Author Archives: Alexander Case

TV Review – Impact

ABC has concluded its two-part disaster movie miniseries Impact, based around the concept of the moon crashing into the Earth. These kind of direct-to-TV miniseries tend not to do well anyway, but does this one do well at all, or does it just fail horribly. You get 2 guesses, and the first two don’t count. Continue reading →

Weekend Review – Heavy Metal 2000

I’ve come to realize that I haven’t deliberatly reviewed anything that was widly considered to be a “bad” film after a while. As someone who has seen most of the first movie, and listened to the soundtrack (and heard good things about the magazine), I have decided to give Heavy Metal 2000 a try. Is it your one-way ticket to midnight, or does it take you someplace worse? Continue reading →

Diamond Drops Additional Anime, Manga

Anime News Network is reporting that Diamond is dropping some additional anime and manga from their offerings. They’d previously dropped some additional titles back in March, notably the Ponyo On The Cliff by The Sea manga, adapted from the film of the same title by Hayao Miyazaki (which will be released in theaters later this summer.

In this wave they’re dropping (among other things) the 3rd and final DVD of Gurren Lagann, which is the point in the series where the series goes what can be concervatively described as bat-dren awesome. Continue reading →

Good Old Games has the Tex Murphy series

Good Old Games, a video game site focusing on older PC games has, on their new releases, the Tex Murphy series of adventure games, a series of Noir adventure games set in a post World War III San Francisco (sort of like Blade Runner meets the Continental Op, but significantly more tongue-in-cheek), that were originally put out by Wordplay.

As someone who has long enjoyed genre adventure games, I’m going to give these a try and will have reviews on the site once I’ve beaten the games. Continue reading →

Weekend Review – Patlabor The Movie 3: WXIII

We now come to the final installment (thus far) of the Patlabor Franchise – WXIII, set between the first two movies, in OVA continuity, but featuring little-to-no-members of the original cast, and with a new director for the franchise, and a new writer for the franchise, and a focus on the detective side of the equasion, rather then the giant-robot side. Does it still work, or not so much?  Continue reading →

Women not wanted for IGN Contest

Tor.com is reporting that the rules for IGN’s contest to promote the science fiction film Section 9, about extra-terrestrials in Johannesburg, South Africa being denied rights and being declared “not human,” explicitly exclude women from participating.

The contest, which gets the winner a trip to the San Diego Comic Con, and would also entail that he participate in promotion of the film, says in its rules “This sweepstakes is open only to males who are both legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and Washington D.C. and who are at least between 18-24 years of age as of July 23, 2009…” (Emphasis is mine.) IGN has said that the rules for the contest were passed on to them by Colombia Tri-Star, which is releasing the film. Continue reading →

Blade of the Immortal anime licensed

Anime News Network is reporting that the Blade of the Immortal anime which aired this past season in Japan, has been licenced by Media Blasters. The series, which was produced by Bee Train (The .hack franchise, as well as in-between work on Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) focuses on Manji, a ronin samurai cursed with immortality until he kills 1000 evil men to make up for the good men he killed. We have previously reviewed the first installment of the series, but I cannot for the life of me find the review.

Meda Blasters is planning to do a dub for the series, but they have yet to announce the studio to do the dub.