Animation Film Review: Your Name (2016)
For many decades, Hayao Miyazaki holds the honourable title of being the king of animation. So when YOUR NAME makes its mark on the industry gaining similar [...]
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Geek It! Anime Newsbyte: One Week Friends live-action film debuts first trailer
Anime live-action films is the latest craze in Japan, and joining the queue is Isshuukan Friends which is based on Matcha Hazuki’s manga series One Week Friends. [...]
[DVD] Anime Review: Gourmet Girl Graffiti
It’s not often for anime viewers to sit back and settle for an anime that is considered ‘relaxing’. So when one encounters an anime like GOURMET GIRL [...]
[DVD] Animation Film Review: A Letter to Momo
Since her father’s death, life has never been the same again for Momo Miyaura (Karen Miyama) and her mother Ikuko (Yuka). Moving back to her mother’s estate in [...]
[DVD] Anime Review: The Boy and the Beast
From the director behind The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Wolf Children (2012), Mamoru Hosoda returns with THE BOY AND THE BEAST, a fantastical film that explores [...]
[DVD] Film Review: Phoenix (2014)
From the director of Jerichow (2008) and Barbara (2012), Christian Petzold’s PHOENIX is a hauntingly exquisite film that sees a former prisoner of Auschwitz [...]
[DVD] Anime Review: Wolf Girl and Black Prince
Welcome to this shoujo story about a girl who hates a boy, and the boy hates the girl. Sounds familiar? No, this isn’t your typical Pride and Prejudice story. This is [...]
[DVD] Anime Review: DRAMAtical Murder
Set on the fictional Japanese island of Midorijima, an island becomes privatised by the powerful Toue Konzern who transforms the island into a resort called ‘Platinum [...]
[DVD] Anime Review: No-Rin
Meet Kosaku Hata — the world’s #1 fanboy of the one and only Yuka Kusakabe. Who is Yuka Kusakabe? With a serene smile, beautiful hair, and a voice of an [...]
[DVD] Anime Review: HaNaYaMaTa
HaNaYaMaTa. The original Love Live: School Idol Project complete with a group of friends dancing and singing together — just not in the way you expected it to be. [...]
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