Serdar Yegulalp, Author at Psycho Drive-In

October 19, 2016 0 8

The return of Kentarō Miura's violent fantasy epic to the little screen brings with it a fidelity to its strong characterization and powerful story -- and a renewed appreciation of all that was problematic the first time

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Let’s Animate This – Dune

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

October 5, 2016 0 6

Of all the science fiction properties for Hollywood to flirt with, Dune was among both the best and the worst.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Harmony

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

September 21, 2016 0 7

If Harmony doesn't make a case for balance, most dystopias don't anyway. If they did, I suspect they wouldn't be called dystopias.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Empire of Corpses

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

September 7, 2016 0 20

Label anything 'steampunk' and the label tends to take over, but this fantasy from the late lamented Project Itoh is about more than just clockworks and longcoats.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Belladonna of Sadness

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

August 10, 2016 0 33

Restored to its original psychedelic glory, this mad masterwork from Osamu Tezuka's studio goes from chic porn to feminist parable and everything in between.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Boy and the Beast

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

July 20, 2016 0 26

Mamoru Hosoda's new film starts as a predictable story of irreconcilable opposites forced to work together, but becomes something more ambitious and challenging -- and worth sticking with despite its narrative bumps.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: No Longer Human

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

June 22, 2016 1 51

The first of the 'Aoi Bungaku' animated adaptations of classical Japanese literature is a keen, well-devised adaptation of Osamu Dazai's novel of downfall and decadence, No Longer Human.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

June 1, 2016 0 39

Edogawa Rampo's 'erotic-grotesque' horror stories are remixed for the (post)modern day in this sinister, surreal, and colorful adventure.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: A-JIN: Demi-Human

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

May 18, 2016 0 15

After 'Knights of Sidonia', Netflix and Polygon Pictures aim -- successfully -- for darker and harder-hitting territory.

The Live-Action ‘Ghost In The Shell’ Is Further Evidence Hollywood Has No Idea How To Adapt Anime

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

April 20, 2016 0 7

With all the anime/manga projects out there to choose from, why does Hollywood insist on choosing the ones that give it the biggest cultural difficulties?

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Concrete Revolutio

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

April 6, 2016 0 12

Concrete Revolutio is a sprawling anime answer to Watchmen, with all of the ambition -- and all of the shortcomings -- implied by such a thing.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Night on the Galactic Railroad

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

March 16, 2016 1 51

I might once have described Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad as Japan's answer to The Little Prince.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Lady Snowblood

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Movies

February 24, 2016 1 15

A pivotal inspiration for Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', the violent revenge tale Lady Snowblood brings us an anti-heroine who's as much of an outsider for being a woman as she is for being an assassin.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Rurouni Kenshin

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Movies

December 2, 2015 0 13

When the first film in this live-action trilogy of Rurouni Kenshin is among the very best adaptations yet of an manga/anime property, we can forgive any weaknesses in the whole.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Fullmetal Alchemist

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth

November 11, 2015 0 11

Fullmetal Alchemist deserves more to be seen for where it rethinks and reinterprets, and less for how it deviates from the playbook.

Vampyros Lesbos / She Killed in Ecstasy

Serdar Yegulalp

DVD/Blu-ray Movies Reviews

October 1, 2015 0 32

Vampyros Lesbos and She Killed In Ecstasy were intended to be moneymaking exploitation pictures, not cult items.

Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)

Serdar Yegulalp

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Movies Reviews

September 23, 2015 0 43

The most pleasant surprise of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is not just how much of an improvement it is over the original film, but how much it also improves upon its source material.