"I lived in the Heart of a Wooden Boy"

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S

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PINOCCHIO

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reimagines the classic Italian tale of PINOCCHIO in a stop-motion musical adventure. Follow the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, the film features an all-star voice cast with Ewan McGregor as Cricket, David Bradley as Geppetto, and introducing Gregory Mann as Pinocchio. Other cast includes Finn Wolfhard, Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, Burn Gorman, with Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz and Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton.

Reminiscent of "Heavy Metal"...

The SPINE of NIGHT

To put an end to the eternal vigil of the all-powerful guardian of the last light of the gods, an unfathomable source of inexhaustible cosmic knowledge and power, Tzod, the fierce high priestess of the great jungle swamp called Bastal, braves the elements ascending an unforgiving, snow-covered mountaintop. As her long and arduous journey finally comes to an end, Tzod encounters the ancient sentinel of the bloom and its mystical blue flame and recounts the tale of how a single spore has changed the world below: a blood-soaked, centuries-old story of corruption, greed, tyranny, and destruction against the backdrop of the never-ending quest for control, influence, and illumination. But, humankind's atrocities echo through eternity, and heroes are always those who are expendable. Can a single petal of the small blue flower restore balance to the universe?

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Let's Review the Best Anime of 2021

Best of Anime 2021
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CUPHEAD SHOW! comes to Netflix in February.

THE CUPHEAD SHOW!

Based on the award-winning video game, THE CUPHEAD SHOW! follows the unique misadventures of loveable, impulsive scamp Cuphead and his cautious but easily swayed brother Mugman.

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Let's take a look at New Anime in 2022

Top 10 Most Anticipated NEW Anime of 2022

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1:36 The Eminence in Shadow 

2:44 Summertime Render 

3:50 Tokyo Twenty Fourth Ward 

4:36 Requiem of the Rose King 

5:40 Uzumaki:Spiral into Horror 

6:46 Bubble  

7:50 Hell’s Paradise:Jigokuraku  

8:48 Blue Lock 

10:06 Spy X Family 

11:34 Chainsaw Man

Anime Racing Commercial for ACURA

CHIAKI'S JOURNEY

Type S: Chiaki’s Journey. Learn more about Type S here:
https://www.acura.com/type-s 

Kid Cosmic Returns for More Adventures...

And he's bringing friends!

KID COSMIC SEASON 3

Kid's superhero dreams come true as the Local Heroes become Earth's greatest champions. But is something amiss with this ridiculously awesome adventure? Season 3 of Kid Cosmic is available on Netflix February 3!

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Elden Ring - Official Cinematic Trailer

E L D E N   R I N G

The Elden Ring was broken. But by whom? And why? Mysteries are abound in the latest cinematic trailer for the hotly anticipated Elden Ring.

 

Elden Ring is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, was made in collaboration with fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin, who provided material for the game's setting.

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Fear the Darkness Within You...

MOON KNIGHT

Welcome to chaos. Watch the new trailer for Marvel Studios' Moon Knight and start streaming the Original series March 30 on Disney Plus.

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Anime Viewing Schedule for January 22, 2022

 A N I M A T R I X   N E T W O R K
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Fountaindale Public Library

VIEWING SCHEDULE

          11:15 - 12:05   Jujutsu Kaisen 21-22
          12:05 - 12:55   Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles 7-8

          12:55 - 1:25     Club Meeting

          1:25 - 2:15       Mushoku Tensei 16-17
          2:15 - 2:40       Attack on Titan: FINAL Season Part II Ep 1

          2:40 - 4:45       ARCANE: League of Legends (Eps 7-9)

 

"Hey... Jinx has a present for you!"

 
Fountaindale Public Library
300 W. Briarcliff Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60440

Board Room, Second Floor 

Effective August 30, 2021, face masks

are REQUIRED inside the library due to

the state of Illinois mask mandate.

From 11:15 AM to 5:00 PM

All anime presented are fan-subtitled unless otherwise noted.

