The Departed
If there is a lesson to be taken home from Martin Scorsese’s new movie, it must be that Irish gangsters are more ruthless and bloodthirsty than Italian gangsters. This is… Read more »
Flags of Our Fathers
Everyone who has taken photographs knows that sometimes you get a great picture by pure luck. If you take enough pictures, sooner or later you will press the shutter at… Read more »
Kino’s Journey — Anime Review
A young traveler on a talking motorcycle travels from place to place, never staying anywhere more than three days. Each new place has a story of its own. Sometimes the… Read more »
The Queen
This movie is set during a week in 1997 that most of us can remember. At the beginning of the week Princess Diana, the divorced wife of the Prince of… Read more »
Magic Knight Rayearth (TV) — Anime Review
A long time ago, before xxxHolic, before Chobits, even before Cardcaptor Sakura, the enigmatic team of artists known as CLAMP created a manga called Magic Knight Rayearth, which was made… Read more »
Keeping Mum
This is one of those quirky British film comedies, actually a bit quirkier than most. The Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) is the Vicar of the tiny village of Little… Read more »
Why Hasn’t Haruhi Suzumiya been Licensed Yet?
J Greely has a theory, and I have an awful feeling that he is right. I say “awful” because if he is right, the series probably never will be licensed…. Read more »
Lassie
Full Disclosure: Since I have a collie I am obviously biased… At this point there must be hundreds of movies and television episodes featuring the lovable super-intelligent collie. Some of… Read more »
Figure 17–Anime Review
About half-way through this series it occurred to me that I was watching two loosely-connected but very different stories: A coming of age story about twin girls living on a… Read more »
The Illusionist
This is an entertaining little gem of a movie: dark, atmospheric and romantic. It is set in the decadent world of Imperial Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century…. Read more »