Author: Jonathan Clements

August 17, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke finds out what’s really new in the new release. A week before When Marnie Was There arrived in UK cinemas this June, Studio Ghibli’s earlier Only Yesterday came and went with comparatively little attention. Isao Takahata’s 1991 follow-up to Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday came out on DVD in Japan in 2003, […]

August 14, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. The clammy deathly-blue pallor, the single drooping eye leering through lank, matted black hair, the white cotton smock, the slow, spasmodic, Butoh-esque movements: there must be few out there unfamiliar with the imagery of the Japanese ghost since the shuffling form of Sadako first seeped into Western consciousness in Hideo Nakata’s Ringu […]

August 11, 2016 · 0 comments

By Hugh David. Few mediums have been so conducive to a genre as anime has been to steampunk. Where live-action ventures are stalled by budget, requiring both the costs of a period drama (costumes, locations, props) and a sci-fi actioner (special effects blended with action scenes), anime can create convincing worlds based on modified technology […]

August 8, 2016 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. “You may marry him, murder him, or do what you like with him.” So declared Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, when actor William Gillette asked if it would be acceptable to have the Great Detective fall in love in a stage play. Doyle’s comment probably reflected his weariness […]

August 5, 2016 · 0 comments

By Tom Smith. When two worlds collide, it’s down to the badass crime fighting squad Libra to restore order. They’re faced with taking down all host of supernatural nasties, fiends and pesky terrorists that have suddenly started to pop up following the emergence of an interdimensional portal above New York. It doesn’t always have to […]