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Month: April 2016

  • Wolf Children

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    I don’t even know where to start when describing how much I loved this movie. As I mentioned the other day, I’m going through Mamoru Hosoda’s movies (I’d only previously seen Summer Wars), and this, well, this is just one of the best animated films I’ve ever seen. I can’t say that the quality of…

  • Broforce

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    Even though I’ve had this game for a month – it was part of the March lineup of free games through PlayStation Plus – I still didn’t get around to playing it until tonight. Part of it was that the name really turned me off, and also that it had been selected to join the…

  • Miitomo

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    A lot of people are playing with this right now (it came out outside of Japan on Thursday), and you’re hearing a lot of “what’s the point here,” and the thing is that there isn’t one, really. It’s just a way to spend some time looking at funny things, with a light level of interaction (answering…

  • Insidious: Chapter 2

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    When I started watching this, I realized that I couldn’t really remember what had happened in the first one, but I did remember liking it. This though, it just tries too hard to establish some sort of “world” for the franchise, focusing too much on powers and the otherworld, instead of on creepiness and scares.…

  • The Visit

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    I really do want Shyamalan to make a good movie again, and The Visit does have some nice creepy moments, but alas it still falls short overall. The biggest annoyance for me was the setup of found footage (the daughter is making a documentary about what’s happening) which just feels so cliché and uninteresting these…

  • Paragon

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    I can’t say that I’m hugely into MOBAs – I’ve barely tried League of Legends and DOTA 2 because they didn’t play great on my MacBook Air, although I should maybe try again on my current MacBook Pro – but I do like to dabble in the ones that come out on console. In the…

  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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    I’ve been on a Ghibli run of late – the only film left to watch that I haven’t seen yet is The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – but I decided to side track and go through the films of Mamoru Hosoda. The only film of his I’ve seen is Summer Wars, which I really…

  • When Marnie Was There

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    So this is the last Ghibli film we’ve gotten, for now, and although on the surface it doesn’t feel as strong as The Wind Rises, I was completely drawn into its story and atmosphere, and enjoyed it just as much as From Up on Poppy Hill, if not more. The main character is one of…

  • The Wind Rises

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    As I mentioned the other day, I’ve decided to catch up on recent Ghibli releases I’m embarrassed to say I hadn’t watched. Following From Up on Poppy Hill, I watched The Wind Rises, which at the time was possibly going to be Miyazaki’s final film – something he’s said a few times though, and already…