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Pieta in the Toilet
My article on the Japanese live-action film Pieta in the Toilet is available on the AllTheAnime blog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUJxihgOK4Y -
Genius Party & Beyond
(Neo, Uncooked Media – I also add further observations in an article on the AllTheAnime website.) How many anime fans are fans of animation – animation as a medium, whether it’s anime or not? There are some (just google “sakuga”), but pe… -
Gunbuster
(Neo Magazine, Uncooked Media) French director Jean-Luc Goddard declared, “All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.” In the 1980s a gang of Japanese geeks declared, All you need for an anime is a girl and a mecha… Okay, make that …
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Gravity
(SFX, Future Publishing) In space, no-one should be able to hear other people eating popcorn, or slurping soda, or locking lips with one another. For all the… -
Moon
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) The film Moon, like Spock in the retconned Star Trek, is a member of an endangered species. Made by first-time writer-direc… -
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…
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The Lego Batman Movie
(Sight & Sound, BFI) The pendulum swings back. Last year’s Batman v Superman was vacantly humourless in its presentation of Batman (played by Ben Affleck… -
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… -
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).
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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…