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Megalo Box Film Review

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Familiarity From An Underdog?  For those are who commonly versed in watching Japanese animation in this day and age, it can't go unnoticed really how a great amount of anime shows tend to 'blend' together in peculiar circumstances. Don't get me wrong, as a medium that has always brought about originality in terms of stories and varying artistic styles, one of the many likenesses that anime has going for it is its diversity. It's distinctive manner in upholding an assortment of genre's, which all demographics can be easily ensnared by, is truly commendable to perceive and it's something that is still being continued today. However, it can't go unnoticed either how the vast amount of shows that are on offer can strike similarities with one another; making it hard sometimes to find an anime show that looks and feels different from the rest. A perfect example of this would be Tetsurō Araki's Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress  which, despite it's s...

The Incredibles Film Review

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Speaking To All Demographics As much as Pixar's own boundless filmography includes animated features that directly appeal their own time towards the main target audience of children, by implementing a simple point-by-point story structure that's easy to understand and characters that are ultimately fun and relatable, their real asset is creating films that appeal to all audiences. By no means does the predictable plot of many of these features stagnate the experience, but it's the purposefully written moments that creditably stand-out than the stories themselves. This is most evident in their most recent ventures of Inside Out and Coco  which delicately weave emotional story-telling with contextual themes that both child and parent can inherently be engrossed by. However, if there's one stand-out Pixar feature to be mentioned that not only appeals to all the family by amalgamating 'adult' motifs with a kid-friendly premise, but also interweaving a group ...