2024-04-09 00:04
A Film by Mamoru Oshii
Ghost in the Shell, a 1995 cyberpunk film directed by Mamoru Oshii (based on a manga by Masamune Shirow), is a groundbreaking Japanese animated film that explores t… Read More
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2024-04-04 03:40
A film by Denis Villeneuve
2021 was a tumultuous time in the film industry, with the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic impacting studios and theaters alike. To adapt, theaters bega… Read More
2024-03-30 03:03
A live professional wrestling show in St. Joseph, MO
To Read my preview, click HERE.
Tri States Wrestling is a family-friendly wrestling company that largely operates in Northern Misso… Read More
2024-03-24 07:11
A Live professional Wrestling event from CSW
If you are asking yourself, “hey why hasn’t Arcadia Pod covered CSW in a while?”, I have answers for you. Firstly, as I&rsqu&hell…Read More
2024-01-29 06:27
An upcoming live professional wrestling event –
While Kansas City has plunged into something resembling a sub-arctic wasteland, it’s time to heat up the nearby city of Gardne… Read More
2024-01-23 03:53
A live professional wrestling show in Independence, MO from KCXW
Considering how many local wrestling shows I’ve been to in the past year, it’s not often that I get to experie… Read More
2023-12-31 08:34
The ring announcer for any professional wrestling show is an especially important job and an irreplaceable part of the overall wrestling experience. For many wrestling fans, they have f… Read More
2023-12-27 01:40
A Film Directed by Sean Durkin
The intertwining realms of professional wrestling and cinema have walked hand-in-hand since at least the early 1930s. While the success of wrestling-themed… Read More
2023-12-22 03:42
A live professional wrestling show in Bethany, MO
To Read my review of Part One, click HERE.
When fans left Bethany, MO on December 15th, 2023, it was all but assured that we were goin… Read More
2023-12-19 14:47
A Book by Seren Charrington-Hollins
In our modern era, most people in developed countries can take a trip to the grocery store with a reasonable amount of comfort in knowing that they wil… Read More
2023-12-18 06:56
All,
WordPress kind of screwed me over with the WordAds advertising I had on my site, as a result I had to switch over to Google Adsense. I won’t go into what happened, but I will s… Read More
2023-12-17 12:06
A live professional wrestling show in Bethany, MO held on December 15, 2023
I, along with multitude of other professional wrestling fans from the Kansas City area and Northern Missouri, u… Read More
2023-12-16 09:53
A Comic by Marat Mychaels, Bryan Sharp, Ron C. Williams, and Anthony George
One long-running comic book trope that people often forget about is the jungle girl or savage princess “g… Read More
![REVIEW: Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron (2023) [Ghibli Fest 2023 Bonus!]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/13199/1319850-724456016.w320.jpg "REVIEW: Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron (2023) [Ghibli Fest 2023 Bonus!]")
2023-12-15 08:01
A Film Directed by Hayao Miyazaki –
The Boy and the Heron, directed by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki, stands as a testament to his unparalleled storytelling and artistic vision. Ini… Read More
2023-12-14 23:16
A Comic From IDW by Andrew Wheeler and Ilias Kyriazis
Cat Fight #1 – Venice by Andrew Wheeler and Ilias Kyriazis is a new comic series following the exploits of Felix Lamarr, a car… Read More
2023-12-14 12:18
A Comic By Larry Patrick Higgins
It has been a minute since I have gone through my massive digital “pile of shame” and read some of the comics I’ve amassed from crowdfun… Read More
2023-09-29 06:56
A Four-Day series of professional Wrestling shows
Tri States Wrestling, a company out of North-Western Missouri that I cover on here, prides itself on being one of, if not THE only, US-Ba… Read More
REVIEW: A Christmas Far From Home: An Epic Tale Of Courage And Survival During The Korean War (2014)
2023-09-28 20:56
A Book by Stanley Weintraub
I was going through my grandfather’s keepsake suitcase a few weeks ago, which is a metal box full of things like his Korean War papers and some photograp… Read More
2023-09-28 02:30
A film by Hayao Miyazaki
This past weekend, I was able to attend a showing of Hayao Miyazaki’s fantasy epic Howl’s Moving Castle; the film that, from my own observations, seem… Read More
2023-09-25 06:17
A Live Professional Wrestling Event
[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.[Everyone freeze… Read More
2023-09-12 21:09
A Film by Satoshi Kon, re-released as part of Satoshi Kon Fest
A Film by Satoshi Kon
1997’s Perfect Blue is easily one of the greatest achievements in animated film ever. While t… Read More
![REVIEW: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum [History Tour]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/13199/1319850-1000899840.w320.jpg "REVIEW: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum [History Tour]")
