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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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Wes Anderson is a filmmaker known for his signature visual style and whimsical tone. He takes his directional traits to the sci-fi genre with Asteroid City. In 1955 a group of assorted people arrive in a small desert city. This includes war photographer Augie Steenbeck (John Schwartzman) and his 14-year-old son Woodrow (Jake Ryan), famous […]
No Trek series is ever truly a Trek series until they do a time travel episode*. So, Strange New Worlds choice to introduce James T. Kirk to the series by sending an alternate future Kirk back to the past with La’an – in an episode that also tackled the always interesting “What happens if you […]
Yuri Is My Job!, also known as Schwestern in Liebe! or Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu!, is a yuri comedic anime based on an ongoing manga by Miman. Twelve volumes of the manga have been printed, eleven of which have been translated into English. Passione and Studio Lings produced this series. It is directed […]
Raiders of the Ark was the film that started a beloved franchise and arguably one of Steven Spielberg’s famous films. It’s up there with Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park. With a fifth and final Indiana Jones film coming out, it seems like a good time to revisit the series. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is a brilliant archaeologist and adventurer. The American government approaches him […]