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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… -
Miss Hokusai
(Sight & Sound Magazine, BFI) In recent years, the Japanese animated films which have reached British cinemas have tended to be Studio Ghibli products or films like them, such as The Wolf Children (2013) and Giovanni’s Island (2014)…. -
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
(Neo, Uncooked Media – I also made further observations in an article on the film on the AllTheAnime website) Have you seen the series The Tatami Galaxy? If you have, then this film is Tatami Galaxy: The Movie, from the same maverick dir…
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Planet Terror
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Texas, the present. At an army base, a secret transaction goes awry and a deadly gas is released. Nearby, go-go dancer Cherry Darlin… -
Insidious (and prequel)
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Insidious is from both the director and the writer of Saw, but don’t be misled. It’s a “things go bump in the night” affair… -
Monsters (plus director interview)
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion – I also have an interview with the director Gareth Evans about the film on the MangaUK blog.) Monsters is already the subje…
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
(Sight & Sound, BFI) It’s common wisdom among animators that humans are the hardest species to simulate realistically, because we know the true articles … -
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 … -
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…
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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…