2023-04-26 02:23
Kansas City has a number of museums that one simply cannot find in any other city. Aside from the National WWI Museum, and The Steamboat Arabia Museum, my top pick that I always recommend to… Read More
![REVIEW: National WWI Museum – Living The Great War Weekend 2022 [History Tour]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/13199/1319850-2528121975.w320.jpg "REVIEW: National WWI Museum – Living The Great War Weekend 2022 [History Tour]")
2023-04-19 22:35
There’s a meme going around that says that anyone that becomes a dad “levels up” to a new version of themselves and has to choose one of two paths 1) being obsessed with sm… Read More
2023-04-16 08:19
A Film Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Lupin III is a popular Japanese manga series that revolves around the adventures of Arsène Lupin III, a suave and cunning thief, and his gang as t… Read More
2023-03-05 09:38
A Live Wrestling Event by CSW
All promotional images courtesy of the CSW Facebook pageWhen we last left Central States Wrestling, they had just had their biggest and most important show o… Read More
2023-02-19 02:24
An Upcoming professional wrestling show in the Kansas City area
The last few months have been characterized by the highest of highs and the lowest of lows for what I would consider one of… Read More
2023-02-07 23:30
A Book by George Orwell
As with many kids in The United States, I experienced your typical middle and high school reading and literature classes that seemed to always lean pretty heavily… Read More
2023-01-23 07:38
A Film directed by Joel Crawford
I had twenty dollars in AMC Theater gift cards absolutely burning a hole in my pocket this past weekend, so a trip to the theater was arranged to have som… Read More
2023-01-21 06:56
A film directed by Neil Marshall
For some reason, I never got around to watching the 2019 Hellboy movie, which was something that I decided to rectify this past weekend. I remember when t… Read More
2022-12-20 07:29
A Live Wrestling Event by CSW
I have been attending independent wrestling shows for the better part of two decades in the Kansas / Missouri area, and without a doubt, last week marked the… Read More
2022-12-12 06:40
A Pay-Per-View Event by Ring of Honor
One year ago was a dark, yet hopeful, time for Ring of Honor. The 2021 version of Final Battle seemed very fitting in terms of the real peril facing… Read More
2022-12-10 03:50
A manga by Tohru Uchimizu
With the stakes going higher and higher, The Love and Creed of Sae Maki has grown from a story of an unfortunate high school “romance” gone wrong int… Read More
2022-12-06 03:53
A manga by Tohru Uchimizu
With the events of chapter two of The Love and Creed of Sae Maki, I was wondering if the comic had peaked far too early, With Sae revealing herself to be crazy a… Read More
2022-12-05 04:45
A Live Wrestling Event by CSW
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November….
Central States Wrestling has become a big part of “getting out of the house” for my son and… Read More
2022-11-26 01:54
Review of a Live Wrestling Show
All Elite Wrestling has come to the Kansas City, Missouri area three times now, and I have attended two of them. I only missed the one from November 2021… Read More
2022-11-26 00:01
A manga by Tohru Uchimizu
When you are a socially awkward girl such as Misao, having a friend in school that is arguably one of the most revered, if not entirely popular students, is a bi… Read More
2022-11-18 23:15
A Book by Charles River Editors
I’ve always been interested in Paleontology, and recently went down a rabbit hole in regards to the often ignored Triassic period, the period that ev… Read More
2022-11-15 04:36
A Graphic Novel by Cab & Federica Di Meo
Continuing on from my recent review of the second chapter, today I will be looking at Oneira – Part 3 – Amant Ad Mortem, by Cab &a&hell…Read More
![REVIEW: National World War I Museum – Black Citizenship In The Age Of Jim Crow [History Tour]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/13199/1319850-939940089.w320.jpg "REVIEW: National World War I Museum – Black Citizenship In The Age Of Jim Crow [History Tour]")
2022-11-15 01:38
After becoming a member of the National World War I Museum, it seems like I’m there every few months for various events – this is a good thing because they have new exhibits up p… Read More
2022-11-14 07:16
A Wrestling Pay-Per-View by GCW
It’s honestly a shame that professional wrestling has taken so long to push aside some of its casual racism and treat professional wrestlers of color… Read More
2022-11-13 08:52
A Wrestling Pay-Per-View by the NWA
For many fans, the entire state of the professional wrestling industry has been volatile to say the least these past few years. If one were to characte… Read More
2022-11-12 20:35
A Short anime OVA from Production I.G.
