We get started on the other route on B6.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 84 – Other Side
Manga Review: Maison Ikkoku Vol. 1 (Re-Release)
In what feels like decades since the last release of Maison Ikkoku, Viz is re-releasing the manga, using the 10-volume format that the series received in Japan, instead of the 15-volume release they used for the previous version, and with a new translation. Since I didn’t get particularly far in the manga with the previous release, I figured now is a pretty good time to start over from scratch.
Read moreThe Vampire Lovers: Film Review
Hammer Films has always had some form of sexual content in their movies, generally in the form of various generic barmaids with cleaving-accentuating outfits being menaced by some form of monster (usually Dracula, but occasionally a werewolf or Frankenstein’s monster. However, due to Hammer’s frequent clashes with the BBFC, never with actual nudity. Similarly, while critical discussion of vampire fiction has discussed a degree of homoeroticism, up until the 70s, much of what you got was male actors staring intensely into someone’s eyes before feeding on them – with probably the distinct exception of Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural. The Vampire Lovers crosses both of those lines.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 83 – Dead End
We reach a dead-end in the dungeon and warp back to town to plan an alternate route.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 82 – Forfeited Humanity
We discover what has become of Hina’s brother.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 107
We get a bunch of upcoming N64 titles this issue – not reviews of them, just discussion, as a bunch of them aren’t ready yet. But we’re getting closer to launch.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 81 – Out of the Office
After checking to see that the “Queen” is “safe”, we continue our exploration of B6.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 80 – Something’s Fishy
We take on a new party member for one of the side quests, before rescuing the queen from a Demon.
Read moreThe Devil’s Rain: Film Review
The Devil’s Rain, like Scream and Scream Again, is not a good movie. It is a more competently shot film. However, its story is barely comprehensible and the dialog is painful to listen to, in spite of its solid cast.
Read moreScream and Scream Again: Film Review
Amicus Films greatest strength as a studio has been, in their films I’ve previously reviewed (like Tales from the Crypt and Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors) has been their anthology films. Their films were always fairly low budget, but the short form anthology film format allowed them to get good actors in for short narrative works. Scream and Scream Again shifts things by doing a more ambitious narrative, but one which stumbles out of the gate and is fumbled in its execution.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 79 – D’oh
We realize that we forgot to pick up the book and return to the dungeon to get it, and then almost wipe again.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 78 – Left on the Table
We find the tome we were seeking on level B6, read it, and then completely forget to pick it up before we return to town.
Read moreMandy: Film Video Review
It’s time to review the other movie from the director of Beyond the Black Rainbow.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 77 – Near Wipe
We have the first of this session’s near-wipes, and we finish reading Helga’s diary.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 76 – Traps
We run into a bunch of traps during or exploration of B6, before getting our clock cleaned.
Read moreMemory: Origins of Alien: Film Review
I like documentaries about the making of movies a lot. Empire of Dreams was one of my favorite parts of the Star Wars DVD set, and its lack of inclusion on the Blu-Ray release was something of a bummer. Similarly, each of the making of documentaries on the Prequel movies were great, even if the movies themselves had issues, and I’ve always loved the documentaries on the various Alien series boxed sets. So, when I learned an independent documentary was being made on the origins of Alien, I had to pick it up.
Read moreBody Bags: Film Review
One of the genres where horror thrives is the Anthology film, and by “thrives” I mean that pretty much the only anthology films being made these days are horror films. Often, they take the framing narrative from EC Comics and it’s like – horror stories book-ended with a narrative by a ghoulish presenter of some form or another – you know, the classic Tales From the Crypt formula. Well, when HBO launched their Tales From The Crypt anthology TV series and films, Showtime filmed a pilot for their own, to be titled Body Bags. They didn’t decide to go forward, but did take the three filmed stories and turned them into their own anthology film.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 75 – Out of Business
We bid farewell to Helga, and continue our exploration of B6.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 74 – The Auction
We check out the auction for the Houndsword. It doesn’t go well.
Read moreBreaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightfall Prelude, Act 5 – Flight of Azrael
This time Azrael gets to fly with the Bat-Family for the first time.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 73 – Short Run
We head back down to B6, but don’t explore for too long.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 72 – Evil That Men Do II
We get more information about our past, and learn some more about the truth behind The Flash.
Read moreThe Haunted Palace: Film Review
The Haunted Palace is, ostensibly, another of Roger Corman’s Edger Allen Poe adaptations, in this case doing a story based on one of Poe’s poems. However, it’s not that at all. Indeed, Poe’s poem barely shows up in the story in the first place. Instead, The Haunted Palace is more of an adaptation of one of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft – specifically, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, with a screenplay by Charles Beaumont (who I reviewed a documentary about a while back).
Read moreRent-A-Girlfriend Season 1: Anime Review
If Uzaki-Chan was this past season’s big romantic comedy anime, Rent-A-Girlfriend would be the big romantic drama or dramady anime. It’s generally an okay show, though I could see it being a real problem in subsequent seasons, depending on how it goes on. It’s part of a nice trend of anime series based around colleges instead of being around high schoolers.
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