January 9, 2017 · 0 comments

The best Irish-Matt-Damon-fighting-space-lizards movie you will ever see, says Jonathan Clements. In the 11th century AD, the last survivors from a group of European mercenaries finally reach their destination – Imperial China. Amid the rainbow-coloured rocks of China’s arid north-west, Irish brawler William (Matt Damon) and Spanish tough-guy Tovar (Pedro Pascal) surrender to the Nameless […]

January 8, 2017 · 0 comments

Anime Limited Podcast #22 – 8th January 2017 – Naked Gin Twister~! [Recorded on 5th Jan. 2017] Join Jeremy, Keith, Kerry, Kat and Andrew as they bring you the first podcast of the 2017! Topics covered in this episode, but not limited to, include looking back on 2016 (not just in anime) with Kerry & Kat – as […]

January 7, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. There was a time in the late-1990s when director Shunji Iwai possessed near celebrity status among young movie fans in Japan, the poster boy for a new breed of filmmaker who emerged neither from the moribund studio system, nor the uncompromisingly raw-edged counterculture of the 1980s independent scene, but from the image […]

January 4, 2017 · 1 comment

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR ALDNOAH.ZERO S1. PSYCHO-PASS creator Gen Urobuchi’s superb hard SF mecha show Aldnoah.Zero seemed to reach a final and tragic finale at the end of its first season.  That tale, of renewed hostilities between the Mars-based VERS Empire (former human colonists living in a feudal society based around control of alien tech) […]

January 1, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Takeshi Honda is an animator’s animator. When we interviewed Aya Suzuki earlier this year, she highlighted Honda for mastering both ends of the craft: huge, muscular action animation and emotionally subtle human acting. Honda has drawn gigantic, charging Evangelions, and delicately human figures for Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Hosoda and Hayao Miyazaki. “His […]

December 30, 2016 · 0 comments

With the new year approaching it’s a great time to give you a detailed look at an upcoming release of ours, The Case of Hana & Alice. Ahead of its release on the 9th January, we’re bringing this film to the United Kingdom as a Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray+DVD set, as well as a standard […]