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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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Small Things Like These is an adaptation of a novel by Claire Keegan and premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) is a coal merchant in New Ross, County Wexford. He’s the father to five daughters and is respected within the community. When Bill witnesses a young woman, Sarah (Zara […]
Usually when I sit down to write up my annual Top Ten List, I have a host of shows that I struggle to whittle down. This time around, however, while I had a decent sized list of shows to choose from, the culling process felt significantly easier than in years past because there just weren’t […]
Solo Leveling is a franchise by a Korean web novel and adapted into an anime series. The series gets its first film adaptation with Solo Leveling: ReAwakening. Sung Jin-woo (Taito Ban) is a weak E-Ranked monster hunter who is bestowed with special powers after dying during a raid and is resurrected. Sung secretly becomes one […]
We Live in Time is a romantic dramedy that stars two main British actors and focuses on the highs and lows of a young couple. Tobias Durand (Andrew Garfield) and Almut Brühl (Florence Pugh) meet after Almut runs Tobias over when he tries to retrieve a chocolate orange. The pair find they have a spark […]
Perhaps I’ve become a bit jaded as I’ve gotten older, but as much as I do still enjoy more feel-good comedies like ABC’s still excellent Abbott Elementary (which is crushing it once more this season, if you haven’t taken the time to dive back into it), I’ve been more drawn to some of the darker […]
Two episodes in and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew is a heck of a lot of fun – for what it is. And what it is happens to be a series that owes a heck of a lot to several late 1980s/early 1990s films about kids working together to go on an adventure. Think Goonies, Stand […]