![Journal With Witch Ep. 5 "Decide": Posthumous Mother Issues [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Journal-With-Witch-Review-3-660x371.webp "Journal With Witch Review (3)")
Journal with Witch brings up some serious posthumous mother issues for Asa and even Makio in Ep. 5 "Decide". Because as it turns out: being dead doesn't stop Asa's mother from still giving her issues. Of course, Makio's mother (and by extension: Asa's grandmother) is still very much alive, but that
Whoever Steals This Book is a very new anime film that you may not have heard of, but it's one that looks like it deserves much attention indeed. It's the anime adaptation of the 2020 novel of the same name by Nowaki Fukamidori, which also later received a manga adaptation in 2021. The entire
![TRIGUN STARGAZE Ep. 3 "Memento Mori": Puppet Horror Show [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Trigun-Review-660x371.webp "Trigun Review")
TRIGUN STARGAZE has Vash head back Home to a puppet show with Jessica in Ep. 3 "Memento Mori". Alas, this is not the fun kind of puppet show. This is the kind of puppet show that involves quite a bit of gun fu and martial arts, and all on the part of a very unwilling audience to boot. TRIGUN
Fans of the classic romance manga and anime Fruits Basket will readily recall the name Kyoko Honda. As the late mother of series protagonist Tohru Honda, she was a fascinating posthumous character with a most colorful past as an ex-gang member. Alas, we only get to see bits and pieces of that past
![Journal With Witch Ep. 4 "Cower": High School Blues [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Journal-With-Witch-Review-2-1-660x371.webp "Journal With Witch Review (2)")
Journal with Witch starts off Asa's high school life (and exacerbates Makio's parenting life) with a serious case of the blues in Ep. 4 "Cower". As you might imagine, it all has to do with a whole lot of unresolved grief Asa has for her recently deceased parents. Alas, this episode shows her still
![May I Ask for One Final Thing? Ep. 9-13: Flying Fists Of Funny [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/May-I-Ask-Review-5-660x371.webp "May I Ask Review (5)")
Ep. 9 to Ep. 13 of May I Ask for One Final Thing? confirm that this action-packed anime is on the lighter and more comedic side in terms of story. Even when things are getting genuinely dire and horrific, Scarlet doesn't lose sight of herself. Specifically: she never loses her love of beating the
![Journal With Witch Ep. 3 "Discard": Discovering Graduation Pain [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Journal-With-Witch-Review-2-660x371.webp "Journal With Witch Review")
Journal with Witch continues the slice of life drama with quite a bit of graduation pain in Ep. 3 "Discard". All stemming from some unresolved grief over the death of Asa's parents. It's a problem that gets further compounded even before the graduation woes due to a visit to Asa's old (and now
![Journal With Witch Ep. 2 "Wrap": The Growing Cast [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Journal-With-Witch-Review-1-660x371.webp "Journal With Witch Review (1)")
Journal With Witch continues Makio's adventures in taking care of her niece Asa in Ep. 2 "Wrap", and with a growing cast of characters too. Mostly in the form of Makio's friends and acquaintances, but with a hint that Asa has her own friends that will soon be introduced as well. All in preparation
One of Aardman Animations' most popular characters, the intelligent and ever-inquisitive Shaun the Sheep, finally has another trip to the big screen. The Shaun movies have become a franchise of their own, spinning off the iconic Wallace & Gromit shorts and features into a well-loved TV series.
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
“By Any Means” treads familiar ground, but Mark Wahlberg shines as real life Hitman-turned-Fed informer Gregory Scarpa, and behind the tropes and cinematic conventions is the kernel of a true story that has relevance to this day. Mark Wahlberg is distracting (mostly in a good way) throughout
