Silent Running is a weird film to talk about. It’s clearly a film that wants to be a response to 2001: A Space Odyssey, made in the 1970s in the wake of auteur films like Easy Rider. It’s also very clearly a film with something to say, which is cool as I really like science fiction that engages in social commentary. However, there is a bunch about Silent Running that doesn’t quite work. Read more
The latest anime from Ufotable, Katsugeki Touken Ranbu, just wrapped up this past weekend, and having finished the show, I might as well give my thoughts. Read more
We start off Liam’s loyalty mission, to help out one of his Angaran contacts. Read more
We finish up our last bits of work on Aya. Read more
R2-D2 & C-3P0 get their time in the spotlight in the new expanded universe. Read more
We return to Aya to do a whole bunch of sidequests. Read more
We finally follow up on that lead on the Turian Ark’s location. Read more
I’m taking a look at the proto-slasher film The Town That Dreaded Sundown from the late ’70s, predating Halloween, but being made after Black Christmas. Read more
A while back I reviewed one of Amicus’ horror films – the 1972 Tales of the Crypt movie. For the first of my October horror film reviews, I have another Amicus anthology to review: Doctor Terror’s House of Horrors. Read more
We finish up the loyalty mission and get the seed vault back. Read more
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Vampyr. I’m pretty familiar with vampire movie concepts at this point, but most of the even most well known films of the concept really brought something to the table that gave them something extra – Nosferatu used the memories of the 1918 Influenza outbreak and leveraged that to bring a new direction to how the vampire is scary (and in a way that has aged incredibly well).
Read moreThis time we start off Drack’s Loyalty Mission. Read more
In the wake of the passing of Jerry Pournelle, I have a public service announcement. Read more
It turns out that the Initiative has a problem with a large rat of the humanoid variety, and we need to flush it out. Read more
We come to the final showdown and the reveal of who runs the Collective. Read more
Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film North by Northwest is an iconic film, that most people know of for at least one sequence – the cropduster scene in the middle of the film – with the assumption that this is a tense thriller. It is, but it’s also a little more comedic than you’d think. Read more
I’m a fan of the films of Michelle Yeoh – I generally thought she was super-cool back when I first saw her in Tomorrow Never Dies when I was in High School, but unfortunately very few of her movies had become particularly accessible in the US. Supercop got a wide release, as did Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but the rest of her filmography required hunting online, requiring you to hunt down DVDs through Amazon or other services.
Netflix made some of those films accessible on disks, but as those disks fell out of print (and were not returned to Netflix), it became harder to find some of those films. Thankfully, some of those movies have become available again through streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix Instant, such as the film I’m reviewing this time, Royal Warriors. Read more
It’s time to settle things between Sloane Kelly & the Collective. Read more
The patient got loose on the Nexus, where they could end up unintentionally destroying the Andromeda Initiative. Read more
This time we’re covering issue #54 of Nintendo Power for November of 1993, featuring Secret of Mana! Read more
A recently awoken colonist turns out to be the carrier of a nasty disease, and we need to find them before they infect other people. Read more
We hang out with Reyes, and attend a big party held by Sloane Kelly. Read more
As I mentioned way back in my review of Shirobako, I’m a fan of works about the making of stuff, going all the way back to reading Aliki’s How A Book Is Made and Digging Up Dinosaurs when I was a little kid. Consequently, when I learned about the anime series New Game!, it went on my watch list. I’ve finished watching that, and while the second season is currently airing I figured I might as well give my thoughts on the first season. Read more
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ is one of the Universal Century Gundam series that had yet to receive a US release. Bandai Entertainment USA had announced a US release prior to them shutting their doors several years ago, but now that RightStuf has been working to bring out various Gundam series to the US, which means that fans here can finally take a look at the show legally.
As a head’s up, there are some spoilers for the show here, but I’m going to work to keep them to a minimum. There will be some heavy spoilers for Gundam Zeta, which are somewhat essential due to how the show starts. Read more
