Tag: film
Any sizeable pop culture franchise will likely reach the point where it has at least one piece of lost media, an instalment lost to time. Reasons for this vary but all tend to stem from behind the scenes politics....
If you were asked to point to the central story of the first decade of Gundam, it’d likely be the rivalry between Amuro and Char. But with that feud ending in 1988's Char's Counterattack, where if anywhere was Gundam...
Back in 2014 I reviewed Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild, a partly crowdfunded movie focusing on the famous YouTuber. Just over half a decade later a sequel has been produced, Ashens and the Polybius Heist.
In the interests...
Anime Limited have announced their acquisition of distribution rights covering the UK, Ireland and France for Masaaki Yuasa's latest film INU-OH. An adaptation of Hideo Furukawa's novel Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh, the film is described thusly:
Inu-Oh was born with unique...
It’s been a while since Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name took the world by storm. An imaginative and heart breaking love story that pretty much everybody had praise for and raised the question of what exactly he’d produce next? The...
Surprising as it may seem, it’s now been half a decade since the animated adaptation of Gundam Unicorn came to an end. An animated adaptation of the pre-war chapters of The Origin would follow soon after but sadly doesn’t...
Gundam is no stranger to having sequels and spinoffs. The canon, loose as it may be at times, stretches far and wide. What’s a more recent tactic, however, is animating works that began as novelizations or manga. This seems...
Mirai, acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda's latest film, opens in select UK and Ireland cinemas from the 2nd November (read our review here).
Ahead of the release, Fetch Publicity have provided us with an interview they conducted with Hosoda in which...
Ahead of the UK release of Mamoru Hosoda's latest film Mirai on 2nd November, Anime Limited have partnered with Studio Chizu to present a special free exhibition covering the entirety of the director's theatrical works in London.
Located at Noho...
What's this MFKZ I'm hearing about? Is it coming to the US?
On October 11 & 16, GKIDS and Fathom Events will bring MFKZ, the animated film from French comic artist Guillaume “Run” Renard and ultra-hip Japanese animation house Studio 4°C, to approximately 450 U.S. cinemas. MFKZ features...