The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

For many the animation work of Studio Ghibli is the be all and end all of animated cinema.  The Japanese studio has long reigned supreme and the announcement that it’s director Hayao Miyazaki was set to retire after his last film, The Wind Rises, was met with universal sadness.  However, Miyazaki wasn’t solely responsible for Ghibli’s output and Isa Takahata, who co-founded Ghibli with Miyazaki, is still making films.  Which brings us to The Tale of the Princess Kaguya an Academy Award nominee this year, although it did lose out to Big Hero 6.

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Wrestlemania Aftermath

Watching Wrestlemania as a UK fan is a strange experience.  While our American cousins have a normal evening in front of the TV or for a lucky few thousand in the stadium, we have to stay up to four in the morning on a Sunday evening combating sleep.  Some years that feels like a huge mistake.  As time trickles by and WWE piss you off with their ridiculous decision-making, you can’t help but think of a night in bed rather than on the sofa.  Yet, every now and then the stars come together and WWE knock it out the park, last night was one of those occasions.

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Mommy

Whether or not you get on board with Mommy will be very much down to your initial reaction.  If you’re not a fan of subtitles, that will be tick number one in the against column, (although I really have to question why that would be an issue) while the fact it is shot in a 1:1 ratio might just be the final nail in any respective coffin.  It insures Mommy is never an easy watch, as the almost perfect square gives the whole film a sense of claustrophobia that it is hard to escape.

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While She Sleeps – Brainwashed

While She Sleeps have been consistently pinpointed as the next big band in UK heavy metal.  Magazines like Metal Hammer have pinned their flags to the Sleeps mast and the excitement surrounding them only seems to grow.  That momentum looked set to sweep to the top, but then disaster struck.  While calling it a tragedy would be diminishing a word that is used to describe things like a member of One Direction pissing off, it’s fair to say the vocal problems that hit lead singer Loz and his subsequent throat surgery, threw the first big spanner in the While She Sleeps express.

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The Voices

Horror comedy is a tough genre to pull off.  It requires that you to both produce scares and laughs to truly pull it off and for every Evil Dead 2 there is a whole host of shit that we don’t want to remember.  Stepping into that difficult arena is The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi whose previous film Persepolis, it’s fair to say, is a very different beast from this one.

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Wrestlemania

So Wrestlemania has again crept up on us and this Sunday the Showcase of the Immortals will once again beam around the world.  Sadly, the build up has been patchy at best.  While at other times it has been R-Truth stealing the Intercontinental Championship (seriously, how insane would you have thought I was if I had suggested R Truth was going to be part of the ‘Mania card six months ago?).  Despite this, I can’t help but be excited by the WWE’s Super Bowl.  Despite creative consistently shooting its performers in the foot.  I reckon the WWE will pull this off.  Why?  Well let me tell you.

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Pokemon X

If you take a look at the section of this website named Top 10s, you will notice that on the list of my favourite games of all time, Pokemon Red sits in slot number 2.  Pokemon was pretty much year zero for me when it came to playing games.  Sure, I had played some before that.  But Pokemon was the first game that I poured hour after hour into.  Since then I have played pretty much every game in the franchise and as long as I have a suitable break between each installment, have never grown bored with them.

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X+Y

X+Y sits in an unusual place.  On one hand, it’s a sweet look at a young maths prodigy trying to find a place in the world.  He goes to the International Mathematical Olympiad, meets a girl and discovers that there is more to the world than numbers.  On the other hand, that same prodigy registers on the spectrum and just doesn’t understand how people work.  His father died at a young age and his mother struggles to connect with him.  His mentor suffers from multiple sclerosis and he discovers that even in the world of the super smart, bullying is still a major issue.

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Chappie

Hello friends, in an attempt to do something a bit different, this post is a video review of the Neil Blomkamp film Chappie.  It’s simply an attempt to mix things up a bit and hopefully future videos will be a little bit more ambitious, but I thought I should start small.  Let me know if you have any thoughts and enjoy.

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