Big Eyes Smart Mouth – Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade - The best Mamoru Oshii film that Oshii never directed remains affecting and relevant fifteen years later. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth – Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso appeals more to older children than younger ones , but there's never been a film of theirs that didn't speak to older audiences. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Porco Rosso appeared first on...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Isao Takahata's brush-painted picture scroll of a movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, asks where real meaning of any of our lives lies. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Tale of the Princess...
View ArticleBig Eyes, Smart Mouth: The Eccentric Family
The Eccentric Family is a show that gets it all right: funny, thoughtful, and a cast of characters that never fail to enlist our sympathy. The post Big Eyes, Smart Mouth: The Eccentric Family appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Noir
The deliberate pacing of Noir is both its most important attribute and the one thing about it most likely to give pause to today's viewers. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Noir appeared first on Psycho...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: The King of Pigs
This makes talking about The King of Pigs more difficult; it's harder to separate my analysis of the film from my emotional reactions to it. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The King of Pigs appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Patlabor: The Movie
Before Mamoru Oshii bent minds with the likes of 'Ghost in the Shell', he tickled ribs with this entry in the action-comedy mecha series. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Patlabor: The Movie appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Anime’s (Partly) Crowdfunded Future
Four pieces of news, all eye-opening, all dealing with crowdfunded anime projects passed across my desk in the previous week. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Anime’s (Partly) Crowdfunded Future appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Darker Than Black
Darker Than Black first appeared in 2007, not quite long enough ago to either qualify or disqualify for proper status as a classic. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Darker Than Black appeared first on...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Knights of Sidonia Season 2
About half of the second season of Knights of Sidonia is in the vein of the best of what the show had to offer in its first season. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Knights of Sidonia Season 2 appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Inari Kon Kon
Inari Kon Kon is built along that model, and doesn't need to be particularly profound to work. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Inari Kon Kon appeared first on Psycho Drive-In.
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Robot Carnival (1987)
Robot Carnival is a product of anime from as far removed from our time now as the release of Disney's Sleeping Beauty was from its time. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Robot Carnival (1987) appeared...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Two impulses are at work within me when discussing the new reissue of the 1985 Vampire Hunter D film. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D (1985) appeared first on Psycho Drive-In.
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
The most pleasant surprise of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is not just how much of an improvement it is over the original film, but how much it also improves upon its source material. The post Big Eyes...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist deserves more to be seen for where it rethinks and reinterprets, and less for how it deviates from the playbook. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Fullmetal Alchemist appeared first on...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Rurouni Kenshin
When the first film in this live-action trilogy of Rurouni Kenshin is among the very best adaptations yet of an manga/anime property, we can forgive any weaknesses in the whole. The post Big Eyes Smart...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: The Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Deadly Sins is so safe, so familiar and so broad in construction that any otaku would feel right at home watching this. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: The Seven Deadly Sins appeared first on...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Lady Snowblood
A pivotal inspiration for Tarantino's 'Kill Bill', the violent revenge tale Lady Snowblood brings us an anti-heroine who's as much of an outsider for being a woman as she is for being an assassin. The...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Night on the Galactic Railroad
I might once have described Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad as Japan's answer to The Little Prince. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Night on the Galactic Railroad appeared first on...
View ArticleBig Eyes Smart Mouth: Concrete Revolutio
Concrete Revolutio is a sprawling anime answer to Watchmen, with all of the ambition -- and all of the shortcomings -- implied by such a thing. The post Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Concrete Revolutio...
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