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All the ads resent this as a pot-flavored bromantic comedy-adventure between two guys who are in over their heads. This is not technically inaccurate, since it’s true. It’s a classic premise, inaction...
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Your Friday Fix 2/13/09: Chrome Shelled Regios
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Supernatural . This story takes place in a barren inhospitable world. To make matters worse, giant “filth-monsters” called the Limbeekoon roam the wastes...
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Your Friday Fix 3/6/09: Munto
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Magical, Supernatural . Yumemi has always been a bit different from her childhood friends. When she gazes into the sky; she sees floating islands that no one else does....
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Your Friday Fix 3/20/09: Kemono no Sou-ja Erin
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy . The touda, fighting serpents, are the backbone of the Grand Duke’s army. With this army he defends the Queen and her lands from outside invaders. When the Duke’s banner...
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Your Friday Fix 5/22/09: 07-Ghost
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Magical, Science Fiction . Teito Klein is an up and coming student at the Barsburg Military Academy. His friend, Mikage is nearly always by his side. During the final exam...
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Your Friday Fix 6/5/09: Shangri-La
Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Supernatural . Sometime in the not too distant future global warming has reached critical mass. The ocean levels have risen, reeking havoc on coastal areas....
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Your Friday Fix 6/19/09: Tears to Tiara
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance . The many Ages: Gold, Silver, Bronze, Titan, Elf and Fairy have all come to an end. The Iron Age, the age of mankind, has finally begun… and...
View ArticleCirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
After a truly fantastical opening credits sequence, I worried that Cirque du Freak might have exhausted its quality potential. Thankfully, it had not. Adapting the first three of Darren Shan’s books...
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Your Friday Fix 10/30/09: Queen's Blade Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Ecchi … no, Hentai … no wait Ecchi . It is to be noted that this series is part two of the Queen’s Blade saga. The Queen’s Blade is a tournament for control over the...
View ArticleThe Men Who Stare At Goats
While apparently some of the characters in The Men Who Stare At Goats are composites and other narrative short cuts, this film asserts that “more of this is true than you would believe.” I found it fun...
View Article2012
I’m not giving anything away when I say that 2012 is about the day our world ends. No stakes could possibly be higher. It’s not just human civilization (though there’s some of that being lost...
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Your Friday Fix 11/20/09: Tegami Bachi
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural . AmberGround exists in eternal twilight, lit only by its artificial sun and its inhabitants scattered cities. In this darkness roam countless mechanical...
View ArticleAvatar
James Cameron has always been an innovator. Whether it’s defining the gold standard for a female action lead or designing cameras and processes to make the exact film he is envisioning, Cameron is a...
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Your Friday Fix 01/01/10: The Sacred Blacksmith
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy . In the Independent Trade City of Housman a young knight named Cecily Cambell patrols the streets. In her hands she hold her family’s sword, handed down through...
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Your Friday Fix 01/15/10: Fairy Tail
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Magical . Fiore is a country where a sizable portion of the population has some manner of magical abilities. Due to this, magic is a common and traded commodity...
View ArticleA Town Called Panic (Panique au Village)
Leaving aside that this is a French film with subtitles, when you settle in to watch it, you first feel as if you’re indulging a precocious nephew’s elaborate and logic-impaired make-believe. A...
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Your Friday Fix 02/19/10: Sora no Woto
Genres: Adventure, Comedy . A war in a vaguely European setting has left Kanata Sorami, a young girl, orphaned. She is found alone and crying in a gutted building by a female bugler. Years later she...
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Your Friday Flashback 03/26/10: Golden Boy
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi . Every year around my birthday I take a Friday to cover a series from anime-past. This year I selected (read coerced by friends) Golden Boy from around 1995-1996, back...
View ArticleThe Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Matinee with Snacks I went into this movie with pretty low expectations. The previews are gorgeous, but what computer animated film has any excuse not to...
View ArticleTangled
Disney’s trumpeting Tangled as its 50th animated feature seems a bit defensive at first.They pioneered the medium of animation in terms of technique, story adaptation, and marketing, paving the way for...
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