Now that things are getting more stable, I turn the forbidden technique off for the remainder of the fight.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 183 – Cheater III
The Connection (2014): Film Review
When it comes to watching movies based on historical events, occasionally you happen, by varying degrees of coincidence, into a narrative between multiple films all based on historical events that all tie together. Sometimes it’s deliberate, with different filmmakers being in dialog with each other, and sometimes it’s happenstance, and sometimes it’s even a combination of the two. The Connection from 2014 (released in France as La French) is something of a combination of the two, being in dialog with the 1971 film The French Connection, but also referencing the events covered in Ridley Scott’s film American Gangster, and in turn making Hoodlum something of a prologue.
Read moreRaining In The Mountain: Film Review
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed a King Hu movie, and since another of his Taiwanese films, Raining in the Mountain, has been available on the Criterion Channel, I figure it’s time to revisit this film – and it’s arguably a little more Buddhist than his other film of the same year (also shot in Korea), Legend of the Mountain.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 182 – Cheater II
I continue to fudge things as AI and the map layout work against this particular escort quest.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 181 – Cheater I
After learning that losing this Escort Mission gets a Game Over, I make the decision to bust out a forbidden technique.
Read moreBreaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightquest – The Crusade Part 2
It’s time to quickly go back and finish off the whole Trigger Twins story, and all the missed potential that came with it.
Read moreSpy X Family Season 1: Anime Review
Sometimes you get an anime series that is so tremendously charming that there’s basically nothing bad you can say about it except that you want more of that series. Spy X Family (which I verbally call “Spy Family”) fits that criteria.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 180 – Troubled Past
Azelstan has a run-in with the Bakram and we try to help.
Read moreScience Fell In Love Season 2: Anime Review
When I watched the first season of Science Fell In Love So They Tried To Prove It, I started out by binge watching the show, and I found the show was basically one joke repeated with some variations. Consequently, when I switched to watching just one episode or so a week, I got a lot more enjoyment out of it. When season 2 was announced, I decided to watch this week to week, figuring that that would be the optimal way to get the most enjoyment out of it. It was – but this also lead to me running into a tonal shift brick wall on the last episode of the series, and without any significant foreshadowing. So, this review is going to have to get into some spoilers for the last episode.
Read moreLet’s Play Tactics Ogre PSP: Ep. 179 – More Randos
We have a random encounter on our way to the next sidequest.
Read moreIn The Line of Duty 4: Film Review
I’m not a fan of Auteur Theory. Movies, television, and video games have so many people involved in the process of creating them that putting all the weight of a work’s success on a single person weakens the contributions of everyone else in the project. That said, a good director can make a world of difference on a film, not because of their sole artistic vision, but because of the other contributors who they can ask to take part in the project because of their own past experience. Such is the case with In The Line of Duty 4, which has Yuen Woo-Ping in the director’s chair, which in turn makes a world of difference.
Read moreIn The Line Of Duty 3: Movie Review
The In The Line Of Duty series of films is kind of odd as far as film series go. It’s not like the Zombi or the Italian House series – where you had a bunch of directors taking a bunch of desperate films with common elements (zombies or horror films regarding a house respectively), and sticking the label of an existing series of films on them, making for a bunch of films based around a thematic link instead of a narrative link. The first two films in the series – Yes, Madam and Royal Warriors had a thematic link (women police investigators), and a cast link (Michelle Yeoh), but no character linkage, and otherwise did not share a common brand. However, over the course of re-releases and alternative titles, both of those films were re-branded as being the first part of a series of films known as “In The Line of Duty” – with In The Line of Duty 3, from 1988, being technically the third part of that series, but the first to codify the “brand”.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 13 – Where The Demons Dwell
To wrap up this session, I’m taking on a photo challenge in my Aston Martin.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 12 – Big Air
After doing the sprint races, it’s time to catch some Big Air.
Read moreBook (Video) Review: Light from Uncommon Stars
It’s time to take a look at the next of the 2022 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Novel.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 11 – Sprint King II
I make it to the Sprint Championship race – the Colossus.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 10 – Sprint King I
I decide to focus on the sprint events for a little bit.
Read moreRiver of Death: Movie Review
River of Death is a movie Cannon films picked up in the very late ‘80s, when they were kind of on their last legs, and trying to get by through doing the things that made them successful – capitalizing on other studios successes with low budget films (or optioning films at low cost) that had a similar vibe to them as other successes. In this case, going off of the success of Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, by optioning a movie that was already under production that had a similar adventure theme. Instead of returning to the Allan Quatermain well that they’d visited twice before, this time they went with a jungle adventure film based on a novel by Alastair MacLean, the author of Guns of Navarone.
Read moreSpider-Man: No Way Home: Movie Review
While Spider-Man: No Way Home was intended to be released after Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, it did ultimately come out before that movie, so I felt it was probably a preferable idea to watch this movie before the next Doctor Strange solo film. So, now that I’ve done that (and just after Sony has announced that an extended cut of the movie will be getting a theatrical release in December), it’s time to give my thoughts some. There will be spoilers for the film’s conclusion.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 9 – Gotta Go Fast
I take on several speed challenges.
Read moreYa Boy Kongming!: Anime Review
I have generally avoided doing a lot of Isekai anime. I’ve watched and reviewed the first season or so of Sword Art Online, and all of Log Horizon and My Next Life As A Villainess to date. However, otherwise, this means that the closest I’ve come to Reverse Isekai has been Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, which is using that particular genre definition loosely. So, Ya Boy Kongming! initially slipped under my radar… until I heard the OP – and then I had to see it. I made the right decision.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 8 – New Toy
I try out my Ferrari, and go on the hunt for another car.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 125
Before we start Nintendo Power’s 10th year, let’s take a look and see where the rest of the industry is.
Read moreForza And Chill: Ep. 7 – A Matter of Contrast
I’m trying out a new capture device with streaming, and trying to figure out performance settings.
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