Tag: Fantasy
You Should Be Watching: Tale of Tales (2015)
Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I recommend lesser known or loved movies and TV series. This week I’ll be continuing my theme of horror, creature-features and anything suitable for Halloween. For this installment we’re slaying sea monsters with John C. Reilly in Tale of Tal...
Read MoreREVIEW: My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)
In 2016 the My Hero Academia anime was released. Back then, I don’t think anyone could’ve guessed how big the series would eventually become. The first season gave its audience likable characters to latch onto, and it turned the series into a global phenomenon. There are very few anime...
Read MoreREVIEW: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
“There’s a clock in the walls. We don’t know what it does, except… something horrible.” Last Friday, Universal released The House with a Clock in Its Walls, based on the 1973 John Bellairs children’s mystery novel of the same name. I had never read or heard of the book, but t...
Read MoreMarvel’s The Eternals Finds a Director
Lost in the weekend shuffle that included trailers for Captain Marvel and The Girl in the Spider’s Web, a release date for Kingsman 3, and a new James Bond director – not to mention a Joker in the deck – is the news, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, that Marvel has hired Chloe Zhao to &hell...
Read MoreREVIEW: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
Most of the anime community agrees that there is one studio that casts a large shadow over all the others. For the last three decades, Studio Ghibli has given us some of the greatest animated films of all time. In 2014, the great Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement, which meant changes for the s...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Dragon Prince – Book One: Moon (2018)
Last Friday, a new animated series called The Dragon Prince hit Netflix. The series was developed for the streaming service by Aaron Ehasz, head writer and producer of the critically acclaimed series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Avatar writer/director Giancarlo Volpe is also present as a director a...
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