HAIKYU!! joins the likes of Slam Dunk, Jujustu Kaisen, and Spy x Family, an anime series getting a cinematic spin-off. The first original film in the HAIKYU!! franchise sees a conclusion to the rivalry between Karasuno and Nekoma high schools. Karasuno High School (The Crows) and Nekoma High School (The Wildcats) are two of Japan’s best high school volleyball teams. They […]
Doctor Who – Dot and Bubble Review
“What would happen if Doctor Who tried its hand at a Black Mirror episode,” seems like it could have easily been the pitch for “Dot and Bubble,” this week’s Who installment that certainly seemed to pull from the Black Mirror universe in its basic structure – including that gut-punch of a final sequence. And while […]
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Review
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a Hong Kong action crime film that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as a part of their Out of Competition Midnight Screenings. Chan Lok-kwan (Raymond Lam) is a refugee who arrived in 1980s Hong Kong. After being screwed over by the Triads, Lok finds refuge in the infamous […]
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 Spoiler-Filled Review
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is an action-adventure sci-fi animated series created by Dave Filoni. He is the creator of Star Wars Resistance and Star Wars Rebels, and supervising director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Tales. For over eight years, Filoni has headed Lucasfilm Animation, which has produced all Star Wars-related animated series […]
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review
It has been nine years since George Miller reintroduced audiences to the world of Mad Max with Mad Max: Fury Road. Now he has made a prequel focusing on Furiosa and has Anya Taylor-Joy in the lead role. In the future Australia becomes an eradicated wasteland with the only area that has fresh water and plant life being The Green Place of […]
Doctor Who – 73 Yards Review
One of the hallmarks of a great episode of TV is that it can take you through a gamut of emotions throughout its journey to the end. And that’s precisely what “73 Yards” did, as we walked along with Ruby as she not only attempted to solve the question of just who the woman following […]
The Garfield Movie Review
The loveable ginger cat Garfield makes his third appearance in a theatrical film. This reboot sees Garfield move back into the field of animation and sees an all-star voice cast in a heist adventure. As a kitten Garfield (Chris Pratt) was abandoned by his father, Vic (Samuel L. Jackson). Luckily he adopted Jon Arbuckle (Nicholas […]
Cherry Magic! Spoiler-Filled Review
Cherry Magic!, also known as Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, is a comedic boy’s love series, adapted from a manga of the same name by Yuu Toyota. There were previously TV drama and film adaptations. The anime is directed by Yoshiko Okuda and written by Tomoko Konparu. Tomoki Hasegawa […]
Doctor Who – Boom Review
Well, that was quite the episode of Doctor Who. We got a treatise on the horrors of unchecked capitalism (timely, as always), a quick swipe toward militant religiosity (although having the military consist of various Anglican clerics of differing ranks didn’t really have enough time to gel into a statement of sorts – although, you […]
The Big Cigar Review
About midway through the second episode of The Big Cigar, the latest AppleTV+ series, I found myself wondering just why this particular story hadn’t been made into a movie instead of an over-long and wholly unnecessary six-episode limited series. And when I dug a little bit, I discovered that in fact, it was originally optioned […]