Saturday Morning Cartoons: Shame September – I like “Ouran High School Host Club,” but not its fans

Sci-Friday’s columnist, Sarah Lawrence, has dubbed this month “Shame September” where we will watch and review movies or TV shows that we are ashamed to have never seen. As an added disclaimer to the fans of this anime, please don’t kill me. Over the years, many people, including several friends, have tried to get me to watch…

/horror and “It” (1990)

Pet Sematary | It | Children of the Corn | The Mist Baddie: A clown. Lesson: Fear is scary. For the next installment of Shame September, I get to watch Stephen King’s It. I consider myself fortunate that I never sat through It as a young ‘un, that I have the privilege to sit down and enjoy it in my…

Wet Hot American Breakfast

Hm… that turned out to be kind of a gross title for this article, actually, and it lacks my requisite “Second.” Not a good start. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now. Wet Hot American Summer came out in 2001 and became an immediate cult classic, beloved not only for its weirdly on-point,…

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Shame September – “Akira” is Every Dystopian Sci-fi Movie You’ve Ever Seen

Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons. This month we will be doing something slightly different. Sci-Friday’s columnist, Sarah Lawrence, has dubbed this month “Shame September” where we will watch and review movies that we are ashamed to have never seen. (as a disclaimer, I watched this film in Japanese, but I’m adding an English trailer for the convenience of…