I actually kind of do like "Preservation", complete overwrought mess that it is across its two "Acts". Did anyone here see the Boston Rock Opera version of it back in the 90's? http://www.rockopera.com/20…

Didn't the Bobcat Goldthwait interview here on AVC reveal that he's working on making a movie of "Soap Opera"? No, wait, it was "Schoolboys in Disgrace": http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Didn't the Bobcat Goldthwait interview here on AVC reveal that he's working on making a movie of "Soap Opera"? No, wait, it was "Schoolboys in Disgrace": http://www.avclub.com/artic…

Well, if we're going to put anime in play, how about "Angel Beats!" and "Madoka Magica". Madoka gets a pep talk with the dead Mami and Kyoko before changing the laws of the universe, lets the dead Sayaka see Kyousuke's future as a celebrated violinist before Sayaka dies (again) and vanishes, and then gets Naked…

Well, if we're going to put anime in play, how about "Angel Beats!" and "Madoka Magica". Madoka gets a pep talk with the dead Mami and Kyoko before changing the laws of the universe, lets the dead Sayaka see Kyousuke's future as a celebrated violinist before Sayaka dies (again) and vanishes, and then gets Naked…

Rest assured that "Warrior's Gate" will always be two articles away.

Rest assured that "Warrior's Gate" will always be two articles away.

With all the explosions and people running around screaming, you sure this isn't actually footage from "Transformers 4"? I see few stars, and even less trekking.

With all the explosions and people running around screaming, you sure this isn't actually footage from "Transformers 4"? I see few stars, and even less trekking.

Zappa's "Civilization Phaze III" seems a more explicit effort to get out all his ideas before dying. Aside from exhuming unused spoken word recordings from the gang locked in the piano from "Lumpy Gravy", it also calls back to many of his various styles, exudes his late-in-life environmentalism, and sports a…

Zappa's "Civilization Phaze III" seems a more explicit effort to get out all his ideas before dying. Aside from exhuming unused spoken word recordings from the gang locked in the piano from "Lumpy Gravy", it also calls back to many of his various styles, exudes his late-in-life environmentalism, and sports a…

And J-Pop girl group AKB48 for the "Sugar Rush" theme. Both seem like perfect match of artist to fictional game.

And J-Pop girl group AKB48 for the "Sugar Rush" theme. Both seem like perfect match of artist to fictional game.

Do we assume that was Henchman 24 in the zombie horde? Or could it not be, because 21 caught his head after H.E.L.P.E.R.'s explosion, and spent half a season talking to the skull?

Do we assume that was Henchman 24 in the zombie horde? Or could it not be, because 21 caught his head after H.E.L.P.E.R.'s explosion, and spent half a season talking to the skull?

These Atlas movies leave me with the same feeling I had when I was 12 and saw Bakshi's "The Lord of the Rngs": disappointed that whatever I loved in the original, it just somehow didn't work as a movie. At least not in that movie. Maybe in 20 years, someone else will get a chance and make it work, like Peter Jackson…

These Atlas movies leave me with the same feeling I had when I was 12 and saw Bakshi's "The Lord of the Rngs": disappointed that whatever I loved in the original, it just somehow didn't work as a movie. At least not in that movie. Maybe in 20 years, someone else will get a chance and make it work, like Peter Jackson…

Hey, I'm an anime fan too, but I always thought Tartakovsky and McCracken were taking inspiration more from the hyper-stylized UPA cartoons of the 1950's. In its time, UPA used flatness as a means of calling attention to the nature of animation, and the sleekness of that style was unmistakable in Dexter, Powerpuffs,…

Hey, I'm an anime fan too, but I always thought Tartakovsky and McCracken were taking inspiration more from the hyper-stylized UPA cartoons of the 1950's. In its time, UPA used flatness as a means of calling attention to the nature of animation, and the sleekness of that style was unmistakable in Dexter, Powerpuffs,…

So wait, is this the next "Terra Nova", or the next "FlashForward"?