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Empire of Corpses and Steam-Powered History
(Neo, Uncooked Media) As the film Empire of Corpses opens, a steam train chuffs before Saint Paul’s Cathedral. A caption reads, “London, 1878.” Then we’re in a Frankenstein-style laboratory where a young man forces a metal helmet over th… -
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
(Sight & Sound, BFI) There’s much primary material about Miyazaki Hayao in English, from behind-the-scenes documentaries on home releases of his films, to two large books of his writings (Starting Point and Turning Point). It’s impre… -
Angel Beats
(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing – there are also further reflections on the series in an article I wrote for the MangaUK blog.) Oh, you’re awake. Lie there on the ground for a moment, and listen to me. Welcome to the Afterlife Battlefro…
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Inglourious Basterds
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Rated 18. Contains images of strong bloody violence, torture, scalping, strangulation, castration (no balls at all!), farce… -
Paul
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Back in 2004, I spent a strange day at Ealing Studios in west London, watching Simon Pegg and Nick Frost playing whack-a-zo… -
Chatroom
(Sight & Sound, BFI) The recent The Social Network showed how online communities can express dysfunctional, destructive and self-destructive personalitie…
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Love, Death and Robots
My review of the Netflix series Love, Death and Robots is on the AlltheAnime website (although the series itself isn’t an anime). -
The Secret Life of Pets
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Amid the confusing array of computer cartoons, the Illumination studio stands out through its mascots – the yellow-skinned “Minions”… -
Article: Pinocchio
(Sight & Sound, BFI) [This article was written in 2009. Both interviewees – Dickie Jones, the voice of Disney’s Pinocchio, and puppeteer Bob Baker – died…
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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…