Hope this spooktacular night is finding you up to your neck in fun. Happy Halloween, everyone! The picture started life being a yard near my local grocery store, I took a photo and converted it to this.
The film Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? is made by Michel Gondry, the man who did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, and stars MIT’s Noam Chomsky. Gondry also did the interesting animation for the documentary, which has a nice texture to it and visually enhances the dialog. You are going to want to bring your brain to this one, it looks like good intelligent fun.
What could be more American than Mister Peabody and Sherman? I can’t wait for the new movie to be in the theaters, and once more hear that exciting command: Sherman, set the WayBack Machine! Along with Fractured Fairy Tales, this was something I looked for every week in the Rocky And Bullwinkle Show.
We hit the jackpot this week, and I don’t mean the ton of horror flics coming out on Halloween. Best action/adventure based on a literary property is definitely Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, which comes complete with a world-class cast. For those in the mood for a heartwarming time travel romance we have the wide release (previously in Limited) of About Time from the team that did 4 Weddings And A Funeral. The animated treat for the weekend is Free Birds, with time traveling turkey’s out to change the Thanksgiving menu forever. Finally, the foreign film of note is Man of Tai Chi, which is a Hong Kong martial arts film, even if Keanu Reeves is directing and starring in it.
The action/comedy winner is R.I.P.D., the after life cop story based on the excellent Dark Horse comic. The other film of note this week is Byzantium, the dramatic fantasy about two beautiful vampires.
There didn’t seem to be any live action TV options this time around, at least not from North America. The western animation is a good one, though: Disney’s Monsters University. This was released as a digital HD download at the beginning the first week of the month, but this is your first chance to actually get the discs.
In Anime, Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is the story of 5 childhood friends who grew apart after the death of Meiko, another friend. Years later, while they are in High School together, the ghost of Meiko returns and draws them back together to fulfill a promise they made to her as children. Thermae Romae: Complete Collection is about a bath house builder from ancient Rome who travels in time to modern Tokyo and gets some great ideas to incorporate into his designs from contemporary bath houses.
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu continues to produce surreal music videos in Akihabara and kawaii overdose clothing in Harajuku, and here is the proof. This video was posted on Wednesday and is called Mottainaitoland, and as always, Kyary’s is the only face you will see. The other track is also from this week and also a bit uptempo strange, the band CAPSULE doing their track Control from their new album CAPS LOCK.