J. Fletcher

by J. Fletcher|15 November 201208 March 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

A leviathan of contemporary anime, revered by legions of fans globally, Hideki Anno’s Evangelion mythos first appeared on Japanese television screens in 1995, enjoying both critical acclaim and fan adulation before crippling budget cuts forced a tragically premature cancellation. But...

Miwa Nishikawa: Dream Merchant

by J. Fletcher|15 November 201210 March 2022|Interviews, Post Category

Not unlike most film cultures across the globe, Japan’s cinematic history has borne a significant disadvantage with an absence of a distinct female voices to drive its cultural narrative, especially in a culture that could have benefited from a distinct...

A Conversation with Seth Macfarlane

by J. Fletcher|20 October 201220 October 2012|Interviews

"Motion Capture technology was something that had been more or less perfected, but yet no one had really used it in a comic format before" With the continuing success of his animated TV series Family Guy, American Dad and The...

The Kirishima Thing: Review

by J. Fletcher|12 August 201208 March 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

Regardless of creed, culture or country there is a singularly unifying trial that all teenagers endure, the cruelty and disruptive refinement of high school. And in a country like Japan, where the image of the archetypal uniformed school student has...

Mamoru Hosoda Leader of the Pack

by J. Fletcher|08 July 201208 March 2022|Features, Interviews, Post Category

With a history that can be traced to the 12th century, Japanese cartoons, or manga as they are commonly referred to in the archipelago, have always been enjoyed en-mass as both divisive social commentary and titillating escapism. And while art...

A Conversation with Alan Dean Foster

by J. Fletcher|10 February 201210 February 2012|Interviews

"The fact that Dr. Who is still around is more than a bit mind-boggling." As the two worlds of interactive content and traditional publishing undergo their inevitable transition into an indistinguishable sole entity, thanks in part to recent release of iTunesU and...

The Wings of the Kirin: Review

by J. Fletcher|25 January 201208 March 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

The Japanese have a habit, and a knack, of adapting popular low-budget television series for the big screen, and their domestic box-office would indicate that the trend isn’t about to abate anytime soon. One of the more successful TV-to-film transitions...

A Chat with Makoto Shinkai

by J. Fletcher|24 November 201124 November 2011|Interviews

"... One of my motives for making this film was a desire to spin my own ending to that book." Animation, like any film genre, maintains a certain hierarchy of talent based on admiration, reputation and experience. And perhaps more...

A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr & Mrs Oki’s Fabulous Trip: Review

by J. Fletcher|04 May 201117 March 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

Full of idiosyncratic social commentary underscored with droll comedic styling Ryuichi Honda’s A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki’s Fabulous Trip is an unexpectedly refreshing example of just how arbitrary and charming the Japanese sense of humour can be;...

Ōba: The Last Samurai: Review

by J. Fletcher|10 February 201117 March 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

There is an inherent debate that usually surfaces whenever Japan enters the arena of factual war films, most due to the countries supercilious forays into revisionist history. However, director Hideyuki Hirayama’s Ōba: The Last Samurai manages to avoid such problematic...

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