The Wagakki Band has released the song Ikusa, which is the opening song for the new anime Sengoku Musou, or Samurai Warriors. Wagakki means traditional Japanese instruments in English, and the band uses them to create a fusion rock sound that is pretty unique. Thanks to Rocket News 24 for the heads up on this one.
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Sadly the new animation, Frozen Fever, is a short rather than a feature length project. It will be the opening presentation before the live action version of Cinderella in theaters on March 13. Since I was going to be there anyways for the movie, this is pure bonus fun.
Junkyard was a short story written by Clifford D. Simak and published in Galaxy Magazine in 1953. NBC converted it into a Radio Drama in 1956 for the program X-Minus One. That show is now in the public domain and available to anyone who wants to listen to it or download it for their own collection. They dramatized some of the best classic science fiction short stories from Galaxy Magazine by an amazing array of authors, including L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, and Philip K. Dick, to name just a few more. These particular examples of the show are courtesy of the good folks at SFF Audio, who are an excellent source of such programs.
Another trailer has been released for Minions, the new animated adventure telling the story about what they got up to while waiting for Gru to come along. Quite frankly, these little guys are about 80% of what made me fall in love with the Despicable Me franchise in the first place, so I have been very much looking forward to this film.
The Fantastic 4 is an excellent comic that got turned into several less than spectacular movies. They are trying again, and this version has the potential to be better than the others when it comes out this August.
We have 3 movies to pick from this week, and I am thinking I need to see at least 2 of them. First off is Jupiter Ascending from Andy and Lana Wachowski. I love a good space opera, and this one has the fate of the Earth at stake if things don’t go well. I can’t wait to see how this one turns out, and I will probably go for the IMAX 3D version. Seventh Son is a supernatural thriller that also looks quite entertaining, with an apprentice hero facing a major evil witch during his training. Finally, the historical fantasy Outcast has a western Knight teaming up with the children of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat a tyrant. That one came out last year in Asia but get’s its North American release this Friday.