Starting Over – Letters about Life
Starting Over by Eleftherios Eleftheriadis is a collection of honest reflections on love, relationships, fears,…
Starting Over – Letters about Life
Starting Over by Eleftherios Eleftheriadis is a collection of honest reflections on love, relationships, fears, and everyday struggles, written as letters to a close friend. From a Christian perspective, the author explores personal responsibility, humility, and inner peace without sugarcoating reality or promising easy solutions. The book reads like a friendly conversation over coffee and…
Street Fighter (2026) – Hadouken at the Critics
Street Fighter (2026) is one of the year’s most entertaining movies, delivering explosive action, impressive fight choreography, vibrant ’90s nostalgia, and countless nods to the iconic video game without pretending to be a serious cinematic masterpiece. Despite its simplistic plot, inconsistent humor, and underused characters, a strong cast, striking visuals, and faithfulness to the source…
Street Fighter (1994) – For Bison, It Was Just Tuesday
“Street Fighter” (1994) follows Colonel Guile as he tries to free hostages and bring down General M. Bison in the fictional Shadaloo City… without a single tournament (which has always been the heart of the SF games). The plot is chaotic, the dialogue is painfully clichéd, and the production was such a mess that it’s…
Grand Theft Auto VI: Extended Look
I think it has long been clear to everyone (even the most conservative and narrow-minded) that the video game industry stands on equal footing with every other entertainment industry and has the power to shape (and influence) trends. Even if you combined the film and music industries into one, the video game industry would still…
Time of Contempt (The Witcher – Book 4) – Geralt and the Chaos on Thanedd
In “Time of Contempt,” tensions between the Northern Kingdoms and Nilfgaard escalate while Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri are separated once again in an effort to protect the girl half the Continent is hunting. Everything culminates at the great gathering of sorcerers on the island of Thanedd, where politics, espionage and betrayal erupt into a bloody…
Last Samurai Standing – Definitely Not a “Japanese Squid Game”
“Last Samurai Standing” takes us to the Meiji period, where an impoverished former samurai, Shujiro Saga (once the infamous hitokiri Kokushu) enters a lethal game called “Kodoku” (seven checkpoints on the road to Tokyo, with name tags taken from other contestants) to win the prize money that could save his ailing family. Comparisons to “Squid…
The Continental: From the World of John Wick – Before John Wick akka Baba Yaga
“The Continental: From the World of John Wick” follows a young Winston Scott in 1970s New York, who tries to escape his criminal past but is pulled back in by his brother and old debts, leading him to the Continental Hotel and its dangerous manager, Cormac. The reviewer praises the atmosphere, the acting (especially Colin…
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – When We Find Ourselves Again Among Old Books
After her boyfriend announces he’s marrying someone else, twenty-five-year-old Takako quits her job and takes up her eccentric uncle Satoru’s offer of the tiny room above his second-hand bookshop in Tokyo’s Jimbocho district. There, among the stacks of old books, at the Saveur coffee shop and in the company of new friends, she slowly rediscovers…
Star Wars Visions (Season 2) – Visions have gone outside of Japan
Season two of Star Wars: Visions hands the universe over to nine studios from nine different countries – Spain, Ireland, Chile, the UK, South Korea, France, India, Japan and South Africa – and every episode carries the DNA of its own culture. The result is a visually varied multivitamin juice: oil-painted animation, stop-motion, hand-drawn work…
Strange Houses – Houses with a Secret You Wouldn’t Want to Uncover
Uketsu’s “Strange Houses” is an atypical blend of crime, mystery, and horror, told almost entirely through dialogue, theories, and the analysis of unusual house plans The novel reads quickly, holds your attention easily, and draws the reader into an investigation whose dark twists aren’t easily predictable, although the second half demands a bit more concentration…
