Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazuko) (2018)
Movie
Palm d'Or-winning Japanese drama examining the lives of a family who depend upon petty crime to...
Midway (2019)
Movie Watch
Historical war movie from Roland Emmerich. US soldiers and pilots change the course of World War II...
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition
Video Game
This definitive version of the critically acclaimed game features the same sprawling content of the...
Defeat into Victory
Book
Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of...
Kevin Phillipson (10017 KP) rated Dragon Ball super super heroes (2022) in Movies
Aug 19, 2022
Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
Barbara Geilhorn and Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Book
The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have...
Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Book
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) in Movies
Mar 27, 2018 (Updated Mar 28, 2018)
The plot is fairly forgettable and possibly incoherent, as is most of the acting (though Scott Eastwood makes something of an impression in an underwritten part), but you go to this kind of film to see enormous robots and kaiju smacking each other about the head with bits of skyscraper, and this movie delivers that in spades. Possibly the first western movie to capture the real spirit of Japanese monster movies, and that makes up for a lot. The world-building isn't as interesting as in the first one, but it retains a few compellingly weird touches. Pure popcorn entertainment, but made with real energy and actually quite charming in a puppyish way.