Little Witch Academia and The Worst Witch It’s hard to imagine two television series that have so many story elements in common, and yet differ so wildly, then the two children’s series, The Worst Witch and the animated Little Witch Academia. Both are situated in a learning facility for teaching magic to female tweeners. Both …
Trickster Created by Michelle Latimer & Tony Elliott Based on Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson Directed by Michelle Latimer Starring Joel Oulette, Crystle Lightning, Craig Lauzon, Anna Lambe Take a disaffected high school boy with a messed-up home life and few prospects. Have him discover one day that he has special powers that …
Utopia Note: Since I plan to discuss the nature of the conspiracy that is central to the story only read to the double line and no further if you don’t want any plot spoilers. Created by Dennis Kelly Based on An original idea by Huw Kennair-Jones, Mark Aldridge, & Clare McDonald Written by Dennis Kelly …
iZOMBIE Based on iZOMBIE by Chris Roberson & Mike Allred Developed by Rob Thomas & Diane Ruggiero-Wright Starring Rose McIver; Malcolm Goodwin; Rahul Kohli; Robert Buckley; David Anders; Aly Michalka; Robert Knepper; Bryce Hodgson Narrated by Rose McIver Opening theme “Stop, I’m Already Dead” by Deadboy & the Elephantmen It’s a bit weird reviewing a …
Umbrella Academy Season 2 Created by Steve Blackman Based on The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Developed by Jeremy Slater Starring Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, John Magaro, Adam Godley, Colm Feore, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya, Yusuf Gatewood, Marin …
Japan Sinks:2020 Per Wikipedia: Japan Sinks: 2020, was animated by Science Saru, with Pyeon-Gang Ho serving as the series’ director and Masaaki Yuasa as director. Toshio Yoshitaka handled series composition, Naoya Wada designed the characters, and Kensuke Ushio composed the series’ music. Yuko Sasaki, Reina Ueda and Tomo Muranaka are credited with starring roles. It …
Undone Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg & Kate Purdy Directed by Hisko Hulsing Starring Rosa Salazar, Angelique Cabral, Constance Marie, Siddharth Dhananjay, Daveed Diggs, Bob Odenkirk Undone is Amazon’s first original animated feature, and it’s hard to imagine a better start. Alma Winograde nearly dies in a car crash, and awakens with strange new ways of …
Erased Boku dake ga inai machi (The Town Where Only I Am Missing) Series Directed by Ten Shimoyama Series Writing Credits Kei Sambe Cast Yûki Furukawa Satoru Fujinuma Tomoka Kurotani Sachiko Fujinuma Reo Uchikawa Satoru Fujinuma – Age 10 Brenda Joan Wong Airi Katagiri Shigeyuki Totsugi Gaku Yashiro Jyo Kairi Hiromi Sugita – Age 10 …
Norsemen Created by Jon Iver Helgaker & Jonas Torgersen Developed by Viafilm, NRK Written by Jon Iver Helgaker & Jonas Torgersen Starring Henrik Mestad as Chieftain Olav, the leader of the village. He found a route to sail west, and from this has a much-coveted map. Marian Saastad Ottesen as Hildur, Olav’s wife Nils Jørgen …
Based on His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Written by Jack Thorne Production companies Bad Wolf, New Line Productions, Scholastic Distributors BBC Studios (United Kingdom), HBO (international) Dafne Keen as Lyra Belacqua (also known as Lyra Silvertongue), a girl who was raised at Jordan College. Ruth Wilson as Marisa Coulter, an explorer and powerful figure …