Film Reviews

Ellis Lamai 29 September 2024

We’re in a time where love seems more hard to find than ever. Silicon Valley coders creating and gamifying connecting...

Leoni Horton 27 September 2024

For an audience, seeing an actor tread into new territory and do something unexpected is often an unexpected delight. For...

Robert Ewing 24 September 2024

The release of Dan Da Dan has been turbulent, to say the least (you can Google to find out why),...

Freda Cooper 14 August 2024

Who wouldn’t want to win big on the lottery? Rhetorical question. But put yourself in 2030’s California, the setting for...

Robert Ewing 22 July 2024

Studio Ponoc was founded by Yoshiaki Nishimura, a former lead film producer at Studio Ghibli. The studio is a spiritual...

Alain Gherson 9 July 2024

The Commandant’s Shadow is a film you have to see. As good as it is, it shows us the way one...

Robert Ewing 2 July 2024

Recap films are widespread in Anime. From Code Geass to Haikyu to Attack on Titan these anime have all had...

Emlyn Roberts-Harry 24 June 2024

This one’s a heartbreaker. Chris Pine, arguably the best of the Hollywood Chrises, (have any of the others made a...

Robert Ewing 21 June 2024

Studio Colorido made debatably one of my favourite anime films of recent memory with Penguin Highway. It is an utterly...

Robert Ewing 21 June 2024

Women writers and directors are underrepresented in anime. It is still a male-dominated industry, so I feel it is important...

Freda Cooper 1 May 2024

It’s a meet-cute that promises something slightly different. The soon-to-be lovers run across each other in what appears to be...

Clotilde Chinnici 22 April 2024

An epic action tale set across different planets in a galaxy ruled by an evil imperialistic power seems like a...

Bradley Hadcroft 15 April 2024

Immersive realism and stupendous creature design give this apocalyptic family drama an added bite. Nicolas Cage plays Paul, a pragmatic...

Bradley Hadcroft 12 April 2024

This thoroughly engaging Sci-Fi thriller is a lovingly written thank-you note to the bonding power of creative cinema, and those...