Current TV Shows Fall 2008 — Legend of the Seeker — Terminator — Pushing Daisies — Eleventh Hour — Stargate Atlantis

These past few weeks haven’t allowed much time for films, and accordingly, not much time for reviews (Though Kris has been doing an awesome job on this front. Be sure to check out her reviews of Happiness of the Katakuris, Shogun Assassin Collectors’ Set, and Quantum of Solace). That said, I have been able to [...]

Happiness of the Katakuris (aka: Katakuri-ke no Kofuku) — dvd movie review — early!

Only by concealing a series of deaths and by burying the corpses of their guests, facing a brush with death themselves, oh, and an erupting volcano, will they eventually learn to repair their drift.

Shuffle!, vol. 3 anime review

Episodes: 9-11
Genre: romance, comedy, educational
Release Date: May 6, 2008

And the Shuffle! coverage continues. If you haven’t already, check out my reviews of volumes 1 and 2.
At the end of the last volume I was finding my interest in Shuffle! to be waning. Episodes 5 through 8 were interesting bits of animated relationship education, [...]

School Rumble vol. 6 — Glass Fleet vol. 5 — Wizards — anime — dvd reviews

I just received another big batch of titles (Shuffle, Black Blood Bros, and more), so I’ll just take care of some of my pending reviews in one fell swoop. I’ll be back with a full review of Glass Fleet vol 6 in the coming weeks. On to the reviews.
School Rumble vol. 6
After seeing the [...]

Operation Pussycat movie review

Director: Ryuichi Honda
Starring: Kei Mizutani, Nao Iguchi
Genre: Indie, Bad Ass Chicks, Japan, Action
Let’s start with the positives first. I think, outside of experimental art and music DVDs, Operation Pussycat boasts THE best DVD cover art of the past few years. It’s simple, clean, instantly catches your eye… It just pops. Cult DVD distributors would [...]

Shuffle!, vol. 2 anime review

Episodes: 5-8
Genre: romance, comedy, educational
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Those of you who read my review of the previous volume of Shuffle! will recall that I liked the series, but wasn’t able to put my finger on an exact reason why (If you haven’t already, check out my Shuffle! vol.1 Review). This time out, though, [...]

Shuffle! vol. 1 — anime review

Is it possible for completely clichéd material to provide any modicum of entertainment these days? I’m not talking about a simple peppering of genre clichés across an uninspired me-too narrative. Instead, I am referring to the laying out of entire plots based on setups so tired and well worn they make the aforementioned efforts seem [...]

Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (aka: Bubble e Go!) — movie review

Given my distaste for any and all things business related, you might wonder why I would have any interest in a film whose primary focus is on Japan’s Bubble economy, and what could have been done to preserve that economic prosperity. Well, what if I told you that that film was also a time-travel-comedy, featuring [...]

Murder Party — he said, she said — movie review — screener!

Murder Party
SHE SAID:
Somewhere there is a man who looks like Chris Elliot, but you will actually care if he dies. Chris Sharp plays Christopher S. Hawley, a totally blah, totally random alprazolam-popping traffic cop whose sorry socialization solely involves interactions with his cat. One Halloween, when the battle for the armchair is again lost to [...]

Severance — movie review

It’s no secret. The American horror scene is all but dead. The ultra corporatization of the horror film has stuffed our cineplexes with remakes, sequels, and tired “re-imaginings” on a near weekly basis. Take The Hills Have Eyes 2, Black-Christmas, Hostel, and Rob Zombie’s upcoming empty-headed Halloween remake for instance. The British horror [...]

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 [...]

Knocked Up — guest movie review — screener!

We’ve received another guest review, this time courtesy of Craig Merry, upstanding citizen and longtime friend of Dreamlogic.net. I know a lot of you out there are probably fans of either The 40 Year-Old Virgin or Freaks and Geeks, and therefore are interested in seeing this film. I know I am. Without further ado, on [...]

Blades of Glory — movie review

Blades of Glory is unabashedly funny stuff. Just imagining Will Farrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) carving and twirling in ridiculously revealing costumes is giggle worthy, but there were a lot of truly hilarious scenes.
Jon Heder plays beyond innocent if not metrosexual Jimmy MacElroy, adopted by the always uncomfortably comical William [...]

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.

Beerfest — Silver Hawk — Leave it to the Nurses — capsule movie reviews

In an effort towards catching up, here are a few more capsule reviews. Note that we do have some full reviews in the queue, including Brick, Chiseen,The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai, and Stereo Future. On to the capsules:
Beerfest . Holy crap! A Broken Lizard film that’s actually funny! Okay, so Super Troopers had a [...]

Lupin III :SPS — Stranger Than Fiction — Creep — capsule movie reviews

In an effort to catch up, here are a few very brief capsules for some flicks we’ve seen recently.
Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Very goofy, but undeniably fun, this live action adaptation of Rupan Sansei by the director of Demon Spies sees Lupin stealing and scheming to win the heart of a beautiful, ever so greedy [...]

The Wow-Choten Hotel (aka: Suite Dreams) — movie review

New Years Eve is a big deal in the states, but even more so in Japan. Think of our Christmas preparations times two. At the Avanti, a plush Five Star Tokyo hotel, the New Years Eve excitement is ramped up even further than the norm, as the night sees not only preparations for New Year’s [...]

Shaun of the Dead — guest movie review

Shawn of the Dead is likely to be the zombie cult film of our age. While it falls under the category of horror-comedy, the film is fairly witty and pushes the main character through many emotions throughout the course of the story.
The approach toward zombies is quite realistic, as Shawn passes off the first [...]