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• Beyond The Black Rainbow Review: How I Tried To Avoid The Term “Fever Dream”

  By Franklin Raines on March 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Canadian science fiction and pseudo-thriller film created by first time writer and director (from what I gleamed from IMDB) Panos Cosmatos. Beyond starts with a 60’s video reel explaining how Dr. Mercurio Arboria founded… Read More ›

• Freelancers Review: Tricked By A Felipe Smith Cover

  By Franklin Raines on February 22, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Freelancers is a comic about Los Angeles orphans Cassandra and Valerie, whose jobs entails keeping up with writing and editing deadlines for five different comic or magazine publications…no wait, wrong freelancers. Cassandra (Cassie) and Valerie (Val) are freelancers in the… Read More ›

• Octopus Girl Review: The “Modern Girl” Is A Crazy Killer

  By Franklin Raines on October 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in the far flung past of 2011; I was binge reading a ton of manga by famed horror mangaka, faux-snuff film writer, and modern samurai Hideshi Hino. My university library, a place normally used by me to bum time… Read More ›

• Mobile Police Patlabor – The Early Days Review: Is It Just A Job?

  By Franklin Raines on September 14, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Even as a fan of modern live-action Japanese cinema, I felt a tinge of dread when I heard that the 80’s police drama-comedy Patlabor series was going to get a live-action T.V. adaption. People who have read my other reviews… Read More ›

• The Visitor Review: Cheating At Pong With Telekinesis

  By Franklin Raines on August 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The Visitor is an Italian and American co-production from 1979 directed by 8 1/2 actor Giulio Paradisi, credited as Michael J. Paradise. Paradisi’s other small directorial credits include the unfortunately titled Italian film Spaghetti House, supposedly a drama/comedy based on… Read More ›

• Children of the Blazing Fist’s New Tumblr is up!

  By Franklin Raines on June 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  We got ourselves a new Tumblr, so check it out for site updates and general cool stuff like things we find relating to past reviews. Think of it like a visual explosion of cool things we like in Manga, Film, Anime,… Read More ›

• List of Titles Shown at A-Kon 2014

  By Franklin Raines on June 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Here is a list of all the titles and some extra information on what we covered at A-Kon 2014. For those cool people who are new to the site, we added hyperlinks to the specific titles that we have reviewed in… Read More ›

• God Hates Astronauts Review: Like Saga’s Louder Younger (Older?) Brother

  By Franklin Raines on May 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  My glorious plan to cover more Kickstarted (Indigogoed and etc., pick your favorite) comics as of late have hit a few snags. While I am not about to deeply ponder the Service Life Cycle of crowd funding, I believe enough… Read More ›

• Space Adventure Cobra (The Movie) Review: SPACE BUTTS…AND ARTSY VISUALS

  By Franklin Raines on April 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  We recently noticed that we had a ton of Discotek Media DVDs lying around waiting to be reviewed (as is a common problem, as you know). Thinking we could make a theme month out of it, we decided to turn April… Read More ›

• Another Guest Appearance on The Greatest Movie Ever! Podcast: Santa Sangre

  By Franklin Raines on March 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I was once again on the Greatest Movie Ever! Podcast talking about what I feel is one of the greatest movies ever, Santa Sangre. Yes, I butcher some Spanish. Yes, I force some jokes. Yes, I mumble my words. But… Read More ›

• Utsubora – The Story of A Novelist Review: Some People Could Call Being Mysterious A Personality

  By Franklin Raines on February 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Utsubora (full title: Utsubora The Story of A Novelist)  was created by Asumiko Nakamura, a crazy talented mangaka known for a ton of untranslated Yaoi manga that I doubt most of you reading have heard of like Middle School, Third… Read More ›

• King of Thorn Review: Sleeping Beauty Based Science Fiction

  By Franklin Raines on January 27, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  I once almost had the pleasure of meeting King of Thorn director, Kazuyoshi Katatamaya, at a con when he was promoting King of Thorn around 2009, but came down with a cold (con flu perhaps?) the day before. Regardless, Kazuyoshi… Read More ›

• Papa Review: A Little Late for Father’s Day

  By Franklin Raines on January 13, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Enough time has passed that many of my Kickstarter-funded comics have arrived and accumulated at my residence. Meaning, be expecting me exclusively to be on full indie-comic and self-published comic mood for the next few months. Yes, I hate the… Read More ›