The first thing to know about The Electric State is that the whole thing is daft as tits on a tank. It has the same blend of deadly seriousness and utter lunacy that one finds in, say, Who Killed Roger Rabbit?
I didn’t do a lot of reviews this past year. Fifty three in all. It was an election year and I write mostly about politics, and I have a backlog going into 2025. Also, if I think something is rubbish, I’m very unlikely to review it. And there was a fair old bit of rubbish that came out last year.
Golden Kamuy First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Saichi Sugimoto ゴールデンカムイ (Gōruden Kamui) Manga Written by Satoru Noda Published by Shueisha English publisher Viz Media Imprint Young Jump Comics Magazine Weekly Young Jump Demographic Seinen Original run August 21, 2014 – April 28, 2022 Volumes 31 (List of volumes) Anime television series Directed by Hitoshi Nanba …
G-1.0 Japanese name Katakana ゴジラ マイナスワン Transcriptions Directed by Takashi Yamazaki Written by Takashi Yamazaki Visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki & Kiyoko Shibuya Produced by Minami Ichikawa, Shūji Abe, Kenji Yamada, Kazuaki Kishida, Gō Abe, Keiichirō Moriya Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki Minami Hamabe Yuki Yamada Munetaka Aoki Hidetaka Yoshioka Sakura Ando Kuranosuke Sasaki Cinematography Kōzō Shibasaki …
Dune Part II Directed by Denis Villeneuve Screenplay by Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts Based on Dune by Frank Herbert Produced by Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Patrick McCormick, Tanya Lapointe, Denis Villeneuve Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, the exiled Duke of House Atreides who sides with the Fremen to overthrow the tyrannical House Harkonnen Zendaya …
A Year in review: a review of 2023 2023 was another great year for television. Among other great shows we watched (and I reviewed) this year were Gen V (outrageous spin-off of The Boys), One Piece (excellent live-action version of a rather dumb anime), a new BBC remake of War of the Worlds, an engaging …
Oppenheimer Directed by Christopher Nolan Screenplay by Christopher Nolan Based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin Produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven & Christopher Nolan Cast Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer’s …
Directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Written by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Peter Tam Lee Starring Michelle Yeoh Stephanie Hsu Ke Huy Quan Jenny Slate Harry Shum Jr. James Hong Jamie Lee Curtis Cinematography Larkin Seiple Edited by Paul …
The Banshees of Inisherin Directed by Martin McDonagh Written by Martin McDonagh Produced by Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh Starring Colin Farrell as Pádraic Súilleabháin Brendan Gleeson as Colm Doherty Kerry Condon as Siobhán Súilleabháin Barry Keoghan as Dominic Kearney Pat Shortt as Jonjo Devine Jon Kenny as Gerry Bríd Ní Neachtain as Mrs. …
Pinocchio Directed by Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale Story by Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins Based on The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Produced by Guillermo del Toro, Lisa Henson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley, Corey Campodonico Starring Ewan McGregor David Bradley Gregory Mann Burn …