Adziu's small corner

I nearly shed a tear, I must admit it. Not at the travesty of what M. Night Shyamalan did to Avatar : it was a bad film, but not as awful...

Kon Satoshi’s recent death has probably affected me more than the passing of any other director since Kubrick, and in fact probably more t...

Yuri Norstein is a giant of animation, and so seminal are Tale of Tales and The Hedgehog in the Fog that quite frankly I am ashamed of neve...

Much as I love anime, when one thinks of arthouse, it is not where the mind first turns. Anime may have outgrown its eighties clichés of ul...

The change in tone between Mononoke-Hime , one of Miyazaki’s most epic, serious and Japanese films and tonight’s viewing, the intimate, whim...

Before the masterful, childlike Kaiba and the somewhat disturbing Kemonozume , experimental and fast-rising director Yuasa Masaaki made thi...

Let’s face it, I was always going to enjoy this film. I love playing the highly successful games and find the characters really engaging: ci...