One Piece has had an astounding run as a franchise, including (as of this writing) around 1,040 TV episodes, sixteen films, 1,066 manga chapters, vi… Read More
2022-11-05 01:18
A short story in The Gundam – The Witch from Mercury timeline
With a lot of anime, there are all manner of apocryphal materials that get released that most Western audience simply d… Read More
2022-11-04 22:28
A Wrestling Pay-Per-View by BLP
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!
Yeah, this show happened in late March (oops!), and at the time my goal was to get all of the WrestleMania Weekend GCW shows don… Read More
2022-11-03 04:55
An Anime
When new creative teams tackle the prospect of creating an entirely new entry into the long-running Gundam franchise, there exists a historical tendency to seemingly go back and… Read More
2022-10-26 02:43
A Live Wrestling Event by CSW
After the amazing time I had at my first Central States Wrestling show, Rise of an Outlaw, I just knew that I had to score some tickets for the next show. St… Read More
2022-10-19 01:15
A Graphic Novel by Cab & Federica Di Meo
I was able to obtain the rest of an interesting comic that I started reading relatively recently, and wanted to see if I could get the rest of… Read More
2022-10-17 07:02
An anime OVA
Last night, I was looking for something quick to watch before I went to bed and stumbled on this short anime OVA that sits at just under thirty minutes in running time. There… Read More
2022-10-17 00:07
A Book by Stephen Cole (Doctor Who: New Series Adventures #2)
When Doctor Who returned from its fifteen year hiatus in 2005, The BBC did not waste any time getting the former merchan… Read More
2022-09-09 07:16
An Audio Drama by Will Hadcroft, Read by Frazer Hines (BBC’s New Doctor Who Audio Originals #13)
When looking for something quick to read or listen to in between my history books th… Read More
2022-09-08 03:12
A Book by Matthew Stanley
Matthew Stanley has done an amazing job looking at the life of Albert Einstein through a lense we rarely see in books like this in his newest book Einstein&rsquo&hell…Read More
2022-09-07 08:33
A Book by Justina Ireland
After feeling like Justina Ireland’s previous book, Out of the Shadows, somewhat fell on its face in the final act, she gets back in the saddle and deliver… Read More
2022-09-07 02:41
A Book by Andrew Delbanco
Whenever you see discourse regarding The American Civil War, you often see a number of “Lost Cause” fallacies enter the fray, such as saying that the… Read More
2022-09-06 22:54
A Book by Christopher Carton
Videogame-based movies have a spotty history, at best, and a chronicle of them can easily be mistaken as a list of 100 of the worst films that have ever been… Read More
2022-07-27 02:10
A Book by Tom Huddleston
Star Wars Adventures in Wild Space is a series for younger readers that comes across in a similar manner to an adventure story such as Nancy Drew or The Hardy Boy… Read More
2022-07-23 07:45
An Audio Drama by Big Finish (38 in the main line)
A Big Finish Audio Drama, number 38 in the “main Line”
Whoops! I just realized I skipped over this one when doing my prev… Read More
2022-07-16 00:13
A book by E.K. Johnston
Sometimes these Star Wars books get put out and it honestly seems like their entire purpose is to answer a question that doesn’t really need an entire book t… Read More
2022-06-03 23:16
A Book by Daniel José Older
The second wave “Middle Grade” book from the Star Wars – The High Republic franchise is Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José… Read More
![REVIEW: Mill Office And Pioneer Spring Cabin [History Tour]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/13199/1319850-457039208.w320.jpg "REVIEW: Mill Office And Pioneer Spring Cabin [History Tour]")
2022-05-28 08:16
Last weekend, I was briefly able to attend an event that I suspect was a fundraiser/open house to drum up attention for the restoration of an old building that holds some pretty big signific… Read More
2022-05-06 00:55
A Manga by by Kintetsu Yamada
I normally don’t get into books like this, but this was highly recommended to me due to being somewhat atypical, and for the most part that assumption… Read More
