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Mirai
My review of Mamoru Hosoda’s film Mirai for Sight & Sound is available on the BFI website. [amazon_link asins=’B07LD4P4BN,B07K8ZSKVT’ template=’ProductGrid’ store=’anime04c-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’bb3bb72c-4dd0-4ac8-97f0-260016… -
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… -
Tenchi Muyo! (1992-4)
(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…
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Attack The Block
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) The cannily populist Attack the Block, by new director Joe Cornish, is about an interstellar first contact with the most fe… -
Daybreakers
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) After the accomplished Carriers at the end of last year – the one in which Star Trek’s Chris Pine was an utter bastard on a… -
Gamer
(Sight & Sound, BFI) The future. World society has been transformed by the billionaire pioneer Ken Castle, the creator of a new kind of game. Real people…
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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… -
Rise of the Guardians
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Jack Frost is an ageless boy who delights in freezing the world at winter, but is frustrated that no ordinary people can see him. He… -
Song of the Sea
(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) Song of the Sea was among the contenders for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars this February. It didn’t win, but now we c…
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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…