by Sebastian Kluth
Within Temptation was a commercially successful symphonic gothic metal band that made me discover and appreciate its music two decades ago. Throughout the last decade, the band had been on a steep creative downward spiral but the Dutch septet has been...
Lire la suiteEight years after its last single, Japanese heavy metal legends X Japan have finally come around with another unreleased song in form of ballad "Angel". News of the new record have however not emerged since then and the tragical death of guitarist Heath...
Lire la suiteYowamushi Pedal is a sports film that fluidly combines genre elements of comedy and drama. This live-action adaptation is based upon the manga series that has been existing for fifteen years and counting, featuring eighty-six volumes as I'm writing this...
Lire la suiteRebound is a wonderful South Korean sports drama inspired by true events. The once-renowned basketball team of Jungang High School in Busan is on the verge of being shut down. A social worker decides to step in as an unexperienced head coach with a severely...
Lire la suiteInside is a claustrophobic drama and thriller with an excellent running time of one hundred five minutes. The story revolves around an art thief who is tasked to steal a series of expensive paintings from a rich entrepreneur. When he fails to locate all...
Lire la suiteFour and a half years after its previous single, Japanese visual kei legends X Japan have published another unreleased song from the vault. "Born to Be Free" is in the key of the band's more classical, melodious and progressive tunes from the mid-nineties....
Lire la suiteBullet Train is a black humour thriller by Japanese author Isaka Kotaro. It was published under its original title Maria Beetle in 2010 by Kadokawa Shoten. The novel is loosely connected to Three Assassins, originally released as Grasshopper back in 2004,...
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