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TIFF 2021 Reviews: Genre Films Round-Up

September 26, 2021

TIFF 2021 featured numerous films from a variety of genres, including science-fiction, thrillers, documentaries, and animation. We round up the genre films from the festival that we loved.

Comics, Opinion

Trading Outpost: Genre/Gender/Generic

September 20, 2016

Hello! And welcome back to another of The Trades, the world’s only comic podcast by people who don’t know anything about pen nibs. This month, we swear off literacy in order to better live out deconstructionism. Also, Aaron reads award nominated comics, while Webtoons is taking over my life, ...

Comics, Essays, Manga

Manga to Movies: Why Eastern Comic Film Adaptations Thrive and Western Don’t

July 27, 2015

Marvel and DC have always been large moving forces for comics, and their recent forays into expanding movie universes has helped put comics in the popular culture limelight in a huge way. While Hollywood filmmakers have been “loosely basing” movies from comics on the sly for years, the open ...

Essays

Books That Shaped Me: A Wrinkle in Time

July 7, 2015

Funny thing, it was the Babysitters Club that got me reading A Wrinkle in Time. I was a voracious reader, and when my mom bought a milk crate full of old Babysitters Club books for me at a garage sale, I dove right in. One of the Babysitter Club books featured Claudia Kishi picking out A ...

Comics, Manga, Reviews

Noragami, a Tale of a Stray God and a Cat-Tailed Girl

June 5, 2015

Noragami: Stray God volumes 1-4 Adachitoka (mangaka); Alethea Nibley & Athena Nibley (translation); Lys Blakeslee (lettering) Kodansha, September 2014-April 2015 Note: this essay contains mild spoilers; review copies provided by Kodansha. You’ve got a sassy small god who wants to be a big ...

Comics

Women As Superheroes: A Comic Drawing Workshop to Celebrate 40 Years of The Feminist Library

February 16, 2015

A free comic workshop led by artists Sally Jane Thompson, Rachael Smith, and Karen Rubins in London at The Feminist Library? I’d signed up faster than you can say sequential-art-salon-in-Southwark.

Reviews, Roundtables

Jem Jam: “Kimber’s Rebellion” and “Frame Up”

February 12, 2015

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Jem, the beloved 80s cartoon series. Jem and the Holograms have never been bigger, as 2015 will also see the release of a live action film based on the show, a new comic book series published by IDW, and a continuing line of collectible fashion dolls from ...

Comics, Essays

Science Fictional and Fantastic — The Universe of IDW’s Transformers

August 29, 2014

This article goes into serious detail in examining the history of the Transformers in the IDW comics to explain the current status quo, and as such, spoils many plot twists. You have been warned. The thing about the premise of the Transformers — robots that turn into other things — ...

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Pacific Rim 2: Drift Again Like We Did Last Summer

June 27, 2014

The news is all over the internet: Visionary director Guillermo Del Toro and Script writers Travis Beacham and Zak Penn are reuniting with Legendary Pictures to bring giant robot action sequel Pacific Rim 2 to theaters in 3D and IMAX on April 7, 2017. The 2013 film Pacific Rim, starring Idris ...

Reviews

Reel Geek Girl: Godzilla (2014)

June 10, 2014

Godzilla (2014) Directed by Gareth Edwards Legendary Pictures PG-13, 120 Minutes If you are old enough to remember the old Godzilla movies from the 50s and 60s, this movie is a lot of fun. If you’re young enough to think the old ones were cheesy and the 1998 what-were-they-thinking movie ...

Genre

TIFF 2021 Reviews: Genre Films Round-Up

Trading Outpost: Genre/Gender/Generic

Manga to Movies: Why Eastern Comic Film Adaptations Thrive and Western Don’t

Books That Shaped Me: A Wrinkle in Time

Noragami, a Tale of a Stray God and a Cat-Tailed Girl

Women As Superheroes: A Comic Drawing Workshop to Celebrate 40 Years of The Feminist Library

Jem Jam: “Kimber’s Rebellion” and “Frame Up”

Science Fictional and Fantastic — The Universe of IDW’s Transformers

Pacific Rim 2: Drift Again Like We Did Last Summer

Reel Geek Girl: Godzilla (2014)

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