Author Archive: Ruben Rosario
is a graduate from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in Audio for Visual Media. He works as a freelance location sound mixer, boom operator, sound designer, and writer in his native Chicago. He's an avid collector of films, comics, and anime.
Heaven’s Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork
Full of flying panties, unrequited love and a robot angel harem, Heaven’s Lost Property: The Angeloid of Clockwork is something that I certainly did not enjoy and had trouble trying to swallow the ridiculousness of it all. Following the events of the first two seasons, Clockwork follows Tomoki and the New World Discovery Club being [...]
Bullet Collector (Sobiratel Pul)
Whether its something like Toshiaki Toyoda’s Blue Spring or even John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club, a solid teen angst film always warms me up inside. Sadly, this can’t be said for my experience with Artsploitation Films’ latest offering. Alexander Vartanov’s Bullet Collector (Sobiratel Pul), is a film that managed to make me feel completely uncomfortable [...]
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome is everything a prequel should be and creates an exciting chapter that no Battlestar fan should miss. Set during the first Cylon war, Ensign William Adama (Luke Pasqualino) has just graduated from the academy and has been stationed on the Battlestar Galactica. Paired up with his mouthy co-pilot, Coker (Ben [...]
Game of Thrones: Season Two
Easily one of the greatest cable television shows of all time, Game of Thrones is a prime example of a fantasy series done right. Sprung from the mind of George R.R. Martin and his novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones is a true tour de force, with its incredible cast, [...]
Small Apartments
After having a major misstep with 2009′s Horsemen, legendary music video director Jonas Åkerlund has returned to much more familiar territory with his new film, Small Apartments. Much like his first feature film, 2002′s Spun, Small Apartments deals with characters that lie on the outer fringes of society. Based on a novella that was written [...]
Toriko: Part One
The culinary arts have been explored in anime and manga for years, but no anime or manga has ever managed to inject the same testosterone fueled madness of Dragon Ball Z or Fist of the North Star into cuisine, until Toriko. Serialized in Shonen Jump, Misutoshi Shimabukuro’s Toriko explores a world where cuisine is king and people wish to eat rare and exotic ingredients, [...]
Bleak Night (Pasuggun)
Yoon Sung-Hyun’s Bleak Night (Pasuggun) is an incredible feature film debut and an intimate portrait of high school life. A father (Jo Sung-Ha) is overwhelmed with grief, after his son has recently committed suicide. As he’s looking through all of his things, he comes across a picture of his son, with two of his friends [...]
Small Apartments Screening in Chicago
Hey Everyone, The new Jonas Akerlund’s (Spun) new film will be having a screening on Thursday Feburary 7th at Chicago’s Landmark Century Center @ 7:30 P.M. Starring Matt Lucas (Little Britain), Billy Crystal (When Harry Met Sally), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), James Marsden (X-Men: The Last Stand), Peter Stormare (Fargo), Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction) [...]
Boogiepop and Others
As much as I love the Boogiepop Phantom TV series, I can honestly say that its narrative can feel a bit impenetrable. The live action film version, Boogiepop and Others, which is based off of the first light novel, makes for a much smoother transition and an easier effort, that could help people get into [...]
FilmCraft: Producing
While not every filmmaker has gone to film school and there are a few that actually disapprove, there are certain perks in going. One of these is having guest lectures of filmmakers and industry professionals that show up and share some of their experiences with you. Whether its an actual director explaining methods they’ve used [...]
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