We’ve learnt to manage our own expectations when it comes to live-action adaptations of anime and manga. It’s not easy. We’ve had the Attack on Titan and Ghost in the Shell live action attempts from Japan and America in semi-recent memory and neither became a break out hit. Could Bleach do better? This trailer gives […]
Competition: Win Shin Godzilla
Shin Godzilla is both old and new at the same time. It’s a new movie, first in cinemas a few years ago and the most recent disc releases out just for last Christmas, but it is filmed in the old style. What does that mean? Don’t expect a fancy computer graphics Godzilla. Expect a monster […]
Murderously good: A review of Prodigy
I’m reminded of one my all time favourite thrillers; Rope by Alfred Hitchcock. In Rope two friends have murder someone, hide his body in a chest, and then host a dinner with the victim’s family with the corpse just nearby. It’s a powerful film and the murderers are very sure of their intellectual superiority. Prodigy, […]
A quick look at the impressive Dredd Mega-City One effects
South Africa’s Johannesburg was transformed into to the overcrowded Mega-City One. This is a city which stretches from southern Maine down into Florida and from Ohio to Quebec City-Windsor Corridor in he north west. What did you make of the movie? Should there be a Dredd sequel?
7 mashup cities inspired by Big Hero 6’s San Fransokyo
Marvel’s original comic Big Hero 6 was set in Tokyo. That changed when the animated movie came out. The studio didn’t want an Asian setting but didn’t think they could get away with simply exporting the story to an American city. The result was a hybrid city of San Francisco and Toyko. The new city […]
Alita: Battle Angel trailer
Based on the very popular anime Gunnm and manga Battle Angel is Holywood’s latest attempt to do a live action. We’ve big names here with producers James Cameron and Jon Landau. What’s not to like about the combination of talent like Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly and Mahershala Ali? Or is this another American film that, […]
The supercut – it’s just a cat
Here’s a Halloween movie trick that might have been used one too many times. You would think cats were attracted to dangerous situations and liked to wait until the most tense moment before hissing randomly. The last line in the montage nails it. What is up with that cat? Is someone throwing it? Yes, yes […]
Short film: Seam
There are a lot of different languages in Seam and some impressive indie special effects. This short film is set in the near future after a war between humanity and Machines. There’s a fragile peace that’s threatened by old sleeper agents, Machines that think they are humans – and look like it – but are […]
Remixed: A review of Eureka Seven – Hi-Evolution 1
The Eureka Seven movie Hi-Evolution cuts up time and retells some of the show while adding on a few new bits. Most significantly it visits the world shaping event that was the disaster known as “The Summer of Love” (there’s nothing lovely about it). This means there are at least two camps of possible viewers […]
Short film: Number 13
DUST have just released their latest sci-fi short film. Number 13 is based on the Dark Horse comic by Robert Love and David Walker. The movie is directed by Steve Petersen. Dark Horse use the phrase; “A heart of gold and a fist of laser cannons!” to describe the series. We’ve a young boy, Number […]
