Neo Tokyo (1987) Movie Review

Neo Tokyo (1987) (IMDB)

Neo Tokyo movie poster

This Japanese animated movie is a trilogy of stories, with the first called "Labyrinth labyrinthos” where a young girl and her cat escape into a odd world they get to through a large clock. The world has flashes of long hallways and pathways that make it seem like a maze, but things tend to transform quickly in this fantasy space. We also get a big top and lots of clowns. The point of the story ? I’m not really sure, but everything looks great. The second story is about a racer, and the last story is about a man working with construction worker robots. To me, the last story feels more relevant today than back in 1987 as AI and robots become more and more advanced.

Overall everything looks great, but it is a bit weird and the first 2 stories are lacking.

I give it a 6/10.

Qala (2022) Movie Review

Qala (2022) (IMDB)

Qala movie poster

Today I bring you another movie that had an unexpected maze show up in it. It comes to us from Netflix and is a Bollywood drama about a talented female singer. The good news for those of you who hate subtitles is that this is dubbed into English ! Our main character, Qala, is a talented singer who is always having problems from a dominant mother. The story revolves around singers making music, but the mood is decidedly dark with the cinematography featuring shadows and dark settings. The story involves jealousy and familial relationships. Early in the movie we have a scene that caught my attention where out main character goes outside into the garden of her house into a maze (she visits again later in the movie). Here is a screenshot of the maze:

Maze from Qala 2022 movie

Overall this movie is worth a watch.

I give it a 6.5/10.

The plan for Weekly mazes in the second half of the year

The first half of the year has focused on me remaking previous mazes with 2 techniques to improve them. I called them Maze of the Week Re-duxes. Generally it worked and I am happy with the results. For the second half of the year we will return to new mazes. I actually have made more mazes than I need for the rest of the year. First, I will clean out the random mazes that include some scenes, items, landscapes and insects. Then starting in Mid-August new mazes will be from my Air, Land, Sea and Space collection. I wanted to create some mazes for kids but with improved illustrations. I ended up making vehicles of all types, thus my name. Planes, trains, cars, buses, rockets, and boats are all included. I made 47 in total (and may make more). I am going to select the best ones for the Maze of the week. The goal will be to create a kids book out of the mazes, including those that don’t make MOTW status. In order to make all the mazes available on the website, I will write a blog post introducing the extra vehicle mazes each Wednesday and a few more on Friday. They are mix or color (some with backgrounds), and black & white versions, including some that are perfect as coloring pages. It starts Monday with a maze I started, then abandoned of a famous monument in the US.

I also will be launching books in the Fall - a mix of both free versions on this site and paid versions on Amazon. If you want to be alerted to these launches sign-up for my free book alerts.

Maze Comic Book Cover #78 - RAD

Issue #78 in my comic book cover series is called RAD and features the maze of a Radish. This is definitely an evil radish. This is the last of my 4 experimental comic book characters, a chili pepper, mushroom, pickle, and radish. They form the core of the Legion of Shroom ?

My comic book cover mazes can be found in 2 places:

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 1 (Issues #1-53)

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 2

Radish Maze Comic Book

To receive a book of my first year of comic book book mazes (Volume 1 with mazes #1-53) you can sign up for my book alerts - any time I launch a free maze book, or paid book (on Amazon), I will send you a note about the new book launch.