Author Serdar Yegulalp

July 1, 2015 0 7

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

June 17, 2015 0 7

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

May 27, 2015 0 16

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

May 13, 2015 3 19

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

April 22, 2015 0 18

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

April 8, 2015 0 8

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

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Movies

March 18, 2015 0 8

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

March 4, 2015 0 44

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

February 18, 2015 0 142

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

February 4, 2015 2 14

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

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Reviews

January 21, 2015 0 14

Maybe that puts Bubblegum Crisis right back into the realm of being a history lesson.

Scarlett Johannson And The Half-Shelled ‘Ghost’

January 7, 2015 0 10

Finally, I shouldn't make it sound as if Scarlett Johannson herself is the problem. She's not.

Kite (2014)

Movies Reviews

December 15, 2014 0 17

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’

December 10, 2014 1 12

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

November 26, 2014 0 8

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

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Reviews TV

November 12, 2014 0 20

Ghost in the Shell: ARISE is still miles better than most anything else served up this season.

Ghost In The Shell: ARISE: Border 1

Big Eyes Smart Mouth Reviews

November 5, 2014 0 43

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