TIE Fighter – short film Created by YouTubers otaking77077 (animation) and JPL4185 (SFX), we first featured this anime-inspired Star Wars in Monday Morning Videomania #68. At the time it was only WIP footage, but now it seems they’ve completed it and it’s even more amazeballs than I could have imagined—totally takes me back to the […]
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When it comes to Halloween-themed animation, there’s definitely no shortage of TV specials to be watched; Witch’s Night Out, The Halloween Tree, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Garfield’s Halloween Adventure, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow… the list goes on. However, there aren’t a lot of great examples of animated series that are imbued by […]
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Microwave vs. Cell Phone I have to give it up to corporate America for out creeping any horror film I saw in 2013 with this “Microwave vs. Cell Phone” commercial from way back in 2008. Part of a social media campaign for Net10 Wireless, the 56-second video shows a cell being put into a microwave […]
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With all the right elements of an episode from Aeon Flux and the visual aesthetic of Cowboy Bebop, PostHuman is an impressive short film which features a combination of “espionage, assassins, and out of control super science” and the results are nothing short of spectacular. Directed by Cole Drumb and produced by Jennifer Wai-Yin Luk, […]
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There some things that go great together: peanut butter and jelly, Siskel and Ebert, fire and orphanages, ice-cream and… more ice-cream! Some things however, just no matter how hard we try, will never mix well: Republicans and Democrats, tasty food and good health, clowns and movies (*shudder*). If we try hard enough to see how […]
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Welcome to the first edition of Ringside Rewind! I’m Wesley Messer and I’ll be your host for this brand new column, filtering the aspects of wrestling nostalgia that impacted my childhood as well as parts that continue to influence me to this day. As a kid, I followed every wrestling federation. Back in the late […]
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While rummaging through the bowels of that wonderful place known as the internet I stumbled upon this fantastic short anime, Rain Town, created by Hiroyasu Ishida, a young Japanese animator who made a splash on the scene back in 2009 with his short film, Fumiko’s Confession. The film runs just under ten minutes, and the […]
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(Re)Animatons: Soul Eater
It’s been awhile since I’ve brought any anime to the clubhouse, so I figured it might be a good time to share one of my latest favorites: Soul Eater. Based on the manga by Atsushi Okubo and brought to life by Bones, Soul Eater is a story that follows your standard, Japanese case of cut-ups […]