Blue Box Ep. 5 "Aquarium" is all about exactly what it says in the title. All in one of the most lavishly animated aquariums I've ever seen in any anime series. And yet, it all is merely serving as the backdrop to the developing relationship between Taiki and Chinatsu...and also the developing
Blue Box Ep. 4 "If He Wins" definitely puts Taiki into the spotlight here. Yes, Chinatsu is still an integral part of the story. However, it feels like now the spotlight is swinging onto badmindton rather than basketball. Blue Box Ep. 4 "If He Wins": Details Apparently, Mr. Badminton is the star of
Blue Box Ep. 2 "You Have to Go to Nationals" is the episode that clearly reminds us that this anime is in fact a sports anime at heart. It's not hard to see why then our main characters Taiki and Chinatsu are so passionate about their respective sport. However, the anime doesn't stop reminding us
Blue Box is one of the most popular manga on Shonen Jump for some very good reasons. Mostly because it's not actually a shonen manga. Its focus on romantic comedy with sports (specifically: badminton and basketball) as the backdrop makes the story more like a shojo story than your typical shonen
BLUE LOCK is one of the most popular anime series in recent times, which is rather fascinating given the story. It's basically a story of people taking soccer way too seriously. Heck, they take it so seriously that one of the genres of this sports anime is "psychological thriller". When that's one
Happy Gilmore 2 is one of the most surprising of these recent rash of sequels to old films. No one ever expected a movie about a hockey player turned golfer to be popular enough to get a sequel...except for possibly golfers. Apparently, this sports comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring
BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI- demonstrates to us the continuing popularity of this sports thriller anime by studio Eight Bit (Infinite Stratos, How to Keep a Mummy, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime). Yes, you read that right. This anime adaptation of the Blue Lock manga by Muneyuki
Happy Gilmore is a rather odd film that made its debut all the way back in 1996. It's basically a sports comedy story in which a failing hockey player (played by Adam Sandler) tries his hand at a new sport: professional golf, in order to save his grandma's house from foreclosure. Played in a most
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely