SuperSnob

Originally Written May 2011 FLCL is the single strangest piece of animation I’ve ever seen, period. What makes it so strange is not just the plot, but the characters, the setting, the animation, the sound: everything about this anime makes about as much sense as…well, nothing. It’s not totally incoherent and you can follow the plot, but new plot threads are introduced every episode and whatever the plot actually is, it doesn’t matter because by the end, your mind is blown. Story I can’t even rate the story of this show because I’m too confused by it. I don’t want to give the story a good or bad rat

Originally Written May 2011 Ergo Proxy is an anime that does a number of things right. First of all, it is an adult anime that treats its’ viewer as adults. There are no boob jokes or typical anime fair, it’s a lot of philosophical and biblical things that make up a good portion of the show. The show does a good job of being intelligent, though sometimes this comes off as totally insane. The ending is a typical anime ending that leaves you scratching your head, but the ending comes too abruptly and right out of left field, leaving you scratching your head even longer than usual. Think Big O quality of “what the hell”

Originally Written May 2011 Elfen Lied is an anime that opens up with a sequence of a naked girl cutting people into pieces, seemingly with her mind, for about eight minutes. This sequence then leads to an episode replete with comedy and moments that make you smile. As the anime progresses though you lose that smile on your face as you are suddenly quite sad because everything’s so bloody screwed up. Every character's past comes to light and you suddenly can’t tell what side to take, you don’t know who you want to survive or die. It’s an anime that builds itself to be depressingly sad, and it’s the thing that ho

Originally Written May 2011 There is a lot to like about the ambitious cyberpunk anime Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Based on the movie Ghost In The Shell, this series fleshes out some of the characters seen in the film, and adds a lot more. It has tons of stand alone episodes, but there is an overarching story about a mysterious hacker known only as the Laughing Man, the mystery of which is solved over the course of the 26 episodes. Story While a lot of anime take a simple, and sometimes cliched approach to the story, this anime takes a very complex approach to each individual story told. Some aren’t quite as hard to unde

The Fast and the Furious Series After catching the ridiculous ending to Fast 6 on HBO a few weeks ago, I had to try to get into this long running series–Universal’s most profitable property. I really have no idea the plot or anything about the series aside from cars going fast and a lot of manly men doing manly things. So in order to prepare myself for Fast 7 (which I’m actually really hyped about despite not having seen any of these movies for two reasons: Tony Jaa and Jason Statham) I’m going to review all six of the films and see whether or not the series is really something Universal should be proud of. The Fast

Gareth Evans is a Welsh director and writer whose best known (and I put that term lightly) for The Raid series. Martial arts film fans will tell you that if there is one guy who’s really pushing the envelope and creating brutal yet artistic pieces of genre film, it’s Evans. He lives in Jakarta and has brought that regions style of martial art, Silat, onto the big screen. And it all started with a small cult hit starring Iko Uwais called Merantau.   Merantau (2009) A young man flies from the nest in order to become an adult. It’s a pretty meager story for a martial arts film, one that comes up a lot (Ong Bak is a good examp