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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (first TV season)
(Neo Magazine, Uncooked Media) We start with two feuding brothers in 1880s England. Then there are cursed masks, mystical fighting styles, vampires, zombies, undead knights, shipwrecks, Nazis, ancient superbeings, chariot races, family s… -
A Silent Voice
I wrote an article comparing the anime and manga versions of A Silent Voice for the AllTheAnime blog, while the following review was published in the BFI’s Sight & Sound. Even more than last year’s blockbuster Your Name, the Japan-an… -
Death Note (Netflix Live-Action)
(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) Like law-enforcers who go up against Death Note’s killer with a notepad, this Netflix remake is brave but futile. Transposing the franchise from Japan to Seattle, the film tries new twists and takes on t…
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Metropolis (2010 restoration)
(SFX, Future Publishing) The granddaddy of silver-screen dystopias, Fritz Lang’s silent epic Metropolis returns to cinemas in a new version restoring twenty-… -
On Chesil Beach
(Sight & Sound, BFI) “Say something,” begs newlywed Florence (Saorise Ronan), her bright blue irises making her doll-like as she lies beneath her husband on … -
Super
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) James Gunn’s Super is distinguished straight off by its opening titles, an overwrought, very funny, crayola-violent cartoon…
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Ferdinand
(Sight & Sound, BFI) The Story of Ferdinand was a picture book published in America in 1936, with a story by Munro Leaf and illustrations by Robert Lawso… -
Interviews: Lilo and Stitch
(I interviewed Lilo and Stitch’s directors, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, for the Animation World Network website; I also interviewed Lilo’s animator Andre… -
Up
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Up is a 3D CGI Pixar animation by Pete Docter, who previously helmed the studio’s Monsters Inc. (2001). There’s an obvious …
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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…