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Undone

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:51:50 +0000

This animated series was the first exclusively made for Amazon. It ran 2 8 ep seasons in 2019 & 2022. It’s rotoscope animation, very reminiscent in style and hallucinatory scenes to A Scanner Darkly. Rose Salazar (who I loved as Alita and in the ST tribble short) play Alma, who suffers a near death car accident that propels her into a world of delusion where she’s talking to her dead father (Bob Odenkirk who Im really starting to like) who was a theoretical physicist that may have solved time travel but then was killed. It doesn’t quite take off until ep 3 after the hallucinations kick in, but that’s where I’m at now and it’s mind-bending fun. EPS are just over 20 mins and I shall watch more.

Bollywood Music

Tue, 12 May 2026 08:05:12 +0000

Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026)

Mon, 11 May 2026 17:27:35 +0000

Doc Ock and Aunt May form a strange bond in this melodrama set in the Pacific Northwest. Aunt May cleans up after hours at the local aquarium. Doc Ock longs to escape his aquarium and return to the Ocean. Into their life comes Cameron, living in his barely running van, looking for his missing father to get some badly overdue child support. Cameron takes over for Aunt May after she gets injured at the aquarium. Aunt May tries to turn Cameron's life around. Doc Ock wants to help both of them before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Meanwhile Miles O'Brien, on leave from his engineering job I guess, runs a local market/coffee shop and pines for Aunt May, all the while sporting vintage Grateful Dead T-shirts and reminiscing about the years he followed the Dead.

Yep, it all turns out right in the end despite the various twists and turns. There is even an appearance from Miss Kettlewell from Child's Play 2, so you know it's good.

If you are looking for a good weepy, look no further. No sword fights.

Ninja Vixens: The Kagero Squad (1990)

Sat, 09 May 2026 15:29:26 +0000

The title of this film is translated to be more prurient than it is. IN Japanese, it reads 'woman invisible' which may conjugate to kunoichi somehow but I don't quite know how Japanese conjugation works.

It's about a squad of female ninjas that infiltrate a political coup and restore order to a fiefdom. The ninjettes (official DM tern for kunoichi) dress like geishas and work their way into the usurping gang's midst, mostly within their gambling/whorehouse because that's what Japanese baddie do. They have these armulet globes that when activated, shoot out weak (90s? more like 70s) special effects of butterflies. My favorite scene is when one of the nineties, dressed in a normal kimono, is captured by random wannabe rapists. She unleashes the butterflies, the rapists freak out, and then she dispatches them all with swift kicks to the nuts. The main ninjette doesn't show her prowess until she strips down to her ninjette uniform that shows her thighs in fishnets. There's a lot of thigh exposing, but not quite enough to earn the title 'vixen'. Note that there are posed breasts, also kinda random. The lead ninjette is cool. Fight choreo is mediocre at best - dated in style and execution.

Not overly D00M recommended. This is the start of a trilogy and I'll probably watch more.

Seen here:

Baian the Assassin M.D. (2023)

Fri, 08 May 2026 11:20:22 +0000

Baian is an acupuncturist assassin who kills with a long needle to the base of the skull. It’s a slow, brooding and beautiful movie, one of those jidaigeki films where every frame is composed like a ukiyo painting. It took me a while to get into it. There’s some fight choreo, including a nice scene where one character has to take an a gang of attackers, but mostly it’s about intrigue and suspense. There’s a lot of eating, a strange focus on food, and drinking sake with loud slurps and gulps. That was somewhat distracting but served as a grounding mechanism. The ending mcguffin was intense. Did not expect to go there and it made the journey worth it.

There’s a part 2. It’s based on a novel and there’s a previous TV interpretation. I’ll probably give the sequel a go.

Not overly D00M recommended but a good story so far.

Seen censored on YouTube (there a sex scene that blurred ai all you get is a few minutes of mowing. ignore the John Wick comment in the title -that’s so misleading).

Casino, but it's Looney Tunes

Mon, 04 May 2026 16:38:27 +0000

--tg

Ducks (short)

Mon, 04 May 2026 06:20:39 +0000

—tg

Marty Supreme

Sun, 03 May 2026 21:50:34 +0000

Marty is a pushy, annoying hustler who happens to be good at ping pong.

It's an OK story, but Marty is an unlikable character and you just want to see him get smacked down so maybe he'll stop being such and asshole.

The title credit sequence is perplexing (until later in the film).

Also perplexing: the film is set in the mid-fifties, but the soundtrack is heavy with 1980's synth pop, eg: Peter Gabriel's "I have the touch". It doesn't fit at all.

Not terrible...not great. I thought Fran Drescher was good as his mom, and I don't usually like her.

--tg

Stay in Bloom (Dabin) @ Frost

Sat, 02 May 2026 15:20:37 +0000

NOTES:

Dabin as in dab in not dah-bin
Last time I was here for rock med was the Grateful Dead 5/6/89
342 Jennifer verage
So wasian so kawaiiiiiii
Some folks rockin tradition qipao & robes. Where the f was this when I was growing up? Avante garde man. It’s a curse to be before your time.
2nd guy is a singer who sux - harshing my buzz
Keenan le or something like that. Like a pop singer. Bumming me out. Who programs this in the middle of an edm show.
Cosplayers from valorant video game
Hello Kitty meets studio ghibli rave
Nurko and we’re back to edm . We stage right beneath the speakers
Fun bouncy bass drops
First call - my team rocked it. Good save
2nd call immediately after - ver age’s 1st show - beginners luck.
Bumped into TC it Matt, fresh back from Coachella but got call 2 and had to run
Juelz v chyl - pyro is lot
3rd call - Verage has noob fever
Table service - a chance to sit my ass down
Gal to pick up
Dabin ok
Jason mraz
Another guest
2 more calls
I’ve lost count. Busy night
Now waiting for a ride to pick up another drunk gal in lingerie - Thar kind of night

Nippon Sangoku

Fri, 01 May 2026 19:20:55 +0000

I'm like 4 eps deep on this and it's befuddling. It's a post-apocalyptic Japan deep in a nuclear winter as the nation has divided into three kingdoms vying for power. There are a lot of characters and it's complex, lots of political turmoil parses by katana decapitations. Based on a manga from 2021, at first I thought its homosexual overtones were a bit much, but it has a unique style, anime on steroids, darting back and forth between military tactics, goofy humor, man butts, and sanguineous katana action. I keep thinking I'll quit but then some scene will give me pause and make me wonder where this is all going. So I'm still watching it. The anime is being released in weekly installments.