Movies

Les Maitres du Temps (1982) Animated Space Fantasy from Rene Laloux (La Planete Sauvage) and Moebius. Character animation is flat and thin, not making the transition from Moebius' drawing board to the hands of Hungarian animators very well. What might have been otherworldly or stylized only comes out harsh and unappealing. The backgrounds are the best part of most of this but it suddenly, like the aimless plot, comes together in the last ten minutes and becomes pretty good. Glad I saw it just to see it, but can't recommend it. 4/10

Mobile Police Patlabor the movie (1989) For a giant robot cartoon there sure wasn't enough giant robot. 80% is people talking to each other and walking around in their civvies trying to solve the mystery. 3/10

Island of Terror (1966) Genetics lab on isolated British island inadvertently creates invulnerable blobmonsters that suck your bones out and divide every six hours. SUCK YOUR BONES OUT I SAID! Very nice use of noodles in the reproductive scenes - I like when they use food to make the monster. Peter Cushing's magnificent hairline is the real star of this, like Day of the Triffids and Night of the Big Heat, classic example of the "reductive insularity" motif in British fantasy/horror. They live on an island so they take everything and put it onto a smaller island and it's like a microcosm. Lots of guys just going around doing stuff, then some monster stuff, then more guys driving around and going back the place they were before again. One cute girl per island, and she is only there to sob about how scared she is, and get ordered around by her scientist boyfriend. One of those movies I used to watch on TV because it was better than not having a monster movie to watch. Won't thrill or kill you. 5/10