The members of Londo Bell discuss Audrey’s departure and what that means, and everyone who hasn’t seen Gundam Unicorn already finds out Audrey’s true identity. Continue reading
Anime Review: Record of Grancrest War
One of my favorite works of anime fantasy is Record of Lodoss War. It’s a show that I try to watch at least once a year, and due to my appreciation of that, I’ve sought out the various works by its creator, Ryo Mizuno, which have gotten a US release, from the Lodoss series onwards. In any case, when Record of Grancrest War was announced, and that even more it was related to a tabletop RPG that Mizuno had created, I was definitely onboard to check this out.
Film Review: Fall of the Roman Empire
The Roman-Period Epic was something of a staple of cinema in the 1950s and ’60s, and one of the films of that genre that tanked the hardest was The Fall of the Roman Empire from 1964, which is a bummer because it’s really not that bad. Continue reading
We wrap up the fight, with at least two factions having mostly punched themselves out. Continue reading
Londo Bell continues the fight, with Neo Zeon and the Titans being the next targets. Continue reading
This month I have another special book review episode, as I give my thoughts on a book from Dark Horse that covers the making of the NES and SNES era Final Fantasy games. Continue reading
Londo Bell makes contact with Amalgam forces while the Earth Federation forces and Zeon/Amalgam troops clash. Continue reading
The Three-Way Dance begins. Continue reading
Movie Review: Night of the Lepus
The movie Night of the Lepus is a something of a joke in horror movie circles. While that is somewhat deserved, those reasons strictly lie with the film’s budget and some of the film’s effects. The rest of the film is put together incredibly well. Continue reading
Movie Review: Terror in Beverly Hills (1989)
When it comes to bad action movies, there are some names in action films that can be reasonably taken as a warning sign that the film you are approaching is a stinkburger. Frank Stallone is one of those names. Frank Stallone started his career as a musician and composer and has had a reasonably successful career at that. However, as his older brother Sylvester became one of the action juggernauts of the 1980s and ’90s, Frank kept also getting action movie roles, presumably on the basis that he looks enough like Sly, that if you put “Stallone” in large enough letters on the poster, people won’t look closer and recognize that it’s actually Frank. Continue reading
The Vist Foundation sets their plans in motion. Continue reading
After the battle, Judeau ends up chatting with the Ples, and Nine drills various cast members about their love lives. (But not Love Live – that’s a different game). Continue reading
This week I’m reviewing Of Dice and Men, a personal and general overview of the history of role-playing. Continue reading
With Banagher back in control, and with the Ra Cailum having linked up, it’s time to push back Neo Zeon. Continue reading
Banagher’s NT-D system has gone out of control, and the team has to bring him to his senses or bring him down. Continue reading
Anime Review: Akiba’s Trip – The Animation
Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed was an interesting RPG & brawler with something of a novel concept – that it was set in a re-creation of Akihabara with a level of detail that was just short of being on par with the level of detail that the Yakuza series puts into not-Kabuki-cho – by which I mean that there were some loading screens dividing up areas of the game, not much in terms of real-world alcohol to drink (because your protagonist is underage), and sadly no playable arcade games. Continue reading
Video Game Review: Puzzle Quest 2
The original Puzzle Quest was an interesting title, which took the concept of the match-three puzzle game and translated it to something of a larger epic fantasy context – one which lead to numerous clones in other genres, some of which I previously did a review on. However, the original Puzzle Quest also had a more epic scope to it, with you having to fight an epic big-bad in order to save the world. The sequel, on the other hand, has a more grounded scope, feeling like it is taking the Puzzle Quest formula with Diablo. Continue reading
The fight with Neo Zeon continues, but things are about to go pear-shaped. Continue reading
The Yamato and crew face off with Neo Zeon’s Royal Guard. Continue reading
I’m continuing with the Tabletop related books in honor of GenCon this week, with the first novel in the Dragonlance series. Continue reading
The Yamato and company have linked up with the Nahel Argama, but they aren’t out of the woods yet. Continue reading
We finally push back the forces of Neo Zeon and the Gamillans. Continue reading
Film Review: Stop Making Sense
Live music is theater. Yes, live music is often seen in a theater, but they the act of performing music publically is, in some manner or another, theatrical. It’s a performance that seeks to tell a story or convey an emotion through music. Some genres of music try to lean away from this, like folk or punk (though arguably punk leans so far away from theatricality that it ends up accidentally leaning into theatricality). Others, like metal, prog, and some parts of pop lean into it, either through telling a deliberate story or through the presentation. Stop Making Sense definitely fits into the latter category. Continue reading
Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
Well, after Avengers: Infinity War, there was some room for a lighter palate cleanser. Ant-Man and The Wasp is a film that intends to be something along those lines, and it generally succeeds. There will be some spoilers, as this review is coming out Early August after the film has been out for a while. Continue reading