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Watership Down
(new 4K restoration)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 25 2024
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(new 4K restoration)
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Directed by Martin RosenCertificate PG92 minutesReleased 25 October Reviewed for Reform magazine. Now fully restored in a new 4K restoration, this 1978 tale of rabbits on the run proved that an animated film need be neither made by Disney nor sugar-coated for children. Watership Down, although a children’s film, came from the producer of the […]

Animation Features Movies

Watership Down
(new 4K restoration)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2024
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(new 4K restoration)
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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 […]

Tags 2D animation, adaptation, animal tales, animated storytelling, animation, anthropomorphism, background, Black Rabbit of Death, British, cage, cat, children's film, children’s book, climate crisis, codified Disney style, coloured lines, countryside, creation myths, D.H. Lawrence, darkness, death, decadence, Denholm Elliot, despot, destination, dog, doom, drawing, drawn animation, English countryside, family film, fantasy, fresh food, God, Harry Andrews, hawk, illustration, in search of home, injury, intelligent creatures, John Bennett, John Hubley, John Hurt, journey, kingdom, leader, leave, leave home, lethal, LFF, LFF 2024, life and death, life crisis, life-threatening, London, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2024, Martin Rosen, Michael Graham Cox, militarism, myth, mythology, natural history illustration, naturalism, nature, nature red in tooth and claw, non-naturalism, novel, painting, perils, power, predator, primitive drawings, rabbit, rabbitkind, Ralph Richardson, resistance, Richard Adams, Richard Briers, safe haven, seagull, sentimentality, snare, societal collapse, storytelling, sun, totalitarian regime, trauma, UK, violence, visionary, warren, watercolour, Watership Down, woods, Zero Mostel

Features Live Action Movies

Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2024
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Planet of the Apes
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Director – Wes Ball – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** The fourth entry in the current franchise reboot takes place several generations after the previous three films when apes live in scattered communities and humans have lost the power of speech – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, May 9th Noa […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Amanda Silver, apes, attack, battleship, books, bridge, cavalry, Ceasar, chimp, Christianity, circular window-frame, cliff faces, complex, composer, cross-country, crucifix, desert, despot, eagle, eagle eggs, environment, experiments, failure, fast moving water, fiefdom, forest, franchise, Freya Allan, genetics, gorilla, herd, horseback, human, jazz, Jerry Goldsmith, journey, Kevin Durand, labyrinth, landscape, library, Lydia Peckham, mask, militarism, MoCap, monkey, motion capture, oppression, orangutan, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, Owen Teague, pendant, Peter Macon, piano, Planet of the Apes, pool, quest, reboot franchise, religion, religious, Rick Jaffa, rock face, Roman Empire, scarecrow, scientist, ships’ graveyard, soundtrack, speak, stronghold, tall trees, technology, towers, Travis Jeffery, trees, underground, US, village, virus, warmonger, watering hole, weaponry, Wes Ball, Western, Weta FX, William H. Macy, woodland

Animation Features Movies

The Boy And The Heron
(Kimitachi Wa
Do Ikiru Ka,
君たちはど
う生きるか,
lit.
How Do You Live?)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 24 2023
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(Kimitachi Wa
Do Ikiru Ka,
君たちはど
う生きるか,
lit.
How Do You Live?)
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Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** During WorldWar Two, a boy bereaved of his mother moves to the countryside with his businessman father where a heron lures him into another dimension to rescue his vanished stepmother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 26th Directors, eh? […]

Tags 2D animation, a world in balance, absent father, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, Aimyon, aircraft manufacture, animal, animation, anime, Anjli Mohindra, architect, arms manufacture, arms trade, Art Malik, bereavement, bird, bombing, boy, child’s building blocks, Christian Bale, countryside, Dave Bautista, demons, disappear, escape, factory, fantasy, fathers and sons, fire, floating, Florence Pugh, Gemma Chan, granduncle, grannies, granny, Grey Heron, Hayao Miyazaki, heron, hierarchy, hospital, hospital fire, How Do You Live?, Japan, Japanese home front, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, Karen Fukuhara, Ko Shibashi, Luca Padovan, maids, Mark Hamill, Masaki Suda, militarism, monster, mothers and sons, old crone, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, other dimension, other world, parakeet, quest, reappear, Robert Pattinson, rural, rural and urban, Sacha Dhawan, Second World War, servants, Sham Ali, Shohei Hino, Soma Santoki, spirit, spirit beings, Studio Ghibli, Takuya Kimura, Tony Jayawardena, tower, toy building blocks, urban, vanish, warplane, warplane manufacture, Willem Dafoe, workers, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yoshino Kimura

Features Live Action Movies

Rimini
(Rimini)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 15 2022
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(Rimini)
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Director – Ulrich Siedl – 2022 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 18 – 114m ***** A singer of romantic songs performs to elderly female fans (in more ways than one) in an off-season seaside town as his past catches up with him – in cinemas from Friday, December 9th following its screening in the […]

Animation Features Movies Shorts

Memories
(Memorizu,
メモリーズ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 11 2022
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(Memorizu,
メモリーズ)
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1/ Magnetic Rose (Kanojo no Omoide, 彼女の想いで) 2/ Stink Bomb (Saishu Heiki, 最臭兵器) 3/ Cannon Fodder (Taiho no Machi, 大砲の街) Directors – 1/ Koji Morimoto, 2/ Tensai Okamura, 3/ Katsuhiro Otomo – 1995 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 113m ***** Executive producer Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime anthology adapts three of his dystopian-themed manga stories into […]

Tags 1984, 2D animation, animation, anime, Annecy, Annecy 2022, armaments, armed forces, astronaut, BFI Anime 2022, cannon, cautionary tale, chain of command, chemical weapons, clock, comedy, distress call, diva, dystopia, eighteenth century, enemy, factory, giant rose, Good Morning, havoc, Hiroyuki Nagashima, home mansion, horror, house, innovation, Japan, Jun Miyake, Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Madame Butterfly, manga, militarism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, nuclear family, opera, opera singer, Orwell, pandemic, portmanteau, portrait, radio, road movie, rose, rose in space, salvage, Satoshi Kon, scavenger, school, science fiction, SF, soldier, Tensai Okamura, traffic jam, uniform, weapon of mass destruction, Yoko Kanno