Winter 2019 Premiere Reviews
This is a pretty slim season for new series–lot of sequels and continuations. And it’s winter, which is always sort of the dump season anyway. Still, there’s a few potential gems.
Vrai Kaiser
I'm Vrai Kaiser, writer by profession and analytic nerd for the love of the game. I've been published in online magazine The Alligator, and am currently working to get my first novel published. Here you'll find updates on my work, as well as pop culture analysis, recaps, and reviews. Commentary and requests are always welcome.
Drunk Book Club: Blood Communion
This one’s a soul-crusher folks. And we’re experienced in reading this crap.
Vrai’s Top 20 Anime REDUX (Part 2)
Part two of the faves list! You can read part one here. I’m gonna level with y’all, you’re gonna recognize some of the titles on this one.
Vrai’s Top 20 Anime REDUX (Part 1)
This site turned five years old back in October, and I’ve been thinking about how to celebrate it. I initially did a list of my top 20 anime back in 2014, and a lot can change in almost half a decade. While I’d still stand by the titles […]
Trash & Treasures: Toys/Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys
Prepared to be terrified, and not by the ostensible horror movie.
Vrai (Re)Watches Escaflowne (Part 2)
The plot is a big ball of nonsense that only matters insofar as people FEEL things about it, but also the characters are real good.
Trash & Treasures: Hudson Hawk
I wouldn’t say this is a GOOD movie, but it’s definitely a hell of a spectacle.
Vrai (Re)Watches Escaflowne – Part 1
Isekai isn’t my bag most of the time, even if we’re talking about the 90s stuff that tended to be a lot more interesting (and a lot less gross) than the male wish-fulfillment version of the genre exploding at present. But there is one I adore: Escaflowne, the […]
Trash & Treasures: Austin Powers
20 years. I made it almost 20 years without watching this movie.
The Lost Village is Definitely Bad on Purpose–But Why?
This essay was commissioned by Wendy Cannan. You can find out more about commissions here. “Bad on purpose” is an extremely difficult sell. It requires a much higher level of shared knowledge than straightforward comedy—both because the creator must know how to replicate the hallmarks of amateurishness while still […]
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 