Tag: cinema
August 28, 2017 · 0 comments
New Releases: 28th August 2017
It’s something we’ve done on our social media account for a long time now, but starting today (28th August) each week where we have a new release (or releases) available, we’ll be publishing a post here at our blog to correlate all the details relating to it. So let’s get going! It’s a new week […]
August 23, 2017 · 0 comments
The Mourning Forest
by Jeremy Clarke. Wind. Trees. Tall grass. A road barely discernible but for the occasional top of a hedge. A fluttering, white banner of a funeral procession moves imperceptibly across the landscape, a futile ritual for an unknown person. A room’s corner between two windows. Beyond them: wind and trees. Against the corner leans the […]
August 14, 2017 · 0 comments
The Saga of Anatahan
By Jasper Sharp. When did Japanese cinema first get so sexy? It is a question that Eureka Entertainment’s release of the little-seen The Saga of Anatahan (1953) goes some way in answering. The film is based on a true incident in which a group of Japanese sailors were marooned on a remote jungle island situated […]
August 11, 2017 · 0 comments
Napping Princess
By Andrew Osmond. Many anime movies are set in fantastical worlds, many in the real one. Recently, anime movies that aren’t franchise spinoffs have leaned towards real-world settings, contemporary or near-contemporary, from A Silent Voice to Genocidal Organ. But what’s more unusual is to find a film leaping freely between reality and fantasy, like Napping […]
August 5, 2017 · 1 comment
Shin Godzilla
By Jasper Sharp. The world’s favourite movie monster returns to British screens this August in Shin Godzilla, which sees Japan’s legendary fire-breathing lizard once more rising from the cold blue depths of the Pacific to lay waste to huge swathes of Tokyo. Released in July of last year, Toho’s latest reboot of a franchise that […]




