An avid lover of modern South Korean cinema - finding its social and political voice excitingly engaging, with great humour and brilliant...

“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people... Little hungry and great hungry. Little hungry people are physically hungry....

I watch a lot of films and find myself moved far less than this blog suggests. Supposing I was a true critic I would fill these pages...

‘What grace have I to fall so in love?’ - Lizzie West Valentine’s Day is naff, we all know it. Coming from a bitter old hag like myself...

I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...

I was rather preoccupied in 2020, delving into the realms of Japanese cinema and best of all discovering Japan’s most subversive and...

Here we go again. It's been a while, I must admit. [Insert existential sentence with as many commas as I feel is humanly necessary to get...

Have you ever talked to the know-it-all, well-read type? The type who read the book, the comic or cite their favourite films as The Tree...

Are you tired of the usual Christmas line-up? Has The Muppets Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street turned...

***** 'I am by nature a boy, not a girl...' Over and over does Dieyi mistakenly repeat these words before his master at the Beijing Opera...

I've been on a little high as I revisit one of my favourite filmmakers this week. Escapism, desire and longing captured through the lens...

With the state of all things, we are seeing the legitimate questioning of the relevance of cinema, it's current lack-ness and it's...

Halloween is drawing ever nearer and with the possibility of a night-in for most, I have decided to reflect on some of my favourite...

“Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.” - Hayao Miyazaki Back again to continue the list of...

“Anime – it’s not something that can be thought of in a hall for conferences. It is made out of strange juices current from the brain of...

Hirokazu Koreeda is the master of the modern socially-conscious, family drama who chooses to explore the various dynamics in the familial...

Anime had produced some of the best visuals, characters and storytelling since the dawn of cinema. But it currently isn’t as highly...

Studio Ghibli’s cinema was the first time I really understood the difference between a children’s film and a family film. Until then my...

Today I want to do a countdown of my top fifteen Akira Kurosawa films, a favourite director of mine who was one of the greatest writers...

Note: All scores used throughout this article I am very fond of, no hating from me on the links shared today. Music is possibly the...