Archive for 'Reviews'
Chasing Amy
Posted on 21. May, 2010 by Bran Rainey.
Chasing Amy, a 1997 romantic dramedy by Kevin Smith, is a very flawed movie, but also a very powerful movie. Smith brings his signature style – quick, witty dialogue mixed with stoner humour – to the LGBT scene, and digs a little deeper than usual.
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Avatar review
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Bran Rainey.
I’m torn on exactly what to think about Avatar. Does the enormous price tag help make it something worth seeing? Or is this just an expensive tech experiment?
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Misfile
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Bran Rainey.
Misfile is the kind of webcomic I don’t want to read… or at least I thought so until I read it. Most transgender comics turn into a) sexist nonsense, b) fetish fuel, or c) both. In fact, I’d say the majority are both. Misfile, with very few exceptions, manages to avoid these pitfalls. It actually gives a fairly realistic portrayal of the situation, and uses it effectively to tell an interesting story.
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Koihime Musou
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Ryan Lalonde.
When Kanu was young, her family and their village were wiped out by bandits. As she grew up, she saw more and more of the world, and how so many other families were torn apart by war, disease and other things. And so she sets out on a journey: a journey to find the answer…
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.
The new Potter film is as good to the story as it is to the eyes, adapting the core story elements of its novel into a form more suitable for a visual medium. The film feels like a perfect continuation from Order of the Phoenix, which is to be expected given the director, but also manages to come across as the logical maturation of Prisoner of Azkaban.