2022-05-04 23:38
A Book by Margaret MacMillan
Most books that talk about World War I rarely speak of the causes of the actual war short of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary… Read More
![REVIEW: The National World War I Museum [History Tour]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/13199/1319850-581191836.w320.jpg "REVIEW: The National World War I Museum [History Tour]")
2022-04-29 23:26
In 2021 I did a feature called History Boy Summer that was a lot of fun. It forced me to go out and try to experience a lot of awesome historical sites rather that sit at home and waste away… Read More
2022-04-20 03:15
A Graphic novel by Shigeru Mizuki
Learning about the life of Adolf Hitler is somewhat of a hard undertaking sometimes. Outright buying certain books on him is generally not favorable to a… Read More
2022-04-18 06:50
A Graphic Novel by David Axe and Matt Bors
I found out about David Axe due to him being a contributor to The ‘Stan, one of the many books put out by Dead Reckoning. While that book… Read More
2022-04-18 06:24
A Pay-Per-View by GCW
Given pro wrestling’s checkered past of handling homosexuality, it’s no wonder that most gay wrestlers used to hide their true identities from their boss… Read More
2022-04-18 03:59
A Pay-Per-View by GCW
I’m still not too far into all these shows from WrestleMania Weekend, so here’s another chip off the pile of shame. Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport 8 con… Read More
2022-04-17 21:21
A TV Special from AEW
It’s been about four months since the last Battle of the Belts special from All Elite Wrestling, so it was fun to see a bonus hour of solid wrestling this week… Read More
2022-04-17 20:01
A new quarterly curated box from AEW
It’s about 6 weeks until AEW’s 2022 iteration of their annual Double or Nothing pay-per-view, but Pro Wrestling Tees did not wait round an… Read More
2022-04-06 03:43
A Film by Piers Haggard
I recently watched a documentary on the Folk Horror film genre that got me interested in watching a number of the films presented, with one of the earliest, The Bl… Read More
2022-03-25 23:52
A Graphic Novel by Kevin Knodell, David Axe, and Blue Delliquanti (Illustrator)
Looking back at the US occupation of Afghanistan, one has to sit and wonder if it was all worth it –… Read More
2022-03-23 23:20
A Book by Dan Carlin
When I first started working at my current job I had a long commute and ten hours of time sitting at a desk that I needed to fill with something other than the noises… Read More
2022-03-15 07:52
A Pay-Per-View by GCW
Another day, another chip off of wrestling backlog mountain. My quest this week is to try to get caught up on the last few GCW shows I bought not too long ago, which… Read More
2022-03-14 08:49
A Pay-Per-View by GCW
Continuing my possibly futile attempt to “catch up” on my backlog of various GCW shows, seeing that I am quite a few behind, means I watched Most Notorio… Read More
2022-03-14 07:35
A Pay-Per-View by GCW
I wasn’t paying attention, and noticed I was not only something like SEVEN GCW shows behind, and there is a three day series of like 12 more shows coming up! I… Read More
2022-03-13 07:44
A Comic by Clay McCormack, Russ Badgett
Sometimes I come across a perfect convergence of a multitude of topics I am into – with the subject of today’s review, Bloody Hel by Cl… Read More
2022-02-24 01:02
A Videogame
Since the age of four or so, my son has been obsessed with the venerable Earth Defense Force (EDF) series from D3 Publisher. When I gave him access to the PlayStation 4, he be… Read More
2022-02-23 22:43
A Manga by Hiroya Oku
Hiroya Oku delivers again! While I believe he draws plot ideas out of a hat (Pornstar that gets the ability to grow huge by a man from the future and becomes a super… Read More
2022-02-23 09:07
An Audio Drama
It’s funny that whilst I was going on bit of a folk horror kick, I discovered that Audible had a re-imagining of one of the all-time classic films in that genre. Bloo… Read More
2022-02-23 05:07
A Graphic Novel by Jean Graton
VROOOMM!
