by neon10 | 27, Apr 2013 | For Main Blog
Question: What’s the link between the sweet CGI family fantasy Oblivion Island – about a girl, a fox and a magic mirror – and the hardboiled Bond pic Skyfall – starring Daniel Craig, Adele showtunes, and Hollywood’s favourite Aston Martin? The answer is a tiny...
by neon10 | 25, Apr 2013 | For Main Blog
If there’s one thing Japan and the USA have in common, it’s a burning love for scary monsters. Both countries have more than their fair share of urban legends, myths and folklore, from America’s infamous Bloody Mary (say her name three times in front of a mirror and...
by neon10 | 23, Apr 2013 | For Main Blog
One point that The Soul of Anime, a new critical book by Ian Condry, makes repeatedly is that anime fans often use Japanese animation in ways their creators – at least their initial creators – didn’t intend. Fans can obsess, frame by frame, over the trajectories of...
by neon10 | 21, Apr 2013 | For Main Blog
There’s nothing obviously surprising about the Anime Contents Expo (ACE), an exhibition of the current anime scene, held just outside central Tokyo at the end of March. It took place a few stops away from Tokyo Disneyland, in a venue called Makuhari Messe, which isn’t...
by neon10 | 19, Apr 2013 | For Main Blog
The movie King of Thorn is a creature feature, in which hysterical people are trapped in surreal environments, menaced by man-eating monsters from bad dreams. Horror writer Stephen King said the best way to see such films was “with your arm round your girl’s shoulders...
