Film Reviews
X: The Movie
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Monday 25 April, 2005
X has received its share of praise in anime and Manga circles, though it was a short trailer for the film that convinced me the DVD was worth £7.99. Exceptionally stylish battle sequences flash ... Read More...Macross Plus: The Ultimate Edition
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Monday 18 April, 2005
I must admit that I've grown to become very fond of Japanese anime; in recent times I have witnessed some truly wonderful films that, sadly, are unlikely to receive the recognition they deserve in Eur... Read More...The Terminator
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Friday 11 February, 2005
Last Christmas I was perusing the virtual-shelves of play.com trying to find the ideal present (a DVD) for my Dad. As I was scanning the bargains, I spotted the 2-disc Special Edition DVD of Terminato... Read More...Smilla's Sense Of Snow [1997]
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Monday 7 February, 2005
I first encountered Smilla's Sense Of Snow in a Media Studies lesson towards the back end of 2003. My group were analysing a trailer of the film, and I must admit I was impressed with what I saw; the ... Read More...Spirited Away
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 11 January, 2005
It's fair to say that I don't go to the cinema all that often. In fact, I've probably only visited the flicks two or three times since The Lion King was gracing the big screen nearly ten years ago. Mo... Read More...Castle In The Sky
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Wednesday 15 December, 2004
Watching Castle In The Sky, it becomes all too easy to forget that this was a film made as long ago as 1986 (that's around eighteen years for anyone who's counting). As animation goes, it really would... Read More...The Castle Of Cagliostro
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Friday 12 November, 2004
It seems that Disney's animated films have gone out of vogue somewhat in recent years, and these days the great company is relying more and more on computer-generated movies to bring in the money. Sca... Read More...Psychic Wars
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Tuesday 17 August, 2004
From my past experience of anime's I have concluded that it must be difficult to make a truly bad one. If the Japanese-to-English translation is a bit ropey, then the story usually makes up for it, an... Read More...Blood - The Last Vampire
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Thursday 25 March, 2004
Having recently sampled in the delights of undiscovered anime classic 'Princess Mononoke', I decided it was time to investigate the genre a little closer. Blood - The Last Vampire was the ne... Read More...Princess Mononoke
Written by Tom Clare in Film Reviews, Sunday 15 February, 2004
I don't know what possessed me to buy Princess Mononoke, as I had never even seen a Japanese anime before let alone bought one. But, boasting some big name contributions and a very respectable pr... 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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