Jean Snow [.net]

Category: Uncategorized

  • Lady Dynamite

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    This show caught me completely by surprise. I hadn’t heard anything about it, and just saw it pop up on Netflix on Friday (it’s a new Netflix Original series), and wow, this show is fantastic so far. I’m only 2 episodes in, but each was so damn funny, and I just love how crazy and…

  • Gods of Egypt

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    It’s such a shame that they had to cast the movie the way that they did. This could have been just a big dumb fun adventure movie with a cool world to see, but the fact that the main characters are all white just kept annoying me the whole time. I’m sure they justified the…

  • Urusawa Naoki no Manben

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    I’ve just discovered my new favorite TV series. Urasawa Naoki no Manben is a documentary series on NHK Educational that follows Naoki Urasawa – my favorite mangaka – as he interviews various manga creators. What’s especially interesting here is that the cameras follow the person over 4 days, as they are working on pages, and…

  • Master Keaton (Anime)

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Along with the manga series, I’ve also started watching the anime adaptation that was done in 1999-2000, with 39 episodes (originally on TV, and then through OVA releases). I’ve only watched the first few episodes, but it’s really well done, and they do a great job of adapting the manga stories. Also, it’s not done…

  • Master Keaton

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    While I wait for the final volume of Naoki Urasawa’s Billy Bat to begin serialization this summer, I decided to explore his Master Keaton series. I’d read a couple of chapters a while back, and it hadn’t really grabbed me at the time, but this time, after reading the first few chapters, I started really…

  • Ghost in the Shell

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    After getting back into Ghost in the Shell recently through the Arise series and the new movie, I wanted to go back and re-watch the original Mamoru Oshii film. It’s always interesting for me to re-visit these movies that I watched so many times back in the day, but haven’t watched in years (in this…

  • Evoland 2

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    I got this game as part of the current Humble Eye Candy Bundle (ends in 3 days), and boy am I digging it. The idea is that it’s an RPG that plays around with RPG eras, and so you’ll be playing with it looking like an NES-era Zelda game, but then you’ll also experience a…

  • Ali Wong: Baby Cobra

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    I laughed so damn much watching this. I actually wasn’t really aware of Ali Wong, but had noticed that she was a guest on the WTF podcast last week (and have now listened to the episode), and so when I saw her stand-up special pop up on Netflix I decided to check it out, and…

  • Fantastic Four

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    Yup, this is not a good movie at all. It’s just, boring. It takes 40 minutes before they actually do something (go into the other dimension), and after that, the whole story is just nothing. They get back, have powers, and oh, end up facing Doom who stayed there. And Doom is just so silly…

  • Tropico 5

    —

    by

    Jean Snow
    in ,

    I’ve always been curious about the Tropico games, but have never played one until now (thanks, PlayStation Plus). The sim genre is admittedly not one I get very excited about, but I have had fun with some in the past – I never go really deep with them though. I’ve just gone through the tutorials…