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Timecrimes: The movie about the guy who wanted to look at boobs and ended up as a time-traveller

Timecrimes ( Los cronocrímene s, 2007) is a quite original Spanish sci-fi movie by Nacho Vigalondo. At the beginning of the movie, the main character Hector, who has just moved to the countryside with his wife, notices, via using his binoculars, a woman getting naked somewhere nearby. As soon as his wife leaves the house, he goes for a walk, looking for the naked beauty. However, a man with bandages on his head attacks him and chases him through the woods. Hector takes refuge at a nearby science lab, and he unwillingly becomes the subject of a time-travel experiment. Apart from a few less logical scenes, this is quite an exciting movie, which has aquired international success.   There is going to be an American remake of Timecrimes, in all probability by David Cronenberg. The multiple award winnning movie was written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, whose latest  sci-fi movie, Extraterrestrial (Extraterrestre, 2011), is about a couple witnessing an alien invasion. I will surel

2011: Just What I Have Accomplished in 2011

In 2011: - I restarted my English blog, - blogging in Hungarian, - reading & reviewing, - more SF poems published (One in Aoife's Kiss and one in SOTN.) - started tweeting, - got some more poems accepted, - wrote a short story,  - and got a lot of story ideas for later use. Plans for 2012: More writing and more reviewing. Improving my German. Hopefully, some travelling, too. There are going to be much more blog posts here about books, movies, etc. As for my writing, I have much more story ideas now, than ever before.