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Content Calendar Announcement, Week of June 1, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. My Ticketholders (and Ticketholders-to-be) might have noticed that this past week, I've been more regular with my posting times for promoting my Blogger content on social media. It's a small thing, but my space (bedroom, office, man cave, whatever you want to call it) has felt rather...disconnected for some time now. Add on my ten-year-old phone with pathetic storage capacity, call quality, and numerous other problems that I just got replaced, and you have a recipe for some first-worlder psychological issues. Well, as you know, my new phone is set up. I also now have a drop case and a memory expansion for it, so it's as set up as can be. As for the space issue, I did a lot of thinking, measuring, and purging, gave myself a day, and rearranged the room to my liking. Now, there's much less of a disconnect, so I can more easily bust out those early morning social media pushes wh...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. I'm not doing the Flashdance  byline twice , Ticketholders! But I am still blogging like I've never blogged before because it's the final day of critical content in the month of Maniac  May , and what I've come to be reminded of in today's movie up for review is that what we see or hear can be just as traumatic as what is done to us. Hate speech, crimes against those whom we identify with, the trickledown effect of incompetent and/or malicious leadership on our ability to live our lives in comfort, the commoditization and sterile regurgitation of the things that once brought us joy, the systemic erasure of memory by agenda-driven alternative facts and "superior" pressure (in contrast to peer  pressure, and framed with sarcastic double-finger-wags) to drag present society kicking and screaming into a future it cannot afford; this and more is enough to drive the average first-worlder insane. At the twist o...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Immortal Ticketmaster (But not for long). That's a Fall Out Boy reference, Ticketholders! The band has a song called "Immortals" that was featured on their American Beauty/American Psycho  album. Because I seldom watch Disney movies anymore, I was unaware (until I started writing this post) that the song was first written for Big Hero 6 . More fitting to the bulk of the plot in today's issue up for review, and staying on the topic of movies (and weird dates because this Sunday was 5/25/25), Mirror, Mirror director Tarsem Singh brought us the 300 - and Clash Of the Titans -alike Greek myth epic, Immortals (bolstered slightly by its 11/11/11 release date campaign). Speaking of 300  (a graphic novel/film sensationalization of the battle of Thermopylae), Immortals was a term coined by Greek historians to describe the 10,000-man Persian army who were said to be present at that battle and others at their time. Many died, of course...

Article  by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Animeister. Well, this is embarrassing, Ticketholders! I failed to realize that I had fewer Mondays than Fridays to work with this month, and so had planned to make this the 50th edition of the Anime Spotlight to close out Superhero AniMay . Today's review was supposed to be Go! Go! Loser Ranger! , but since I wrote this review first and that anime is currently airing its second season, I'm still going to end the month of my birth on a high note with this review of another promising new anime that was inspired by Super Sentai and Power Rangers . But first, I thought I would share my history with the American side of the franchise. You may remember from my Chio's School Road and Gridman reviews, and my responses to the passing of Kevin Conroy and Jason David Frank , that I grew up with Power Rangers . I was even a mark for VR Troopers , Masked Rider , and Big Bad Beetleborgs when those shows came along. I began my viewing in an e...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of May 25, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. This is the final week of the month I was born, and just as a birthday (when you get past the age of twenty-one, anyway, which I did twenty years ago) is another day like the rest, but with better food, this coming week is like any other, just with an air of finality and transition to the content. The only thing I have planned for June aside from the  GFT  Retrospective  on Wednesdays is to finish and release the Punk Hazard issue of the  One Piece  Multi-Piece . This is a promise. Fleeting as it can be (especially with me losing my mind about a few things this month) and as inconsequential as my place in things is, I ask that you at least trust me on that, and please remember to comment at the bottom of my Blogger posts,  Become A Ticketholder  because I  know  you haven't already, help out my ad revenue as you read, and follow me on social m...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster You may be wondering why the title of this post is The Last Horror Film  if the banner here is for a movie titled Fanatic , and the simple answer is that they're the same movie released in different territories ( Fanatic  was its U.S. release title, while The Last Horror Film  was its festival premiere and international title). The complicated answer (and the reason I'm even reviewing it this month) is that it had a third title for its release in Germany. I mentioned in my Mission Of Justice review how certain countries and distribution regions in the 80s and 90s would capitalize on star power and plot similarities by releasing a completely unrelated movie as a "sequel" to something popular or well-received. Today's movie up for review in Maniac May  is one of those. While it's most commonly known as Fanatic  or The Last Horror Film , in Germany, it was released as Maniac II: Love To Kill , with box art rem...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. the Ticketmaster. Welcome to the first post to be entirely composed on my new phone, Ticketholders! My Zenshu review, Maniac review, and Saturday's Time Drops calendar post were technically released first, but were either written before my phone was even ordered, partially written on other devices, or edited from pre-existing posts. So, this is it. And because this week's reviewed issue of Grimm Fairy Tales has a title ( Lost Souls ), I did what I do to see if there are any obscure fairy tales or other media with that title. The most known (I'm assuming, because I keep seeing YouTube videos about movies I watched—that exist, and are not Mandela Effects —that "nobody saw," so I'm starting to call my own knowledge of film popularity into question) is probably the 2000 "stop the AntiChrist" drama with Winona Rider , Lost Souls (because apparently the Y2K scare and the year of "the number of the Beast, but up...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Fully Reworked Animeister A new fate has been drawn, Ticketholders! The Dragon Ball  fans among you may recognize the title of today's Spotlighted Anime from Dragon Ball 's supplimental lore guides, the Kanzenshu  and Daizenshu  (often rendered with a doubled "u" at the end), even if you don't know what it means. In this sense, it means "everything complete" or "whole collection," referring to complete reference guides on the Dragon Ball  franchise at their time, and now has its own website . But in the sense of the ZENSHU  anime (and the recent history behind this very post), its definitions of "redo everything" and "full repair" are more apt to a fated degree. As you may remember from my birthday Time Drops  post , I was originally going to do an update on My Hero Academia  today that included my full thoughts on Season Six and Seven as well as the You're Next movie. But a combin...