Movie Reviews
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They Call It Modernization, I Call It Barbarization
By Riley Glover There’s a sequence towards the end of 2019’s “Labyrinth of Cinema” that has broken my heart both times I’ve seen it and it’s the most visually simplistic sequence. It is a list of names, dates, and ages read by a narrator for nearly a minute, noting the deaths of the Sakura acting…
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“Open Doom Crescendo”: A Movie 99% of Readers Will Never Attempt to See
By: Riley Glover Describing “Open Doom Crescendo” as a film for normal people to watch is a near impossible endeavor in concept; because you will likely never have the time or effort to see such a thing. It is a three hour long micro budget movie that has spent the last two to three years…
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October Candy Bucket of Horror!
By Riley Glover Sometimes as a film critic noted for their coverage of the macabre, movies slip through the radar that can’t easily be described. Some unnatural cinema requires explanation, even if the space is too limited to describe such terrors the way they need. So, I let open my doors and let all the…
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‘My Melody & Kuromi’ on Netflix Displays Complex Cuteness through Stop-Motion
By Riley Glover Is it playing with fire to say that the “My Melody & Kuromi” TV series (2025) on Netflix is quietly one of the best animated releases of the year? An easy recommendation for a work of stop motion children’s animation that is a beautifully designed piece, that’s also quietly one of the…
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Film Review: Mickey 17
There is a popular philosophical critique about the concept of sci-fi teleportation that has existed for quite a minute now. The idea goes a bit like this: imagine a Star Trek style teleporter that could take every molecule in your body and transfer it over to a completely different place. Now, when that occurs, are…
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OK Boomer? The Movie is Here
Within the wonderful world of comics, time flows differently than how we perceive real life or even the inherently linier strip of film can allow no matter what weird non-liner storytelling tricks you use. In the simplest definition one can give without going into Scott McCloud speak, what can happen within the frame of a…
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Rescues the World of Video-Game Adaptations
by John Mcleod Among the many Netflix original anime that has been released this year, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners stands out as a tragic tale set in the same universe as CD Projekt Red’s controversial release Cyberpunk: 2077. The anime is currently certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is rated 100% on the Tomatometer. The show is…