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Vexille (aka: Bekushiru: 2077 Nihon sakoku) — dvd movie review — early!
Director: Fumihiko Sori
Genre: Japan, action, action, sci-fi
Release Date: May 27, 2008
As interested as I was in watching Baldr Force EXE, I was completely ambivalent about Vexille. I’d seen the ads on all the geek sites, but its comparisons to Appleseed weren’t winning me over. You see, to be completely honest, I’m not that big a [...]
Dragon Ball Z Double Feature - The History of Trunks / Bardock the Father of Goku — anime — guest dvd review
Dragonball is perhaps one of the most popular anime series in the US, if not the most popular. Originally aired in 1989 in Japan, it was the TV adaptation of famed manga creator Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball. Toriyama created nearly 200 chapters for his manga that were finally collected into 42 volumes. The franchise has [...]
Ragnarok the Animation Volume 2 — guest anime review
So the anime reviews seem to be popular, not just with readers, but with guest reviewers as well! The latest guest review comes from longtime friend and literati Jeremy Walker. Read on for his review.
Disclaimer #1:
I have never played, nor have I even watched someone else play, the Ragnarok Online M.M.O.R.P.G. (massively multiplayer online role-playing [...]
Tokyo Loop — movie review — screener!
Clocking in at just seventy-five minutes, Tokyo Loop provides a collection of avant-garde animated shorts from Japan. Now, it’s important to note up front that the animation exhibited here is not anime. In fact, there’s nothing really stereotypically Japanese about any of them, save for the slightest hints at their Tokyo setting and one mildly [...]
Imagination — movie review
Paying major tribute to Jans Svankmajer, the Leiser brothers’ Imagination tells the tale of two twin sisters, one a sufferer of Asberger’s Syndrome, the other legally blind, who share a tendency toward retreating into imaginary realms, their visions and schemes border on the prophetic. While certainly intriguing to an outsider, all this slightly disturbs their [...]
Dreamlogic.net’s Ninja Favorites List
So, I’m a little late on this, but who cares? December 5th was Day of the Ninja, an effort to spread Ninja appreciation given the Pirates vs. Ninja net phenomenon. Now, I find the Pirates vs. Ninja thing to be a bit lame (I mean, c’mon. Stealthy assassins against legions of unwashed thieves and rapists? [...]
The Professional: Golgo 13 — dvd movie review
The Professional: Golgo 13 was one of the very first anime films I ever saw, way back in the days of Streamline and Orion Pictures (see: Akira, Crying Freeman, Fist of the North Star). In fact it was so far back, when the Luc Besson Leon: The Professional came out, I figured it was a [...]
Tales from Earthsea — guest movie review
Long ago, dragons and humans lived in harmony. Then the desire for material wealth led the humans to inhabit the earth and sea, and the dragons stuck with fire and air. This is the backdrop for the newest feature from Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies), Tales From [...]
Anime Foundationals: 13 Anime Films that are too cool to miss!
I’ve been meaning to write this for quite some time, but it took an article from Twitch (and my being way too busy to see any new films this week) to spur me to actually put this list down on paper.
Now, whatever your opinions are on anime, there’s no doubt you harbor a few reservations [...]
Ghost in the Shell: SAC: Solid State Society — Behind the Mask, — Bloodrayne — in brief movie reviews
…and a little more catch up. Reviews for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and, in preparing for the upcoming San Francisco screening of Postal, Uwe Boll’s BloodRayne. Enjoy.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society . How’s that for the [...]
Bad Bugs Bunny, a retrospective on censored Warner Bros. animation — animation review
Arguably HoleHead’s biggest draw, Dennis Nyback’s Bad Bugs Bunny commanded packed houses and sold out showings. A collection of banned Warner Bros. cartoons, shelved for the most part due to their overtly racist, sexist, and violent material (some since 1967), are rarely, if ever screened publicly. In fact, for fear of litigation, audience members [...]
We Are the Strange — movie review
This review is so long overdue that a serendipitous run-in with the writer/director prompted a strict reminder. M Dot Strange (aka: Michael Belmont) is so completely casual and San Jose-centric that he frequents a local boba tea place, even today as he types out an article for Wired Magazine (August issue — be [...]
Paprika (aka: Papurika) — he said, she said — movie review — screener!
Paprika
Note: If you’re already a fan of anime and familiar with Satoshi Kon, skip to the third paragraph.
HE SAID
Truth be told, anime is no different than any other storytelling medium. The rabid otaku would like you to believe otherwise, but really, it’s just like everything else. There’s a vast wasteland of uninspired, tedious dreck, [...]
Aachi & Ssipak (aka: Achi-wa ssipak) — movie review — screener!
Aachi & Ssipak has no shame. The Korean animation touches upon almost every taboo subject and exaggerates it, which can make it comical for some, perturbing for others. They got yer violence, drugs, bondage, and something you don’t see too often in cartoons: poo. In fact, the entire plot revolves around the [...]
BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo vol. 2: Scream for Ice Cream — anime review
It takes a special kind of weird to make me crack up. It’s the type of comedy that is so out of left field, so unpredictably off the wall it challenges viewers to even describe its humor. Shows like Aqua Teen and early South Park pull this off wonderfully. You either get these shows, or [...]
Happily N’ever After — he said, she said — dvd movie review — early!
SHE-SAID
The story of Cinderella has got to be one of the most replicated and remade romantic fairytales. I actually never saw the Disney classic, but I had the read aloud/along storybook/recording. Like most girls, I thought her dress was keen (the animals made it for her!). Unlike most girls, I thought the [...]
Aqua Teen Hunger Force colon Movie Film for Theaters — he said, she said — movie review
The main motley crew consists of an oversized “Happy Meal”: whiny egotistical Master Shake, levitating sleeve of french fries and voice of reason Frylock, and a naïve little raw meatball named Meatwad.
Disgaea Vol. 1: The Netherworld Prince DVD — anime review
Anime adaptations of video games are not unlike their American film counterparts. There are the occasional ones that provide worthwhile experiences that actually compliment and further the enjoyment of their pixelated progenitors (See: Gungrave, Final Fantasy Legend of the Crystals) but more often than not such adaptations prove half-baked cash-ins on quality [...]
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