Talking Penguindrum on The Speakeasy

I was given the chance to appear on the second half of this month's episode of The Speakeasy, an awesome anime podcast hosted by the Reverse Thieves. We got together to talk about Kunihiko Ikuhara's great new series, Mawaru Penguindrum. It was a really fun and intense discussion about the characters and themes of the show. I will warn that this was a very spoiler heavy discussion and I would honestly encourage you to check out the show itself before listening. Once you have though be sure to listen to The Speakeasy #25: The Flying Penguin, A Revolutionary Girl Utena & Mawaru Penguindrum Discussion!

Spoilereview - Super 8

I don't like Super 8.

It's not like the movie is all bad or anything, I actually enjoyed large parts of it, but the bad parts just ruin it. Elle Fanning is amazing as Alice, and the other child actors, while not as good as Fanning, are wonderful. I also love the first half of the film, outside of a few problems in the realism department. The early plot of the kids working on their movie while all the oddities around town are happening is a lot of fun.

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Sonic Retrospective Part XII - Sonic Adventure

There was no real Sonic game for the SEGA Saturn, so it wasn't until the Dreamcast that a real 3-D Sonic title was made. There was work on a game called Sonic X-treme, but that got canceled and shuffled between systems. This is unfortunate, because Sonic's love interest in the game was planned to be a new character called Tiara Boobowski, which is ridiculous.

In making Sonic Adventure, the team redesigned the characters, making Sonic lankier and more cartoony. They also added a lot more characters, and decided that giving each one their own level types would be more interesting than each playing as similarly as they had in the past. They also took trips to South America for research on temples and jungles in order to plan the appearance of areas in the game like Mystic Ruin.

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January is Encore Month on I Don't Even!

It's encore month! Each week we will watch an old favorite to celebrate the two year anniversary of I Don't Even. Yes, we've been doing this every Wednesday for two years now! So get hype and join in for a month of our favorite movies!

Podlabor 10 - Redline

It is finally time for another episode of Podlabor! If you haven't guessed yet this episode is all about everyone's favorite movie, Redline! If you haven't heard about Redline it is a labor of love project from Madhouse that took 7 years to produce. It is one of the most visually stunning animated films to come out in years. If you haven't seen anything about this movie yet be sure to check out the trailer.

This episode came about when I was talking to Evan from Ani-Gamers and Bradley from T.H.E.M Anime about the movie on Twitter. Everyone was so excited to talk about it so obviously we needed to do a podcast! So here it is. Warning though this episode does contain some spoilers. Redline is one of those special movies that just gets everyone extremely excited and it shows in the podcast. So get to listening! Oh and be sure to preorder Redline. It comes out here finally on Januray 17th on DVD and Blu-Ray! And now I am going to go watch Redline again.

Opening - Redline Title Theme

Closing - Machinehead's Theme

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The Madhouse - Countdown: Jerusalem

The Madhouse is an ongoing look at the various mockbusters and rip-offs from The Asylum and it’s sub brand Faith Films.

Armageddon movies have an annoying habit of exclusively featuring characters that have never heard of the Christian version of the end of the world or even seen one of the many movies on the subject. I suppose they all take place in an alternate world where we don’t have people claiming dates for the rapture. It’s similar to the biggest problem religious movies have: the characters have somehow avoided hearing even the most basic of tenants of some of the most prolific religions.

Countdown: Jerusalem is from The Asylum’s Faith Films sub brand, which is just like The Asylum, but it attempts to pander to the religious. I say attempt because they rarely get even the basics of Christianity into the movie they’re attempting to bill as Christian. I’m not sure if they’re keeping it vague to appeal to all denominations of Christianity or so they don’t have to go through the trouble of checking Wikipedia.

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