What do soccer (aka. football everywhere outside of the U.S.) and anime have in common with each other? Well, as it turns out, there's a surprisingly large amount of overlap between them. Sports is a very popular theme in numerous anime series and movies, after all. Even just narrowing it down to
Godzilla is the iconic radioactive, atomic fire-breathing kaiju (and king of the monsters) that spawned an entire highly successful franchise for Toho Co.. Meanwhile, Formula One is the highest class of worldwide racing involving those open wheel, single person, almost jet plane-like racing cars
As you might expect from a superhero action-adventure story, My Hero Academia has a very strong focus on physicality. It's why it tends to intersect with sports quite nicely, especially since part of the story does in fact involve superpowered sports. And with how popular the manga/anime by Kōhei
Happy Gilmore is a very odd film, and a pretty elderly one at that. It's basically a sports comedy about a washed-up hockey player (played by Adam Sandler) switching to golf that first made its theatrical debut in February 1996. And yet, despite mixed critical reception, it achieved quite a bit of
![Blue Box Ep. 25 "Even So": Hina Shipwreck Aftermath [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Episode_25_Preview-660x371.webp "Episode_25_Preview")
Blue Box Ep. 25 "Even So" marks the finale of the first season of this anime. As you might expect from the previous episode, this one deals with the wreck of the Hina ship that sunk then. Interestingly, it's the way the story deals with that ship sinking in a way that blames neither party that
![Blue Box Ep. 24 "A Roller Coaster": Hina Ship Sinking [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/0c111d70-bf05-4fc8-85e7-425ac6c5a6e1-660x371.webp "0c111d70-bf05-4fc8-85e7-425ac6c5a6e1")
Blue Box Ep. 24 "A Roller Coaster" isn't quite as exciting as the title makes it out to be. In fact, it varies from being light-hearted fun to being downright tragic, with the roller coaster aspect of the show bringing the emotional feels swinging up and down until it hits the ground. Alas, this is
Blue Box Ep. 22 "Inota!" gives us a more in-depth look at the new girl: Ayame Moriya. Relax, everyone. She's not here to form another corner of the love triangle. If anything, she ends up supporting the Hina corner of the triangle after hearing her story. As it turns out, Ayame can be a very fierce
![Blue Box Ep. 21 "A Chance To Blossom": Love And Managerial Woes [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AOH_ep21_000029-660x371.webp "AOH_ep21_000029")
Blue Box Ep. 21 "A Chance to Blossom" carries multiple meanings. The first meaning comes from Chinatsu, and is only apparent when you look at her scene in a romantically philosophical context. The second meaning comes from the newly introduced Ayame Moriya, who is also getting a chance to blossom
Casper Kelly's Buddy is a mind-bending journey into a very dark version of children's television. Back in 2014, Casper Kelly gave the world "Too Many Cooks," an 11-minute dive into aging television conventions that swam deeper into a twisted darkness the longer it went on. It seemed a fun inheritor
I remember seeing the trailer for The Dog Stars and having my eyes roll back in my head. Do we really need more post-apocalyptic stories when we're living in a real life apocalypse? Do we need another movie that has an analog for COVID-19 and the aftermath that had on our own society. Well,
The Lantern Corps is a tricky thing to bring to life. We saw that with the 2011 movie Green Lantern. But Lanterns manages to put DC's "space cops" in a gritty reality where having the ring isn't everything. Chris Mundy, Watchmen and Lost's Damon Lindelof, and comic writer Tom King weave a story of
