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28 Years Later Appreciably different from the previous films, this second sequel to Danny Boyle’s influential zombie olympics plays out more as a gory coming-of-age story that just happens to take place after the (as it turns out, very localised) apocalypse. Strong performances (notably from...

Friend showed a couple of random things for us last night: Wanna-Be’s (1986, rewatch) There’s not a lot to it, but I still kind of like this one, it’s very much ‘we wanted a film about ladies wrestling, but we got John Carpenter to write it’. Does make me wonder why we’ve never (to my...

Finally finished something I started probably around the last time I posted in this thread (ouch). Randomly found this photo from an old catalogue of a model that I thought looked like she was doing accidental Blade Runner cosplay, and thought it would be a laugh to actually draw that. Trying...

The Dinner Table Detective ep1-3 The first episode of this did nothing for me - some obnoxious rich people try to solve crimes involving other obnoxious rich people - but it grew on me quite a bit once the introductory case was out of the way. Smugface the Butler gets on my nerves and I think...

Maniac Cop (1988) Possibly most famous for its striking cover art, which seemed to be ever present in rental places during the 1990s, this is a workmanlike b-movie thriller about a tall, super-strong killer roaming the midnight streets of New York dressed as a police officer, leading to a young...

Regardless of where they’re coming from politically or their questionable grasp on what anime is like as a medium (are we really calling VHD ‘erotic’?) I don’t get much sense of why they’re giving it 4/5 from the review. Nothing grinds my gears quite like an arbitrary score that seems to have...

Kowloon Generic Romance ep3-4 This seems to have solidified more now; there’s a stronger sense of conflict creeping into it and the main thrust of what the story is about has begun to look clearer. It’s a pleasingly unusual series with a strong sense of atmosphere, but even if this is cut down...

I’m very curious to see what they’ll do with the story in this one. I found V tired and aimless, but RDR2 gives me hope that they might be able to up their game this time.

Ghost in the Shell: Arise ~ Alternative Architecture ep 9-10 My original thought was to go back and finish the Arise OVAs, but to my surprise, I already did (at the time, I apparently said they were unmemorable, so that was on the money). Despite remembering next to nothing about the finer...

Urusei Yatsura (1981) ep8-10 Feels a bit like I’ve fallen into the same trap as with Ranma, in that I’m spending more time mentally comparing both the original and remake versions than just enjoying watching the show, but I think these have been the most noticeably different so far, it feels...

From having read a bit of the simulwatch thread, my impression is that the answer would be ‘no’, but would you get a reasonable impression of what TTGL is like from watching the first three episodes? I’ve seen two or three from the middle, including the recap episode (so I know about The Thing...

Sinners A pair of successful gangster twin brothers (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their poor, segregated hometown in depression-era Mississippi to open their own dance hall, but as they collect a crew of familiar faces to put on an unforgettable opening night, including their...

I think there might be a little too much to do in the wasteland, tbh. I spent so much time on little quests in the wilderness that I actually lost interest in the game before I even got to Vegas. I don’t hold it against them, I enjoyed my time with the game, but it still feels weird to me that...

Dante Makes Cookies ep2 I don’t know. This is a nice enough looking series, but I think the attempts at ironic witty dialogue just make it feel like a Saturday morning cartoon with more gore - maybe if you’re deeply in touch with your inner edgy 12-year old, this is great, but I’m already...

Gurren Lagann is a show whose appeal has always been a bit lost on me too, but it probably doesn’t help that I came into the show around the middle, at what is probably the least favourite part of it. My overriding memory is that there was just something annoyingly smug and self-congratulatory...

Ms .45 (1981) Having survived a sexual assault that leaves her with a body in her apartment and a cheap handgun, Thana, a traumatised young deaf-mute woman (Zoë Lund) finds herself attacking the men she encounters on the streets of New York, in this faintly notorious revenge thriller from Abel...

It was the director’s cut I saw, yeah. I’m probably being a bit hard on the film really - if I’d gone into it with no expectations, I’d likely have enjoyed it more, it’s just that I was hoping there’d be more meat on its bones, so to speak. It has such a strong and interesting cast, but it...

Dark City (1998) In a noirish retro-futuristic city, an amnesiac man (Rufus Sewell, ‘we have young Michael Keaton at home’) wakes up in a hotel room next to a dead body, with no recollection of who he is or what he’s doing there, only to be hastily pursued by his wife he can’t remember...

Dante My Cringe ep1 Oh boy. Other than the scene of Dante being introduced with all the charm and wit of a used car salesman on magic mushrooms, I didn’t hate it - it’s decently animated so far and the late Kevin Conroy adds a touch of class to the dub. Quite why they’ve gone for this weird...

I’m interested in seeing Lazarus, but I wasn’t all that sold on the trailers and this current debacle hasn’t done much to endear it to me any further. It came up on the discord, but in case anyone hasn’t heard, there have also been questions over whether Adult Swim was given an early master...