REVIEW: Star Wars Visions Season 1 (2021)
Star Wars: Visions is an anthology series set in the Star Wars galaxy. The episodes were created by several different Japanese animation studios to infuse the world of Star Wars with the look and feel of anime. The episodes are more like vignettes, each telling a short, self-contained story with seemingly no connection. The stories […]
REVIEW: When Marnie Was There (2014)
Based on a novel by English author Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There was Studio Ghibli’s last movie until Earwig and the Witch. The film was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who also directed The Secret World of Arrietty for the studio. This is the rare Studio Ghibli movie I’ve never seen or even heard […]
REVIEW: The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
Studio Ghibli released a second movie in 2013, this time directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s longtime associate and the studio’s co-founder, Isao Takahata. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya is based on “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” an ancient Japanese fairy tale about a girl found in a bamboo stalk. Takahata had previously briefly paid […]
Netflix Reveals Images and Release Date for Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series
On Monday, August the 23rd, Netflix officially announced the release date for season 1 of their live-action Cowboy Bebop series. Several new cast images were also released, providing a glimpse at the look and feel of the reimagining and the live-action iterations of their costumes. Season 1 drops on Netflix on Friday, November the 9th. […]
Star Wars Releases Final Visions Trailer and Announces Voice Cast
Just over a month from the premiere of Star Wars: Visions on Disney+, Lucasfilm has released the final trailer in both English and Japanese. The English and Japanese voice casts have also been revealed. The anthology series’ English cast will feature Star Wars veterans like Andrew Kishino (Saw Gerrera), Temeura Morrison (Boba and Jango Fett), […]
REVIEW: The Wind Rises (2013)
The Wind Rises is in the later batch of Studio Ghibli movies I never saw for one reason or another. I was always curious about this one because it’s actually based on a true story, that being the life of Jiro Horikoshi, engineer of the Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” fighter. The Wind Rises is also Hayao […]