 

Don't miss the exciting anime series: Kemono Jihen and Mushoku Tensei

* ANIME DESCRIPTIONS ARE BELOW *

Next Club Meeting is January 22, 2022

A N I M A T R I X   N E T W O R K

"Keep punching that LIKE button if you LOVE Arcane!"

  M O N T H L Y   M E E T I N G

Fountaindale Public Library

300 W. Briarcliff Road

Bolingbrook, IL  60440

Board Room (2nd Floor)

Saturday, January 22, 2022

11:15 AM - 5:00 PM

PLEASE READ

 

We will be in the BOARD ROOM on the

Second Floor. The maximum number of people

allowed in the room is TEN, so please 

arrive early to claim your seat. 

 

In accordance with the CDC and state of Illinois guidance, face masks are REQUIRED.  

 

THANK YOU!

Hope to see everyone there!

 

A Viewing Schedule will be posted soon.

 

Hope to see you all there!

(Click below for maps)

When art transports us, where do we actually go?

An old Chinese legend tells of the painter Wu Daozi (680-c760), who learned to paint so vividly that he was finally able to step inside his work and vanish into the landscape. Magical though it sounds, this legend iterates the common intuition that artworks are more like portals than ordinary objects: they can transport us into other worlds. When I look at Pieter Bruegel’s The Hunters in the Snow (1565), I feel like I was there in the frost-bitten village, rather than the galleries of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. When reading Crime and Punishment (1866), the letters on the page conjure a whole world, and in some sense I am no longer in my living room but right there in Dostoevsky’s Russia; the cinema, too, is a gateway to faraway galaxies and past centuries.

Even non-representational works can take hold of us, like the breathing colour fields of Mark Rothko’s paintings or the beautiful ambience of Max Richter’s music. Sometimes, artworks have such a magnetic pull that we forget the actual world around us and lose our sense of time and place, of other people – and sometimes even of ourselves. The French art critic Denis Diderot (1713-84) called such immersive experiences ‘art at its most magical’. Once a painting by Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-89) pulled Diderot inside a pastoral river scene so completely and enjoyably that he compared the experience to a divine mode of existence:

Where am I at this moment? What is all this surrounding me? I don’t know, I can’t say. What’s lacking? Nothing. What do I want? Nothing. If there is a God, his being must be like this, taking pleasure in himself.

No wonder, then, that there is a certain sense of wistfulness when it all ends, when the lights come up or the last page is turned, and we find ourselves back where we were, forced to carry on with our daily lives.

The idea of artworks as portals to other worlds dates back several centuries, and it has become a commonplace way of talking about our experiences with art. In Pictures and Tears (2001), the art historian James Elkins called it the ‘travelling theory’ of aesthetic experience. The obvious problem with this theory, however, is that it sounds terribly metaphorical. In reality, I never leave my place in physical space. I’m there in the gallery, the auditorium or on my sofa all along. Try as I might, I cannot enter Bruegel’s landscape by touching the canvas, nor can I run into the world of Hamlet by running onto the stage. The artwork allows me only to peer as if from a threshold, where I can see inside but never enter. Here we face what I call the paradox of aesthetic immersion: when I’m immersed in artwork, I seem to go somewhere without going anywhere, and I seem to be in two worlds at once, and yet I’m not properly in either. So what kind of ‘travelling’ are we talking about?

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G4TV Hates Gamers...

G4TV's Return Doomed By Feminist Meltdown!

G4TV was once a haven for gamers and geeks for gaming and popular culture. But on their attempt to return to main stream, they make the mistake of going woke...

 

G4TV Hosts DOUBLE DOWN On Attacking Fans As They Lose THOUSANDS of Subscribers After Frosk Meltdown.

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Netflix Avatar vs. Avatar Studios...

Which Avatar The Last Airbender

Will Be Better?

Soon there will be dueling Avatars. The Netflix live-action version of Avatar will be pitted against upcoming Avatar Studios productions. The latter is headed by the creators of the original series... who rage quit the Netflix production out of frustration. Care to guess which version will probably be superior...?

