Tokyo Mew Mew New is magical girl anime. It is a reboot of the classic 2000s series, Tokyo Mew Mew. It is based on a manga series of the same name written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi. This series is produced by Yumeta Company and Graphinica. Takahiro Natori directs this anime. The […]
Indiana Jones Retrospective: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
After a 19-year break, Indiana Jones returned with Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It’s a film where the fan reaction can charitably be called mixed. In 1957 Indiana Jones has been abducted by Soviet agents and forced to infiltrate a secret American government base in Nevada. This leads to Indy getting accused of […]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Among the Lotus Eaters Review
What’s it going to take to get Ortegas her own standalone episode? Because every time she – and by extension, actress Melissa Navia – was on screen in “Among the Lotus Eaters,” the episode went from a messy slog to a fun, tight race against time to save the Enterprise from certain doom. But when […]
Indiana Jones Retrospective: The Last Crusade
Released five years after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade aimed to recapture the magic of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indiana Jones is approached by a mysterious figure, Walter Donovan (Julian Glover), an American businessman who asks him to find another lost artifact. This time Indy is asked to find the Holy Grail. Indy […]
The Horror of Delores Roach Review
Attend the tale of Delores Roach. In an unabashed riff on the class story of Sweeney Todd (unabashed in the sense that the series has a character compare the story to that of the Stephen Sondheim musical late in the first season), The Horror of Delores Roach isn’t all that original. However, in its leading […]
Secret Invasion – Betrayed Review
Sigh. G’iah, we hardly knew ya. (Seriously, thanks to an utter lack of character development and a narrative that has been so concerned with showing us various plots to get humans to kill off each other that are so thinly developed that we only hear about them moments before their execution so we’re half in […]
The Truckman Review
The Truckman is a post-apocalyptic short film that’s currently on the festival circuit. In the near future, a water shortage has led to chaos around the world and people have reacted in different ways. Some go to the cities to find water, and others try and survive in the wild. One group of survivors has settled […]
Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story – Season 2 Spoiler-Filled Review
Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story is an original (wild) golf anime directed by Takayuki Inagaki, with Yōsuke Kuroda as the series writer. The series is produced by Bandai Namco Pictures, a subsidiary of Bandai Namco Filmworks. The first cour/season of Birdie Wing aired from April to June 2022, and the second season/cour aired from April 2023 […]
The Best Television Series Set in Each of the 50 States
When my colleague, Kieran Freemantle, tweeted me earlier this week, asking me to name the best television series set in each of the 50 states (sorry Washington D.C.), my first thought was, “Oh my gosh. 50 is a lot of TV shows and that sounds like a lot of research.” But the more I noodled […]
Indiana Jones Retrospective: Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise. It is arguably the most divisive film in the original trilogy. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) finds himself on the wrong side of Lao Che (Roy Chiao), a Shanghai crime lord. When escaping China, Indiana Jones and his companions, Willie Scott (Kate […]










