I wrote an article for the AllTheAnime blog reflecting on Perfect Blue as a horror film, while my Neo, Uncooked Media review of the 2013 Blu-ray release follows. Following Cowboy Bebop, the fledgling label Anime Limited’s new release is …

(Neo, Uncooked Media) This is the Tenchi that British fans are likeliest to have seen already, the 13-part video series from the early 1990s that looks better than most TV fare today. It began a sprawling franchise but remains highly acc…

Like many animation fans, I was delighted by the victory of Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse in the Best Animated Feature category in 2019 – but also by the nomination of Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai, the first Oscar-nominated feature that was…

I wrote a review of Alita: Battle Angel for the AllTheAnime website.

(SFX, Future Publishing) The new Robocop has an impressive brain. We know because we see it on the big screen, being prodded and sutured by Doctor Gary Oldma…

(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Super 8 is directed by J.J. Abrams, but an Abrams who for this outing is channeling the spirt of producer Papa Spielberg. T…

(Sight & Sound, BFI) It’s common wisdom among animators that humans are the hardest species to simulate realistically, because we know the true articles …

My review of the Netflix series Love, Death and Robots is on the AlltheAnime website (although the series itself isn’t an anime).

(Sight & Sound, BFI – I also wrote an article on the film’s production for the MangaUK blog.) I saw Disney’s CGI cartoon Big Hero 6 when it premiered at …

You have been doing a lot of research recently about Hayao Miyazaki’s film ‘My Neighbor Totoro.’ That’s right. Are you interested in where Director Miyazaki …

We’ve been to the Leiji Matsumoto 50th anniversary exhibition in Roppongi, which Andrew wrote up as a report for Animation World Network, illustrated by Carl…

We recently went to the Isao Takahata Exhibition in Tokyo to report on it for Animation World Network (our report is here). As fans of Takahata’s work, we ha…