Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 7) – Ponyo

Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 7) – Ponyo

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps best known for his work with Studio Ghibli, has gained popularity around the world for his creative and imaginative animated feature films. While they were originally released in Japanese, all of them have been dubbed into...
Show Time: What Makes a Romcom Good?

Show Time: What Makes a Romcom Good?

I’m a little ashamed to admit that I’ve been watching a lot of romcoms recently. I say ‘ashamed’ mostly because the genre as a whole has a reputation of dumbing-down human relations into “desperate woman and loser man stumble into...
Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 5) – The Wind Rises

Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 5) – The Wind Rises

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps best known for his work with Studio Ghibli, has gained popularity around the world for his creative and imaginative animated feature films. While they were originally released in Japanese, all of them have been dubbed into...
Show Time: My Top 10 “Twilight Zone” Episodes

Show Time: My Top 10 “Twilight Zone” Episodes

As I’ve said before on the podcast, the original Rod Serling Twilight Zone is my all-time favorite TV show. I love how each episode is a self-contained story. I love all the sci-fi elements that are integrated into it — space travel, human evolution and...