The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of the best films you will see this year. Based on the book of the same name, writer/director Stephen Chbosky has produced a great coming of age film. Every now and then a coming of age film comes along that is heralded for “defining a generation;” films
Adolf, written by the father of manga Tezuka Osamu, is not your basic average manga. Rather than using fluffy shoujo plot devices or muscly shounen characters, Adolf ties together three different worlds in a political thriller both intelligent and captivating. Synopsis Adolf, by father of manga Tezuka Osamu, is a microcosm of three distinct societies during the
I myself had all but given up on reading. Not finding too many titles that interested me, I felt I needed to be a tween to enjoy any of the current medium. (Not to knock Potter or even the Twilight series; I understood the fan base and I was glad that someone was writing for
The secret to reading a China Miéville story is this: he’s going to give you an impossible premise to accept. It’s going to be weird and unrealistic and against all laws of nature, but you’re going to have to believe that that’s the way this world works. Once you accept it, your reward is a very
When most people think of Prohibition they picture sexy speakeasies and jazz, the songs of Billie Holiday and sweaty bodies dancing dangerously close together. Others think of Al Capone and the rise of organized crime with all their style, charisma, and money. Adapted from the historical novel The Wettest County in the World, by Matt
A lot of people hear the word, “magical girl anime” and head for the hills. To be honest, I can’t really blame them. While the magical girl genre is fun and interesting the first time, fifty anime series later, it loses its attraction. This genre usually entails a girl between the ages of thirteen and
ParaNorman is the new stop motion animated movie from Focus Features, who previously gave us the 2009 Coraline. ParaNorman focuses on a young boy, Norman, who is the town pariah because of his unnatural ability to talk with dead people which causes him day-to-day drama. His inability to relate to his family or his peers
China Mieville’s newest book actually came out a couple months ago, but I’ve been saving it for the long flight I’ve got to take next week. So in the meantime I’ll just do a little review of the book that turned me on to his writing in the first place: Perdido Street Station. I’ll say
Since the original Rurouni Kenshin series is responsible for my ten-year long manga and anime addiction, I was absolutely thrilled to hear that this classic series is being revisited. Almost thirteen years after its final chapter was published in Weekly Shounen Jump, Rurouni Kenshin is back in business with the debut of Rurouni Kenshin- Kinema-ban,