh with George Clooney as gentleman gangster (that seems to be his trademark role) and Jennifer Lopez as a US Marshall trying (and at the same time not really wanting) to catch him.
8 points

I would also like to point out that I had originally planned to present Infernal Affairs, but Cantonese with Japanese sub-titles just does not cut it.