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Perfect Blue
I wrote an article for the AllTheAnime blog reflecting on Perfect Blue as a horror film, while my Neo, Uncooked Media review of the 2013 Blu-ray release follows. Following Cowboy Bebop, the fledgling label Anime Limited’s new release is … -
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… -
Vision of Escaflowne
(Neo, Uncooked Media – I also add further observations in an article on the AllTheAnime website.) Schoolgirl Hitomi is whisked to Gaea, where there be dragons, princesses, cat-girls and a war waged by an enemy fixated on fate. Protected …
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Zombieland
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) I saw Ruben Fleischer’s comic Zombieland expecting little and enjoyed immensely. True, there’s a big problem with the conce… -
Tomorrow, When the War Began
( Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Tomorrow, When the War Began is a “Young Adult” film which knows that the target audience is too young to remember the fil… -
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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Jungle Book (2016)
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book remakes a 49 year-old cartoon – the 1967 Jungle Book – using post-Avatar technology. Directe… -
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… -
The Lorax
(Sight & Sound, BFI) Ted is a boy in the plastic, highly polluted city of Thneed-ville, which he accepts as the normal world. However, he’s hopelessly sm…
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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…