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The Wings of Honneamise
(Neo Magazine, Uncooked Media – I also wrote an article about the production of the film for the AllTheAnime blog and another article that’s reproduced below the review.) Picture a world different from ours in intricate, tiny details, ye… -
Your Name
My review of the film for Neo magazine (Uncooked Media) is below. I also wrote several online pieces related to the film; the links are at the bottom of the review. In Japan, Your Name is the success story of the year. Makoto Shin… -
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System
My review of the first two Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System films is on the AlltheAnime website.
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Black Mirror Bandersnatch
My article on the multi-choice Black Mirror film “Bandersnatch”, and its potential implications for anime, is on the AllTheAnime website. [amazon_link asins=… -
Final Destination 5
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) Final Destination 5 opens with a set-piece spectacular around a high road bridge, and anyone with a passing acquaintance wi… -
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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Frozen (Disney)
(SFX Magazine, Future Publishing) If you saw the Frozen trailers and thought, “Meh, a Disney princess film,” then think again. Frozen is flawed but it’s Disn… -
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… -
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 …
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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…