Director – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** Based on Hungarian folk legends, the story of three sons of the white mare who must free three princesses from their dragon husbands and restore the kingdom from chaos – from the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, […]
Directors – Thor Klein, Lena Vurma – 2025 – Germany, Romania, Mexico, UK – Cert. 15 – 103m ** In Mexico, France, Spain and the England of her childhood, Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington must confront her personal demons – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 29th Deserted hillsides, a sliver of a road, eventually a tiny red […]
Director – Tomm Moore – 2014 – Ireland – Cert. PG – 93m ***** A family is torn apart after the mother returns to the sea as a selkie – reviewed for Third Way, July 2015 Tomm Moore picked up an Oscar nomination for his medieval Irish animated fantasy The Secret Of Kells (2009). Like […]
Directors – Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Takashi Karagiri – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12A – 111m ***** A spy and an assassin are married to each other, each unaware of the other’s secret career, while neither of them are aware their adopted daughter is a telepath who therefore knows everything they don’t – bonkers anime deploying […]
Director – Christopher McQuarrie – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** Tom Cruise’s seventh and director Christopher McQuarrie’s third Mission: Impossible outing delivers globetrotting action and one of the most incredible stunts ever committed to film – out in UK cinemas on Monday, July 10th It seems almost fatuous to attempt to […]
Director – Anastasia Tsang – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 103m **** The widow of a Hong Kong neon sign maker attempts to fulfil his last wish in constructing a specific neon sign, despite new regulations outlawing them – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 12th #ALightNeverGoesOut Mei-heung (Sylvia Chang) hangs […]
Director – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** The Hungarian animated epic Son Of The White Mare (1981) is one of the great, largely unknown treasures of animation, if not of cinema. Its late director Marcell Jankovics (1941-2021) made a number of shorts and commercials before his two features […]