Articles by Joshua Ostroff

Missy Elliott

The Cookbook

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

Miss E may be many things — rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, even a reality TV "star” — but she is not an album-oriented artist. Oh, s...

The Truth Is Out There

DVD

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Beginning in Boston as an art student piss-take, Kaiju Big Battel combines the beat-down skills and over-the-top storylines of pro wrestlin...

Royal Canadian Air Farce

AIR GUITAR

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Seeing is believing - unless what you're not seeing is a guitar. Somehow escaping the scorn heaped upon mimes, "Metalica Drummer" and the f...

Justus Köhncke

Doppelleben

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Germany may be known for Sprockets-style weirdness, but beneath their freak-show skin beats an electro-pop heart, which is why the music co...

Astro Boy: the Complete Series

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

Anime may currently be the Canadian hipster geek's favoured eye candy, but it's been a staple of the Japanese diet for decades thanks to As...

Drug Score

VIDEO GAME

PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

CNN think it's clever to subhead their article about the videogame Narc as "a new low” - after all, it is the first game where you can get...

The Cat Returns

Hiroyuki Morita

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Having apparently shut-down their own 2-D animation division in favour of CGI, prompting some grave-rolling by their long-dead founder, Dis...

Porco Rosso

Hayao Miyazaki

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Having apparently shut-down their own 2-D animation division in favour of CGI, prompting some grave-rolling by their long-dead founder, Dis...