The 2026 reboot of Magic Knight Rayearth shows us that friendship is quite powerful in the magic department in Ep. 4 "Our Battle". It's a lesson from My Little Pony, but it's quite applicable to this anime too. Our trio of heroines will need that power, since this is their bloodiest battle to date.
Bunker centers on famous and celebrated architect Miguel (Javier Bardem), who has uprooted his family from Spain to London. His perfect life gets interrupted when his working-class neighbor Tony (Stephen Graham) starts to build a garage conversion with a window overlooking his garden. The architect
The Apothecary Diaries has the cast finally begin to prepare for the incoming locust plague in Ep. 52 "The Last Volume". Sure, they could've prepared much sooner. However, without the intel gained in this episode, those preparations wouldn't have been nearly as guided as they are here. Now it's
For a film called All Of A Sudden, very little happens suddenly in Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s sensitive portrayal of friendship and care. The director (Drive My Car) has a particularly patient style of filmmaking that is not universally appealing, but it captures humanity in all its messy earnestness.
Sasaki and Peeps gives us plots galore being brewed up, as you might expect from Ep. 15 "Concealment and Infiltration" with that title. Complete with both the faking of a death and an undercover operation to investigate the death game faction. It's all great ingredients for some serious political
Magic Knight Rayearth gives our heroine trio a stroll through some noticeably magical woods in Ep. 3 "All in the Same Boat". Fantasy fans will be fully aware of the fact that magical woods are a staple in such stories. What this episode does though is use a trip through the magical woods to help
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
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
