Category: All Posts

September 11, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke on a story too crazy to be anything but true… The Lovers And The Despot concerns a South Korean film director and his leading actress, kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for the purpose of beefing up that country’s film industry – an incredible story that may be familiar from the earlier […]

September 9, 2016 · 0 comments

It’s time for your weekly Newswire! Later in the week than usual but packed with exciting details on the likes of Your Lie In April, The Case of Hana & Alice and Ouran High School Host Club! Read on below for details. ALL THE ANIME / ANIME LIMITED UPDATES ~ First of all in case […]

September 9, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp.It is that time of year again, as the tumbling temperatures, dwindling daylight hours and falling leaves signal the last gasp of summer, that UK film fans can take heart in the knowledge that a new season is just about to dawn – the film festival season. The past weeks have seen programme […]

September 6, 2016 · 0 comments

By Chris Perkins. Stop-motion studio Laika – based in Hillsboro, Oregon – first burst onto the scene in 2009 with Coraline. Based on the book by the legendary Neil Gaiman, and directed by The Nightmare Before Christmas’s Henry Selick, their debut had quite the pedigree. The studio really began to forge its own way after […]

September 3, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. In The Untold History of Ramen, George Solt digs behind invented traditions to tell the story of one of Japan’s most famous dishes, not as a breathless account of urban cuisine, but a hard-nosed anaylsis of demographic changes, supply chains and industrial politics.