For those people that believe in karma and reincarnation I must have been very bad in a former life because I sat through Sex In The City 2. I delayed posting this as I wanted develop my thoughts on the film, rather than tearing off into a rant. In advance of the film, I got [...]
I was curious to see this film after Chow Yun Fat claimed that the film would be likely to gross as much if not more in the Chinese box office as Avatar. The local reaction to Avatar has been phenomenal, so what chance does Confucius have? Firstly, The Independent reported that Confucius was replacing screenings [...]
Natural City is an interesting science fiction film from the prolific and talented Korean film industry. The story has hints of Bladerunner as deviant cyborgs run amok and are combated by teams of military police reminiscent of of a SWAT unit. The film is also a police procedural with a tangled plot; an area that [...]
MÄR is a modern computer-produced anime series with the bold bright feel that matches its story. The hero is a school boy called Ginta, who enters into a magical world called MÄR Heaven through a portal (think The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe). In school, he is a nerdy daydreamer, in the magical world [...]
Having visited San Francisco, it is really hard for me to imagine San Francisco as anything other than a bastion of liberalism. Ok, I know that San Francisco doesn’t allow same-sex marriages, but that is a statewide law, but it is hard to imagine the city without The Castro district. However up until at least [...]
What do you get when you put Ringo Lam, Johhny To and Tsui Hark in command of a robbery film? This is not a joke but the premise of Triangle. The name mirrors the three central characters and the three film directors who created this film. All of these directors names on their own is [...]
I remember seeing Ghost In The Shell at the cinema in the 051 centre in Liverpool. The 051 Centre was more famous for the club nights ran there by Dave Graham at a time when he ran Groove Records in the city centre. Anyway the cinema had a reputation for showing world and art house [...]
Monocle magazine also publishes a regular Monocle podcast series. My favourite episode to date was the Bangkok community radio station where listeners provide real-time advice and try to help during a range of incidients whether it is a snake catcher or calling for assistance around a car accident. Behind this community spirit is an altruism [...]
La Antena is set in a city lives without a voice, its words appearing as visual speech bubbles. The one person who as a voice called ‘The Voice’ has no visible face. The city consumes media (the main food seems to be cookies which mirror the spiral logo of the and is controlled by its [...]
I watched Origin as part of Amazon’s Vine programme. Origin is a story of a future when technology causes Gaia to go mad. Humans can no longer venture into the forests and live in an uneasy peace with the trees. The humans homes look like an ewok village amongst dilapidated skyscrapers. Two young kids find [...]
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