ALTERED CARBON – RESLEEVED MOVIE REVIEW What is it about success that makes people want to release a prequel? Netflix is, no doubt, getting a lot of eyes on their grungy space-noir Altered Carbon (review for 1st and 2nd seasons here) and now we get this CG-anime prequel film. Taking place a few hundred years […]

BEASTARS TV SERIES REVIEW What happens when Zootopia and anime collide? BEASTARS happens! This CG anime, licensed for U.S. streaming via Netflix and adapted from a manga, is set in an anthropomorphic animal society divided by carnivores and herbivores. The story follows a wolf named Legoshi (Jonah Scott) who simply wishes to live a simple […]

MY HERO ACADEMIA – HEROES RISING MOVIE REVIEW ***WARNING: SPOILER TALK NEAR THE END*** The runaway anime hit My Hero Academia continues with a second cinematic outing. Heroes Rising surprisingly takes place closer to where the manga is now than the anime series, with the class of 1A setting up a practice hero agency to […]

WEATHERING WITH YOU MOVIE REVIEW Makoto Shinkai, the acclaimed writer and director behind Your Name, has finally brought his almost as acclaimed follow-up to America with Weathering With You. The story follows Hodaka (Kotaro Daigo/Brandon Engman), a high school boy living in Tokyo during an exceptionally rainy season. One day, his path crosses with an […]

ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE MOVIE REVIEW Get ready to set sail with the Screener Squad for their review of the fourteenth One Piece movie, Stampede. This time, we follow Monkey D. Luffy and his band of buccaneers as they travel to the Pirate Expo to search for the treasure of former Pirate King Golden Roger. As […]

HUMAN LOST MOVIE REVIEW The future looks rough, but the Screener Squad will push forward by reviewing Funimation’s other major release this week, Human Lost. The story takes place in Tokyo 2036, which is a cyberpunk wasteland full of wires and abysmal wi-fi. However, a powerful nanomachine system known as S.H.E.L.L. allows humans to live […]

INFESTATION: TIFF 2019 ROUNDUP The Toronto International Film Festival has come and gone. And yet with all of our coverage on the festival so far, there was still so much left to say! So, Shak has brought in Justin to help with an in-depth discussion of his festival experience and full reviews of the twenty […]

LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS PODCAST REVIEW This very adult animated anthology series on Netflix launched with its first 18 episode season and it’s the talk of the town. Some love it, some hate it, some are deeply offended by it. The anthology is overseen by David Fincher, Tim Miller, Jennifer Miller, and Joshua Dohen and […]

We’ve turned the nerd level up to ‘maximumer’ for this review of Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Yes, we are a month behind on this review, but it was only recently released in some towns nearby members of our squad and we figured we should capitalize on the movie crossing the $100 million mark in the […]

Get ready for some Real Talk! Matt, Morgan, Quinn, and Mayhem’s Muse get existential up in here as they discuss their complicated feelings following the finale of the Godzilla Anime Trilogy. Giganticast now has it’s own iTunes feed and is available as well on Spotify!