Author: Jonathan Clements

May 8, 2016 · 0 comments

Isao Tomita, who died on 5th May, was not just a composer, but also a performer and a pioneer in electronic music. Born in what is now Suginami ward in Tokyo, he spent much of his childhood in China, where his father Kiyoshi was a physician at the Kanebo textile mill in Qingdao. It was […]

May 8, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. The old adage that “It takes a thief to catch a thief” broadly powers the major revelations at the climax of the first series of Psycho-Pass. Rather than an artificial intelligence, the SIBYL system which constantly monitors the stress levels and potential criminality of every Japanese citizen is actually a very human […]

May 5, 2016 · 0 comments

By Hugh David. It’s taken over a decade to see any sort of boom in fantasy film and TV (outside of those set in the present) following the worldwide financial and critical success of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of JRR Tolkien’s seminal work The Lord of the Rings. This has been because, despite great advances […]

May 2, 2016 · 2 comments

By Chris Perkins. The world of streaming anime is a fast-moving one. So much so, that rather a lot has changed since we published our original Anime Streaming Guide last summer. We’ve seen whole new seasons of anime launch, and a new player enter the UK arena with the launch of Funimation Now. So it’s […]

April 30, 2016 · 0 comments

By Hugh David. Chairman Drek is hell-bent on destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy. Nobody can stop him… except maybe two incredibly unlikely heroes: a cat-like Lombax and Clank, a robot assembled by mistake. Luckily them, or possibly unluckily for everybody else, they’ve somehow acquired a planet-destroying weapon of their own, joining forces with […]