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Speed Racer
(Sight & Sound, BFI) In recent decades, Hollywood has turned out a line of effects-led blockbusters, technically groundbreaking and artistically stunted in roughly equal measure. The 1999 film The Matrix, directed by Larry and Andy W… -
Masaaki Yuasa Interview
(Neo, Uncooked Media) The director Masaaki Yuasa has long been a hero to fans of maverick, free-spirited anime. He’s had a following since his first movie, the extraordinary fantasia Mind Game (2004), which has had one-off screenings ove… -
Lu Over The Wall
(Sight & Sound, BFI) A parent choosing a cartoon film for his or her children may view Japanese titles with understandable suspicion. Although anime has a far family-friendlier reputation than it once did, anime films which look like…
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut (‘Ultimate’ Collectors Edition)
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Philip K Dick died three months before the US release of Blade Runner, the film based on his 1968 science-fiction novel Do Androids … -
Alita: Battle Angel
I wrote a review of Alita: Battle Angel for the AllTheAnime website. -
Devil’s Due
(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) You’re reading SFX, which means you’re almost certainly not the target audience for Devil’s Due. This fright film is aimed …
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Early Man
(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) A century ago, some of the first stop-motion cartoons were goofy caveman comedies by Willis O’Brien, who later animated Kin… -
Big Hero 6
(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 … -
Shrek Forever After
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Shrek Forever After is the fourth, and apparently final, computer-animated film to feature the grumpy green ogre who’s been the unoffici…
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My Neighbor Andrew Turned Out to Be the Real Totoro—A Trek Through the Sayama Woods
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 … -
I Boarded the Galaxy Express with a British Friend and Ended Up Debating the Soul of Leiji Matsumoto world.
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… -
From Heidi to Kaguya: Our Visit to the Takahata Exhibit
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…