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Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga - Official Trailer

Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga

Senua returns in this cinematic look at Hellblade 2 that has Senua leading a charge against a giant, while dealing with the many voices in her head. Check out the latest trailer revealed at The Game Awards 2021.

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Exploring Japan's Beautiful Moss Temple

Ghibli in Real Life

Today we are wandering through a moss-filled temple in the Japanese countryside of Ishikawa. Quite possibly one of the most beautiful temple grounds that the country of Japan has to offer. Today, we explore the beautiful grounds of the Natadera Temple.

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Visit One of Japan's Greatest Animation Studios...

The Rise and FALL of STUDIO 4℃

Studio 4°C Co., Ltd. (株式会社STUDIO 4℃, Kabushiki-Gaisha Sutajio Yondo Shī, stylized as STUDIO4℃) is a Japanese animation studio founded by Eiko Tanaka and Koji Morimoto in 1986. The name comes from the temperature at which water is most dense.

 

Studio 4°C has produced numerous feature films, OVAs, and shorts. Early film titles include Memories (1995), Spriggan (1998), and Princess Arete (2001). In 2003, through a joint production with Warner Bros., Studio 4°C created five segments of The Animatrix. The following year, they created the award-winning avant-garde film Mind Game. Studio 4°C's next film Tekkon Kinkreet (2006), won six awards, including Best Animated Film at the Fantasia 2007, Lancia Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival, and Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. It was also submitted for 2007 Oscar in Animated Feature Film category of Academy Award in USA.

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The year 2007 saw the release of the anthology film Genius Party, a collection of seven short films. Genius Party Beyond, a collection of five short films, was released the following year, as was Batman's side story Gotham Knight, and the OVA series Detroit Metal City. The following year First Squad: The Moment of Truth was awarded at the Moscow International Film Festival. In February 2010, they contributed two shorts to the anthology Halo Legends: "Origins", and "The Babysitter".

What Hidden Meanings are in the Boba Fett Series?

Is the Book of Boba Fett a Dig at Woke Leftists?
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Official Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman Clip...

The Boys: Vought News Network

Check out the latest episode of The Boys' Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman. This episode covers the Hero Draft, Blue Hawk getting a reality TV series, and more.

The Boys returns when Season 3 of the series debuts on Prime Video with three episodes on June 3, 2022. New episodes of the eight-episode season will be available each Friday following, leading up to the show's season finale on July 8, 2022.

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The third season of The Boys stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Jensen Ackles.

The Plastic Armies Have Invaded!

We've pushed the aliens back, it's time to take back the backyard.

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Ultra-Realistic Matrix Gameplay!

THE MATRIX AWAKENS

PS5 Gameplay 4K ULTRA HD

The Matrix Awakens is a 2021 open world video game and technology demonstration developed by Epic Games using Unreal Engine 5 in partnership with Warner Bros.

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A Romantic Tale Carved in Stone

REALM OF TERRACOTTA

This is the tale of a young girl named Jade and a terracotta warrior named Magnus who must team up to fight the creatures that keep attacking their Qin dynasty underground city, and who eventually fall in love.

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Gonna Punch Some Sense into Ya!

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2

The world’s favorite blue hedgehog is back for a next-level adventure in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2. After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. From the filmmakers behind The Fast and the Furious and Deadpool, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, and Jim Carrey returning, alongside new additions Shemar Moore, with Idris Elba as the voice of Knuckles, and Colleen O'Shaughnessey as the voice of Tails.

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What fuels your Rage?

FUELLED

Fuelled tells the story of a housewife on the path of revenge for her late husband. Made by students of the Sheridan college of 2021.

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Some things cannot be found on any map...

U N C H A R T E D

Street-smart thief Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world’s oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate’s long-lost brother... but only if they can learn to work together.

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"I Am What I Am" and that's not all what I am...

I Am What I Am
Xiong Shi Shao Nian

A young boy hopes to become the Lion's Head in the traditional Chinese Lion Dance, but a group of bullies try to dash his dreams. Can he find his inner Lion to overcome his foes and be the hero he needs to be?

