High School

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Shuffle! vol. 4 — School Rumble - Extra Class — Batman: Gotham Knight — One Piece Season 1 — anime — dvd reviews

I’ve been meaning to get these out of the way for quite a while now, but just haven’t had the chance (see upcoming Summer update article). Since the capsule format was so popular last time, and since my review stack has grown so large, here are brief reviews of Shuffle vol. 4, School Rumble - [...]

Paranoid Park — movie review — Screener!

Poor timing dealt from inopportune situations, that’s Paranoid Park’s premise. Highschooler/skateboarder (not necessarily in that order) Alex (sweet-faced, eternally Zoo York clad newcomer Gabe Nevins) went out to “see the freaks skate” at Paranoid Park (oh, you know it’s Burnside) one night in order to drown his own almost all-too-aloof adolescent angst (parents’ divorce, [...]

Gantz anime review

Lonely as floating ice… in a good way
I’ve been a fan of anime since roughly 1993. I was in junior high and my gateway drug was AKIRA. I had previously seen American “adult” endeavors such as Heavy Metal, and the French film Light Years, and consequentially had been bored to tears, but this film from [...]

Napoleon Dynamite — movie review — screener!

Editor’s Note: This was actually one of the first Napoleon Dynamite reviews on the web. Go Kris!
VOTE FOR PEDRO On April 29th, we were invited to see a pre-sneak preview of what I believe will be one of the top comedic surprises for the Summer. If you like the “witty banter” between SpongeBob Squarepants and [...]

Elephant — he-said, she-said — movie review

SHE SAID: Ce n’est pas une école. Columbine is a subject I sometimes wish would just go away. Not because it was a tragedy, but because the media never handles situations of that magnitude truthfully. (i.e.: Iraq~ Jessica Lynch). Don’t you remember High School? Sure it was fun, but it wasn’t all hunky-dory and [...]