Catfish–Movie Review
Catfish is a quirky low-budget documentary that asks the question “How well do you really know your Facebook friends?” and comes up with a somewhat unexpected answer. In 2008 Yaniv… Read more »
Types of Japanese English Learners, By Way of K-ON!
“2-D Teleidoscope,” an English teacher living in Japan, has decided that his students resemble various characters from K-ON!
Hooters Opens in Japan
Tokyo gets yet another theme restaurant. This one sounds sort of like a maid cafe, only tackier.
Tangled–Movie Review
Tangled is Disney’s latest computer-animated film, this one based very loosely on the fairy tale “Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm. (It’s probably a good thing that it’s loose. A movie… Read more »
Morning Glory–Movie Review
Morning Glory is a likable, amusing lightweight comedy about a morning news program. Rachel McAdams plays Mary Richards Becky Fuller, the perky workaholic producer of a morning news show for… Read more »
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1–Movie Review
The penultimate movie in the Harry Potter series is, like it’s immediate predecessors, primarily aimed at those who have already read the books. I have not read the books but… Read more »
Ore no Imouto–Anime Follow Up
Since my original post Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute) has proved to be less clever and original than… Read more »
Inside Job–Movie Review
Inside Job is a documentary about the financial collapse of 2008. This is (God help me) the second serious-minded documentary that I have reviewed in the space of a month…. Read more »
El Goonish Shive Character List and Trivia
One minor frustration I had when reading El Goonish Shive (mini-review here) is that there is no official character list. There are some character lists created by fans (links below)… Read more »
Secretariat–Movie Review
Secretariat is a biopic about a racehorse, similar to the 2003 movie Seabiscuit. Of the two I think Seabiscuit is the better movie, probably because it had better story material… Read more »