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.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 71 – Unnecessary Backtracking
We wander back down through the dungeon before realizing that we’re better off bamfing back to town.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 70 – Sir D-Bag
We meet the guy who reportedly kidnapped the queen.
Read moreMr. Vampire: Film (Video) Review
This time I’m reviewing a Golden Harvest film featuring Jiangshi.
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 69 – Take Two
I return to B5 again (after having to restart due to issues with my Bluetooth adapter).
Read moreLet’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 68 – Up to Speed
I give an update regarding the delay between streams, before running into technical difficulties other than the lack of gameplay audio.
Read moreMy Hero Academia: Make It! Do-or-Die Survival Training: Anime Review
Uzaki-Chan Wants To Hang Out: Anime Review
I’ve talked a bunch on this blog about my having Autism, and how my Autism informs media I consume. Well, one of the things that my Autism does when it comes to shaping what I do with my personal time is it makes me something of a homebody. I generally need to get a push to go out to do some activities. It doesn’t have to be a hard push, but that push has to be there. This lead to me resonating a lot with Uzaki-Chan Wants To Hang Out, one of the slice of life rom-com anime from the Fall 2020 season.
Read moreSuper HxEros: Anime Review
I generally end up watching about one fanservice show a season, and for Summer 2020, that show for me was Super HxEros (yes, there’s fanservice in Uzaki-Chan, which I’ll be reviewing later, but that’s not the focus of the show). The show promised a pastiche of the Super Sentai franchise, with a side of risque sensibilities. Ultimately, I’d say the show started out promising, but by the end of the series, I think its thirst overwhelmed its good taste.
Read moreNo Guns Life Season 2: Anime Review
At the start of this year, I reviewed the first season of No Guns Life, an hard boiled cyberpunk detective anime that brings the more noir elements of the cyberpunk genre to the fore, while still retaining some shonen action. The first season put a lot of focus on Juzo, the protagonist, working on a variety of cases that built out the world of the setting, but not necessarily the backstory. Season 2 instead shifts the focus back to Juzo, along with some of the supporting cast and their connections to him.
Read moreNintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 106
Not a lot of games this issue, but we do get some discussion of the N64 controller!
Read moreMillionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited: Anime Review
Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited is the anime series about a co-protagonist who buy anything except a break for their show. It’s a show that came out the year that officers from Minneapolis Police Department murdered George Floyd, leading to a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests that not only spanned not just the United States, but Japan as well. It’s a show that got postponed for a cour due to production difficulties from COVID-19. Consequently, as a part of that, it’s a series that wrapped up its season just in time for the officers who murdered Breanna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky to not face charges for their actions. And it’s about a co-protagonist who uses their astronomical, Nagi Sanzenin levels of wealth to get away with breaking the law under the auspices of having a badge.
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