Garfield Gets Real, 12 years later

Garfield Gets Real is my favourite childhood movie, but what about the facts?

Based on the comic and the characters by Jim Davis, Garfield Gets Real is full of 4th wall breaks and insider jokes, therefore it's a postmodernist classic.

1. The locations are inspired by real life: The Park in GGR is inspired by the much cliched Central Park.

2. This film helped me distinguish reality from the fake: It's so awesome that it made me think of the rather ambiguous boundary between the real and the fake for the first time.

3. Temporary friends for Garfield and Odie: The three temporary friends for Garfield and Odie are Shecky, Waldo and Sheila.

Classic Devil Man

DevilMan is one of the most controversial and famous manga of all time, because it's created by the man behind the Chogokin greats, Go Nagai.

The whole story starts right now. The two films bearing the moniker Classic Devil Man (it's my moniker for them because they're largely faithful to the manga's first two volumes) were created by a minor, Tokyo-based Japanese animation studio named Oh! Production

Oh! Production is more usually known in the Arab world for animating Future Boy Conan and in most non-Anglophone countries for animating old school Doraemon. However, I suggest that Classic Devil Man is its first big hit in the Anglophone world.

The late Kazuo Komatsubara animated the two Classic Devil Man straight to video films with style, while the then-inexperienced Umanosuke (first birth name Tsutomu) Iida directed both with kudos.

As a cult classic for fans of old school anime, Classic Devil Man has been dubbed into Castilian and Mexican Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan and most famously a mix of British and Canadian English.

A snarky snippet of a dark scene, shown and heard clearly in a strongly Anglophone trailer, has proven that Canadian voice actress Larissa Murray, who did an amazing Tarzan like yelling scream when she dubbed Miki Makimura for the Anglophone market, was probably there to change history.

Another woman who persisted in the hilarious dubbing was Liza Ross, the wife of British born Canadian tv actor Garrick Hagon of X Bomber Star Fleet fame. She dubbed Sirene (as Lucy Franks) for the Anglophone Market and did a deep voiced impression which attracted (not yet internet-ready) anime and horror fans!

What is plastic waste?

Plastic is one of our most familiar substances. Its easy translucence and shapeliness belies its more awful impact on the environment.

The science of Hell

Hell is a concept based possibly on the mantle, the hotter layer of the earth's crust. Its inhabitants are all demons and angels which include; Azazel, Baal, Abaddon, Zagan, Asmodai, Gadreel, Marbas, Af, Xaphan, Beelzebub, Sathariel, Amaymon, Belial, Paimon, Ammon, Shax, Haagenti, Satan, Hod, Beleth, Asbeel, Astaroth, Simikiel, Lucifuge Rofocale, Azrael, Satanachia, Amaros, Agaliarept, Fleruty, Hasmed, Sargatanas, Gevurah and Nebiros.

Unladylike by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin

Warning: thankfully, not much inappropriate content

I've rented a library book and read it for the first time in my own eyes. Here it is! This book isn't meant to be entertainment, it's meant to be advice even though entertainment can be its second goal.

In the ladylike matrix of parochially shitty patriarchy-ridden standards, girls next door are luckily far more likable than bridezillas (referring the clichés of mad brides, the original Boston Globe definition and the title of a popular tv show that gave its swag to them all) and vice versa. The scenario is also familiar to men, albeit with roughies being the likeable lead.

The #MeToo revelation has already impacted Hollywood a few years back, but what about the epic and (almost always) endless systemic blowback which is primarily, but not always, the ruthless gulf between teen starlets and their bosses?

And according to a Guardian reporter, that gulf is technically the film system itself.

Here are the rage-ridden ethnic stereotypes popularised by that same old shitty film system, if not totally created by them otherwise.

Thankfully, despite the horrid virtual signalling, almost every kind of malignant bias is (kind of) diminishing its presence in Hollywood due to healthy fucking backlash.

Biosphere integrity is good!

Biosphere integrity is one of the most important rules nature has to offer.