For the first few parts of this series of articles, I talked about a trope in anime that I call “the token foreigner”, gave examples of said characters, and talked about subsections of the trope in sports anime and in cases where the “foreigner” isn’t foreign. In an attempt to find anime that do non-Japanese characters…
From the moment when a desperate band of survivors beat down on zombie hordes in an English pub in time to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” in his 2004 directorial debut Shaun of the Dead, it was clear that director Edgar Wright had a rare knack for combining clever cinematography with needle drop pop songs. That same…
Disclimer: I know it is not in my usual style to talk about a non-animated film, but since it is so similar to an animated film that I previously wrote about, I figured it would count. This article contains spoilers for Perfect Blue and Black Swan. Read with caution. Also note that the following video…
The first James Bond movie I saw starring the late and dearly missed Roger Moore was Live and Let Die in high school. I grew up with Sean Connery’s classics in heavy rotation on VHS at home and the adventures of Pierce Brosnan playing out in theaters and on my Nintendo 64, and while popular logic dictates…
The Censored Eleven are a selection of old cartoons that were censored in 1968 due to their racist overtones and their negative depiction of black people. These cartoons form the basis of so many controversial topics ranging from racism to censorship issues to use of parody and the media, that it honestly would take many…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opens in now familiar territory: our intrepid band of heroic space-goofs trade some quips, tease out some deeper emotional conflicts, and lay the smack on a cosmic slug to some super sounds of the 70s while Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) shakes what he’s got. It’s moments like these that made…
In general, Disney makes good films. And Moana is another in a line of pretty awesome movies that the company has been releasing recently. I feel like lately Disney has been breaking down its own cliches in an extremely on-the-nose, yet strangely refreshing way. First there was Frozen which essentially tore down its “Disney Princess”…
Rooster Illusion 