Film Reviews
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 1st GIG, Volume 1
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Sunday 6 August, 2006
As anime releases go, the 1995 film adaptation of Masamune Shirow's epic Manga Ghost In The Shell has to rank among the most significant. A complex but brilliantly realised portrayal of Tokyo in a fut... Read More...Lupin The 3rd: The Pursuit Of Harimao
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Thursday 30 March, 2006
It just goes to show, you can never keep a good thief down. So Lupin III (master-thief and star of numerous animated escapades) may have seemed a little subdued by his standards in The Secret Of Twili... Read More...Lupin The 3rd: The Secret Of Twilight Gemini
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Thursday 16 March, 2006
Lupin III is a remarkable character, and his antics often compare to that of James Bond, albeit in animated form. They live their lives on opposite sides of the tracks, with one a secret-agent and the... Read More...Akira
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Thursday 9 February, 2006
If you asked a member of the public to name a single film they would most associate with the anime genre, then chances are it would be Akira. Animatrix has come and gone, Spirited Away has won itself ... Read More...Tokyo Godfathers
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Monday 3 October, 2005
It would appear that everything Satoshi Kon touches seems to turn to gold. Though still a relative newcomer in terms of his experience as a director (Tokyo Godfathers being only his third film to date... Read More...Vampire Hunter D
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Wednesday 14 September, 2005
In the many years since its original release back in 1985, Vampire Hunter D has gained something of a cult-following amongst anime fans the world over. 2000 saw a belated (and somewhat unexpected) seq... Read More...Millennium Actress
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Monday 8 August, 2005
Scrolling along IMDB.com's list of 'Best Animated Films' one morning, I spotted something potentially amiss. An anime entitled Millennium Actress had not only sneaked in amongst the elite ranks, but w... Read More...Perfect Blue
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Wednesday 13 July, 2005
If the only animated film you ever witnessed was something along the lines of The Lion King, you could be forgiven for type-casting the genre as 'something for the kids'. Want to remain in blissful ig... Read More...Whisper Of The Heart
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Wednesday 1 June, 2005
Japan's own Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki, has worked absolute miracles in recent years to bring the anime genre to the attentions of the general public. His epic Princess Mononoke was the highest gross... Read More...Metropolis [2001]
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Friday 29 April, 2005
In a way, Metropolis can be viewed as something of a milestone in Japanese film-making and animation in general. It not only features its own eye-popping combination of CGI-backgrounds and traditional... Read More...Behind The Sun
The success of Walter Salles’s 1998 classic Central Station symbolically marked the end of two decades of trauma for the Brazilian film industry. It was the harbinger of a new era of quality fil...
Saboteur
Stung by criticism that branded his defection to Hollywood just prior to the outbreak of World War II as unpatriotic, Hitchcock spent the early forties busying himself with a series of films that exam...
Family Plot
Following the success of The Birds in 1963, legendary director Alfred Hitchcock’s seemingly-evergreen career at the peak of Hollywood finally began its slow descent into the wilderness, after mo...
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