Category: Reviews
Netflix’s Ultraman: Rising triumphantly reinvents a tokusatsu legend for newbies
Image: Netflix It’s a giant-sized story about fatherhood and heroism At its pulsing circular core, Ultraman is a generational story. Conceived by Eiji Tsuburaya, one of Godzilla’s co-creators and the founder of Tsuburaya Productions, the franchise centers on a gigantic, red-and-silver superhero from another planet who travels to Earth to defend it from hostile extraterrestrial […]
The Boys season 4 becomes a stronger show but a weaker satire
Photo: Jasper Savage/Prime Video The stakes are clear, but the metaphor is not It’s an election year in these United States, and as go the headlines, so goes The Boys. Not on purpose — showrunner Eric Kripke, articulating a reality of television production, has noted that his narrative plans often precede their real-world parallels — […]
