Author: Jonathan Clements

March 16, 2016 · 0 comments

Andrew Osmond on a study of transcultural flows and frictions Animation travels. It’s good at it, often better than live-action. Animation is amenable to dubbing and localising, and its foreign origins often go unnoticed, at least by child viewers. Perfect Blue director Satoshi Kon put it simply. When he was growing up in Hokkaido, “I […]

March 13, 2016 · 2 comments

By Paul Browne. On the world of Gift, Sogo Amagi spends his spare time exploring abandoned mines for rare crystals. It’s an engaging hobby that gets somewhat derailed when Sogo runs (quite literally) into Kaon, a young girl fleeing from an arranged marriage. Gift appears similar to our own world in many ways, but it’s […]

March 10, 2016 · 0 comments

Andrew Osmond on the subtle changes to Kung Fu Panda 3. “We were doing drawings of the dress of Mei Mei the girl panda,” remembers Alessandro Carloni, co-director of DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda 3, which opens in Britain on Friday. However, Carloni says his Chinese partners on the film spotted a problem. “We were told, […]

March 7, 2016 · 0 comments

Andrew Osmond takes a step into the past. Thanks to cinema and TV, some long-ago places can feel closer to us than most present-day countries. For British people, one of the closest is Victorian England, specifically Victorian London, home to Dickens dramas, Sherlock mysteries, Martian invasions and the gory mythos of Jack the Ripper. This […]

March 4, 2016 · 0 comments

Jasper Sharp uncovers some animated treasures streaming for free. The word ‘anime’ only really entered the English lexicon at the beginning of the 1990s, whereas the history of Japanese animation taken as a whole stretches back at least 70 years earlier, its beginnings usually pinpointed to 1917. However, the immediate problem for curious viewers wishing […]