The Angry Birds Movie and its 2019 sequel are a bit of a mixed bag. As you can tell by the titles, they were an attempt to turn the popular Angry Birds video game franchise by creator Jaakko Iisalo and Rovio Entertainment (now a subsidary of SEGA) into an equally as succesful animated film
My Hero Academia in Concert is perhaps one of the ultimate expressions of how popular the anime adaptation of My Hero Academia has become. After all, it is basically the best parts of the anime's soundtrack, but played by a live orchestra. The fact that it's going on a world tour is proof that the
Any fan of Witch Hat Atelier will know after watching the first season's finale that it's one of the worst cliffhangers in anime history. Apparently, director Ayumu Watanabe (Summer Time Rendering; Komi Can’t Communicate), assistant director Jun Shinohara (Heavenly Delusion; Zom 100: Bucket
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
The Apothecary Diaries gives our lovably incompetent quack doctor some character development in Ep. 54 "The Paper Village". We even get to meet his family, who seem a lot less incompetent than he is, but are all more or less just as lovable. Mostly. Alas, even his family has a black sheep in it,
