It can be difficult to start watching anime when you’re just starting out considering everyone has an opinion about the best entry series to get you fully engaged with the genre (but don’t be fooled, it’s 100% Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood…
TikTok, Phish and 100 Years of Cinema: Getting Through 2020
We don’t need to tell you how tough 2020 has been and yet, it would seem flippant if we didn’t address the elephant in the room that has re-established how we process time, handle grief and nurture relationships. Aside from…
Children of the Sea Movie Review: A Stunning Look at Nature and Humanity
Children of the Sea refuses to play by the narrative rules of what audiences have come to expect from this sort of animated film. From the rough lines of the hand drawn animation that contrasts with the smooth digital effects…
16 Great Anime Available to Stream Right Now
Anime can seem daunting to the uninitiated with where the hell to start being one of the biggest questions. People will be overly eager to supply you with suggestions and/or tear down the opinions of others. The sheer volume of…
Weathering With You Movie Review: Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered another stunner
Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered greater films than his latest, the climate change aware Weathering With You. His films such as 5 Centimeters Per Second and the 2016 megahit Your Name offered greater nuances in storytelling as opposed to the…
Penguin Highway Movie Review: Coming-of-age sci-fi anime is joy incarnate
Somewhere along the red string from adolescence (all knobby knees that get skinned, metal braces that get caught on lips, hair that frizzes in the heat, elbows and boned corners of bodies and sweat, lots of it) to adulthood (taxes…
Mirai Movie Review: An imaginative animated journey
If one were to say Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai is a film about family they wouldn’t be wrong, but at the same time would be doing this tapestry of ancestral lines a disservice. Too many 2018 films are about “family,” but…