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Hobbitty ScreenAnarchyes: Our Favorite Film Dragons
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is now in cinemas all over half the world, an will soon arrive in the other half as well. And for those who saw the end of The Hobbit: The Desolation of...
Marshy's Favourite Asian Movies Of 2014 Part 1
As we pass the halfway point of the year I like to take stock of the new Asian films I have seen. This is as much to jog my memory and help separate the wheat from the chaff as it...
Asia Beat: Udine Awards, New Sono Sion, Tsui Hark, THE FATAL ENCOUNTER And More
Welcome to Asia Beat, a fortnightly roundup of bite-sized news pieces from around the region that might have otherwise slipped under the radar but which we feel are worth bringing to your attention. Anything from casting news, poster premieres, to...
Win A Massive FROM UP ON POPPY HILL Giveaway!
Last week we ran a contest giving away five Blu-ray copies of Studio Ghibli's acclaimed From Up On Poppy Hill and, well, we were just scratching the surface. The film hits store shelves on Blu-ray and DVD today and we've...
The Stack: BAY OF BLOOD is Blu, 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON, FROM UP ON POPPY HILL, FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY, THE FUGITIVE Runs Onto Blu And More
In this week's edition of my home entertainment roundup, Bava is beautiful on Blu, old English character actors fight the undead, Miyazaki offers up another masterpiece, a one armed man almost whips Indiana Jones, and NO PLACE ON EARTH rocks off...
Win A Copy Of Studio Ghibli's FROM UP ON POPPY HILL On DVD And Blu-ray!
Studio Ghibli's From Up On Poppy Hill hits shelves across the USA in a DVD / Blu-ray combo pack September 3rd and it's a charmer. The sophomore film from Miyazaki Goro - son of the famed studio co-founder, Miyazaki Hayao...
Hey, Australia! Check Out Madman's Reel Anime 2013 Massive Giveaway No. 1 (of 5)!
To celebrate the upcoming Reel Anime Festival 2013, Madman is giving you, our dear readers, the chance to win some wonderful prizes! In each of the following 5 weeks in the lead up to the Festival, there will be a new...
A Conversation With LIBRARY WARS Director Sato Shinsuke!
I sat down with Library Wars director Sato Shinsuke the morning after his film screened at Fantasia. We were already accustomed to each other as we had only parted ways six hours earlier after closing out the pub. Coffee was...
Fantasia 2013 Review: LIBRARY WARS. Japanese Feel-Good Action Cinema
In the 1980s in an alternate Japan, a movement rose to control media and do away with material deemed offensive to Japanese culture. The Media Betterment Committee is little more than a police force that bans such offensive material. In...
Hey Australia! Win Ghibli's Latest FROM UP ON POPPY HILL On DVD Or Blu-ray!
From Up On Poppy Hill is the beautiful new period narrative from the always wonderful Studio Ghibli.Check out our review here!Set in Yokohama, From Up On Poppy Hill is a high school love story that take place in the year...
Full Trailer For Live Action LIBRARY WARS is Literally A War In A Library
There is a small crop of sci-fi films that deal with a utilitarian society where book censorship is heavily enforced, while a small group resisting against this law, like Fahrenheit 451 and Equilibrium. But I think Library Wars (aka Toshokan Sensō) is...
US Trailer For Studio Ghibli's FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
Though it has taken a little while to arrive on local shores, Miyazaki Goro's sophomore film, From Up On Poppy Hill, hits US screens in March and fans of the studio would do well to check it out. Much more...
First Teaser For Live Action LIBRARY WARS
From Sato Shinsuke, the director of Gantz and The Princess Blade comes yet another live action adaptation Library Wars (aka Toshokan Sensō). Based on a Japanese light novel series by Hiro Arikawa that spawned a manga and animated series &...
Review: FROM UP ON POPPY HILL is a Nice Enough Ghibli Film (Reel Anime 2012)
From Up On Poppy Hill, from Studio Ghibli, is a high school love story that take place in the year before the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Umi, a junior year student, falls for the dashing and rambunctious Shun. They are...
FLOWERS IN THE SHADOW Review
Some films don't need to excel. They don't even feel the need to shine, they simply posses the rare ability to crawl under your skin, ever so slowly. You might not even realize it while watching, but by the end...
TALES FROM EARTHSEA Review
[Tomorrow is the strongest release day of the year and so we are taking the opportunity to pull our reviews of the key new release titles back up to the top of the stack.]In many ways Goro Miyazaki's Tales From...
