★★★ “It’s clearly no Nirvana…” Yes, let’s get the obligatory Kurt Cobain joke out of the way quickly and painlessly. This is instead about the Kurdish city, located in northern Syria, which came under assault from forces belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014-15. The defenders eventually repelled the… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★½ “The family that slays together, stays together.” A Netflix original movie, the first thing to say is: thankfully, this is not as bad as Interceptor. Mind you, few films with budgets measured in the millions are as bad as Interceptor. It did more damage to my perception of the… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Third time’s the charm?” A lot has happened in the Certain Scientific universe since the second season of Railgun. There had been an OVA movie, which I won’t review here; it is less a Mikoto Misaka story, than a team effort across the different shows, with Index, Railgun and… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Beware level 5-espers when they point their fingers at you!” Have you ever noticed, when you are consciously looking for things that fall into a certain category, you find more and more of them? You may have seen it in action yourself after you discovered the “girls with guns”… Continue reading| Girls With Guns