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April 14, 2022 · 0 comments
Japan: Courts and Culture
By Helen McCarthy. Japan: Courts and Culture was originally scheduled to open in 2020. Like so many of that year’s best-laid plans, it had to be shelved. But the wait has been worth it. The exhibition is a refined, elegant and entrancing look at a centuries-long relationship between two island empires separated by “ten thousand […]
April 12, 2022 · 7 comments
BELLE comes to UK home video on June 27th
Ever since so many of you came flocking to cinemas to watch Mamoru Hosoda’s incredible latest film BELLE, we’ve been flooded by people asking and speculating over when we’ll be bringing the film to DVD and Blu-ray for you to enjoy in your own homes. Well, today, we can reveal all… Let’s start with the […]
April 11, 2022 · 0 comments
Books: In Another World with My Smartphone
By Shelley Pallis. And then he was struck by lightning, and it was a mistake, but it was too late, and he was dead. Well, that’s not a customer complaint that the Guardian is going to be able to deal with in a couple of phone calls. Fifteen-year-old Touya Mochizuki has indeed just been killed […]
April 7, 2022 · 0 comments
Manga: Today’s Menu
By Jeannette Ng. Should one be somehow oblivious to the sprawling Fate/ series, Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family would probably pass muster as another fluff, food-centric slice-of-life manga, such as Sweetness and Lightning and What Did You Eat Yesterday?. Like them, Today’s Menu is structured around meticulously detailed recipes as characters cook for each […]
April 4, 2022 · 0 comments
Hiruko the Goblin
By Tom Wilmot. Unhinged, abrasive, chaotic, loud; these are some of the characteristics that many have come to associate with the work of cult-favourite filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto. Throughout his 35-year long career, Tsukamoto has left his highly stylised and instantly recognisable thumbprint on all of his films, except one – Hiruko the Goblin (1991). Marking one of […]