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More Magic and Madness Coming Our Way!

DOCTOR STRANGE 2
In The Multiverse of Madness

Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and the first season of Loki (2021), Dr. Stephen Strange casts a forbidden spell that opens the door to the multiverse, including an alternate version of Strange, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong, and Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch.

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In Theaters May 6, 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

As we say good-bye to a dismal 2021, 
we welcome in 2022 with a clean slate!

WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST IN 2022

 

Step into a Virtual World of Limitless Dreams

B  E  L  L  E

From the celebrated Academy Award®-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu. A fantastical, heartfelt story of growing up in the age of social media. 

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A high school student becomes a globally beloved singer after entering a fantastic virtual world. She soon embarks on an emotional and epic quest to uncover the identity of a mysterious beast who's on the run from ruthless vigilantes.

In theaters January 14, 2022

Vengeance Equals Justice for the Bat and the Cat

THE BATMAN

The Bat and The Cat Trailer 

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From Warner Bros. Pictures comes Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” starring Robert Pattinson in the dual role of Gotham City’s vigilante detective and his alter ego, reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne. Starring alongside Pattinson (“Tenet,” “The Lighthouse”) as Gotham’s famous and infamous cast of characters are Zoë Kravitz (“Big Little Lies,” “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”) as Selina Kyle; Paul Dano (“Love & Mercy,” “12 Years a Slave”) as Edward Nashton; Jeffrey Wright (“No Time to Die,” “Westworld”) as the GCPD’s James Gordon; John Turturro (the “Transformers” films, “The Plot Against America”) as Carmine Falcone; Peter Sarsgaard (“The Magnificent Seven,” “Interrogation”) as Gotham D.A. Gil Colson; Jayme Lawson (“Farewell Amor”) as mayoral candidate Bella Reál; with Andy Serkis (the “Planet of the Apes” films, “Black Panther”) as Alfred; and Colin Farrell (“The Gentlemen,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”) as Oswald Cobblepot.

 

Reeves (“The Planet of the Apes” franchise) directed from a screenplay by Reeves & Peter Craig, based on characters from DC. Batman was created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger. Dylan Clark (the “Planet of the Apes” films) and Reeves produced the film, with Michael E. Uslan, Walter Hamada, Chantal Nong Vo and Simon Emanuel serving as executive producers. The director’s behind-the-scenes creative team included Oscar-nominated director of photography Greig Fraser (“Dune,” “Lion”); Reeves’ “Planet of the Apes” production designer, James Chinlund, and editor, William Hoy; editor Tyler Nelson (“Rememory”); and Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (“1917,” “Little Women,” “Anna Karenina”). The music is by Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino (the current “Spider-Man,” “Jurassic World” and “Star Wars” films, “Up”). 

 

Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a 6th & Idaho/Dylan Clark Productions Production, a Matt Reeves Film, “The Batman.” The film is set to open in theaters March 4, 2022 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

History of Voltron

VOLTRON: Defender of the Universe

Voltron: Defender of the Universe was an animated series that aired in syndication in the US from September 10, 1984, to November 18, 1985. 

 

The original intention was that it would be 3 seasons made up of 3 different imported Japanese cartoons. The 3 series were Future Robot Daltanious (未来ロボ ダルタニアス, Mirai Robo Darutaniasu), Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (機甲艦隊ダイラガーXVフィフティーン, Kikō Kantai Dairagā Fifutīn, "XV" read "Fifteen") and Lightspeed Electroid Albegas (光速電神アルベガス, Kōsoku Denjin Arubegasu). 

 

But a funny thing involving a different Japanese show called Beast King GoLion (百獣王ゴライオン, Hyaku Jūō Goraion) happened along the way. 

 

Voltron: Defender of the Universe was the top-rated syndicated children's show for two years during its original run, and it spawned three follow-up series, several comic books, and a line of toys. 

 

And for all the smart guys on the comments: we're aware Voltron Force exists. This video tells the story of the original series and Voltron Force has no significant relevance to it. As stated in the disclaimer, it may get its own video some day.

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