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…
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…
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…
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 you actually teleporting a person or are you killing that person by deconstructing their molecules and then creating an exact clone with the same memories at another place?
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 comic panel is a moment of time captured in amber that is clarified within the context of other panels and the space between them.
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…
by Sebastian Gordon Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham is an American comedian, musician, actor, film director, screenwriter, and poet. Recently, Netflix released “Inside,” a 2021 American musical comedy special written, directed, filmed, edited by, and starring Bo Burnham. He recorded the special in his home during the COVID-19 pandemic without a crew or audience; it was…
by Sebastian Gordon “Luca” became available on Disney Plus On June 13th, 2021, but it was never made available in U.S theaters. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios, the movie is rated PG and has a runtime of 1 hour and 41 minutes. The movie earned 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a pretty high score.…
by Sebastian Gordon “Raya and the Last Dragon” became available on Disney Plus On June 4th, 2021, originally released in theaters on March 5th of 2021. The movie is rated PG and has a runtime of 1 hour and 57 minutes. The movie earned 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is a pretty high score. In…
by Sebastian Gordon Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train” was released in the United States on April 23rd, 2021. Although originally released in Japan on October 16th, 2020, it needed extra time to be converted to dub in English. The movie is rated R, has a run time of two hours, and…