Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Berserk Serdar Yegulalp October 19, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 October 5, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 September 21, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 September 7, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 August 10, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 July 20, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 June 22, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews 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 June 1, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Reviews 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 May 18, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Reviews, TV 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 April 20, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies 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 April 6, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Reviews 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 March 16, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 February 24, 2016 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies 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 December 2, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies 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 November 11, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth 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 October 1, 2015 DVD/Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews 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 September 23, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews 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.
Angst (1983) Blu-ray Review Serdar Yegulalp September 21, 2015 DVD/Blu-ray, Movies, Reviews Gerard Kargl's Angst, unseen for decades, is as good a case study as any for a movie that transcends its own mythology.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D (1985) Serdar Yegulalp September 9, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Two impulses are at work within me when discussing the new reissue of the 1985 Vampire Hunter D film.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Robot Carnival (1987) Serdar Yegulalp August 26, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Robot Carnival is a product of anime from as far removed from our time now as the release of Disney's Sleeping Beauty was from its time.