The 2013 animated film, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, was based on the 10th century Japanese literary tale, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, and is considered one of the oldest surviving monogatri (otherwise known as a fictional prose narrative),… Continue reading "The Tale of Princess Kaguya"
Blue Sky Studios may not have made the greatest films when they were still around, but it did still feel bittersweet when they were shut down once Disney merged with 20th Century Fox. It felt like a cold move that… Continue reading "Nimona"
The 2010 superhero comedy satire, Kick-Ass, was considered a controversial film by critics, yet a cult classic by casuals, with the story based on the 2008 Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. graphic novel providing an experience that seemed to… Continue reading "Kick-Ass II"
Kick-Ass was a series of stories set within the comic-book universe invented by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. in 2008 (patented as Millarworld), which followed the story of a teenage boy throwing himself into the lion’s den of crime… Continue reading "Kick-Ass"
The 1974 Stephen King novel, Carrie managed to avoid the usual spiraling silliness of his film adaptations and actually got a pretty good film out of it in 1976. With a depressing atmosphere, haunting soundtrack, grizzly acting and one heck… Continue reading "Carrie (2013 film)"
