J. Fletcher

Your Name: Review
by J. Fletcher|24 November 2016|Film Reviews, Post Category
Taking the star-crossed lover theme to extraordinary new heights, Makoto Shinkai’s (Children Who Chase Lost Voices) latest animated feature film, Your Name, has not just dominated the Japanese box office - where it maintained the number one position for nine straight...
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Scott Bakula: Leaping Back
by J. Fletcher|21 March 2016|Features, Interviews, Post Category
During the late 1970s a quiet revolution within American television was underway as a select group screenwriters and producers began transforming America’s leading broadcast networks from within. Leaving behind the gentrified Leave-It-To-Beaver naivety and gosh-darn punchline standards established during the...
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Attack on Titan: Part One: Review
by J. Fletcher|24 August 2015|Film Reviews, Post Category
While Japan’s anime industry is revered domestically as something of a national treasure, it’s still often relegated to its own quirky niche within the larger entertainment sector. However the absolute fanaticism that has sprung up around the dark-fantasy series Attack...
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Pale Moon: Review
by J. Fletcher|12 November 2014|Film Reviews, Post Category
Based on the bestselling novel The Eighth Day, from acclaimed author Mitsuyo Kakuta, and selected to represent Japan in competition at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival, Pale Moon is the latest opus from former commercial director Daihachi Yoshida, marking a strategic retreat from...
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My Man: Review
by J. Fletcher|09 June 2014|Film Reviews, Post Category
In what will inevitably be hailed as one of the years more contentious films, comes the bleak pseudo-sexual drama My Man, based on the novel Watashi no Otoko by award winning author Kazuki Sakuraba and adapted to the screen by...
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To Be Takei: Review
by J. Fletcher|08 May 2014|Film Reviews, Post Category
There is a moment in Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary To Be Takei, where her subject, Star Trek alum, star of stage and screen and social activist George Takei, has a moment of genuine introspection, asserting ‘I, in my own life, have...
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Yoshihiro Fukagawa: Poetry in Motion
by J. Fletcher|05 December 2013|Interviews, Post Category
You’d be forgiven in assuming a biopic of an elderly Japanese poet might not seem like the most compelling subject matter for a film. However, director Yoshihiro Fukagawa (Into the White Night) would beg to differ as the accomplished filmmaker...
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Letter to Momo : Review
by J. Fletcher|12 September 2013|Film Reviews, Post Category
One of the leading anime production companies currently operating in Japan, Production I.G. is best know for its work across various high brow sci-fi and violent horror series such as Ghost in the Shell and Blood the Last Vampire. So...
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Garden Of Words: Review
by J. Fletcher|12 September 2013|Film Reviews, Post Category
It’s not often that a film, be it animation or live action, grabs you from the very first frame, hooking its viewer with a enthralling charm. It’s even more remarkable when that single frame offers nothing more than a domestic...
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Review
by J. Fletcher|01 May 2013|Film Reviews, Post Category
When you look over the cinematic excursions of J.J. Abrams, the 46-year-old producer, writer and director presents an intriguing conundrum with each film in his repertoire, delivering contradictory fusions of strikingly original, yet instantly familiar storytelling. From his unique take...
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