The Consulting Analyst – The Sunlit Garden – Finale
The intro is here. Everyone is a pile of neuroses and sadness, but it will probably work out in time. Or, the day Utena figured out what it wanted to be.
Five Forgotten Gems: Animated Film Edition
Long before videogames took on the mantle as ‘most frequently dismissed potential art form,’ the field of animation had been scraping for even the smallest bits of esteem from the cultural majority. Yes, of course animation is ‘kid’s stuff,’ not worthy of the attention of the real moviegoing […]
The Consulting Analyst – Silent Hill
(Editorial note: Worry not, Utena readers, for that series hasn’t stopped. Rather, each time I reach the end of a disc, we’ll take a little one week break to explore one of the games in the Silent Hill series, which is quite dear to my heart) Which is […]
Guardians of the Galaxy: Great Characters, Wrong Protagonist
Oh God, it’s Toy Story 3 all over again As I was promised by the internet, I went to a movie theater and came back out again with a lot of feelings about a tree and a raccoon. Indeed, it was the best Star Wars movie I’d seen […]
The Consulting Analyst – The Sunlit Garden – Prelude
The intro is here. Right off the bat, I get to talk about a two-parter where most of the meaty payoff will be next week? You’re killing me, Smalls.
Make This (Movie) Happen – Cable & Deadpool
Hey, did y’all see the test footage that’s been floating around recently? With Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, having a merry time picking off thugs on a freeway? The incredibly painful footage (and by ‘painful’ I mean that I spent years quashing down my fragile, often battered hopes and […]
The Consulting Analyst – On the Night of the Ball
The intro is here. Or, the one where I wonder why there aren’t a plethora of Utena/Mean Girls mashups.
The Joy of the Guilty Pleasure
At this point, “guilty pleasure” is used so frequently and casually that it has about as much connection to actual meaning as connecting “irony” to “rain on your wedding day” does. That’s not to say that the term is inherently meaningless – people have a sort of gut […]
The Consulting Analyst – For Whom the Rose Smiles
The intro is here. AKA the one where Utena tries to quit fight club, and it doesn’t work out for her.
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 