2016
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 2016.
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Flower Guy
‘Flower Guy,’ AKA ‘Hanao,’ is a one-shot horror manga by Yuka Yamada, created when he was only 16 years old. (read more)
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Mob Psycho 100
With Mob Psycho 100, One Punch Man creator ONE is more in his element writing for something that isn’t conceptually farcical, but he shows his limits as a writer when he falls back into battle shonen cliches. (read more)
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Drifters
Seemingly not content with only ‘Fate/Zero’ wasting the concept of a war between historical legends, the author of ‘Hellsing’ attempts the same with ‘Drifters’ and does only marginally better. (Includes OVA) (read more)
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Don’t Breathe
‘Don’t Breathe’ is an exercise in how to earn your false resolutions, jump scares, and all the stock tricks in the horror book that we’ve been accustomed to groaning about. (read more)
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Tickled
‘Tickled’ is a documentary exposé on an underground, internet tickling fetish group. A thrilling watch revealing what the powerful do behind closed doors. (read more)
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D.Gray-man Hallow
What happens when you try and adapt eight years’ worth of manga chapters into 13 episodes? The answer will not shock you. (read more)
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Paterson
Focuses on a normal life in Paterson, New Jersey but while the characters are likable it becomes unrealistic to insist on such surface characters and a stiff script. It’s often about complacency and so dedicated to that that the movie stays in one place too. What do this couple have in common? What does this… (read more)
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Gimme Danger
A renowned director like Jim Jarmusch combined with one of the greatest bands in history makes Gimme Danger sound like a recipe for success. But The Stooges brought their A-game decades ago, and it’s left to Jarmusch to underperform. This doc is overly historical and literal, almost entirely Iggy Pop (James Osterberg) reciting dates and… (read more)
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The Neon Demon
There’s some incredibly harsh imagery in The Neon Demon, complete with heavy, sharp, contrasting colors. This sleazy gloss accompanied by Cliff Martinez‘s distorted synthesizer compositions made me immediately think the movie had potential to be a favorite. But the style here seems like it should be multiplying the base concepts of industry corruption and the… (read more)
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Persona 5 the Animation: The Day Breakers
In this glorified commercial for the ‘Persona 5’ video game, it feels blasphemous that such a stylistic game would be associated with cheap, lackluster animation. (read more)