Astonishing to think nearly 10 years since Japanese animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki unearthed hiss swan song film, The Wind Rises. Studio Ghibli also went into hiatus after Miyazaki‘s announced ‘retirement’, a decade later you can’t keep a animation master at bay! The Wind Rises like many of Miyazaki’s previous films, it has a personal connection.… Read More Film Review – The Wind Rises (2013)
Great films are those ones that linger in your thoughts long after you have watched that film. Same could be said about those bad films. Rose Glass debut feature Saint Maud (2020), it’s an impressively chilling psychological horror that will terrorise your mind long after that first viewing…Your saviour is here! When it comes to… Read More Film Review – Saint Maud (2020)
S.Craig Zahler is fast becoming the go to director for exploitative genre films, even if he calls them at times ‘Hybrids’. Bone Tomahawk a horror western, Brawl In Cell Block 99, a batshit crazy prison thriller. Now add Dragged Across The Concrete, that harks back to 1970’s violent pulpy thrillers. Another slice of corruption dented… Read More Film Review – Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
There’s two sayings I like to use a lot,”We’ve got to start somewhere so why not here?” and “Family’s Family”,these two saying are very relevant to The Adopted(Les adoptés)the directorial feature for French actress Melanie Laurent. The film may not be Oscar winning material but a film with real promise for a debut about Families… Read More DVD Review: The Adopted (Les adoptés)
The most terrifying thing to man or woman after loneliness is fear itself, it may help us to make rational thoughts to deliver positivity, however, Fear itself has 2 sides. There is a psychological effect which can fester terror and in Jeremy Lovering’s In Fear that fear is delivered in it’s simplest most effective form,… Read More Film Review – In Fear (2013)
Teenagers in love Post World War Japan is the setting for the latest Studio Ghibli home release. With Hayao Miyazaki-San ready to hand over the reigns of Japan’s greatest ever to younger hands is Goro Miyazaki’s From Upon Poppy Hill a worthy application for his father’s crown? Set in 1963 Yokohama, From Upon Poppy… Read More Blu-ray Review – From Upon Poppy Hill (2011)
For years critics, cinephiles, so called experts have battled over the decades to give animation the right and respect it deserves to be judged on the same par as feature films. The right to say animation is not for just kids but for everyone, Japanese animation (or anime) has been a forerunner for many years… Read More Blu-ray Review – Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
If someone was to ask you do you know of a musician who is regarded bigger than Elvis better than Bob Dylan you would probably laugh in that person’s face and tell them there’s no one? In Mallick Bendjelloul’s Searching For Sugar Man he introduces to the world that person, his name is Sixto Rodriguez… Read More Blu-ray:Searching For Sugarman
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