What does ‘modern’ Sherlock, Lara Croft and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo all have in common? Well, they technically starred in a movie together. Hackers is a 1995 movie directed by Iain Softley, starring blonde Jonny Lee Miller, short-hair Angelina Jolie and quirky Matthew Lillard. It is yet again a movie that in 2025 reached its 30-year…
Year: 2025
Thank you for vaping
Thank You for Smoking is a 2005 black comedy directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart – happy 20 years anniversary. It is satirical, it is clever, twistedly funny and probably not a movie that will be appreciated by everyone; the way it cuts into the hypocrisies of society is probably not for everyone’s…
Scissor salad
Anime is not only a Japanese thing anymore! Although they certainly still dominate a huge part of the market, in recent years more and more Asian countries have been giving their fair share within the animated medium. It is not only the case of famous manhwas that later received an anime adaptation either, as Solo…
A fast and furious minute
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…