Gone in 60 Seconds is an action car-heist movie from 2000, directed by Dominic Sena and yet another title that this year hits its 25th anniversary. The premise is basic, a retired car thief has to get back into action and steal fifty high-end cars to protect his younger brother from a big bad villain….
Devotion to the craft
Tatsuki Fujimoto is the mangaka who wrote Chainsaw Man, a series that undoubtedly gave him wider recognition given the relatively recent anime adaptation and popularity. Before that, he had written Fire Punch, another fantastic story that portrays a gritty dystopian world (it is a series that would deserve a separate article). It comes as a…
Goldberg…I mean Grimm variations
Have you ever wondered how the story would have turned out if Cinderella would have been a manipulative demon-spawn that actually gaslighted her two big sisters into becoming hated by the entire family? No? Yeah, me neither…but someone did. The Grimm Variations is an anime that takes several of the Grimm stories and re-envisions them…
The Horizons of Shangri-La
Given that I already discussed several of the deconstructions and strong suits of Shangri-La Frontier, now that season 2 has finished airing, I decided to revisit what I said, explore some new tropes that were used as well and make a comparison with a sort of a classic – Log Horizon. In other words, we…
To copycat a Cat
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 (70 years anniversary this year) thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. It is the story of an older thief who, after retiring, is forced go back to his former profession because a copycat starts using his modus operandi; as such, he is forced to…
The Mask of the Fox
The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 ‘swashbuckler’ move directed by Martin Campbell and featuring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Now, I don’t expect anyone to have watched the original TV series (I know I watched only snippets here and there) or to have read the books by Johnston McCulley (yes, just like…
Komi-san can finally communicate… more or less
After almost ten years, Komi’s story reached its conclusion, clocking out at 500 chapters. I will say that at the time the anime adaptation was pretty well made, which in turn had given me the curiosity to binge read the manga; now, after about a year and a half since, I returned to finish reading…
The Pirate Groom
The Princess Bride is a 1987 iconic fantasy film, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright (honourable mentions are obviously due to Mandy Patinkin and André the Giant, two of the most charismatics rogues-turned-coprotagonists ever). It is the simple story of two lovers, how they faced the evils of a corrupted ruler…
The devil you’d want to know
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…