latest ARTICLES by mikkel
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Anime, TV Shows‘Blue Box’ X Betterment
In the season 2 premiere of Netflix’s Blue Box, one of the senior boys’ basketball players asks our protagonist Taiki,…
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Features, TV ShowsA Response to ‘Avatar: Seven Havens’, Itself a Response to ‘Avatar: The Legend of Korra’
It is almost impossible not to watch the first three episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens (now streaming on Paramount+, at…
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Features, TV ShowsThe Kings of Legal Procedurals are Attempting to Tackle Tech with ‘Cupertino’ (Pun Intended)
Robert King and Michelle King know how to make good television. The husband and wife duo are the masterminds behind…
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Comics, Features, FreeWhere Cinema Failed, Comics Succeeded – A Review of Albert Monteys’ Adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’
Published in 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces had a particular road to existence. Toole’s mother discovered a copy of the…
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Features, TV ShowsOne Sushi Chef, Two Parts Violent Vengeance, Three Parts Lingering on Well Made Food – ‘Get Jiro’ Has the Perfect Recipe for Animated Action
The first time I saw the trailer for Adult Swim’s latest animated action series, Get Jiro, my initial thought was…
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Features, MoviesDreamWorks Animation is Making a Claim for Movie (Animated or Otherwise) of the Year – ‘Forgotten Island’ Review
My mother, my primary connection to my Filipino heritage, passed away in 2011. As a good Catholic woman, she didn’t…
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Action, TV ShowsSometimes, the Greatest Fantasy is When Bad Guys Get Exactly What’s Coming to Them – ‘Neagley’ Review
I have not read Lee Child’s original novel that serves as the foundation for Reacher, a series that is best…
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Anime, Features, Free‘The Ghost in the Shell’ or How Actual Cyberpunk Reminds Us of Our Humanity
Right now, in no uncertain terms, we are currently living in a very shitty cyberpunk dystopia. It is 2026. Tech…
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Comedy, Features, Horror, Media, TV Shows‘The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza’ Will Be Your Favorite Microdose of Horror/Comedy This Fall
With a name like The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza and a preview in which a Filipino man is constantly approached…
