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Anime-ish
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
(Neo magazine, Uncooked Media) If you know the history of comics, you’ll know Little Nemo. It was a legendary New York newspaper strip, published a hundred years ago, where a little boy has strange and scary dreams. Drawn by Winsor McCay... -
Live-Action Films
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
(Judge Dredd Megazine, Rebellion) The day it was announced that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson would make a motion-captured, computer-animated blockbuster out of Herge’s venerable Tintin, a film journalist of my acquaintance said his... -
Western Animation
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 in 2014.] As Disney’s classic Pinocchio is released on DVD and Blu-Ray, Andrew ... -
Live-Action Films
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
(Judge Dredd Magazine, Rebellion) So let’s play fantasy Harry Potter. Imagine, if you will, that the seven J.K. Rowling books could each be filmed by a different director with a specialism in fantasy and a rep for quirk. Imagine a dream ... -
Live-Action Films
Hugo
(Sight & Sound, BFI) This review reveals important plot points. In Martin Scorsese’s 3D family film, Hugo’s title character is an orphan boy, living in the hidden spaces of a fantastically stylised Paris circa 1930. For the film’s fi...
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