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Aeon Flux (2005 Film) Review.

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This is not Aeon Flux. Also, this is Aeon Flux. This film, as has been happily pointed out to me by my spouse, is a sort of thriller, gadget filled spy flick with a Bond'esque reliance on traps and gadgets. It is also, as pointed out my brother, a Wachowski coded slightly sensually coded film filled with inexplicable desire and bizarre sometimes sexually charged instances out of nowhere, based around two who've drifted apart coming closer together.  To me? Aeon Flux is something that fits quite easily despite its premise into something I would describe as 'comfortable'. A world where a diseases was cured but ninety nine percent of the human population died; so the remnant of humanity, led by Trevor Goodchild, but a resistance group with its prominent agent, Aeon Flux, are out to stop him. Or is that what it seems? The film enjoys the idea of twisting on the narrative and introducing reveals upon reveals, with an unfurling desire to show off 'look, look at the layers...

Dragon Half (Anime OVA) Review.

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  I have been in need of joy. I have had a need of a surplus of it since things have been well, how they've been. And beyond that, a desire for time and rest. But sometimes you can find a moment with someone you love and enjoy something utterly ridiculous.   Dragon Half is about a half dragon, half human girl called Mink (not a dragon species), in love with her idol, a singer called Dick Saucer (yes, his name) while dealing with a King (? Of somewhere?) and his daughter, whose half slime (her Mom thought he looked like one too) who is an asshole but also sympathetic and and and   And that's kinda of the vibe this show has. It's an unending train of gags and the nature of it remains with a core kernel of ridiculous. Watched with an incredibly competently silly dub with a joyful exuberance to the voice acting, it feels farcically silly in the way you kinda need, combined with a unique blend of art styles between the chibi like silly and the more detailed class...

Noiseman Sound Insect (Anime Shorts) Review.

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    A echoing, rumbling, never-ending noise. An environment that maintains some semblance of sense but also chooses to drift on the edge of none. A child like arrogance and cruelty that is self-indulgent and leaves the world rent by it.   If you feel overwhelmed, Noiseman Sound Insect will not abate that; moreover, it will be an epitome of that. A scientist makes a creature in a odd world that feeds off a certain type of 'noise' when people are taken and divided into a spirit and crystal form, with the crystal being what appeals to it. And this being, 'Noiseman' wants more and more and more and will brainwash and nudge any all humans to hunt and prey on their own kind to do so. At least, until a human boy and girl accidentally free themselves of that control and decide to defeat this sefish child of a villain once and for all.   This anime is again, overwhelm incarnate. Like the name, noise is a part and parcel, frenetic, neverending bizarre action and ...

Resident Evil: Director's Cut (Game) Review.

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This review was done on a console with easy emulation and save stating, alongside only being written after accomplishing set goals within the story.   I've developed an enjoyment of survival horror games of late. I finished a game known as Crow Country and decided to play one of the games that deeply influenced it, the original Resident Evil; a story of a special unit of cops getting stuck in a mansion in the woods and getting fucked up by monsters!   As cheesy horror scenarios go, it's quite classic. The isolated mansion filled with the undead while having moments of surprise and some genuine jumps is offset a little by potentially some of the cheesiest dialogue in a video game, at least for a time. The original actors for the live action opening and the voice actors for the game speak in a wildly exaggerated, heavily over the top English, the lines are blocky in the way they're recited and the atmosphere of these encounters, even the sadder or more serious...

Crow Country (Game) Review.

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  An experience that's short, sweet and is fun to replay is kind of the classic experience you hope most from a game sometimes. I've had that a few times and while there's some games I've played that lean on a heavy narrative, which Crow Country is no different in doing, the game itself feels built for the fluidity of replay ability. And that's why I've been enjoying it so much.   An abandoned theme park in the year 1990 is where our protagonist, Mara Forest journeys to. A special agent of the police, she supposedly has business with its owner, Edward Crow, who has been missing for some time and his daughter, Natalie, has requested aid of the police to find her. But it's clear immediately, that something isn't quite right with the situation. Not just the park, not just the atmosphere, but yourself. Who you are, is one of the key curiosities of the story and that's where this game shines outside it's ability to be fun to play; the story ...