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Cartoons are universal. We all watched them growing up: rich or poor, liberal or conservative, boy or girl. However, the latter seems to have lost its way somewhat recently. Over the last decade or so, the number of animated shows aimed at girls has dropped off significantly, and even more so the number of cartoons…
Fargo and its first ten-episode season is more akin to a film–a really long ten-hour film. It’s time for a new wave of viewers ready for the hunt, now that the first season is at its end. The show’s dark and slow-churning nature allows for it to take its time transforming decent characters into animals….
If gigantic humanoid robots fighting colossal monsters does not scream action and excitement to you, then nothing will. Action and excitement is exactly what Warner Bros. Pictures and Guillermo del Toro brought moviegoers with the blockbuster-hit Pacific Rim in the summer of 2013. del Toro has teased fans over the past year with the prospect of making a sequel and…
It will come one day, the rapture of all our favorite franchises. All what would be left in the wake of their disappearance are the same repetitive action films designed for the sole purpose of popcorn and passing time. That era, also known as the nineties, is in the near future if Hollywood can resist…
The Injury Recently, reports of Harrison Ford—the actor who famously portrays the character of Han Solo–injuring his leg on the set of the upcoming Star Wars film spread throughout the internet. Yet now these reports have escalated as it turns out that the injury is actually a lot more serious that initially credited. In fact,…
AMC continues to bring harrowing dramas set as period pieces. Their latest is Halt and Catch Fire, a fictional take on the personal computer boom of the 1980’s. Why watch? Think Steve Jobs mixed with Jordan Belfort and you might be right at home here. Here’s our latest look at the series. Looking good in front…
With the new Godzilla movie out in theaters, it’s time for a brief history of the beloved beast. From narrowly avoiding a body design that included an atomic mushroom cloud for a head, to having a roar made by the sound produced by rubbing a resin coated glove along the string of a contrabass and then slowing…
Book 3 is on the Horizon As you fellow LOK fans have hopefully found out, a trailer for Book 3 (aka Season 3): Change was released pretty recently. For those who haven’t seen it yet, check it out below!!! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0UBbzeFc74] As you can tell, there is a lot to look forward to: a variety…
5. Choujuu-jinbutsu-giga or “Animal-Person Caricatures” (Japan) Choujuu-jinbutsu-giga (the literal translation of which is “Animal-Person Caricatures”), shortened to Choujuu-giga, is a 12th/13th century Japanese series of scroll drawings (emakimono) from Kyoto, Japan, and is widely recognized as the first manga. The series of scrolls has no confirmed author, though many scholars believe the monk and astronomer Toba Soujou created them. The right-to-left reading direction of Choujuu-giga is thought to have created the…
Absentia, Absentia, Absentia – you had such promise in the beginning. There was connection with me, there was a sense of humor and you opened up to me. But in the end you hurt me, you hurt me as so many have hurt me before and I now I think we need to talk. Absentia…
Back in April, I was dismayed to hear that the great Stephen Colbert will replace a retiring David Letterman at the end of the year. Don’t misunderstand; I am one of Colbert’s biggest fans and I’m happy that his career is going so well, but I can’t help but bemoan the loss of The Colbert…
So you’re seventeen. You live with your parents, you go to high school, you probably have or at least want a boyfriend or girlfriend, and college is just around the corner. With adulthood just ahead of you, you find out you are special. Not just the “everybody is unique” kind of special. You are actually…
Last month, Jey Odin, creator of Chicken Fighter from Antarctic Press, drew Burrito about me as ‘Apocalypse Jessie’ and had it published on USA Today as a surprise birthday present. I started thinking about what it takes an idea stemming from things like a conversation, daydream, or random thought and developing it into a marketable story….
How to Train Your Dragon 2 was definitely one of the best movies that I’ve seen in recent memory. While not without its flaws, it had excellent character development, exciting action scenes, and multiple tear jerking moments. The Characters The film takes place five years after the first one, and all the whole cast has…
It is hard to hear Edge of Tomorrow mentioned without the accompanying “it’s just like Groundhog Day,” or some variation there of. But Edge of Tomorrow is not just another scab picked off of some holy Hollywood money man, or at least not the source material it is based on. That’s right. It is actually…