I’m not an avid watcher of anime but I’ve been fortunate that most of the ones that I’ve watched have been pretty good. When I heard about the popularity of an anime calle... Read more
At NYCC this year I had a chance to see Akira on the big screen for the first time, but while at the screening there was another movie that had played just before Akira that Funimation was p... Read more
At this year’s New York Comic Con, Funimation and the Hero Complex held a screening of the seminal animated movie Akira, directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Ohtomo, to celebrate its 25th an... Read more
Every year people around the country get excited for the next magical Pixar cinematic experience but in Japan that excitement is usually reserved for the next film by Studio Ghibli, a studio... Read more
One film that’s slowly been making its way down the famous Studio Ghibli pipeline is Miyazaki Hayao’s The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu). The film is based on a manga of the same name... Read more
What do threesomes, walking fish, and secret World War II biological weapons have in common? No it’s not another new History channel special on secret Nazi technology. It’s an animated film... Read more
Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack, where do I begin? After debating for two hours with a few beers in hand, the group of people I was relaxing with decided they wanted to tag along for a film which I... Read more
A few weeks ago I received a mysterious package in the mail; all I knew was that it was a press kit of sorts. Like a cautious child on Christmas I slowly cut the packaging tape and opened t... Read more
Foreign movies aren’t for everyone. Especially when they are in a language you don’t know, thus reducing you to reading subtitles. I don’t mind reading a little bit while watching a movie an... Read more
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