28.6.15

Naked Youth: A Story of Cruelty

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A scrappy, nihilistic Japanese film from 1960 about teenage delinquents, made by Nagisa Oshima – he of In The Realm of the Senses fame...
24.6.15

All-Star Superman

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Realised I haven't written anything on the blog in a while. I have been participating in a few London Graphic Novel Network  discussions...
26.5.15

Mad Max: Fury Road

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I haven't seen any other Mad Max films, but suspect there may be some subversion of the macho motor-head iconography going on in this u...
12.5.15

Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island

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"Why trap us in a world where power is enforced by the owners of so ludicrously finite a resource?" asks the hero of this short Wa...
2.5.15

The Buried Giant

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Shortly after I started reading I listened to a podcast in which the author kindly explained what the novel was all about. Saved me a bit o...
25.4.15

I Kill Giants

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I read this in far from ideal circumstances – commuting for work or almost asleep at the end of the day, and with a long break before reachi...

Avengers: Age of Ultron

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Whedon acquits himself well handling what is an organisational nightmare of a film. With millions having seen at least some Marvel Studios ...
20.4.15

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

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Mamoru Oshii's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghost in the Shell , which I praise to the skies here . This second film departs qu...
18.4.15

Suspiria

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"In fact if you want to give a deeper reading of the film, it can be seen as a vaguely lesbian story; where lesbianism has a certain im...