Cowboy Bebop Director’s Blade Runner Anime Is Here

Shinichiro Watanabe is one of the few anime directors whose work is famous on both sides of the pacific ocean. From Kids On The Slope to Samurai Champloo his shows are usually a single season and stand-alone without a lot of prior knowledge of the material required. Watanabe's most famous and widely considered to be …

Movies Aren’t Bad. You Just Have Boring Taste

In the recent past many different art forms have been declared to be dead or are on life support. The internet is making print irrelevant, premium cable is killing network television, and as of recently it’s the movies that are always dying in one way or another. And if you only watched the big blockbusters this past …

A Bad Week For Conservative Pundits

Many conservative pundits thought 2017 would be a new era for them. A time of free speech without criticism. The death of P.C. culture was imminent. Especially with the incoming presidency of one Donald J. Trump. Alas at times the world seems to work in funny ways. One of those times it seems was this …

An Update

Hey. It's been a while. You might be thinking" where did he go?" and I'd like to give you some profound answer about how I went off the grid and into wider world to find myself. Like being the operative word. In reality I just felt exhausted from everything. The world is on fire and …

Trump and the War on Truth

Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign on a platform railing against the freedom of the press and factual truths. Now with the passing of his first week in office, it seems he and his administration will continue that streak into the White House. Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary started off the administration's first week lying about the …

Trump’s Canada

Canada is seen by many across the world as a country based on progressive ideals. Over ten years ago, the country's Parliament passed the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada one of the first countries in the world to legalize gay marriage. Canada has had government-funded healthcare for even longer. The country, referred by some as America's hat, is …

The Ten Best Films of 2016

2016 had a lot of things going against it. It was the year that saw the bronzed wannabe autocratic buffoon that is Donald Trump elected to the presidency of the United States, alongside the global return of racism to the mainstream. Not to mention it was also the year it felt like everyone we admired …

Why I Gave to Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of my most visited sites. I mean per day. I'm sure I go there more than I check my e-mail and I check my e-mail a lot. Once a year, as we near the holidays, the great Internet resource that everyone uses starts asking visitors to make a small donation. As I was reading …

Makoto Shinkai’s ‘Your Name’ Trailer

Hayao Miyazaki's shadow has towered over Japanese animation for nearly three decades as the hugely revered creative mind behind critically acclaimed films like Princess Mononoke and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away. His influence is so great, no new animator can avoid the label of the "next Miyazaki". Writer/director Makoto Shinkai is one of the few that genuinely merits the …

A Few Things From PSX 2016

This past weekend saw the wrap up of the Playstation Experience (PSX) for 2016 where Sony and its partners showed off their latest batch of new and upcoming games. So I thought it would be cool to list a few things that caught my eye. You like lists, right? What am I saying. You're on the …