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by J. Fletcher|29 June 202102 March 2022|Features, Interviews, Post Category

Screening as part of this years Revelation Film Festival in Perth, the remarkable investigative documentary feature The Last Horns of Africa offers a brutal and authentic look into the devastation of Rhino poaching inside South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Fuelled...

Caroline Catz: Decoding Delia Derbyshire

by J. Fletcher|15 June 202122 March 2022|Interviews, Post Category

The name Delia Derbyshire may sound like a superhero sidekick from the pages of 80’s limited comic series, but the moniker actually belongs to one of the most undervalued pioneers of contemporary electronic music. In fact, Derbyshire’s influence across the...

Josee, The Tiger & The Fish: Review

by J. Fletcher|09 June 202123 February 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

Having received a live action adaption back in 2003, author Seiko Tanabe’s classic short story Josee, the Tiger & the Fish has finally been granted the anime treatment thanks to animation studio BONES, the team behind the wildly popular fantasy series My Hero...

Penguin Highway: Review

by J. Fletcher|13 September 201807 March 2022|Film Reviews, Post Category

Whenever a new anime feature film causes a stir at the Japanese box-office or creates ripples within in the industry, the inevitable platitudes of a possible ‘New Hayao Miyazaki’ or a new ‘Studio Bones’ seems to get throw about with...

Your Name: Review

by J. Fletcher|24 November 201626 February 2022|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...

Attack on Titan: Part One: Review

by J. Fletcher|24 August 201524 February 2022|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...

Pale Moon: Review

by J. Fletcher|12 November 201410 March 2022|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...

My Man: Review

by J. Fletcher|09 June 201409 March 2022|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...

To Be Takei: Review

by J. Fletcher|08 May 201428 June 2022|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...

Yoshihiro Fukagawa: Poetry in Motion

by J. Fletcher|05 December 201309 March 2022|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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