Fanboys is just as much an homage to writer/director Kevin Smith as it is to Star Wars, the Holy Grail the characters are chasing throughout the movie. Set in 1998, the movie centers on a group of post-high school friends, still obsessed with Star Wars and working in a comic book store (kind of like every other character in a Smith movie). A friend is dying of cancer and likely…
The instrumental opening to “Save Yourself A Lifetime†is familiar to fans of emotive rock, but Burns Out Bright is smart in the sense that they include enough new material to distinguish themselves from the rest of emo. Coming out of the instrumental segment of their opening track with wailing guitars, Burns Out Bright ups the ante by throwing in double vocals at all the most important points for this…
Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl! was created by Noaki Urasawa, who was attached to Monster and Master Keaton. The show starts off with a young female named Yawara, who has been forced into learning judo through the exhortations of a grandfather that sees Yawara’s tremendous talent. Other characters, such as Yawara’s rival Sayaka and Yawara’s coach Shinnosuke, further pad out the cast. Beyond the humor that I present in the…
Burns Out Bright – Distance and Darkness / 6 Tracks / 2004 Deep Elm Records / http://www.burnsoutbright.com / http://www.deepelm.com / Released 24 February 2004 / Reviewed 16 February 2004 Burns Out Bright is more of the Brand New and Coheed and Cambria style of emo-rock than say the Fugazi and Mission of Burma school, but one thing that the band does share with a number of their labelmates is the…
Melon is, I suppose, the hottest flavor this summer. We just reviewed the Smirnoff Melon Vodka a few days back, and we just received the Malibu Melon rum. Melon is a good flavor to lead off the summer, because it imparts a lighter flavor to any drink that the individual may make. The spirit may be a little on the light side in terms of alcohol content, but the taste…
Unless I am forgetting something, I believe that this is the first time that we here at NeuFutur have had the ability to go and feature a Blu-Ray edition of a show’s complete season. Where a number of the different series’ seasons have crept into the 5 and 6 DVD releases, the increased storage size of the Blu-Ray ensure that what viewers are left with is something much less unwieldy.…
I don’t know what to categorize this style of music. “Signs of Perfection†shows Burnside Project as an act that mixes emo music with dance music. This is not necessarily like The Sounds or Head Automatica, but is what Blink 182 tried to do with “Alwaysâ€. It is honestly as if the band blended all the New Romantic albums that they had in their garages with an emo style that…
Rounding out our Blu-Ray coverage for tonight would have to be a review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The film itself is adapted from a 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald work, in which a baby boy is born with all of the hang-ups and problems presented typically to older individuals. As the years go on, the older looking Benjamin seems to grow physically younger. With all of the events…
Opening up “Leave No Ashes†with “Heart Full of Blackâ€, Burning Brides’ 70s-rock influences are shown very loudly, most noticeably their love for The Eagles, Rush, and Sammy Hagar. The track is practically just an update of the music that can still be heard on classic rock stations all throughout the United States, albeit with a better recording. The strung-out nature of “Come Alive†is infuriating, mixing together the Kurt…
Operation Valkyrie: The Stauffenberg Plot to Kill Hitler is a historical piece that looks to showcase information about the real life plot that was the influence for the 2008 hit Valkyrie. At over three hours (including bonus materials), it looks to go into the finest detail regarding every single aspect of the plot, plus a number of ancillary matters that were important for setting the stage for the plot (as…
