Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Inari Kon Kon Serdar Yegulalp August 12, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Inari Kon Kon is built along that model, and doesn't need to be particularly profound to work.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Knights of Sidonia Season 2 Serdar Yegulalp July 22, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth About half of the second season of Knights of Sidonia is in the vein of the best of what the show had to offer in its first season.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Darker Than Black Serdar Yegulalp July 1, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Darker Than Black first appeared in 2007, not quite long enough ago to either qualify or disqualify for proper status as a classic.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Anime’s (Partly) Crowdfunded Future Serdar Yegulalp June 17, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Four pieces of news, all eye-opening, all dealing with crowdfunded anime projects passed across my desk in the previous week.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Patlabor: The Movie Serdar Yegulalp May 27, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Before Mamoru Oshii bent minds with the likes of 'Ghost in the Shell', he tickled ribs with this entry in the action-comedy mecha series.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The King of Pigs Serdar Yegulalp May 13, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews This makes talking about The King of Pigs more difficult; it's harder to separate my analysis of the film from my emotional reactions to it.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Noir Serdar Yegulalp April 22, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth The deliberate pacing of Noir is both its most important attribute and the one thing about it most likely to give pause to today's viewers.
Big Eyes, Smart Mouth: The Eccentric Family Serdar Yegulalp April 8, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth The Eccentric Family is a show that gets it all right: funny, thoughtful, and a cast of characters that never fail to enlist our sympathy.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Serdar Yegulalp March 18, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies Isao Takahata's brush-painted picture scroll of a movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, asks where real meaning of any of our lives lies.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Porco Rosso Serdar Yegulalp March 4, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Porco Rosso appeals more to older children than younger ones , but there's never been a film of theirs that didn't speak to older audiences.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth – Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Serdar Yegulalp February 18, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - The best Mamoru Oshii film that Oshii never directed remains affecting and relevant fifteen years later.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: REDLINE Serdar Yegulalp February 4, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews Even if the story's little more than a placeholder, REDLINE seethes with visuals so propulsive, they guarantee it a place in anime history.
Bubblegum Crisis: Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Today Serdar Yegulalp January 21, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Reviews Maybe that puts Bubblegum Crisis right back into the realm of being a history lesson.
Scarlett Johannson And The Half-Shelled ‘Ghost’ Serdar Yegulalp January 7, 2015 Big Eyes Smart Mouth Finally, I shouldn't make it sound as if Scarlett Johannson herself is the problem. She's not.
Kite (2014) Serdar Yegulalp December 15, 2014 Movies, Reviews The surprise is that Kite does a half-decent job of extracting the few worthy ideas in the original and plugging them into a new production.
Live, Die, Remake: Four Paths Through ‘All You Need Is Kill’ / ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’ Serdar Yegulalp December 10, 2014 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews All You Need Is Kill has been revisited no less than 3 times in media, each version a meditation on war, death, rebirth, and timelessness.
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Chaika: The Coffin Princess Serdar Yegulalp November 26, 2014 Big Eyes Smart Mouth An endearing cast, a creatively elaborated setting, and a strongly character-driven story combine to make Chaika many cuts above the run of the mill.
Ghost In The Shell: ARISE: Border 2 Serdar Yegulalp November 12, 2014 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Reviews, TV Ghost in the Shell: ARISE is still miles better than most anything else served up this season.
Ghost In The Shell: ARISE: Border 1 Serdar Yegulalp November 5, 2014 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Reviews Even if 'ARISE' falls short of the heights of 'Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex', it's still a model of ambition and vision for anime
Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Ghost in the Shell Serdar Yegulalp October 22, 2014 Big Eyes Smart Mouth, Movies, Reviews Twenty-five years on, one of anime's seminal groundbreakers, Ghost in the Shell, remains as alluring, intriguing, confounding, and problematic as ever.