Anime DVD Review: FLCL (Fooly Cooly), The Complete Series
It’s not a tumor!
Finally, finally the brilliant OVA (Original Video Animation) from the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion is available in a single DVD or Blu-ray format, loaded with juicy extras! FLCL or Fooly Cooly follows young Naota in awkward flirtations with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, as he suddenly encounters a guitar-slinging alien girl named Haruhara Haruko, her sentient yellow Vespa, and a slew of robots Naota must fight. Luckily, he has the aid of Canti, a TV-headed humanoid bot that sprouts from Naota’s own noggin. All this madness is brought to you in glossy, vivid animation with a bangin’ soundtrack.
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Movie Review: Sucker Punch
What happens when you put five incredibly hot (and scantily clad) women against Steam-Powered-Mechanical-Zombie-Nazis, Dragons, Monsters, Robots, and Stone Samurai Warriors? You get Sucker Punch, the newest spectacle from Director Zack Synder (300, Watchmen). This new visual endeavor starts off as a slow-going intro to a psychadelic music video (enter: Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’, just in case the audience wasn’t aware that they should be on a hard-and-fast acid trip), crescendos into a dystopian first-person-shooter (ala Bioshock), and ends with a half-hour attempt to tie fantasy and reality together in a satisfactory ending.
Book Review: The Wise Man’s Fear plus interview with Patrick Rothfuss!
By Brenda Waldrop
Patrick Rothfuss follows up his wildly successful first novel “The Name of the Wind” with this superb telling of “day two” in Kvothe’s story.
To say that “The Wise Man’s Fear” was one of the most superb pieces of literature I’ve had the pleasure to read in some time would be an understatement. Every one of just under 1,000 pages is suffused with such incredible detail that the reader is instantly whisked away into Kvothe’s world of Sympathy and music, treachery and betrayal, friendship, love, and madness. The pages practically turn themselves, and if like me you have a day job that requires your presence, you’ll find yourself suddenly realizing that sleep is overrated!
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Blu-Ray Review: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 2-Disc Special Edition
Everyone out of the pool! We have reports of giant fleas!
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TV Review: Stargate Universe – “Alliances”
Stargate Universe has returned to Syfy for the back half of Season 2 and tonight we are treated to a Earth-centric story called “Alliances”. Here is a quick look at what is coming up tonight on SGU.
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DVD Review: The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu
Spoon!!
What do you do when members of you cult find half of a relic, that when joined with the other half, releases an indestructible force trapped beneath the ocean? And this force is named Cthulhu? You find the descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, of course.
That’s what happens in The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. Comic artist Jeff (Kyle Davis – Friday the 13th) is the last descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, and a Lovecraftian cult has found a relic and charged Jeff with the safekeeping of the object.
DVD Review: Psych9
I told you, no desert until you clean your room!
Your husband drives a taxi at night. You take a job sorting records at a closed hospital at night. There might be a couple of ghosts running around the building, and you are losing chunks of time. And, there is a serial killer running around town, and his schedule synchs with your blackouts and your husband’s schedule. Could it get any stranger?
Movie Review: Paul
What happens when you take actors from Shaun of the Dead, Arrested Development, Knocked Up, and Saturday Night Live and put them in a film that is written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost? You get the hilarious science fiction comedy called Paul. Paul features the adventures of two British Comic-Book geeks who venture to America to attend San Diego Comic-Con. Following their experience at the convention, the two set out on a cross country UFO sight seeing tour and have a close encounter of their own.
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TV Review: Stargate Universe – “Twin Destinies”
Stargate Universe has returned to Syfy for the back half of Season 2 and tonight we are treated to a time traveling story called “Twin Destinies”. Here is a quick look at what is coming up tonight on SGU.
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Movie Review: Battle: Los Angeles
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Anime DVD Review: Disgaea, The Complete Series
Don’t feed the penguin, Dood!
The Netherworld has never seen a small demon with such large ambition! Prideful and power-hungry, Laharl, son of the former overlord, is determined to claim his deceased father’s throne and rule not only the demon world, but the realms beyond. At Laharl’s side is a polar opposite pair of gals: the demon Princess Etna and angel trainee Flonne. Throw in a trio of Earth Defenders and endless winged-penguin Prinnies for one odd and hilarious anime adventure!