Book Review: Phantasm Japan edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington

Occasionally, I read something and don’t particularly want to review it so much as say, just read this. Or produce a review consisting of nothing but quotations from the text:  let the evidence speak. Phantasm Japan, a 2014 anthology edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington, is such a book. Pardon me while I spend […]

#18. Summer Wars (2009) w/ Daniel Huddleston — #WorldSFTour

http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/ShootTheWISB18SummerWars2009WDanielHuddlestonWorldSFTour/Shoot%20the%20WISB%20%2318%20–%20Summer%20Wars%20%282009%29%20w%20Daniel%20Huddleston%20–%20%23WorldSFTour.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSRogue A.I., family troubles, and MMO-run civilizations, oh my!  To celebrate Japanese cinema, we’re joined by translator Daniel Huddleston for a discussion of Mamoru Hosoda’s 2009 […]

#16 — Godzilla (1954) — A Shoot the WISB Discussion

http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/ShootTheWISB16Godzilla1954AShootTheWISBDiscussion/Shoot%20the%20WISB%20%2316%20–%20Godzilla%20%281954%29%20–%20A%20Shoot%20the%20WISB%20Discussion.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSKaiju classics, Tokyo destruction, and mad science, oh my!  Shaun, Julia, Paul, Mike, and Kaiju Master David join forces to tackle Ishiro Honda’s 1954 classic, Godzilla (or Gojira), […]

A (World) SFF Film Odyssey: Mutant Girls Squad (2010) and Anime’s Excesses

Warning:  there are some graphic images in this post.  NSFW. Not too long ago, I set myself the goal of viewing every SF/F film released in 2010.  It figures that the first non-American film I decided to view would be one of the most ridiculous, violent, and bizarre films I have seen in a while. […]