Director – Satoshi Kon – 1997 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 81m ***** Multi-layered, identity crisis psycho thriller redefines the boundaries of animation, Japanese or otherwise – 4K Restoration plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June During a gig by girl pop trio […]
Directors – Leela Varghese, Emma Hough Hobbs – 2025 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 87m ***** A lesbian princess must travel through space to claim her inheritance and rescue her true love (who just dumped her) from straight white maliens – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 19th NSFW Princess Saira of […]
Director – Takeshi Koike – 2025 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 93m *** Lupin and his friends are lured to a zombie-populated island run by an immortal being where a toxic gas kills people after 24 hours – out in UK cinemas on Saturday, February 21st Lupin III (or LUPIN THE IIIRD as he’s called here) has […]
Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2024 – Belgium, France, Latvia – Cert. U – 84m ***** A cat must survive rising water levels as they engulf both the countryside and cities – remarkable, dialogue-free, computer animated feature is out now on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Like his earlier Away (2019), Zilbalodis’ new CG animated […]
Director – Michel Hazanavicius – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** In Winter in a forest, a poor woodcutter’s wife rescues an abandoned baby thrown from a passing train and, despite her husband’s misgivings, raises the girl as her own – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 4th Once […]
(Live action remake of animated feature, so filed under animation, among other categories.) Director – Marc Webb – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 119m ***1/2 Disney’s new Snow White redoes the first animated feature, with its eponymous heroine, wicked queen and dwarfs, as live action – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March […]
Director – Martin Rosen – 1978 – UK – Cert. PG – 92m ***** When a young rabbit visionary foresees doom for those who remain, some of the rabbits leave their warren in search of a safer home, encountering many life-threatening perils along the way – new 4K restoration of animated feature is out in […]
Afghan life under religious extremism The BreadwinnerDirected by Nora TwomeyCertificate 12A, 94 minutesReleased 25 May Parvana (voiced by Saara Chaudry) is one of three girls living with her mum and dad in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is occupied and run by the Taliban. When her father is arrested by the Taliban on account of his intellectual […]
Director – Tian Xiaoping – 2023 – China – Cert. PG – 112m Subtitled ***1/2 / Dubbed ** A girl on a cruise, who never got over her mother leaving, falls overboard into fantastical worlds – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 7th A red child’s coat with a hood lies abandoned on the […]
Directors – Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon – 2023 – US, France, Ireland – Cert. PG – 100m **** Towards the end of his life, inventor Leonardo da Vinci goes to live in France under the patronage of the King – stop frame / drawn animation composite is out in the UK’s Vue cinemas on Friday, […]