Millennium Actress is a recounting of the life of the actress Chiyoko, whose acting years spanned from pre-World War II Japan to the late 1970′s, and whose films established the Ginei movie studio. It is a tragic and heartbreaking story, that takes a while to get started before it becomes great, and then it becomes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘time travel’
Millennium Actress (2001): Worth the Wait
Posted in guide, tagged millennium actress, movie, romance, time travel on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stein’s Gate Bored Me to Death
Posted in graveyard, tagged harem, SF, stein's gate, time, time travel on May 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What happens when you have a cool, head-trippy idea, but haven’t worked out the plot past the first two episodes? If you’re the people behind Stein’s Gate (or should I say “Stein’s; Gate” — what is up with that mangled punctuation?) you just go for it anyways. Most people watching won’t even notice that the [...]
Air (Was In the Heads of the Writers of This Series)
Posted in graveyard, tagged air, harem, magic, romance, time travel on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I won’t break down Air on an episode by episode basis, because that means I’d have to go back and watch each episode again, and this series is just so L O N G and so S L O W that it’d be like having a root canal on the installment plan. It starts off [...]
