Curmudgeon Media Podcast ep.3

The Curmudgeon and Green Ornstein of Curmudgeon Media talk about everything and nothing at the same time. This instalment's topics range from Scrubs, Anime, indie games, and more. Full list of topics are time stamped in the video description!

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How A Silent Voice changed my life - a salute to Kyoto Animation

Written by The Curmudgeon I n 2017 I watched a film for the first time which perfectly embodied my experience with depression. The story and themes captured not just the symptoms of my personal depression, but also a cause. It so succinctly sliced through the confusing bullshit of my mind. It cracked a code. I’m talking about A Silent Voice (2016) . I feel indebted to this movie because it somehow found a way to explain my depression better than I ever could. It gave me words when there were none. It made depression feel like a less lonely place, perhaps just because I had something to compare myself to. I’d like to delve into how the film affected me and how I read into it personally. This is not a review, nor is it an exhaustive essay claiming to understand what the film is ‘about’, per se. This is simply my own take on a film which affected me in a totally idiosyncratic way. And, as always…spoilers ahead. A Silent Voice revolves around two kids: a...

Carole and Tuesday vs. Kids on the Slope - Part 1.

Written by The Curmudgeon SPOILER WARNING: The following contains spoilers for both Carole and Tuesday and Kids on the Slope . Go watch them first if you don't want the plot spoiled. If you have seen them, or you just don't care, read on! I love Shinichiro Watanabe. I love ‘im. He’s responsible for some of my favourite things; from Cowboy Bebop (1998) – smart, sombre, and slick – to the utterly hilarious and bizarre Space Dandy (2014) , he’s got a style that suits me just fine. Although it’s unlikely he’ll ever make something which moves me quite like Bebop , he always finds a way to imbue his work with such panache. Also, he wears sunglasses all the damn time. I’m not kidding, it’s actually challenging to find out what this man’s eyes look like. The problem is that he doesn’t helm too many original titles. As such, when Watanabe’s most recent series, Carole and Tuesday (2019), debuted this year, it made some serious waves. Something about this...

Ghost of Tsushima: A Cinematic Clunk | Green Ornstein

Ah, Akira Kurosawa. As the director of Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and of course, Seven Samurai (1954), he stands proud as a filmmaker that non-film students such as myself pretend to know. I wonder what he’d think about his influence today. I mean after he’d finish weeping at the shoddy state of contemporary cinema, but at some point he would catch wind of Sucker Punch, and their new game Ghost of Tsushima (2020). This game was always in the background for me. I knew of it but it likely got pushed behind the warring factions arguing over The Last Of Us 2 (2020). However I was hyped as Sucker Punch are known for the Infamous (2009-) franchise, with Infamous 2 (2011) being one of my favourite games. So it’s fair to say expectations were high. There was a part of me that wanted to blow up Mongols with lightning powers, but a more realistic side of me wanted something innovative. I got neither. But damn did it look nice. Ghost of Tsushima takes place ...

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