At this stage of the game, I think it’s safe to say we’re going to be getting more of the “ten hour movie” episode treatment (or in the case of Skeleton Crew, the eight hour movie treatment) rather than the “this is a television series, so episodes are actually self-contained stories being told in service […]
Maria Review
Maria is the third and final film in Pablo Larraín’s “Ladies with Heels” trilogy, a series of films about important 20th Century women. This film focuses on the opera singer Maria Callas during the last week of her life. It is 1977, and Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) lives in Paris. It has been four and a […]
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Review
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most iconic video game characters who has made a splash in other forms of media. His third theatrical film has been heavily marketed and it looks like it will be one of the biggest films of the holiday period. In 1974 a top-secret G.U.N. military facility suffered from […]
Kraven the Hunter Review
Kraven the Hunter is the sixth entry in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe (SSU) with Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the role of the vigilante raising hell across the criminal world. Sergei Kravinoff (Taylor-Johnson) is the son of Nikolai (Russell Crowe), a ruthless crime lord. He survived being mauled by a lion when he was a teenager and […]
Skeleton Crew – Can’t Say I Remember No At Attin Review
One of the things I really don’t like about the bulk of the recent Star Wars television shows is their penchant for ending an episode at what feels like a commercial break and not the natural stopping point for an episode of television. My guess is that this habit – of which Skeleton Crew was […]
Laid Review
Laid, the new Peacock series that stars a great Stephanie Hsu (who I continue to believe should have won the Oscar over Jamie Lee Curtis for their film Everything Everywhere All At Once, but I digress), is a mixed bag. On the one hand, the series – which is adapted from an Australian series of […]
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Review
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium is extensive and more than just The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. This rich source material has been mined again, resulting in an anime prequel based on the legend of Helm Hammerhand. 183 years before the events of The War of the Ring, Rohan entered into a war that […]
From Mahjong to Loving Magical Girls: LGBTQ+ Representation in Animation in 2024
2024 began slowly, with the premiere of the ecchi magical girl series, with yuri themes, Gushing Over Magical Girls, on January 3, and Pon no Michi, a yurish anime centered on mahjong, on January 6. While the former was on HIDIVE, the latter never aired on any streaming platforms available in Western countries. Following that, […]
Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro Review
Klara and the Sun is the eighth novel written by Japanese-born British author, Kazuo Ishiguro. It is his second dystopia novel after Never Let Me Go. Klara is an Artificial Friend, or AF for short, an android designed to be a companion to a teenager. Klara becomes fixated on Josie, a girl who sees the […]
Skeleton Crew – Very Interesting, As An Astrogation Problem Review
This week’s installment of Skeleton Crew kept up the theme of expositional dumping, letting us know just what At Attin was – but crucially not what it currently is – and shedding a little light on just who Jude Law’s character is – since he’s absolutely not a Jedi, even if he does appear to […]