We are in the romantic month after all, and considering that last year, for the ‘movie of the month’ column, I skipped it entirely in favour for a return to childhood theme, this time I have three more or less romantic suggestions. So now that you have a clue for the recommendations for March and…
Dan-Da-What?
How do you recommend to someone a series that is so preposterous, so over-the-top, so absurd that it will make you go ‘wut’ at every scene? A series that in the very first episode has aliens wanting the human’s ‘banana organ’ and a malevolent spirit called turbo-granny saying that she will let the protagonist ‘suckle…
Billy
Let me kick off the new year with a movie that that just reached its 25th anniversary; The Kid was directed by Jon Turteltaub and starred Bruce Willis and Emily Mortimer. The premise puts the main character, a successful, arrogant and stressed image consultant, to confront his past; the past in question, as such, is…
My star pupil
These will be just a few fast taught on an anime series that recently had its second season, Oshi no Ko – My Star. The reason I wanted to write something about it and why I find it interesting enough to do so is because the anime manages to combine the murder mystery genre with…
…but they can do so together
Jellyfish can’t Swim in the Night is an original animated production made by Doga Kobo to celebrate their 50th year anniversary. It features a group of young high school girls, each with their own dreams and problems, who band up together to produce music and animated videos. The series partially explores the difficulties that arise…
The farthest station of the Orient Express
The 2024 movie-of-the-month column began with an animation piece, and so it shall end, one that in fact just hit its 20th year anniversary (since this has been a bit of a leitmotiv as well). Polar Express is a 2004 animation movie directed by Robert Zemeckis (the same one that directed the Back to the…
City of Sin (no, not Vegas)
Since for the movie-of-the-month column in October I discussed The Crow – and how its style eventually influenced other similar graphic novel adaptations – I thought it would be opportune this time to discuss one such case. Without further ado, let me introduce a noir or neo-noir piece that had quite a unique style: Sin…
Quoth the crow, Nevermore
This is not necessarily what one might expect when hearing the words ‘Halloween movie’; I am however willing to bend the rules of categorization given how well this film sets the unnerving tone for its plot. Furthermore, this is yet another movie that this year to its thirtieth anniversary, so a little appreciation is a…
MHA – A silent ending to an explosive series
A couple of months ago a long-lasting manga series reached its climax and conclusion, and having finally gotten a moment to finish it myself, I decided to share some thoughts. My Hero Academia, although having had an overwhelming beginning that caught a big part of the anime community in its fervour, even being indicated as…
Helsing van Belmont
A bit of a strange one for the movie of the month column, but it is the 20th year anniversary of Van Helsing and it is an adequate way to ease in to the upcoming Spooktober. Van Helsing is a 2004 action horror(-ish) movie directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale and Richard…