Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2001 – Japan – Cert. PG – 125m ****1/2 (A shorter version of this review was originally published in Third Way for UK release date 12/09/2002. At which point, hardly anyone in the UK outside of anime fandom knew who Miyazaki was.) In director Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, a ten-year-old […]
Director – Lin Huida – 2022 – China – Cert. PG – 100m **** The latest movie in this long-running, animated Chinese franchise, hugely successful at the Chinese (and therefore global) box office, is the first to get a UK cinema release – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK cinemas […]
Director – Christopher Nolan – 2017 – UK – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** Review originally published in DMovies.org. On Amazon Prime from Thursday, April 1st. British filmmaker Christopher Nolan – now one of the highest-grossing film directors in history, with the Dark Knight trilogy under his belt – has created a complex and multilayered film […]
Director – David Blair – 2018 – Poland, UK – Cert. 15 – 107m **** In cinemas from Friday 7th September Review originally published in DMovies.org It’s too easy to take most British WW2 movies (e.g. Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, 2017) and claim they bolster the idea of Brexit – Britain alone against the world, defeating the […]