For a certain generation, The Transformers: The Movie (1986) is a traumatic and horrible experience that defined childhood forever. Consider the opening: https://youtu.be/4lo7JPLJUUU We are in space. An eerie, haunting theme plays as, from between two suns, a distant object approaches. It grows closer, and we see it is a large grey sphere, surrounded by spikes, and [...]
(This one has been in the queue for a while, and I figure I should get this out before the TV show starts up and everyone starts in with their retrospectives.) Just finished The Invisibles in its nice fat trade paperback editions, and, well, perhaps you had to be there. I mean, I'm reading this comic out [...]
Everyone who couldn't afford the VHS tapes or DVDs eventually got the chance to watch NGE on Adult Swim, where it was presented in a more or less unedited format, and now a days, it is available to anyone with an internet connection and Google. But back in the late 90's, anime was much harder to [...]
For all that's been written about it -- exhaustively, I might add -- comparatively little has been said about Neon Genesis Evangelion's previous incarnation, Genesis Evangelion. I was shocked when I found a fansub of the six episode OVA in a VHS bin at Goodwill, but, well, that's how we find these things sometimes. They fall into [...]
I'm not one of those people who are glued to book reviews and clamoring to read the latest thing, despite my profession. I prefer to give books a bit of time to age, and to see if it's just going to be a flash in the pan that no one will care about in a [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7WE6WiPoA Revenge of the Sith is not the best Star Wars movie. It has wonderful visuals, an interesting story, and some really nice action sequences, but it is bogged down by some strange directorial choices, some odd dialogue choices, and the occasional poor acting performance. Backstroke of the West, on the otherhand, is just [...]
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