I think at this point we can say Batman "trailers well." Seeing the new trailer for The Batman , I was reminded of the crowd goi...

Halloween has definitely landed in Japan, as you can tell from the decorations at the mall to-day. It's even more pervasive than last ...

Season two of Kimetsu no Yaiba premiered on Sunday and I finally watched it when it premiered on Netflix yesterday. As has been widely re...

I caught up on the newest two episodes of Only Murders in the Building last night and they were two of the best episodes of the series. ...

Spider webs shroud the ripe persimmons near the junior high school, a sure sign of autumn here in Kashihara, Japan. Persimmons are associa...

I noticed something about all the English text books at the junior high schools I work at here in Japan. They teach the reader that the ti...

For some people, the only peace they can find is by devoting themselves to projects, away from other people. That certainly seems to be th...

I am kind of pleased about William Shatner going to space. If you haven't heard, the 90 year old is going on an 11 minute, suborbital ...

This big lovely lady and her progeny have had their massive webs spread over my balcony for about a month now. And you can see they barred...

I was finally able to show Little Shop of Horrors to students yesterday. Seven students showed up for it. One girl enthusiastically liked...

After all these years, the premiere episode of Twin Peaks season two remains absolutely delectable. I've blogged before about how I l...

This is something I drew for my Shakespeare presentation. I made one for Hamlet , Macbeth , Falstaff, and King Lear . I had clips for all ...

Last night I watched "The Boy from 6B", the inevitable deaf episode of Only Murders in the Building . Well, maybe not quite inev...

I was happy to hear this morning that the boy I talked about last week is awake in the hospital. He's been talking with his mother and...

I'm in the mood for ghost stories again, it being October, so I read "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by MR J...

Just because a guy's a serial killer, doesn't mean he's super strong or brilliant. One of the few movies that illustrates this...

The junior high school where I work is recovering from a traumatic event yesterday morning. I approached the school at around 8:05am from ...

My favourite Guillermo del Toro movie is 2015's Crimson Peak but somehow I'd only seen it once before last night. I remember clea...

Netflix has released the opening for their upcoming live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop . The attempt to wed live action with a two d...

I finished screening Labyrinth for the kids at school to-day. They seem to like it. One girl actually revealed she'd not only heard o...