HIDEAKI ANNO– tag –

And so... I was planning to go to the "official" public screening of the first minutes of Evangelion 3.0+1.0, in Shinjuku in the heart of Tokyo, on July 6. Carlos and me did indeed queue diligently for an hour under the glowering portrai...

(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 ...

My article on 'Hayao Miyazaki Vs. Alan Moore' is on the ManagaUK website.

(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...

(Sight & Sound, BFI) There’s much primary material about Miyazaki Hayao in English, from behind-the-scenes documentaries on home releases of his films, to two large books of his writings (Starting Point and Turning Point). It’s impre...