Being a total novice to Michel Vaillant comics, I jumped headfirst into volume one of the relaunched series a while back and quite enjoyed it. F… Read More
2022-02-23 01:39
A Graphic Novel by Hubert & art by Vincent Mallié
I was in the mood for a fantasy story today, and with perfect luck I stumbled on the newest comic from Europe Comics, In Shado… Read More
2022-02-22 12:10
A Pay-Per-View Event by NJPW
This is week three of four in terms of this particular “tour” in New Japan Pro Wrestling Strong. Hailing from Seattle, Washington this time- this… Read More
2022-02-22 10:41
A Pay-Per-View Event by NJPW
Here we are again, another week, another NJPW Strong Pay-Per-View that I have in the wings. Last week was one of the best episodes of this show that I’v… Read More
2022-02-22 09:28
A Pay-Per-View Event by NJPW
February marks another month, and another tour for NJPW Strong, this time hailing from Seattle, Washington. Episode one of New Beginning USA promises to be so… Read More
2022-02-22 07:26
A Pay-Per-View event for Impact Wrestling
This weekend was a hell of a weekend for wrestling fans! Not only did Impact Wrestling No Surrender (the topic for today’s review) happen… Read More
2022-02-22 01:21
A book by Angela Youngman
As The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland by Angela Youngman states, Alice in Wonderland is perhaps one of the world’s most widely read books of all tim… Read More
2022-02-20 01:07
A Nintendo DS Videogame
If there was a contest for longest video game title ever, I feel that this game would be a strong contender.
Fifteen or so years ago, I was asked to participate… Read More
2022-02-12 22:42
A Graphic Novel by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu, art by Alexandre Franc
Extinctions by Jean-Baptiste De Panafieu and Alexandre Franc is an interesting little book that talks about the Earth… Read More
2022-02-12 02:58
A Videogame for the Sega Dreamcast
I never had a Sega Dreamcast, so most of the games for it completely passed me by unless they eventually ported over to other consoles ala Sonic Adventu… Read More
2022-02-10 19:44
A Videogame for the Nintendo DS
Continuing on with my occasional reviews for games I feel “fell through the cracks” I would like to take a look at a Nintendo DS game that was… Read More
2022-01-28 17:39
A manga by Oishi Romy and Meshe
So here we are, the culmination of the “Hansel and Gretel” “level” and the beginnings of phase four of whatever is going on. The ch… Read More
2022-01-25 04:01
An Anime OVA
Makoto Kobayashi is a very prolific mechanical designer since the 1980s, working such shows as Zeta Gundam, ZZ Gundam, Birth and Urotsukidōji. He is still working today… Read More
2022-01-24 04:38
A Pay-Per-View on Fite.TV
I guess the future of sports is …..PIllow Fighting?! I honestly halfway started watching this ironically – I mean who would think of making a profes… Read More
2022-01-23 03:56
An Anime on Disney+
One of my favorite bits of Star Wars trivia is that no matter how much he tries to state otherwise, George Lucas basically lifted the structure and filming techniques… Read More
2022-01-22 03:30
A Videogame by Spike for the PlayStation 2
As I have stated in my numerous reviews for the genre, I am an avid professional wrestling fan and love to try out any game that I can get my ha… Read More
2022-01-16 11:39
A Pay-Per-View Event by NJPW
After enjoying my last foray into NJPW Strong, I chipped in with my remaining credits from Fite.TV and pre-ordered this four part series from them. As of this… Read More
2022-01-16 10:53
A videogame by Telltale Games
The history of Telltale games is a very tumultuous ride. From humble beginnings, they went on to arguably resurrect the once presumed dead genre of adventure… Read More
2022-01-16 09:11
A film by Disney, directed by Cate Shortland
Black Widow has been out forever, and even on Disney+ for a while, yet I haven’t gotten around to watching in until today for some reaso… Read More
2022-01-15 12:34
A Videogame for Wii and PS2
I’ve played my fair share of role playing games, and enjoy most Japanese style RPGs that I’ve come across. When Atlus announced a planned localizat… Read More
2022-01-15 11:32
A book by Olga McArrow
I don’t exactly recall how I came across this book, but I’ll never pass up a chance to read a free book that actually looks to be pretty decent quality… Read More
2022-01-14 13:19
A graphic Novel by Nicolas Debon
I’m not generally into sports related films, books, or comics, but Marathon by Nicolas Debon is different than your usual overdone inspirational sch… Read More
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