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Zipangufest's Beyond Anime segment consisted of three short films: all animated, none 'beyond' anything - except belief, in a...

It was a rare treat to watch this obscure 80s print under the high vaulted ceiling of London's Cinema Museum as part of this year...

Not quite as bizarre as it looks from the cover (and I must confess, as bizarre as I was hoping), Portrait of Hell is a slightly twisted mor...

Lonely man marries woman, woman is addicted to buying clothes, woman dies, man is lonely again. If ever there was a short story that didn...

Summer Wars is packaged with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in a Blu Ray double feature - both are directed by Mamoru Hosoda and anima...

I can think of few other directors who would go so far out of their way to make as contrary a sequel as Dead Or Alive 2. It's a mark of ...

Another anime based on older source material; in this case, Yasutaka Tsutui's 1967 novel of the same name. The Girl Who Leapt Throug...

Metropolis is based on Osamu Tezuka's unfinished manga from 1949, itself inspired by Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film of the same na...

An unsteady zoom shot finds us at the centre of a wedding reception. The opening scene, and the focal point of the action throughout the fil...

Out of the blue, mysterious chanteuse Ryuko starts frequenting Kyohei's private club, Black Rose Mansion, serenading its members (most...