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Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. One Ticketmaster. Welcome backward, Ticketholders, to Samurai Week in the month of Anime August ...and to the longest movie I've ever reviewed! It's been adapted multiple times throughout film and television, including two Magnificent Seven s in 1960 and 2016 , Star Wars: Return Of the Jedi , Burn Notice: The Fall Of Sam Axe , yesterday's Snow White & The 7 Samurai , and the "Lotus and the Steel" episode of X-Men: The Animated Series . And its late director was honored in "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies . Unlike Kurosawa , I review mad films. But if I made films, they'd have a samurai. Today's mad film I'm reviewing just happens to have seven of them. Akira Kurosawa's 1954 epic, Seven Samurai , clocks in at three and a half hours (including an intermission), and tells the classic story of a rice-farming village in 1586 (in the wake of the Honnō-ji Incident and the Battle Of Yamazaki that mark...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Mockbuster. The new Samurai Week continues, Ticketholders! You were probably expecting the Grimm Fairy Tales 2012 Giant-Size Edition today, but I didn't feel like Samurai Week had enough samurai in it, so I changed things up after writing my Elusive Samurai review and decided that something fairy tale-inspired should still be featured in the Wednesday slot. This year's live-action remake of Snow White got a ton of negative publicity and critical attention from the anti-woke grifter crowd and legitimate critical voices alike. The former group trashed Rachel Zegler for not being white enough and a girlboss, taking a side in the perpetual Israel/Palestine conflict, and publicly hating on her own film and denouncing the Disney Princess stereotype, trashed the movie itself pre-production for inclusive/representative casting, and trashed Gal Gadot for also taking a(n opposing) side in the aforementioned conflict, among other socially ques...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Elusive Animeister. Welcome to Samurai Week in the month of Anime August , Ticketholders! I was at a loss for words when I began writing this (insert easily-made "elusive" joke here), but then I woke up Saturday morning to the shocking, infuriating realization that a bug on Reddit removed the ability to post on user Profiles. So all of my Profile-only posts have been deleted or hidden as a result (that's four years of content evaporated overnight). With the exception of a few communities, Reddit is a paradox of intellectual sodomy founded on selfish idealism, regulatory hypocrisy, and toxic positivity. And if my losses weren't the result of a bug, I'd be tempted to cut ties with the platform as severely as possible. For now, though, I'd like to surrender my emotional investment in frustrating things that are beyond my control, and move onto something more positive, so let's start off this review with a reprint of my...

Content Calendar Announcement, Week of August 17, 2025 by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. The second week of  Anime August  didn't go as well as the first, Ticketholders; probably because nothing can hope to match an eight-season, four movie, two Death Battle retrospective on My Hero Academia or a first-time review of Akira . But as I write this, the impact of my Godzilla Minus One review remains to be seen. Something else that remains to be seen (because you haven't scrolled to it yet) is that this week will give me a bit more breathing room with one less day of content, even as I endeavor to squeeze in as many Anime Spotlight issues and Japanese or anime-inspired film reviews as possible. So we're trading Guild-zilla Week (I'm kicking myself for not coming up with that sooner) for Samurai Week ! Also, good news on the  Dexter: Resurrection  front . I've watched the first two episodes, and with the exception of a few dialogue continuity errors, I'...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster. Last month, I watched a cheap, culturally insensitive movie about white women in Africa incurring the wrath of an aquatic lizard monster with a backwards machete , and began to seriously reconsider my life choices. So just when I was starting to think movies couldn't get any dumber, I traded in my rusty Panga for a nice, thicc Gojira , Specifically (again, see the thumbnail and title if you haven't figured it out yet), I'm talking about  Gojira -1.0 , or Godzilla Minus One . And yes, I know that the character trailers for the Hulk vs Godzilla Death Battle are out by now. This review's timing is just a coincidence. I was familiar with the numbered subtitle convention from anime such as the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 prequel movie, video games like Street Fighter Alpha ( Street Fighter Zero in Japan), and manga such as Jaco: the Galactic Patrolman (which counted up/down to Dragon Ball Minus in its later chapters), but I ...

Crossover by Sean Wilkinson, a.k.a. The Ticketmaster×Pagemaster To be legal and clear for just a moment, I have based/taken many of my "most famous" bits of brand identity from across the entertainment spectrum. Before it was Just the Ticket , my "column" (as I called it in the defunct message board space that was Yahoo! Groups) was known as SWAT Ticket (l@er abbrevi@ed to SW@ Ticket ), rhyming off of the old Leonard Maltin review show, Hot Ticket . My old sign-off combo was borrowed from Ryan Seacrest (I still use the "Out" line to end my posts to this day) and the Stephen King & Peter Straub sequel, Black House ("Chew it up, eat it up, or wash it down, it all comes out the same place!"). My byline a.k.a. for most of my non- anime posts is obviously borrowed from Ticketmaster . And for today's crossover (that I didn't know would be a crossover until I started reading the first story in the issue up for review), I'm adding ...

Article by Sean Wilkinson, I May Be The Animeister, But I'll Do AniMonday On A Tuesday To Clear My BAWklog On Time. Yesterday, I reviewed an anime with a long title that happened before the anime started, where a middle-aged male guild receptionist dreamed of punching a mythical beast really hard , and today, I'm reviewing an anime with a long title that's the running joke of the anime where a young female guild receptionist beats monsters into fountains of blood and viscera with a giant bunny-girl hammer because she dreams of not being stuck at work her entire life. I May Be A Guild Receptionist, But I'll Solo Any Boss To Clock Out On Time  is the latter anime, based on a still-ongoing light-novel-turned-manga by Mato Kosaka and illustrated by Gaou and Suzu Yūki , and animated by Rascal and Shadows' House studio  Clover Works . In the static JRPG world of Girumasu (as it is known to those who don't want to say the entire title more than once), Adventurers...