anime – couchmagpie

14/09/2021 Watching

Midpoint movie roundup – September 2021

Kate / Army of the Dead / The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf / Shaun the Sheep Movie / Ponyo / Choke / The Empire Strikes Back / A New Hope / Rogue One / Revenge of the Sith / Spoilers, lots of spoilers!

09/07/2020 Watching

Ghost in the Shell SAC_2049

Anyone who follows me will know that I have a real soft spot for anything to do with Ghost in the Shell, even when it’s a decidedly non-Japanese Hollywood adaptation. So it was with some trepidation but a glimmer of excitement that I watched the trailer for the new Netflix show.

06/04/2020 Watching

Altered Carbon Season 1, Season 2 and Resleeved

While Altered Carbon is an adaptation of the 2002 cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan it visually seems to owe a hell of a lot to Ridley Scott’s neo-noire interpretation of Philip K Dick’s work in Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049…

01/04/2020 Watching

Film Roundup from March 2020

04/04/2019 Reading / Watching

3 books and 5 movies including Creed II

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a long-winded tale about some historians poring over old manuscripts and letters to find

21/03/2019 Watching

Love, Death & Robots

A text heavy summary of what’s on offer in Netflix’s new Cert 18 sci-fi/fantasy/horror anthology series.

13/02/2019 Watching

Alita: Battle Angel

Was Alita: Battle Angel a testing ground for a system of three-dimensional high-resolution rendering of computer-animated main characters which will be central to the production of Avatar 2? If so, it looks like a huge success.