Trash & Treasures – The Castle of Cagliostro
You’ve seen my favorite movie list, right? It was only a matter of time.
Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (5 to 1)
Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (20 to 16) Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (15 to 11) Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (10 to 6) The final stretch is upon us! Something to note with these movies: while they’re technically in order just to keep the list convention afloat, I sort of think of […]
Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (10 to 6)
Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (20 to 16) Vrai’s Favorite Things: Movies (15 to 11) The list goes on! As always, one of the overriding tenets of making the list is the phrase “You haven’t seen this? Siddown, this is our night now.” This week shades, as perhaps such lists […]
10 Unmissable Green Jacket Episodes
Almost a year ago I started my very first ongoing series (a lecture series? Recaps? A bit of both, perhaps), concerning the classic anime Lupin III Part I (colloquially known as the “Green Jacket” series). I’ll say the same thing now that I did then (repeatedly, and for […]
Green Jacket 23 – Farewell, My Beloved Thief
Want to start at the beginning? We come, at last, to the end of the line – the final time a green jacketed Lupin would grace the TV screens of the 20th century. And what an episode to go out on. It’s something like a distilled version of […]
Green Jacket 22 – Lupin vs HAL
Want to start at the beginning? Imagine that you’re reading a novel where the latest fad is modern medical technology, and at the end the characters agree that ‘well, this is cool and all, but it’ll never be quite the same as leeches.’ That’s the closest equivalent I […]
Green Jacket 21 – Should I Get Back in the Kitchen?
Want to start at the beginning? This has to be one of the weirdest Green Jacket episodes since we started this little adventure. Not in terms of content so much – you’ve got a girl, a chase, lots of guns and a few daring escapes, all pretty par […]
Art, History, a Swan Song for a Genius: Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises
More than once during The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, I found myself getting choked up for reasons I couldn’t quite explain. Or rather, they weren’t necessarily connected to what was happening on the screen. For every melancholy or touching moment woven into the film proper, another […]
Green Jacket 20 – The Danger of Hillbilly Thieves
Want to start at the beginning? Burning a late candle for this week’s recap, which is one of the last times we’ll be introduced to an Important Future Tradition – one the traditions nearest and dearest to my heart, in fact. But we can’t begin that way – […]
Green Jacket 19 – You Fail Science Forever
Want to start at the beginning? Before getting to this part of the recap, I remembered this episode as being fairly nondescript and skippable in that exactly none of it stuck in my brian. It turns out that this was an extremely incorrect assessment on my part, because […]
Fashionable Tinfoil Accessories 