They haven’t set up the web site yet, but I loved the original Pixar animation Monsters Inc, and am looking forward to the sequel Monsters University.
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There are actually 3 excellent choices on the big screen this weekend: the Pixar animated Brave, the politically incorrect Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and the sleeper indi film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. I pretty much have to be at all three of these, but I don’t think I will have enough time what with everything else going on this weekend. If you ask which one I will see first, my answer will change from one hour to the next; I may end up flipping a coin when I hit the theater, these all look too good to make a decision.
Sadly there are no memorable movie selections this time. We do have Witchslayer Gretl is another one of those Syfy TV Movies that you wish they had meant to be that silly. Exit Humanity is a Civil War Zombie film hoping to cash in on Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Alien Origin is Blair Witch meets Predator ripoff. And Awakened is a lot like Alien origin except I recognized a few of the actors, and felt sorry they were stuck in such a movie. All in all, not a very good week for live action feature length films; there will not be a single one of these coming home with me. Let’s face it, the only feature film at all interesting this week is Radio Rebel, which is a Disney flic that is not even a little bit genre.
In TV we also crash and burn, with pretty much nothing to report.
We do a bit better in Anime, with Golgo 13: Collection 4 bringing us the fourth installment of the assassins story, with more dangerous assignments than ever before. Also out is K-ON! Season 2, Collection 1, and it may not be genre, but any band club with a faculty adviser who is also a secret former Death Metal singer/guitarist has to be having fun and taking us along for the ride. Finally Dragonaut: The Resonance is coming out with the complete series in a S.A.V.E. edition, which means you can now pick it up for around $18.
Darwin Fish keeps creating interesting time laps videos, and I am pretty sure the last one posted here was his life size Gundam rebuild (remember, a Gundam is much bigger than a human). This one is the new Tokyo Sky Tree, the new home of Radio and Television antennas in Japan’s most impressive city. These are actually several different stop motion studies edited into the finished product, and I find it quite visually impressive. Thanks to Crunchyroll for the heads up on this one.
I missed the pilot for Saving Hope when it was broadcast, so once more I am happy about VOD both through cable and online. Now that I have seen it, I am ready for tonight’s episode, and I was impressed with the first story. I look forward to finding out if they can maintain the quality.
Jonathan Coulton writes and performs some truly excellent science fiction music, including the theme song to John Scalzi’s new book, Redshirts. Scalzi liked it so much, he did his own cover of it, on a Ukelele no less. And then he recently interviewed Coulton on his Tor Press blog/podcast segment, which you should read, then go back and listen to. It is good to know there are some people having this much fun while earning their living; it gives the rest of us something to aspire to!