From west to east – or from east to west depending on your location – we have covered cowboys, now it is high time to cover the samurai. And what better movie than Seven Samurai? It is an immortal classic from the Japanese cinematographic industry, directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1954 and starring Toshiro Mifune…
The Spaghetti, the Western and the Poncho
Since the weather is finally getting warmer, it’s high time (and apparently high noon) to put a western on the movie-of-the-month column. In fact, to make it even more special, let’s go the full mile and put in a full trio, the so called Dollar Trilogy, undoubtedly Sergio Leone’s masterpiece. We are hence considering A…
Brütal Legends of Metal
So, hear me out, it’s been quite a while since Brütal Legend first launched back in 2009 and going back to play it, I can safely say that it still rocks just like 15 years ago. It may not be a masterpiece and might have one or two flaws here and there, but by the…
Loose and Happy Feet
It’s been quite a while since I haven’t covered a musical for this column, and since Footloose reached it’s 40th year anniversary, it would seem like an opportune moment. This might be bending the term ‘musical’, since there is no actual singing on behalf of the actors’ part, but it is considered such, so we’re…
The Nirvana of gaming anime
This series goes out for all the gamers out there that are also into anime. Shangri-La Frontier recently finished airing the first season and I must admit it was, well, pretty good for its genre. For anyone who wants to comment on the fact that it feels like a Sword Art Online wannabe, I will…
Where literature meets art
Not too long ago I had the opportunity and pleasure of discovering a wonderful masterpiece, a hidden gem of sorts that surpasses the individual confinements of written words and drawn images. Unflattening by Nick Sousanis is technically a graphic novel, but such a label is inadequate to describe the work itself; suffice to say that…
A door to the galaxies
So, here’s another cult movie that this year celebrates its 30th year anniversary, a movie that in today’s context I would describe as what happens to history channels after normal broadcasting hours. Anyway, if you have been living a world deprived of any contact with science fiction, then you might not have heard of it,…
Webtoons – No party, more XP
With the first season of Solo Leveling in full throttle, I wanted to share a little insight on some themes that it touches and possibly explain why it became so popular. Some Technical Details Solo Leveling is a web-novel or webtoon/webcomic written by Chugong and illustrated by Jang Sung-rak, serialized between 2016 and 2018….
The G.I. Joe Chip
This movie will end the triad of “dive into childhood nostalgia” – just a last gem to unlock a core memory from way back when; so let’s jump back to 1998 with Small Soldiers by Joe Dante, another movie about toys coming to life. Instead of a magical cupboard, this time it is about a…
The Indian, the child and the cupboard
This is to continue the dive back into nostalgia with the movie-of-the-month-column – so let me start this introduction differently: A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, when children still played with toys and did not watch YouTube videos about Minecraft our story takes place. Sorry, maybe children still do play with…