Mizuho Nishikubo talks Giovanni’s Island
Two brothers’ experiences on an island off the North tip of Japan in the year’s after World War 2 form the core of Mizuho Nishikubo’s Giovanni’s Island. When the Soviet…
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Giovanni’s Island
Director: Mizuho Nishikubo Writer: Shigemichi Sugita, Yoshiki Sakurai Cast: Kota Yokoyama, Masachika Ichimura, Yusuke Santamaria, Saburo Kitajima, Polina Ilyushenko, Tatsuya Nakadai Cert: PG Running time: 102mins Year: 2014 The…
The Wild Side of Cinema Hits London!
Calling all cult film fans. London is the place to be this October for an embarrassment of riches courtesy of The London Film Festival and FrightFest. Beginning Wednesday 8th October,…
The Wind Rises
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Writer: Hayao Miyazaki Cast: Hideaki Anno (Japanese language), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Werner Herzog, Stanley Tucci (English language dub) Cert: PG Running time:…
Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
Director: Hideaki Anno Cast: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yuuko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi, Akira Ishida, Fumihiko Tachiki Cert: TBA Running time: 96mins Year: 2012 The lowdown: Head scratching ahoy as…
Pacific Rim
Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, Max Martini, Robert Kazinsky Cert: 12 Running time: 132mins Year: 2013 The…
From Up On Poppy Hill
Director: Goro Miyazaki Stars: Masami Nasagawa, Jun’ichi Okada Cert: U Running time: 91mins Year: 2011 The lowdown: After the misfire of 2006’s Tales from Earthsea, Goro Miyazaki has…
Pacific Rim – the live action Evangelion?
“Go Big or Go Extinct” shouts the tagline and from the trailer, no other film this year will match Pacific Rim for sheer scale. Humankind threatened by alien monsters from…