Edutainment is rarely entertaining. A lot of media with an educational aspects falls flat. There’s a difficult balance to maintain between being fun to watch and imparting information. In the 90s the best examples were Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beakman’s World. Both presented STEM topics in fun and easy to digest episodes. More … Read more
Yu Yu Hakusho is a classic shonen anime of the early 90s. I decided to give it a watch after finishing Yoshihiro Togashi’s 2010 anime hit Hunter x Hunter. The newer series was excellent and deserves a review of its own, but I want to start with the retro shonen anime. How does it hold … Read more
Netflix continues making unexpected choices with its original series. Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a prequel to Jim Henson’s 1982 film. Nearly forty years after the film reached 16th at the American box office, the story is picked up by a company nobody could have imagined existing in the 80s. It’s absolutely bizarre, but dammit … Read more
One of the best Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes came in the second season. Measure of a Man stands out in a rocky season. A diamond in the rough. The story centers on Commander Data, and whether he’s afforded the same rights as the rest of Starfleet’s citizens. The conflict comes from the philosophical … Read more
Vision of Escaflowne is a fantasy-mecha romance anime. Based off the manga of the same name, the series aired in Japan in 1996. Translated to English in 1998 for VHS release by Bandai, Escaflowne later aired on Fox Kids in 2000. I remember the originally airing on Fox, but it lasted a handful of episodes … Read more
Star Trek: The Next Generation received one of the best series finales of all time. A love letter to fans, it brought together the strongest storytelling elements of the series into one massive send-off for the crew. Let’s look at what makes All Good Things such a stellar finale. Star Trek: The Next Generation is … Read more
Game of Thrones is over and I am one of the few who loved the final season. Did things go as I predicted back in early April? No. Many of my predictions were wrong, but I also got a few right. This article will look over my predictions and see how well I imagined the … Read more
Game of Thrones begins its final season on Sunday. Like every other fan of the series, I have my ideas of how the story will go. In this article I will give my major predictions for season 8. I am not tossing out random ideas or cool moments, but instead looking at narrative beats and … Read more
I’ve never read the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but I have watched the various adaptations many times. Both the 1979 animated special and the BBC mini-series were favorites of mine in the 90s. Disney’s feature film adaptation in 2005 was a film I saw opening weekend and promptly bought on Blu-Ray. Considering I’ve … Read more
Castlevania season two came to Netflix as I finished Daredevil season three. The timing was perfect. Daredevil was an amazing high, but thirteen hour long episodes left me wanting something quicker to follow it up. Castlevania’s eight episode run is exactly what I needed. The first season was the best video game adaptation I’ve seen. … Read more
