2013 the Year End Review

This is not going to be my normal review. I'm going to review the past year. Ill try to stick to entertainment issues, because that is what this blog is all about. Entertainment - be it movies, games, books, anime, tv, and all the other things that entertain.

Haganai (I don't have many friends) [Anime Review]

 

I can read the entire title even with the kanji, 僕は友達が少ない, Boku wa tomodachi ga sukunai. Which makes me wonder... where the heck did Haganai come from? Is it just the particles between the words + the negative? 'Ha' 'ga' 'nai'... that's my best guest.

Santa's Village of Madness [Rifftrax Review]

I was going to write a different blog tonight, but I decided to put that one back and write a bit about my own personal holiday tradition. Starting a few years ago I went and saw Rifftrax Live: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza.

Thor: The Dark World [Movie Review]

This was originally supposed to go up on Weds, then again on Friday. But I've been busy - it is the bloody holidays after all. Happy Festivus! Superb Saturnalia! Or whatever...

So this movie has been out a while, it just took me a long time to get to the theater to see it. I told a friend who lives way out of town that I'd go see it with him. I waited to see it with him, and finally we went.

LaGrange - The Flower of Rin-ne [Anime Review]

This is an anime I had no idea really about when I put it in the player. I remembered liking the preview before ordering it, but that was really it. I had to make sure I liked it before ordering season two, and so it went to the top of the watch list.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug [Movie Review]

 The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light.

Last night, for the first time in a long while I saw a movie at the midnight early release. I went with a friend who had invited me, and I had not seen for some time. They were good enough reasons to move forward the time I was planning on seeing the movie. I tend to watch things during matinee hours. But this once I would see the movie at night. Steeling myself, I bought my tickets through fandango and headed out into the cold night. Others came with me. The journey was not perilous when we set off.

James May's Man Lab - Series 1 [BBC Review]

I first discovered James May's Man Lab back in 2011, a little before the second series aired in the UK. I simply watched it because the titular host was James May from Top Gear, and I really like Top Gear. Man Lab has a total of three series covering thirteen episodes, and hopefully there will be more.

Ookami Kakushi - Mask of the Wolf [Anime Review]

There are lots of anime that seem to have evolved from video games. This one does not seem to come from an eroge (which is where a lot of them seem to come from), it is just a normal mystery-adventure style visual novel for the PSP.

Ghosthouse (1988) [Rifftrax Review]

I love watching bad movies. They really make you appreciate the average mediocre drivel that comes out of Hollywood. Thankfully, there is a tried and true method to watching bad movies. It was created in 1988 by Joel Hodgeson and it is called Mystery Science Theater 3000, which celebrated it's 25th anniversary this past November. There are two modern sucessors to MST3K's legacy, Cinematic Titanic and Rifftrax.

Today's review is a Rifftrax riff of Ghosthouse (1988), a horror movie so bad that it's actually funny.

We Without Wings - Under the Innocent Sky [Anime Review]

Character count: 4 so far.

This might be one of the most difficult anime to ever review without giving away the whole story at once. That not withstanding, I watched it, you get to read about it.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special - Day of the Doctor [TV Review]

From 1963 to 2013, the faces of the Doctor.

I suppose it should be stated at the outset that I am a Whovian.
I have the DVD of every episode that is available. This is important.
More after the fold.