Many action movies have a scene where they show a plane or helicopter blast/crash. Seeing as how planes are very costly and it includes various dangers, they wouldn't try to crash real ones. In Spectre, the helicopter in which Blofeld is present is crashed on the bridge. In The Living Daylights, ...

In high school English classes, we read many classics, such as Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Lee, etc. In many other classes, popular TV shows and movies are analyzed. Granted, these are also classics, such as Hitchcock's Psycho or Nichols' The Graduate. Why is anime/manga not as critically analyzed b...

Note: I can only speak from a Western perspective here. For all I know, anime is critically analysed in Japan. The first thing worth considering as a reason for why anime doesn't seem to be critically analysed in the West is that it's only really been easily consumable over here in the last deca...

In doujins coupling characters from a show off, the characters are usually referred to in the title as "Character A x Character B" (I feel this snippet from hanagai! explains it better) Is there any meaning to the order of the 'multiplying'? Is the first character mentioned the main charact...

As you can see in the title and from the xxxHOLiC and Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Anime News Network Pages pages, the titles for these 2 use mixed casing, on the wikipedia page they have the japanese name as ツバサ-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- Tsubasa: Rezaboa Kuronikuru I am wondering if there is a r...

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It's the end of the year, and we're all getting a little bit reflective by now, surely. Obviously can't post this on the main site, but (as we're all by nature movie/tv fans) was wondering if people would be willing to share their best films of the year, and possibly a little bit about them; Par...