Director – Mamoru Oshii – 1995 – Japan, UK, US – Cert. 15 – 83m ****1/2 A cybernetically rebuilt, female, government agent and her male sidekick pursue a mysterious computer hacker known as The Puppet Master through Hong Kong – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to […]
***** Exhibition shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) accompanied by the Stop Motion animation season including all five LAIKA feature films and much, much more In the best part of two decades, US-based Laika Studios – named after the […]
Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 1988 – Japan – Cert. U – 86m ***** Two young girls, whose mother is hospitalised, move to the country with their dad, where they encounter a friendly tree spirit – one of the greatest movies ever made, animated or otherwise, is back out in UK and Ireland cinemas on […]