I hate to get all personal when writing reviews, but when I was in film school in the early 2000’s I went through a French New Wave obsessive phase, especially the early films of Jean-Luc Godard. This mixed with the New York independents of the 80’s like Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Hal Hartley, Frank Henenlotter,…
DVD Review – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In – The Complete Series
Before there was Saturday Night Live and beating Monty Python’s Flying Circus by a year (more years if you count how long it took to import it to America) was Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Dick Martin and Dan Rowan’s sketch comedy show was not the first sketch comedy show to hit American airwaves, not by…
Tabletop Review – Dungeons & Dragons – Candlekeep Mysteries – Wizards of the Coast
Candlekeep Mysteries is the Dungeons & Dragons book I have personally been waiting for… Sort of. When I got back into D&D during 5E I was admittedly without content to play with, Wizards of the Coast has made sure players had LOADS of campaign content, Curse of Strahd, Icewind Dale, Prince of the Apocalypse, and…
Tabletop Review – Cyberpunk Red- Core Rulebook
Back in the late 1980’s and throughout the 1990’s I was huge into tabletop roleplaying games, and then I took a break that lasted about 20 years. In the last 3-4 years I’ve gotten back into TTRPG’s pretty hard. I started by buying new editions of games I played back then starting with D&D 5e,…
DVD Review – Austin City Limits Country – Time Life
I have lived in Austin for almost 10 years now. Now my reasons for moving here are many, and in the end it boiled down to my career (I’m in tech, don’t judge me). One of the main reasons Austin came on my radar was a teenage viewing of Richard Linklater’s seminal ode to Austin…
Blu-ray Review – Death Promise – Vinegar Syndrome
Somehow I had never heard of Death Promise before it had landed on my doorstep. After having watched its Death Wish meets Kung Fu trash charms, I am not just sold, I am addicted. I have started the day finding friends to tell about the film. The film follows Charley Roman, a karate-fighter, whose Dad…
Blu-ray Review – Food Wars – Fourth Plate
Being on a diet and watching the “Fourth Plate” (Fourth Season) of Food Wars is not the ideal situation. I’ve had food in anime (see the films of Hayao Miyazaki as an example) where the food looks good enough to eat, but Food Wars takes that to the extreme so much so, that over the…
Blu-ray Review – Venus Wars – Sentai Filmworks
So when I was getting beyond the Robotech/Dragon Warrior phase of my anime fandom, Cartoon Network and the Sci-Fi channel were there to rescue me with some random blocks of anime. Obviously, CN had Adult Swim, but Sci-Fi had some cool stuff too, and they pretty frequently would show the classic Yoshikazu Yasuhiko anime film…
Blu-ray Review – Motto : To Love Ru – Sentai Filmworks
OK, so a few years back on the older web 1.0’ish version of EuroCultAV we reviewed To Love Ru- The Complete Collection. Our assessment of the time was that the first 2 seasons of To Love Ru (this Blu-ray set is the 2nd season) were a bit too on the campy and episodic , and…
Blu-ray Review – Kandagawa Jet Girls – Sentai Filmworks
Kandagawa Jet Girls is a multimedia project that ties together this 12 episode anime series with an OVA and PS4 racing game. The series premise is quite simple Rin has long wanted to follow in her late Mother’s footsteps. Those footsteps, however, would lead her to be a racer in the sport of Kandagawa Jet…